An Edinburgh charity is encouraging the public to donate to food banks this winter as rising food prices, energy bills and Christmas pressure create a “higher demand”.Laura van der Hoeven, chief executive of the Edinburgh Food Project, said that the number of food parcels the charity has delivered has “more than doubled” since the pandemic.She said that from the beginning of December to Christmas alone, the food bank is expecting to deliver thousands of food parcels.She added: “We will expect to distribute about 2,000 food parcels between now and Christmas.“Over the year that would take us to approximately 20,000 food parcels distributed to about 6,000 households.”