Lillah and charity

Q: Is it ethical to give expired cooldrinks to the less fortunate amongst our society although the manufaturer says that it is just a guideline.

Q: I wanted to ask about collection of funds for my education. I live in Pakistan, but I am not financially strong. I earn but I am unable to fulfil the family expenses. I want to study further in AUS, that way I can earn in dollars and might be able to pay off loans on my family and expenses. For that, can I collect funds from people? I am unable to save and fulfill family expenses at the same time but I dont want to make money in a haram way nor will I persue this if I am not allowed to in Islam. 

Q: I want to ask about what is the most valuable charity one can give?

Q: Can I give sadaqah to my Christian maid?

Q: Can sadaqah be given to one's parents? 

Q:

1. Is it ok to order a daig of rice with chicken and peas and give it as sadaqa?

2. Who deserves to eat this sadaqa?

Q: If I forgot my wallet at home when I went for jummah salah, can I pay twice the sadaqah on next week’s jummah to make up for the missed sadaqah?

Q: I gave sadaqah of a billy goat. But nobody was taking the meat of sadaqah. I gave the meat to many poor Hindu people. Is my sadaqah accepted by Allah or not?

Q: Is it permissible to give extra money to someone working for us at home, doing cleaning, ironing, etc, as hadiyah or it will be like a bribe to let him work better? What about the intention of compensation thinking we are paynig less than the amount of work he is doing?

Q: What is the ruling for taking food from food banks (that give food to anyone who comes? My family is not poor but can have a tight budget of halal income and my mom goes to food banks to get food because anyone can. Also, if someone takes food from a food bank without needing it, does the food become haram?

Also, the food banks get donations from halal meat places, and some of the packaging has company name and the halal symbol on it but some don't (because the separate them into plastic bags). The people at the food bank say that the one's that don't have labels on it also came from halal stores. Is it permissible to eat these?