Parents skipping meals so children don’t go hungry as families struggle with longest cost of living squeeze in 60 years

It's happening in the UK to with 1 in 10 parrents skipping meals so that there children do not go hungry.

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Also an increase in families needing food parcels from the Salvation Army.

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when long is the cost, sausages are short indeed

Bolded part well said :)

tightening the belt loosens the mind.

i read the hatred for the homeless and the blacks.

i watch the huge suv's pull out of 2 and 3 car garages.

people engage in road rage to race to the next fix.

we warned you in the 60's and called you materialists.

my neighbors killed this country as much as the bankers
in their 3 piece suits.

drop bombs anybody who doesn't agree with your childish
notions about religion.

you vote for frauds and clowns.

in a nation of children, santa claus wins.

Dear NR, I sincerely hope you are not hungry today.
My experience is not yours.

I wonder if West Virginia is a different place from the urban setting I am talking about.

My problem is that the high school students I observe do not eat the food they get, and if their clothing is being paid for by vouchers -
Heaven help us all.
We can't solve the one entitlement program (food) by creating another (vouchers for name-brand clothing).
Many of my friends shop at Goodwill because school staff can't afford much.
If the problem is money, can we earn more?

If the problem is a lack of food supply, can we grow more?

I personally feel that all free lunch/ free breakfast / and in our area summertime free supper programs

are dependency training programs. END OF STORY.

If you want to stop hunger, teach home economics. Get educated for a better job. Those things work.

:) Thank you Sir. It's that mentality of the poster who pushes for certain mandates before you can have children/limits the number of children you can have

im poor but we eat fine,im an old fashiondn girl who cooks like my mom did,if my children choose not to eat it they go with out no crp food, thye soon want it in the end kids are s used to eating take out all the time.the goverment in the uk havnt a clue how hard it is for people on low wages, they just give everything to the ones who dont wana work, my kids have pack lunch at school wile there poor freinds have free dinners and they arnt poor thye got more than us. free rent and all.its the ones on low waged who should get help like higher wages, we work to eat and pay bills no holidays no luxurys.i have a nabor on benefits who go abroud every year and do alot better than we do its not fare.i skip meals all the time to be honest always have, but i always make sure everyones fed in my home.the way food prices are going up and bills thoe i dont know how we gona cope in the future its allready geting bad and i have to by the cheapest of everything.

Yep..."if you teach a man to fish...vs. giving a man a fish"

:) Love the part in bold...reminds me of my mama and frankly, I'm better for it today

This is true, I also worked as a teacher in a big city Elementary School and most kids were on free lunch, they threw it away, it was really painful to watch. I come from a developing country and this would never happen.
There were a few exceptions, but most kids didn't look like they were starving to me, they even had money for snacks.

well you know....
our government needs our money.....

I guess starving a bit is okay, as long as its our bloated overtaxing thieving government who gets our money.

I just came back from the Philippines. I manage to take care of 2 children who's mother can't afford to properly care for them. I provide them with their daily needs. This is how they live every day of their lives. We are on the glide path to this lifestyle. THANKS LIBERALS,you have managed to destroy the last great civilization.

I join Booted and Suited above in giving you and your mom praise.

I like to cook too, and boy does it save money.

May you sleep well at night knowing your children are learning lessons your neighbors's children will never learn.

In the end, you have to depend on yourself.

I'm with you there. Less tax=more money in pockets for food. Well, except for the ones that pay $0 in taxes, doesnt' matter one way or other for them.

A lot of them are victims of circumstance, though our media seems to want us to blame those poor people by calling them lazy parasites. This attitude pisses me off to no end.

This one makes me laugh, you can actually afford chicken? I think ive bought chicken like 1 or 2 times in the last couple of months. Spaghetti is the cheapest thing you can make minus the meat.

Mother Nature tends to be stronger than birth control.

i buy a chicken it makes several meals,not one,and i have 5 kids,and i mean several diff meals from one chicken.gota know what to do with it i pick every last pease of chicken off, nothing left on it when iv finished with itthen whats left gets used for stock.

welcome to obama's new amerika.

For $10 at my local store I can get a 10 pound bag of potatoes, a small bag of rice, a small bag of beans, and a 4 pound container of pancake mix.



Pancakes, potato pancakes, plain rice, beans, rice and beans, baked potatoes, fried potatoes, etc.

Lots of healthy calories and this is enough to feed an adult for an entire week.

I really think we need to drop all the crap out of our educational system and teach people survival cooking.

Spaghetti isn't exactly that healthy esp for people with sugar blood/ weight control problems...

Many of us choose to go without meals so our children can eat. We'll use an excuse of "Oh, I just finished preparing the meal and I'm full from all of the good smells."

Mind you, my children are now in their 30s. Hubby & I did "go without" many meals (breakfast & lunch) and ate very little at the dinner table.

Even today I cook from scratch. It's easier to controll ingredients & avoid added sugar, salt, preservatives & additives. Hubby has Celiac disease, so it keeps things interesting converting recipes & trying new things.

Pity Home Ec was phased out of schools. It was one of my favourite classes. We learned to budget, shop, cook, sew, tend babies, etc. We also learned these life skills in the home from our parents, grandparents, aunts & uncles.

For an eye-opener, check the Library for cookbooks dating from the late 1800s to early 1900s. Many have daily food guides from those times. It is amazing to read and puts into perspective the "portion distortion" and "over abundance" we have today in the developed world.

"free" breakfast and lunch at school(while wearing Jordans), and Mama is getting $138 a month each in SNAP benefits--couldn't she pack a nutritious lunch from that?
It's not as if she's hurrying out to work...

Seen her before I been cooking like that and ate like that since I was a kid.

even those things that we used to eat to sustain us are not cheap anymore.

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Liberal Utopia! Tax the job-makers to death. Put everyone out of work. Create social programs to care for the people you own. And the best part is that it can never end. There is an unlimited supply of rich people to support the non-workers.
Prevent a child from going hungry- kill a liberal.

Bravo.

We have the "food stamp president." The so-called ~poor~ get free eats all day long, and are not grateful.

here is one I bet you never heard of and it is good too.

Stewed tomato gravy on toast.

Can stewed tomatoes, place in skillet, salt and pepper, and white sauce

serve on toast, has a wonderful flavor.

Well, I have to say, we dont eat chicken regularly..lol..we DO eat a lot of spaghetti and tuna casseroles..BUT..our local grocer does have a daily sale on meats that are coming close to being out of date, you can grab a whole chicken for 3 dollars at times..this day I happened to get a very large one for 7 :)

Wait until there is no food...even the rich will be hungry!