The healthiest menu for poor people? An extra helping from government | Jack Monroe

Those who cut free school meals and moralise about balanced diets show how poorly they understand the hidden hungry

Four million children in the UK live in households that would struggle to afford to buy enough fruit, vegetables, fish and other healthy foods to meet the official nutrition guidelines, according to research by the Food Foundation. It makes for sobering reading; but as a mother who was once in the same situation, I think the guidelines often fall short of the realities of living on, or skirting, the breadline.

Talk to families in poverty, and ask them what they need, instead of prescribing it for them

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