Food poverty: 'I miss meals so my children can eat' - BBC Newsnight
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2022
- Data shared with Newsnight exclusively by the Food Foundation suggests more than a quarter of UK households with children experienced food poverty last month - meaning they reduced what they ate, or skipped meals altogether. The charity says as the cost of living bites it has detected an alarming rise in cases.
Upon seeing the findings the former Children's Commissioner told us the scale of deprivation is now a national emergency. A government spokesperson says its priority is always to support the most vulnerable and millions of households have been offered help with rising bills.
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Newsnight Correspondent Anna Collinson hears from one fifteen-year-old who told us she sometimes goes to bed hungry so her younger siblings can have enough.
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The UK, one of the global economic giants, have citizens missing meals due to absurdly high costs of living. This is unbelievable.😞
Have you taken a good look at the amount of obese people in UK? Hey BBC, are you going to show the Chinese government beating the cr.. out of people in London?
honestly it is and i live here, i just don't see the amount of poverty that i see in the news, but i don't know a lot of people either...but some cities have a homeless on every street and definitely everyone is complaining about the rising costs
This is brexit!
@Nautilus888 - Energy prices, the root cause of increased costs, has nothing to do with Brexit.
This is net zero and all the other green policies and taxes.
@@deejay7648 its been made worse by brexit hasnt it? Food prices have surely been worser with brexit.
I remember my mother struggling and it led to me leaving school early to get a job and be able to help financially. This of course perpetuates poverty for the next generation.
If there be a generation because clothing for children is going up even if you go to a charity work.
If anything it also makes you stronger and more mentally fit for life as well, my parents did the same and i worked so i never end up like them.
@@sew_gal7340 that is not typically what happens, ergo why poverty is endemic…
@@r8chlletters Sure but a majority of immigrants who come to the united states succeed probably because the parents put all theyve got into their kids...and those kids really suffer at a young age without the same social capital as the natives...i live in this community. it is the native westerners who suffer because they are not used to hardship. in latin/african/asian communities it is normal for children to suffer, and we cope by rising above it.
@@sew_gal7340 This is different though " droughts , ecological devastation , disease, war, extinction of species, along with over population has brought prior civilizations to their knees . We are facing one of the (outside of the " bubonic plague ) worst times in the history of existence.
My sister moved to UK years ago to pursuit a better life. She settled there, got married and started a family. My mom went visit for Easter celebration, in April and it was still cold. My mom is the type a person who wears a sweater in summertime. She asked my sister to turn up the heat. My sister said no, because she now has a kid and other priorities, and is basically on a strict budget and turning up the heat will be reflected later on, on her bills. I realized I made the right decision to not move there when my sister gave me the chance. I live in Romania, and I will choose Romania anytime, everytime over UK.
yea their is alot of romanian on uk and people don't treat them properly
We don't like gypsies. There are enough of you lot in the uk.
Then if quality of life is better in Romania then why do some
Romanians move to the U.K.?
@@cmdjk1 maybe you are confusing romani gypsies from the rest of Romania seeing as majority you would not be able to say are Romanian visually beyond the gypsies who have settled.
I leave an entire life without heating system. I'm just wearing a lot of clothes on winter. I'm working 11 hours per day but still cannot afford paying electricity if I turn on the heating. Sorry but that's the truth. I'm ok with that. Just wear coat inside your house and everything will be fine.
It's so important to raise awareness of this - and for children in particular. No one can learn, thrive and fulfil their full potential without good nutrition.
One Ukraine "refugee" family came to the UK- a married couple and a mother of the married lady. They demanded 2 flats... because they don't get on with each other. They got 2 flats. They were literally bombed not so long ago, their hair was was burning as they were running away from HELL. Now they don't get on and that is a huge problem
Indeed. Low IQ is correlated with malnutrition.
@@lolaqwerty6174 "They demanded 2 flats... because they don't get on with each other. They got 2 flats"
Easy to claim with zero accountability.
Links or its bulls**t from a troll.
@@Grenadier311 high IQ is connected to lack of common sense from to much nutrition
@@Geo65582 Heh ... absent-minded professor checking-in here, but I chalk the state of affairs up to my Autism more-so than mom's cooking.
it says something about the country where people in full time work have to do what that lady has to do it breaks your heart
Can't learn much with a hungry belly. Thanks for the people featured here who help others.
@The Messenger no one cares keep your god bs to your self no one is even talking about god why the hell are you... get a life and get a brain
Lies again? Fight Pass USD SGD
And they wonder why depression is at an all time high in the young. Here's a perfect example why.
Exactly.
Great to see the community kitchen. Does anyone else remember when all schools had a proper kitchen staffed by people who knew how to cook nutritious food from scratch? These are real skills that need to be taken seriously.
That’s a skill. Skills need funding to incentivise, and public spending cuts are on the way.
@@methanedirigible my mother taught me how to cook, her mother taught her, I showed many things to my boys. My son called me in USAF basic training and thanked me for teaching him how to clean a TOILET!!! I don't remember of course. Skills used to be handed down by parents from generation to generation!!!
@@methanedirigible It's a skill, but while cooking was classed as "women's work", back when schools had proper kitchens, this would have been called unskilled labour. There are plenty of people who already have these skills and in this economy we probably don't need more cafes struggling to run businesses on every high street.
@@CC-hx5fz Yeah but you miss my point - if you can cook, why would you elect to work for poverty wages at a school canteen? You’d try somewhere that pays a bit better
Not only a school Kitchen where proper meals were cooked but also the ‘old fashioned’ Domestic Science lessons, where we were taught how to cook nutritious meals. My mum always instilled in my siblings & me how to cook good food cheaply - plenty of ‘in season’ veg when it was at its cheapest, & to bulk food up with beans & pulses. It can be done. Even now, in my 70’s, the first place I head for in the supermarkets is the ‘Reduced’ section, or look for the Red Labels in Aldi. You don’t need to go without food, just be shopper savvy.
I lived in USA for 6 months and worked at a Christian resort back in 2011, and I remember the amount of food that was thrown away every day was shocking to me. Some people were super picky with food and just left a lot on their dish. The kitchen just discarded a lot of "imperfect" food as well. The ice cream in the counter was thrown away because the tub was already open and they couldn't sell it that same day. I think rich countries just forget when they were poor and lose empathy towards the planet and humankind.
massive respect for moms who miss meals to feed her children,,., i wish them redemption from this.
The food price in this country is a disgrace
Actually food costs as a percentage of average income have never been cheaper. It’s other things that are out of kilter
@ellen say what?
@@lks6248 it was cheaper last year, come on.
@@lks6248 I've lived all over Europe, and food in the UK in comparison is relatively cheap in Italy, for example, where one would assume food would be cheaper, it's more expensive.
@@lks6248 no it hasn't, you're just born privaleged
I looked at that poor women's kitchen and all of her high end very expensive kitchen appliances and vent hood, she must have been financially well off at once time. I feel sorry for families without food
Yeah, this is becoming very common for the working class who were once fine are now starting to struggle. Some places both energy and food prices have doubled.
She wasn't without food, the pantry and fridge were stuffed completely full.
Yes I noticed this and also the kitchen was stuffed full of food.
A shame she didn't put that money aside for a situation just like this. I was astounded when, on re-entering the workplace briefly before the pandemic, I discovered that my fellows were well into in the bad habit of spending their earnings as soon as they got them.
One mum, with a husband and 2 children, laughed when she told me they had only £100 left in their joint bank account - having just spent £200 to attend a 'banquet.' This was a common situation for them, the family always spending on frivolous things like this.
I wouldn't be able to sleep at night knowing that my finances balanced on such a knife-edge as that.
People have forgotten to save for a rainy day. Credit card culture and direct debits have taught people how to live well beyond their means, clever advertising has taught them to want for more and more, and it's only situations like a global economic collapse that finally teaches them what happens when things go wrong - but that's when it's all too late to learn.
@@debbiehenri345 covid and inflation ate everyone's savings. My family and I had a lot saved so we're not struggling as much as other people, but it is for sure eating up our savings. I can't imagine what a single mom is dealing with. A shame you're as old as you are and making these sorts of comments.
I have usually never had any struggles with meals, but this is just heartbreaking. Parents are missing meals to provide for their children, while UK inflation is hitting big these times now
This is Heartbreaking. Bless her and other families struggling to feed themselves and their children.
I studied Sociology for GCSE and we looked at poverty in the UK; I was shocked to discover that parents were fainting at work or at schools (when they drop off/pick up their children) because they've been starving themselves to that their children can eat.
I know that schools are doing all they can to feed the children free meals, and bless them for doing that, but what about the parents too? They need to eat too or else they'll damage their health and that'll affect their ability to look after their children and work to provide for them. Parents should NOT have to starve themselves in order to make sure their children have three meals a day. Shocking. Absolutely shocking.
The food prices should always be moderate or low
It's better to uprise on clothing ,beauty products , electronics ,cars etc
Ridiculous. How about going to Aldi or Lidl lady? Shopping in Waitrose......
The amount of food waste at the big grocery stores is shocking, in the UK and North America. I think it is great that there are organizations that rescue that food to give to those in need. The food waste might be a slightly imperfect apple for instance, or perfectly good fresh bread that had a little travel damage. In supermarkets we are used to seeing huge piles of cartoon perfect food - the rest is often needlessly discarded, very often back at the source. Speak to the manager and see if they are doing something much better with that product. It is not that those in need should have to eat bruised or out of date items of course, but sometimes the level of waste of perfectly good produce and other things seems ludicrous when children go hungry and their parents skip meals - that mother interviewed even had a 5 day a week job. In the US I know that child poverty is a major issue - the US is so wealthy and that very core concern happens? I know that many don't like government, but when you and many others need help, someone should be doing something on a major scale. I know of restaurants that pack up food that they haven't sold every day to donate to food kitchens. Amazing - restaurant quality food already prepared for others to enjoy the next day, every day. Apparently the amount of food waste generated could feed all the hungry people around the world. Let's get some billionaires on this problem. And everyone else. Group effort. My neighbour has an abundant vegetable garden and hands extras - freshly picked!- over the fence to me while she still manages to feed her family well with what she grows. It is something as simple and great and kind as that. Every little bit helps. It is not charity - it is a necessity and just makes sense and more people should be upset or at least more aware that some children go to school hungry.
the US is such a lawsuit crazy country, im sure the restaurants and food retailers wouldn't mind donating but if someone says they got sick from donated food, thats a lawsuit waiting to happen so instead, these places just throw everything into the trash
There should be a food bank or program like "Food Runners" in the US, where folks from FR get food from eateries and shops that are still edible and give them out to folks, especially in poor communities.
This is capitalism for you. They won't give that imperfect food to starving people. They'd rather throw it away.
@@karlabritfeld7104 Have you lived in Communist China or Viet Nam? I did. The majority of the people there are much worse off than in any capitalist society. Be careful what you wish for.
They brainwashed them thinking that those food are bad but it is not ,we in south eastern nation don't do that . We don't throw away food ever . They should understand that when something goes bad ,you will able to smell the foul food or any food package .People should learn more about food and be respectful towards food .
No job, high inflation, high gas price, high fuel cost, high homeless peoples, TV license fees increase, and high education fees etc. Useless government.
What a shame ,the UK where the royalty holds so much wealth and own 5/8 of land in the world , and their people go hungry 😢
This is so sad 😢 god bless everyone who’s struggling with food
Struggling with a LACK of food.
@@balung Proper, healthy food, that is.
Sadly, it's going to be a tough winter for many people ... 😞
Totally agree.
We are spending untold billions of pounds/dollars fighting a proxy war in Ukraine (which leads to higher energy and food costs) while people at home go hungry and worry about having heat during the winter. Our priorities are incredibly skewed.
Ukraine votes against the un resolutions Condemning nazism, Ukraine celebrates Bandera's birthday as its National holiday, Zelensky sends his presidential guard to Orest Vaskula's funeral, Azov is incorporated into the Ukraine's army.
Ukraine is a NAZI country.
so sad yet true!and when you say you want peace..you are with putin of course...
at this state of the world,"peace"have to be viral now!!🙏🏽❤️
Say thanks to your politicians. I hope there will be even worse 😂😂😂❤❤❤
"If you live in a poor neighborhood, it has to be an area with poor schools. Poor schools mean that there are poor teachers. Poor teachers mean that you get a poor education. A poor education will only allow you to work on a poor paying job. And that poor paying job will only allow you to live again in a poor neighborhood. So it is a very vicious cycle"- Malcolm X.
Sorry, not always right. I'm highly educated, an excellent teacher and I choose to work at a school where the majority are impoverished. Education, learning to be money wise, and avoiding pregnancy until you are married are the ways out of poverty. Also there is open enrollment at all government schools but parents need to provide transportation. Most parents in poor areas have a car but they don't want to haul their kids.
You are one individual. Apparently, the neighborhood was poor before you arrived, so despite your presence, it's still poor isn't it? That school, with other factors, established that neighborhood.
Go across town to the affluent area. The majority of those teachers are likely like you. That area would not tolerate any less. Why? Because the antithesis of what Malcolm said is true as well. It's the status quo.
It is very unlikely that you will find a decrepit school, low test scores, low graduate rate in an affluent neighborhood.
I live in a town where property taxes are about $10K+ for a middle class family home and schools are still crappy
We need more people like him!
I'm now retired and can remember a couple of teachers who made a difference in my life. Many of us had that teacher who made a difference.
@@LluviadeOrugas that sounds like mismanagement of funding or education is not the priority, like what Tennessee spent to bring the Houston Oilers- now the Titans- but test scores were pathetic. 😉
Make wholesome, basic, healthy home made meals. Soups, chicken meals from scratch, fruit crumbles etc.
The first woman had her cupboards and freezer bursting with food, some of it ready-made. When poverty strikes, you only buy grains, beans, fruits and veggies. And she isn't thin. In some countries this kind of poverty is called luxury.
That said, I am not trying to play down the economic crisis in UK, just saying that the first example looked implausible to me.
well said, you can live well with simple food and dried foods are great in hard times
All the signs that this modern civilization is indeed heading toward crumbling are so obvious.
The women that was on this programme with the children had more food in her fridge and freezer than I have ever had in mine. I don't have children but you can get a good meal if you buy stuff that will last a couple of days.
Thankfully our politicians don't have to go through any of this 🙏🤪🤡
They need substinance to pilfer the 500 billion from taxes paid in the last 2 years for their new yachts.
Bless those souls, I wonder how else we can help them 🚚🚛🚜🚒🚑🚓
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We can all rest easy knowing Truss will be enjoying her heated swimming pool at Chequers this winter.
Food wastage is bad, some people don't have enough.
Not finishing your dinner has nothing at all to do with hunger elsewhere.
@@callie8007 It has to do with offer. Less food available drives prices up, making food unaffordable for some people. If people purchased only what they needed, then offer would be greater, which would drive prices down.
@@martinc.720 Exactly
I am an american conservative. This video brought me to tears. No reason in the west anyone should go without food. Both our govts need to get their acts in gear. We have F35 jets, overpriced pieces of crap and our new B2 bombers are 2 billion a piece, but people and children are hungry and eating junk. God have mercy on our countries
Stop voting conservative then
@@alexwithadashofsaltit's the democrats that have destroyed the economy
@@xoxoxoxoxo7997 good America needs to fall
They need to offer reductions to child care so that parents can work without having to pay nearly all the wages to childcare.
better yet, pay one of the parents a living wage, so that one parent can stay at home with kids til age 5. Sadly the joy of two working parents is gone now, as it takes two people to make the equivalent of one salary ! And the corporations own us like little 'wage slaves'.
I'm not from the UK but I know what it's like, I hurt for these kids and their families. It's sad and I feel so helpless seeing what they're struggling with.💔💔
When I move to England. I remember, I was starving and very little eat. I can’t eat school food and British food looks like horrible prison food and animal food.
But why is she shopping in Waitrose? That place is so expensive! Even their discount food isn’t worth it.
exactly
Wow I didn't know the UK was THIS poor.
people are dying in the streets you have no idea
My mum did the same thing when we were growing up. She did this so we can have meals, warmth, electricity, Christmases and birthdays.
Now you can relive it again
@@Jono1982 I would happily starve myself for my family but I think us the poor have suffered enough and the government needs to step up or they'll lose they're nice jobs because the people will turn against them like in France 19th century did, where starving poor people raised up against the rich and beheaded the French Royal family.
@@ericastones1052 I'll grab my pitch fork brother
Her fridge and freezer is full. How long is it for?
My fridge is 1/3 of what she has.
tbh some products there were really reduced, a freezer can fill up quickly with bulky reduced items
@@arpadczyliwampir I know. I also have products at reduced prices, just not that much. My fridge is rarely ever that full.
It's happening everywhere. We need to pull together, and help each other. Sharing households would help with heating, food, transportation to jobs and appointments, and babysitting duty. No one likes to share space, but if that's what it takes to survive, you do it.
What world are we living in ?!
A Tory one
One without law for the 0.0 1% wealthy. The rest are suffering.
Have you taken a good look at the amount of obese people in UK? Hey BBC, are you going to show the Chinese government beating the cr.. out of people in London?
UK
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This has been happening in Africa for years.
The whole continent .. haha
Child poverty is a very important social problem. Adults have a duty to provide adequate food for growing children. It is normal for children to be naughty, eat well, and play well.
Governments that send money to naughty Nazis are responsible for this.
@The Messenger go away
@The Messenger Jesus refuses to help poor children. Fuck jesus
That state of affairs is novel to the human condition for all but the wealthy and fortunate until this past century.
The average American was over 2 inches taller than the average European in the late 18th Century due in part to food abundance.
3 meals a day is luxury 😱
Morning school home
@@Damo_Kezz 3 meals .. only for greedy people people should have one main meal per day to be healthy
@@franceleeparis37 your very wrong my friend.
@@Damo_Kezz she wants u to see her ribs
@@franceleeparis37 bro you're funny 🤣🤣
And there is me eating one meal day so that I won’t gain weight.
I lost 60 pounds that way! Now that food is so expensive this gives me an advantage. My health is better, grocery bill is smaller. It would be hard on kids, though. Next spring I will try my hand at growing veggies. If it goes well, I can share with neighbors!
Children feels the stress of their parents x 10...watching their parents struggle and feeling hopeless ...and then the impact of poverty itself..
My twin sister lives in England 🏴
She is going through these difficulties too
Well, in Bangladesh, even our poor people can have at least 3 meals [not expensive items, basic staple food] a day, not having home or fridge...
One of the reason is because our diet is different from them. Even though they don't have money, they still eat cheese, sausage, milk.
I'm not from Bangladesh but in my country, we just need to cook vegetable with garlic, salt and eat it with rice and it is enough for my family. Or fry tofu with eggs, scallions and add flour to make it big enough to feed 4 people. Eat it with rice.
In this way, we can save more money.
You're not lazy and wasteful. Keep your good healthy ways. Don't fall for the western trap of hiperconsumerism.
I bet Bangladesh is not facing diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure or high cholesterol tidal waves as the West is facing and that is a good thing.
@@jiyuchan17 Anna, there is a reason why people living in cold areas need more protein and animal fat to endure the frigid environment during winter.
People living in hot regions need a different diet, lighter and richer in vitamins and minerals to replenish the losses by perspiration. Different environments demand different diets.
My point was that most westerners fell into a lack of self-discipline and conveniences that makes them spend more money feeding themselves.
We can have the same meal at a much lower cost if we buy the ingredients and cook them at home, instead of buying prepared meals.
It's also more environmentally friendly because those ingredients come in one or two bags or wrapped in paper, while frozen food comes in a ton of plastic and styrofoam.
We westerners need meat and dairy, I hope you understand it's not a luxury but a nutritional need.
Cheers
My father was an Indian immigrant to Britain and was raised in poverty. He always had his meals.
This is absolutely unheard of. Honestly, what is next? Living out of a box? I have always looked up to the UK as a great wealthy nation. Living in the States I can only say this is a dark shadow to come soon over the pond.
Mad respect to the men and women helping out their community the best they can.
I went without a few times in my late teens to early twenties just to make sure my sisters were doing ok. My heart goes out to anyone struggling. I hope it gets better for you.
I raised 4 children single handed, and while they were little I always had to ration food because my ex only paid £5.25 per week maintenance, while he lived the life of luxury. I was made to feel invisible and hopeless.
Life is tough here in the UK, but the most important thing is to have a "can do" attitude. 💐💐💐
We got through it, and we were all fine. Now they're adults they each live according to their budget, and they're careful to maintain healthy eating habits.
Since Covid things have been difficult for me, and of course for so many, but we CAN DO THIS - we British are tough people, and we will get through it!
Times are not always going to be hard. It's an opportunity to be resourceful, perhaps producing home grown veggies, and getting back in to good home cooking.
Wishing everyone a happier future, one filled with hope! 💛🌱🥰
Your positivity in the face of such hardship is inspiring, thank you for sharing your story. I believe no families should have to go through this kind of difficulty, especially in such a rich country...
@@satkinson1989 Thank you dear. I really appreciate your comment. All the best to you! 😊
Totally agree x
I did a similar thing in the 70s and 80s when my kids were small. I was a single parent and had it really hard. This is nothing new what's happening now - it's just that people aren't used to be managing and need some support.
@@mitchhills4747 yes, you're right. I saw a young bird chasing an insect around, chirping all the while because it couldn't understand why the insect wasn't jumping into its mouth. It was so used to being fed, it didn't know how to feed itself. This is comparable to an old saying that to teach a man to fish is to feed him for life. 🎣
They have all the money for wars, but no money for the needy. very sad.
Not much better in America.. Never before Have I seen prices like this..not just food " absolutely everything
I always wonder where are the fathers of these children who are living with mom but in poverty?
well there out there but since these days a few woman seem to think there kids are property and brain wash kids there dads bad then there will be kids who could have a better life not all mums do this and credit to the ones who dont
Here in Finland stores put 30%off red stickers on items close to sell by date. One chain sells those items at 2X discount after 6pm. Have noticed lately that more and more people are going to the store around that time and buy mostly discounted stuff. Too bad that it's usually stuff that you should not eat anyway. Preprepared garbage. Fish and meat is getting too expensive even for me and I work full time.
I am from Turkey but live in Austria, people in Turkey eat only meat if there is holy day where people give meat away, people became vegetarian because they cant afford meat, fish or chicken.
That will be the future of us, if the prices are going up like this.
In Hong Kong, wet markets sell fruits and vegetables on huge discounts starting late afternoon, since they will start to wilt or become too ripe to sell. You can frequently get huge bargains if you visit markets that time. E.g. you can get a dozen tomatoes with 1 USD, whereas normally it might be 1-1.5 USD for 4.
@@dan339dan you are talking about different things at all. 😂
What’s the average pay or what do you make an hour in Finland? If you don’t mind me asking…
@@RadioGalaxyWaves I live in Finland, so, I guess, I can also answer this. In Finland there is no minimum wage, so everyone earns different money for the same position (it's a bit crazy, I'm originally from Austria and still don't get quite this system). I would guess that the average would be 10-12€ for one h of work.
I remember Poland in 80s and 90s, we went through same shit.
Unfortunately UK is going through that because of their decisions.
If working full time isn't enough then frankly it's time for Britain to pack it in and give up and being a Nation and let the Vikings come in and take over.
She has a whole freezer and cabinets full of food
Booster was tested on 8 mice, no human trials whatsoever and I see queues
My parents rarely took us anywhere on the weekends to do fun things.
We played games at home or played outdoors with the neighborhood children.
It never occurred to me or my siblings that our parents should be taking us to movies or theme parks.
We were a family and it was what it was.
Kids today watch too much fantasy or fake family tv shows…
Oh, and we ate a lot of spaghetti,
PB&J sandwiches, and dried beans and rice…
An American.
sounds a bit out of touch. when I was younger and my family was struggling it wasn't a case of oh no we arent going to the cinema it was don't open the fridge because we need to top up the electric and don't turn any lights on unless you have to.
its healthy for families to be able to go and do things together, whether thats go to the cinema or go to a free museum but if your parents are working 5 days a week and not skipping meals they might not have the time or energy to do things as a family and even if you choose a free thing to do that doesn't mean you can get there to do it. If you live in a rural area then good luck buying fuel and if you live in a city good luck paying for transport to get there, depending on where people live parents may not feel comfortable letting their children go out by themselves
the problem must be kids today and not rising levels of inequality or a fuel cost crisis or a housing crisis or effects of a recession
even if we look past this kind of thing, if you have less money you're more likely to need to buy unhealthier food, you're also more likely to need to buy your kids clothes they will grow into, that are too large for them, leading to being treated differently by other kids etc. knowing your other friends get to go out and do things together while your parents don't have the money to let you also sucks.
its not like I'm saying that these issues didn't exist for many families in the past
but right now in the UK it has risen by an absurd amount over 20% of households in the UK are in poverty just because people are poor it doesnt mean that they don't deserve nice things every once in a while.
Right jane. It was never an issue for me. But I see the lifestyle has changed these days and so has expenses even though things are expensive.
This is how I live with my kids right now and I have always felt like a rich person. Reading the comments makes me think that this is not normal....
Jane, we aren't talking about going to the movies or theme parks. We are talking about parents having to skip meals to ensure that their children eat. Your situation in the 1970s or 80s America (or whenever it was) is not really relevant to poor families in the UK today. The cost of living crisis has hit the UK so hard so rapidly that the situation has become untenable for many families. They are past the point of cutting out luxuries. Now they are cutting dowb on basic needs.
PBJ is my all time favorite food. Almost like a gourmet where I live.
Pastas with meat sauce is always nice.
Beans and rice sounds good - dense in protein and carbs.
I don’t think you had bad life😅
I hate all of this and hate how millions starve in a relatively RICH country! But how is obesity a major problem if everyone misses out meals?
That's not difficult to understand. Poor people usually buy cheap poor quality over processed food.
This is actually a common issue among people living in some levels of poverty because the food people can afford and will consume is often cheap and usually relatively unhealthy. High in fats and/or salts, sugars, etc, low in necessary nutrition. So it a malnutrition issue on top of it. Its common in the US as well, especially around "food deserts". (There's a lot to this unfortunately. And the average wealth of a country does not represent the whole country)
you often dont move around much if your perpetually hungry.
The cheap ingredients used by manufacturers to bulk out poor quality food provide calories but not much else. You can easily be obese and malnurished on a western diet. Same for alcoholics, high levels of sugar but no nutritional value. Many people haven't learnt to cook from scratch and junk food can seem like an easy cheap option, especially as depression has a strong correlation with poverty. The quick fix and sugar high from sugar is a comfort for people too.
Where are some of these children's fathers ????.
Now in my 50s ..as a child I rarely seen my mother eat. I was fortunate to have had free school meals and a sandwich in the evening when I got home from school. Nutrition was not thought of at all it was a matter of being fed. Add poor housing single parent and debt its was unfortunately a nightmare for a child. My father was not present physically or financially. The social stigma of this in the 60s and 70s was also very isolating. Thankfully I did progress and am happy with a good husband who works so hard . Our children are well fed, educated and taken care of. It angers me that these men do not take responsibility for their children. Report on this please...this is by far one of the main reasons of child poverty.
I was a child of a divorcee in the 60s,not nice back then..My mum was a secretary so not too bad,but the stigma was worse.No central heating.Was bloody cold in the winter,no free school meals.Think my mum was too proud to claim them.Always had a hot meal after she came back from work and used to take turns picking items from green shield stamps catalogue.
Fathers also go "absent" so the mother can claim the benefits...
So true ! All data shows how being a single parent is significantly related to increased risks of poverty... It's not random that the 2 interviewed women where both single mothers.
Yes, women should be very careful about their sperm donors because too few true dads out there.
seeing this kid stress out about food breaks my heart i wish i could find a way to donate to her family
One way to save money... DON'T SHOP AT WAITROSE🤦♀️
They suffer even more because they don't know how to cook.
I did that regularly in the 80's. I bought adult clothes from a charity shop to strip and make my kids clothes and sold my furniture to find enough money for utility bills to keep them warm as well. Certainly prepared us for today!
Hmmm what did the 80s have in common with today
I used to buy clothes at the thrift store so I can remake them into curtains
Use reusable dishes , cutlery in schools
Use raw materials such as veggies , grains , meat , eggs for food rather than buying processed expensive stuffs .
I'm 59 and I can honestly say I've never missed a meal in my life unless I screwed up somehow by doing something like not getting enough groceries when I could have or being too lazy to cook something and choosing to go to bed. But I believe that could change really soon...
Regularly misses meals? Freezer is full. She goes into hunter mode when she goes into a supermarket? Who doesn't? Who doesn't like a deal? She's got a really nice kitchen - nicer than most young people paying £2000 rent and paying 40% tax subsidising the landlords, the pensioners and the complainers. Erin does look a bit more in need but the first one, come on - she's living in a nice place with what I can tell is a full freezer.
I do understand that UK is going through a tough time, all the mother has in her pantry is packets of processed food. Buying fresh vegetables and cooking lentils and rice at home will go a long way, without having to go without food. Change of lifestyle will help. Things like smaller portions of fresh meat cooked in a larger amount of sauce with rice should help until things improve. We live in Canada and the situation is similar. Grocery bills have skyrocketed beyond even the means of middle income groups. Slightly lowering standard of living, cooking at home, think of buying intelligently is the need of the hour all over the world.
vegetables are expensive even if grains and legumes are inexpensive.
growing up my mum did her best but we never even had meat because it was more expensive. there's a gap though, processed foods are often more calorie dense and cheaper in that way. There are associated time costs with cooking at home, not everyone has access to a stove or oven. and that's before accounting for the fact that not everyone has the know how of how to cook those sorts of food. it requires a bunch of pre planning which feels out of reach for people, especially if they are say juggling the needs of taking care of their children and working five days a week. There may technically be ways of improving things. but when you feel trapped its not easy to find your way out of it. and this says nothing of the working families who are entirely dependant on food banks and charity to actually afford meals in the first place.
Well said too much processed garbage and ultimately wasted! People need to be taught to cook these days, from scratch and preferably nutritious balanced meals they can learn from other cultures which will reduce the costs massively. Asian food for one is so inexpensive healthy and delicious to cook and eat!
@@TransVoiceCoach vegetables are definitely not expensive
I buy a ton of fruit and veg a week like potatoes tomatoes onions garlic Brocolli peas carrots etc and then I always buy Avocados a couple of pineapples and mangoes bananas strawberries oranges and apples ( mix up a little depending onthe season ) and chicken and fish along with what ever else I need like rice , beans , lentils eggs , cheese, oats and these are my basic weekly shopping and I can always get this for 5 of us for around 50 £ a week! Absolutely no excuse for anyone to say they cannot afford food inthe uk . Even if you don't work there is help available
Hard to do when you also have to work at least 40h a week
What's needed is change in government, not people accepting poverty.
Reminder:
Never waste food. ☺
Always prioritize your needs over your wants.☺
And don't take too much food right to your plate. Because it may lead to leftovers which can lead to food wastage. ☺
Also tell this to restaurants and super markets who throw away aton of edible food because they don't want to sell it for cheap.
@@nycto0 : Right on Boards! 👍😎
A lot of families, at least in America, leftovers are used for other meals throughout the week
I like leftovers.
Reminder: Do not have unprotected sex.
How does it always seem to be the people that are treated the worst in society that end up being the kindest and most giving? I know that's rhetorical but... No one should be going hungry and no one should be demonized for not being able to afford these atrocious rises in the cost of living.
Sorry but this lady's cupboards and fridge freezer is packed out with food don't tell me she misses meals coz she hungry she chooses not to eat poor ppl with no money to eat that have to beg at food banks are really the ones in need
When I was young pizza for dinner was a luxury.
She's complaining she has no food but her fridge and cupboards are full.
Agree
ikr crazy really ... she should see my fridge and cupboards ... empty .. i live on 1 meal a day if that she dosent have a clue what it means to starve lol
That's how they are in the west. They are so used to having so much so half of what they want is poverty to them. Very unappreciated of everything.
EXACTLY!!!!! Like she couldn’t fix a bag of cheap potatoes 🥔 a million yummy ways
@@rabbit2212 I have some yummy recipes that you could use! Let me send you a link because you aren’t not about to starve on my watch!!!
First world problems. Nice apartment, refrigerator full of food. Ask a Somali person about hunger and housing.
My heart goes out to these families, but it's truly sad the way it affects children. 15 Year old Erin is such a trouper and it's so sad that she has to grow up under such circumstances.
So, buy much more mundane products - NON organic, beans and rice, and frozen veggies, no dessert, etc - been there and ate a very boring, assortment of foods. Cooked from scratch, relied on free veggies that were less than perfect. Wore old worn out shoes and clothes. Oh, meals my children can eat? As. Kid we had no choice - eat what is served or be hungry.
yes just basic frugalism,
Well her cupboard certainly isn't empty, I noticed a jar of coconut oil that retails around £4 (in Oxford anyway) maybe she should use store brands.
Her fridge/freezer seems well stocked as well.
I'm surprised at the extra virgin coconut oil & coconut oil, doesn't seem poor to me. Those oils are more expensive (in commercial supermarkets) than the usual canola,sunflower, vegetable etc ones
@@pyrophoresist1497 Seed oils that you mentioned are toxic. They cause cancer and heart disease. Coconut oil is healthy. I would not begrudge someone using a healthy oil. But the cheese and processed food should be ditched for beans and rice. Most of us are spoiled and don’t cook from scratch often enough. A pot of bean soup is healthy and cheap.
@@JC-rl1vd Yes I realize now
Some people have noticed that the first lady has a nice kitchen so assume she doesn't have a problem. Since when did having a decent kitchen mean you don't have money issues? This could have been done way in the past, before she had the current problem!
All her past financial choices have led her to her current situation.
@@happycook6737 Not necessarily. Bad things can happen to good people.
food poverty hides the secondary detrimental effect which is nutritional food deficiency, this has a knock on effect on the long term health of the poorer sections of society.
Where are the father/ fathers from those 2 kids? Why she is the only one responsible to feed them?
Wow. This is crazy. I know here in Las Vegas NV my sister that's a teacher has kids that are sent home with backpacks of food, because they want to make sure the kids have something to eat over the weekend
I think what we are seeing in the UK is a consequence of food production being concentrated in the hands of a few organisations and the death of subsistence small scale food production.
I’m not at all trolling, but she doesn’t look like she’s missing meals tbh. House also looks fancy, and fridge and cupboards are full. This is an issue but you could have showed an actual poor family. My house actually looks like poverty 😂
This is heartbreaking.😞
Pro Tipp for people with large families. Guys Stock up on Rice. Learn some Rice meals. May e Rice with a side dish and you will go a long way with it. The kids will love it and its healthy. Thats how I manage most days.
I have had to do this for years so I am used to it, I feel sorry for those pampered first world people people who have never suffered
'I miss meals so my children can eat' - this isn't new, I had to do it 6 years ago. country is a joke for those who work for a living
To make ends meet I would use to shop at the 99 cent store. I couldn’t even afford medicine for myself one time a few years back. I’d pay rent, car payment, & insurance and other bills. I bought cough drops, DayQuil and night quill. All for like $7. I had $10 left in my bank account. Tell payday. The 99 cent store has saved me so many times.
Three meals a day a luxury in a first world country yet for us here in our village in my third world country we never miss meals. We have fruits in plenty, vegetables. We might not have all the trinkets of technology but we are healthy, we can wake up in the morning and milk the cows, harvest sweet potatoes from the garden, eat as may tangerines as I want by just sitting under the tangerine tree.
Sounds amazing 💜
May it always be
The western concept of starvation is an INSULT to those really suffering from starvation and famine.
We waste almost half of the food we purchase (not me, I'm frugal).
This wasteful way of dealing with food is why the food prices are skyrocketing and causing real starvation in poor countries, hence the migrant and refugee crisis.
We are facing a global ressession, we can't keep wasting food and being lazy.
LEARN.TO.COOK!!!
The world economy needs to be measured in different way than its used to be
It just shows how it failed people in realising how they aren't getting basic needs over some fake lifestyle.
There are extremely cheap supermarkets in England like Lidl and Aldi with many very cheap foods like oats, noodles, bananas, bread and many more. It is possible to eat plenty with a very small budget if you shop right
This is true. But families who were already living on the breadline before the cost of living crisis were shopping at discount supermarkets already. Then the cost of living crisis begins to unfold and where do they turn? Where do those already living on the bottom rungs of the economic ladder turn when their basic expenses suddenly increase by 20%?
I'm in the US and we use Aldi too.
quite right, Lidl is great.
It’s sad to be honest back then everyone did not value the things they had and were very ungrateful and loads of people wasted food and water in UK by throwing food away
Now everything is gone expensive I guess we all will learn the harder way and start being more appreciative to the small things
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For sure. I nearly had a coniption fit when I let a pound of beef spoil the other day.
im not disputing the struggle, but her freezer was fully stocked as were the cupboards. why would she be going without meals ? im asking a genuine question.
Go to the supermarket near 5 if cooked chickens are your thing.
I've got cooked chickens reduced to 2 quid to clear cause they can't keep them
Too bad the supermarkets in the USA don't do the same thing. They would rather throw out perfectly good food than sell it cheap.
@@SeanOHanlon Bullsh.. Have you taken a good look at the amount of obese people in US and UK? Hey BBC, are you going to show the Chinese government beating the cr.. out of people in London?
@@SeanOHanlon That's been exaggerated a bit. I work part-time for homeless services and we recently reviewed supermarket donations to soup kitchens, 70 percent of markets are daily donors of perishable goods near the end of their use. They're just giving it to places who cook hot meals for the hungry, not directly to needy people.
@@zippymufo9765 uh, read what you just typed again, that last line is ridiculous
@@madhatter909 What's so ridiculous? 😂 What they're donating is one or two days away from perishing. The most efficient use is to give it to kitchens who can cook and serve it immediately, not to people who may or may not be able to cook it in time. These charity kitchens serve a shitload of people, and you seem ignorant of the fact that many people are homeless or have their gas disconnected and can't cook certain types of food anyway. Your dumb ass would be out there giving meat to people living in tents and expecting them to eat it raw 😂😂😂
I grew up to poverty due to unfortunate life event as I grow up. I grew where my mom bought clearance sale food. I never felt ashamed of it. People nowadays constantly look down on people buying clearance food. Now, due to food security issues and economy many people choose to buy clearance food. Its better than letting those food to waste. Even in my country, many Non profit choose food almost expired to feed the poor. Better than wasted. The amount of waste in my country has reduced after this pandemic. I still in poverty side but I manage to chip my money for saving by buying clearance food😊 better than wasted
I live in Japan. Discounted food are the best thing ever. And hunting for cheap food is normal here.
I wanna go for dumpster diving so much in your country. Tons of products in normal condition goes to waste. Shouganai
Who cares what others think? Caring about appearances is a huge financial trap.
I feel so sad for this lady, she's so beautiful and good built, nobody will suspect her hard times. And imagine to be poor and have to be raising family in poverty !! I am so so sorry !!
People just need to move in together to split costs and responsibilities... And families need to pass wealth down to next generation rather than burn them in senior homes.
This is horrific...how is this possible though? As the woman said people will hear it and will be in shock how is it happening in the UK- I am one of these people. How can someone on an "ok pay" have to skip meals?
Because we are in the great devide
Do not worry, if you survive it, you will be in one of the massive riots that would infiltrate the palaces of the rich in the last minutes of capitalism
This has always been so common for many of us, regardless if you're middle or working class. I'm 34 and I have been implenting this since I can remember because my siblings still don't understand out financial situation. Sometimes selfishness in the family makes it worse...
What I noticed in the Western countries is that families buy so much expensive processed food from big supermarkets. Families needs to be re-taught how to make food from scratch. It takes 30 minutes to make nutritious and cheap meals from scratch. The poor in my country is worst off than these families who are skipping a meal a day and my poor country men make meals from scratch. These families needs to be imparted life skills. I am also from a higher income group yet I don't buy all these luxurious "gluten free" meals and expensive ready to eat meals. I buy whole grains, lenthils, pulses, flour, oil and vegetables. I always make my food from scratch and time 1 hour a meal each day for cooking, eating and cleaning up.
Agreed, but there is much info around books, RUclips, they are lazy
UK has been taken over by big supermarkets,There are no longer local markets anymore,that is the problem.
agree i thought the same
@@exbritishforcespatriotscha7723 There are, I'm from Yorkshire plenty of open markets selling fresh fruit, veg and pantry essentials. But guess what only ethnic minorities, pensioners and students from abroad come here in this neck of wood. Everyone else just want the warm convenience of supermarkets. If you were truly in food poverty you would shun these large supermarkets. Asian grocery stores are brilliant for selling huge bags of lentils, flours, rice lasts ages and very good price.
But one hour of cooking costs quite a lot of money! Unless of course it's with a slow cooker....!
I remember when I stayed in the U.K in 2013, the country seemed vibrant. I assume that some political change such as brexit, external circumstances like covid-19, energy crisis and Ukraine war might cause the current situation. I have a good memory in the U.K. It is sad to hear this kind of news.
Maybe the school could help by setting aside a plot of land to plant vegetables and it could be used to prepare food for the children....they do that in Japan and they used to cook the vegetables during lunch at school