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I live opposite a food bank, the queues are growing again. They got bigger and bigger during the lockdowns but shrinked quite quickly when they ended, I assume because places opened and people could work again. But one week to the next suddenly they're huge again, happened at the same time as the energy price rises.
Sumo-
food prices have skyrocketed too in same window as the energy increases. Our typical weekly shop is now £130 for the same stuff I was spending about £80-90 last year.
individual items from our shop are going up by whole pounds instead of pence pretty much every single week. some stuff is 40-50% more expensive now than 3 months ago.
we're all being subjected to death by a thousand cuts in pretty much every single facet of life now as everything has turned to shit at the same time so prices are going up across the board but now it feels like all the companies would rather pull out a machete to extract as much blood as possible in one fell swoop and bleed us dry rather than try to keep us ticking over and lightly bleeding indefinitely. feels like they're all grabbing as much money as they can before the whole thing unravels.
HatBeard
More than 2m adults in UK cannot afford to eat every day, survey finds. One in seven adults estimated to be food-insecure, up 57% from January, owing to rising cost of living
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/may/09/more-than-2m-adults-in-uk-cannot-afford-to-eat-every-day-survey-finds