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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent

Cost of living crisis causes ‘dignity gap’ for Scotland’s poorest families

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The report tracked the cost of real shopping lists between December 2021 and December 2022. Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/Rex/Shutterstock

The first study to use real shopping lists to track the impact of the cost of living crisis on family budgets in Scotland has uncovered a “dignity gap” between the cheapest products and what families actually want to eat.

Nourish Scotland’s report, which launches on Tuesday, tracks the affordability and accessibility of a weekly shop for different-sized families who are at highest risk of food insecurity, including a single-parent family and a larger family unit with three children.

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