Writer and campaigner Jack Monroe has spoken about the humiliation she felt when the price of a jar of jam went up by 4p - and the label on the shelf edge was not updated - as she describes how exhausting it is to live on a £20 a week food budget. Jack, who has been writing and campaigning on the issue of food poverty for more than a decade, was speaking to the BBC about how hard it really is to feed yourself and your family in the current climate.
Visiting a food bank, she spoke to people who have had to go without food to ensure their children have something to eat. She said: "It's traumatising to sit down and realise that maybe if you skipped a couple of meals at least you'd be making sure your children are getting fed.
"And that's what I hear every single day from people. And doing that just once, as a person it changes you fundamentally."
