A dad surviving on £250 per month told of the agonising decision he faces each month between eating and turning on the heating.
Damian Bradshaw, 53, can either heat his freezing home or stock his cupboards with enough food for one meal a day but mostly all he can afford is toast.
The dad-of-one, left disabled after suffering a stroke, is one of many vulnerable people struggling to get by in Greater Manchester – one of the UK's worst hit areas in the food crisis.