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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Lifestyle
Martin Winter

Low-income households struggle to afford to sit down and eat meals together

More than half of low-income parents (52%) have gone hungry in order to be able to afford to feed their children, a study has found.

One in five households that collectively earn below £25,000 a year struggle to regularly sit down for dinner together, because they cannot afford enough food to feed the whole family.

The poll of 1,050 families found that more than a third (39%) have felt incredible amounts of stress about putting meals on the table every day.

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