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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
David Cohen

‘My children ask why I’m not eating. I can’t tell them the real reason’

A single mother college graduate who used to work as an accountant has reduced her daily food intake to “leftovers at dinner” to feed her three children as the cost of living crisis escalates, the Evening Standard can reveal.

Amina, who worked three days a week as the financial manager of a charity before being made redundant during the pandemic, said she has “trained” herself to eat once a day to enable her to have enough to feed her children, aged six, four and one.

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