Gwenda Rose loves visits from her great-grandchildren. Nowadays, though, if they’re over for the day, she will skip a few dinners so she can afford to feed them.
The week or so before their adored trips, the 84-year-old will perhaps have an egg for breakfast, and salad or beans on toast at lunchtime, and nothing more for a few nights.
Widow Gwenda has lost around half a stone in a year as the cost of living crisis has forced her to cut back on groceries. “You get used to it,” she says, sounding almost defeated.
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