Starving families using food banks to keep themselves fed are having to leave root vegetables such as carrots and potatoes behind because they can't afford to cook them - according to a supermarket boss. Richard Walker said food bank users were saying no to potatoes and root vegetables because they could not afford the energy to boil them.
The managing director of Iceland told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme the Chancellor would be right to focus on the consumer in his spring statement on Wednesday.
He said: “I think the cost-of-living crisis is the single most important domestic issue that we’re facing as a country and it is incredibly concerning.
