squeezed food budgets
When incomes are squeezed, food is often the only part of a household budget which can be cut
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Families on extremely low food budgets tend to focus on foods which are filling, rather than foods which have optimum health benefits
Food prices rose 28% in UK between 2007 and 2016, but average household incomes rose 5.1% in the same time period
After housing, fuel and power costs food is the largest expenditure for low income households, at 14.3% of their income