More than 50% of children born in UK this year could experience obesity by age 65, audit warnsThe UK’s poorest households struggle to afford to meet the government’s recommended guidelines on a healthy diet, leaving them more at risk of obesity and heart disease, an annual audit has […]

Supermarket set to roll out scheme to all UK branches to redistribute edible surplus food for freeTesco is to join forces with the food sharing app and social enterprise Olio in a drive to stop edible surplus food from going to waste in the UK and help feed more people in crisis in the local […]

End of coronavirus job and income support expected to spark 61% rise in food bank useCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBritain’s largest food bank network has warned that UK destitution rates will double by Christmas alongside an explosion in demand for charity […]

Those in government pushing for a no-deal Brexit should try to feed two people for a tenner a week, as I didI’ll never forget trying to feed myself and my son on £10 a week. I was a single mum, absolutely skint and living hand to mouth, even after I started working as a trainee reporter […]

Organic food should not be preserve of rich say volunteers helping provide food banks with fresh produce Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWhen Covid-19 and the lockdown struck, a two-acre stretch of a field on Barnwell Road just outside the centre of Cambridge, the […]

I listen to clients in impossible situations every day but, as a debt adviser for Citizens Advice, I can usually helpI am a debt adviser for Citizens Advice. I listen to clients who are in seemingly impossible situations every day. People are struggling to maintain even the most basic living […]

We would like to hear from people who have used a food bank for the first time during the coronavirus pandemicAccording to figures from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in July, millions of people went hungry or relied on food bankds during the first few weeks of lockdown.We would like to hear from […]

FSA report finds food insecurity has shot up, bringing risk of malnutrition and obesityCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe coronavirus pandemic has had a catastrophic effect on the nutritional health of the UK’s poorest citizens with as many as one in 10 […]

Too often healthy food is unaffordable or inaccessible to the poorest families, writes Andrew Forsey, while Dr Helen Holt says food insecurity may be behind the link between obesity and povertyThe food required for a healthy diet is often unaffordable or inaccessible for Britain’s poorest […]

A team of ‘fridge-keepers’ coordinates donations, keep the fridge safe and sometimes even donate food or money from their own pocketsIn May, two months after Marianne Pita recovered from Covid-19, she heard about a fridge set up on a street corner not far from her house in the Bronx. […]

Covid dancing | Food banks | Cheese | The Guardian | The Morning StarI was shopping yesterday in my local supermarket, masked up. There was some nice music playing. An elegant lady approaching me in the aisle moved deftly to her right, just as I made a similar move to the left. She then moved once […]

The government is spending about £500m to pay people to go to restaurants, while families in poverty get next to nothing Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSydnie Corley has found it stressful feeding her two young children since the coronavirus pandemic began. […]

Report warns second wave could see food poverty increase and suggests enshrining ‘right to food’ in lawMinisters should consider enshrining in law a right to food and must appoint a new minister for food security, according to an influential committee of MPs, after the coronavirus […]

The inaugural Potato Photographer of the Year prize has gone to a potato getting a lockdown haircut. Judged by a panel including organiser Benedict Brain and Martin Parr, the competition raised funds for the food bank charity, The Trussell Trust Continue reading...

Jeff Bezos | 1970s food | Musicians and God | Newspaper paywallsI am not intrinsically against anyone making shedloads of money (Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, added £10bn to his fortune in just one day, 21 July). I wonder, however, how many of Amazon’s employees in the UK […]

As Boris Johnson instructs us to go out and spend, swathes of the population can barely afford to eatIn over three months of reporting about the Covid-19 outbreak and the social crisis it has sparked, one subject has come up in my conversations far more than most: food. Or rather, an increasing […]

Government data reveals up to 7.7m adults reduced or missed meals and 3.7 used food banksCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageGovernment figures have revealed that lack of money forced millions of people to go hungry or rely on food banks during the first few weeks of […]

It’s a tragedy we’re needed at all, but I’m proud of how my team has adapted to the Covid-19 pandemicMonday is always an important day at the south London warehouse in Streatham – the food parcels going out will have been sorted the previous week and are ready for our […]

From farmers to supermarket chiefs to frontline workers, this is the inside story of the food supply chain and Covid-19. Were we prepared for the storm – and what happens next? Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageFor Kim McMaster the crisis began on 21 March. […]

Black British sportspeople are seizing the moment to speak out about racism and povertyMarcus Rashford has done something that few of us can or ever will be able to achieve. The Manchester United and England forward has spurred a genuine change in social policy, altering the direction of government […]