A thread on food poverty: I've fed my family well on £30 a week in the past, through necessity. I also became fixated on finding ways to 'cook' while me and my girl were homeless in various Travelodges a couple of years back. Our food bill for 2 adults and a child now is £60 ish.

However, to fixate and quibble about whether you can feed a family on £30 a week is to entirely miss the point of how food poverty happens. I have resources that allowed me to make scrambled eggs and toast with a hotel kettle and an iron :D

I was taught home economics at Grammar school because it was assumed I'd just be someone's wife. I'm also educated and bloody minded. I wasn't working two or three zero hours contracts. I didn't come from a line of people who have been disenfranchised by decades of

societal abandonment. So, to fixate on whether feeding your family on next to nothing CAN be done is not helpful. It suggests that if I can do it then so can anyone else. Food poverty is a complex problem that needs multi agency input, the main agency being Government.

Food poverty will continue whilst we have a government that is ideologically hell bent on punishing the poor and hoarding money and resources for themselves. THAT is the debate, not whether it's possible to feed a family ion £30 a week.