Health fears over Peterborough Stamford and Rutland families who choose "cheaper" junk food
A charity operating in Peterborough, Bourne, Stamford and Market Deeping fears many people aren't getting the nutrients they need because of the cost of healthier options
There's fears for the health of many people across Peterborough Stamford and Rutland who choose junk food because they can't afford options that are better for them.
Research says around 20 per cent of UK parents go for junk food at least once a week because it's cheaper
Charity the "Bread and Butter Thing" operates in places like Peterborough, Stamford and Market Deeping and supplies healthy food at affordable prices.
It's really easy to recognise hunger and replicate hunger for yourself - just stop eating for a day
We've been speaking to Founder Mark Game about the issue.
He's been telling us: "I could tell you stories of members who've gone on to eat better, lose weight and actually they've moved from being diabetic and they've got back into work."
"There are so many long term benefits to the NHS and this is how we should be looking at as a nation as well."
"It's really easy to recognise hunger and replicate hunger for yourself - just stop eating for a day and you'll soon see how it feels."
"But if you want to feel the emotional stress of it just do that to your kids and then you'll realise the stress that families that are food insecure are going through everyday."
"It's just so expensive to try and feed people."
How could they possibly afford to make the right choices?
"The Eat Well guide - something that the Government would promote - it costs about 9 quid a day."
"Our members have around a pound a day to spend on food - how could they possibly afford to make the right choices?
"I was actually taking to one of our hub leaders last week who's a head teacher at a primary school and she was saying how ridiculous it was."
"She felt the threshold (for schools meals) should at least double so that you could get many more kids getting the right food."
"Yes it would be a really base to push the right calories into our children in schools."
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