1m UK adults ‘go entire day without food’ in cost of living crisis

Study finds one in 10 households report food insecurity while people with serious disabilities five times more at risk

A million UK adults went an entire day without eating over the past month because they could not afford to put a meal on the table, according to research highlighting how the cost of living crisis has driven up food insecurity.

Soaring energy and grocery prices - along with the removal in October of the 20 Covid top-up to universal credit - were having a devastating impact on the food consumption of millions of people, the Food Foundation thinktank said.