Parents skip meals so as kids can eat.

[cuttsie 1,089]

A report from Kellogs???

 

What the hell, are we going to have Greggs covering 3rd world debt next??

It is a report that Kelloggs,s[double g] have commissioned to further the understanding of the food market.

Maybe they should just not bother.

 

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Listen mush, you know nothing about me.

 

I might have what is deemed a "good income" now, but I have not always. I am one of 4 kids who were raised by parents on a very modest income. My mum did not work for nearly 10 years and when she did it was part time for many years after. Both my mum and dad had modest incomes - they always managed to put food on the table and clothes on our backs without ever resorting to a government handout. So did millions of others. People managed.

 

I had many years as a junior living in the world before the minimum wage, I had to pay for rent, clothing, transport and food. Guess what, I managed. Not perfect I admit, plenty of times when I would be resorting to beans on toast until payday but I managed.

 

Food costs and the decades of supermarket prices wars have dropped over the years. I have said before that there are relative prices and a selection which would have been thought impossible a generation ago. Pubs sell two course meals at £5, fast food restaurants sell burgers for less than a quid, supermarkets sell grocery essentials and tinned food for pennies.

 

Its not about "im alright jack" its being in the real world and not falling for the woe is me horse crap splashed around the Labour Press. You are not going to convince me that all the thousands of allegedly destitute people queuing up outside these food banks actually need to be there. If someone actually looked at what their money was spent on they would educate these spongers into what real "essentials" are.

What is a mush.

[woodmally 10]

A report from Kellogg's claims that a third of parents on lower incomes skip meals so their kids can eat.

This takes me back to the 1940's and early fifty's when my old Ma would give me rabbit or lamb along with veg while she would just dip a slice of bread into the remaining gravy.

When I used to ask her why she din't have some dinner she would reply that she liked bread and gravy "that's why".

At that time I just took her word for it but in later years the memory made feel humble and sad .

To think that those days are coming back makes it all the more so:(

 

Do these parents skip beer, wine and fags as well? I suspect not. As another poster has said you can still get cheap food these days.

 

Jamie Oliver did a wonderful programme about how you can make the most of meals.

[monkey104 10]

Odd that Kellog have released a report in to the fact that a lot of children's schoolwork is suffering because they don't eat breakfast.

I wonder to what end they commissioned that report?

[Chris_Sleeps 10]

Hard to Swallow

The Facts about Food Poverty

 

Key Findings

This report, conducted on behalf of Kellogg’s by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) 1 attempts to measure food poverty, and considers the implications for shoppers, businesses and government.

 

Our findings show food poverty in the UK is increasing, with a significant impact on families already struggling to meet basic nutritional needs.

 

How as the CEBR got things so completely incorrect if food is so cheap and it's just a simple case that all the drunks and smokers can't feed their kids properly?

 

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I wonder to what end they commissioned that report?

They address that question.

 

Helping people is at the heart of Kellogg’s. Around 20% of our company is owned by a charitable trust started in the 1930s by our founder, WK Kellogg, to help children in poverty across the globe.

 

Here in the UK, we’ve spent the last decade setting up more than 1,000 breakfast clubs which serve more than two million breakfasts each year to the children who need them most. This is about getting kids into the breakfast habit and nothing more. That’s why our donations come in the form of a grant for the club’s organiser to invest as they see fit and vouchers for much needed food.

Edited July 17, 2015 by Chris_Sleeps

[illuminati9 10]

just go to any tesco and watch what the local chav/on benefit people buy. tesco value brand food and reduce vegetables and ood food. then go to koisk and buy cigs and scratch cards.

[AMR67 10]

Listen mush, you know nothing about me.

 

I might have what is deemed a "good income" now, but I have not always. I am one of 4 kids who were raised by parents on a very modest income. My mum did not work for nearly 10 years and when she did it was part time for many years after. Both my mum and dad always managed to put food on the table and clothes on our backs without ever resorting to a government handout. So did millions of others. People managed.

 

I had many years as a junior level employee living in the world before the minimum wage, I had to pay for rent, clothing, transport and food. Guess what, I managed. Not perfect I admit, plenty of times when I would be resorting to beans on toast until payday but I managed.

 

Food costs and the decades of supermarket prices wars have dropped costs over the years. I have said before that there are relative prices, choice of retailer and a selection of products now which would have been thought impossible a generation ago. Pubs sell two course meals at £5, fast food restaurants sell burgers for less than a quid, supermarkets sell grocery essentials and tinned food for pennies.

 

Its not about "im alright jack" its being in the real world and not falling for the woe is me horse crap splashed around the Labour Press. You are not going to convince me that all the thousands of allegedly destitute people queuing up outside these food banks actually need to be there. If someone looked at what their money was spent on deemed more important than food they would educate these spongers into what real "essentials" are.

 

We have a breed of "owt for nowt" people and it needs to be stopped. Those GENUINELY in need are being overshadowed by the greedy, lazy and workshy. This whole food bank culture fuelled by tabloid sob stories is only making it worse.

 

:thumbsup: Well said.

[discodown 11]

Listen mush, you know nothing about me.

 

I might have what is deemed a "good income" now, but I have not always. I am one of 4 kids who were raised by parents on a very modest income. My mum did not work for nearly 10 years and when she did it was part time for many years after. Both my mum and dad always managed to put food on the table and clothes on our backs without ever resorting to a government handout. So did millions of others. People managed.

 

I had many years as a junior level employee living in the world before the minimum wage, I had to pay for rent, clothing, transport and food. Guess what, I managed. Not perfect I admit, plenty of times when I would be resorting to beans on toast until payday but I managed.

 

Food costs and the decades of supermarket prices wars have dropped costs over the years. I have said before that there are relative prices, choice of retailer and a selection of products now which would have been thought impossible a generation ago. Pubs sell two course meals at £5, fast food restaurants sell burgers for less than a quid, supermarkets sell grocery essentials and tinned food for pennies.

 

Its not about "im alright jack" its being in the real world and not falling for the woe is me horse crap splashed around the Labour Press. You are not going to convince me that all the thousands of allegedly destitute people queuing up outside these food banks actually need to be there. If someone looked at what their money was spent on deemed more important than food they would educate these spongers into what real "essentials" are.

 

We have a breed of "owt for nowt" people and it needs to be stopped. Those GENUINELY in need are being overshadowed by the greedy, lazy and workshy. This whole food bank culture fuelled by tabloid sob stories is only making it worse.

Does anyone have any water? Someone has been given quite a severe burn

[TJC1 10]

A report from Kellogg's claims that a third of parents on lower incomes skip meals so their kids can eat.

This takes me back to the 1940's and early fifty's when my old Ma would give me rabbit or lamb along with veg while she would just dip a slice of bread into the remaining gravy.

When I used to ask her why she din't have some dinner she would reply that she liked bread and gravy "that's why".

At that time I just took her word for it but in later years the memory made feel humble and sad .

To think that those days are coming back makes it all the more so:(

 

another report said 1/4 of kids are going to school with no grub. teachers have to feed em.

 

---------- Post added 17-07-2015 at 14:23 ----------

 

Odd that Kellog have released a report in to the fact that a lot of children's schoolwork is suffering because they don't eat breakfast.

I wonder to what end they commissioned that report?

 

whats also ironic is the amount of sugar in a lot of kellogs cereals is making kids fat.

[truman 10]

Hard to Swallow

The Facts about Food Poverty

 

Key Findings

This report, conducted on behalf of Kellogg’s by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) 1 attempts to measure food poverty, and considers the implications for shoppers, businesses and government.

 

Our findings show food poverty in the UK is increasing, with a significant impact on families already struggling to meet basic nutritional needs.

 

How as the CEBR got things so completely incorrect if food is so cheap and it's just a simple case that all the drunks and smokers can't feed their kids properly?

 

---------

 

 

They address that question.

 

Helping people is at the heart of Kellogg’s. Around 20% of our company is owned by a charitable trust started in the 1930s by our founder, WK Kellogg, to help children in poverty across the globe.

 

Here in the UK, we’ve spent the last decade setting up more than 1,000 breakfast clubs which serve more than two million breakfasts each year to the children who need them most. This is about getting kids into the breakfast habit and nothing more. That’s why our donations come in the form of a grant for the club’s organiser to invest as they see fit and vouchers for much needed food.

 

There could be many reasons why people don't have cash for meals

Edited July 17, 2015 by truman

[RonJeremy 10]

Don't buy it.

 

Food has never been so cheap, mass produced and in such plentiful supply.

 

Such plentiful supply that shops and us customers waste tonnes of it every day because we "don't like the look of it" or "its been sitting around for a while" or "its gone past its made up sell by date"

 

Food shoppers now have equated prices and a selection of goods that their past generations could only have dreamed of.

 

Don't believe all this skipping meals to feed the kids lark. People who are doing that have got far far bigger issues about their money management. Someone needs to get in there and tackle it. Food "costs" aint one of them.

 

I saw a documentary recently attempting to highlight this very issue about poor done people and their "spiralling" food costs. I saw them the violin music part of the show, trying to straight face report on two morbidly obese yokels waddling round the cash'Ncarry complaining about their food costs and how their mass of internet coupons are such a lifeline otherwise they wouldn't be able to afford to put meals on the table. Yeah, whatever!

 

Just like the whole food bank myth that is being splattered all over the left wing press. Nobody in this country in this decade NEEDS a food handout. People need to look at what proper starvation looks like. What proper poverty looks like.

 

Smells of a nice little cereal promotion to me.

 

great post. Spot on

[TJC1 10]

to eat healthily, it costs more money.... a health tax.

but you can find cheap veg, meat and find other ways to cut costs, its just a matter of making do if you are really poor.

 

Its a fact lost on those who think booze, fags, latest phones and wide screen teles are a priority.

[tzijlstra 11]

[From Guardian snippet]Helping people is at the heart of Kellogg’s.

 

100 grams of Kellogg's cornflakes contains 10 grams of processed sugar.

 

In fact that is one of their least-sugary products. If they really want to help people than it is time to stop making them addicted to sugar from a young age by sponsoring so called philanthropic breakfast clubs.