Poor people in the UK are struggling to afford food as the economing crisis unfolds and food prices rise, according to the Save the Children charity.
Save the Children claim the recession means hard-up families cannot afford to buy decent food.
As a result children are being deprived of dietary staples and instead are being raised on cheap packaged food high in fat, salt and sugar.
It comes as a survey by The Grocer magazine shows food prices rising by almost a fifth over the past year, with basic essentials such as rice and milk among the worst hit.
The charity is launching a crisis grant scheme next week to help families struggling with food bills.
The UK is not alone with this problem, millions of children could go hungry due to the impact of the credit crunch on developing countries, combined with continuing high food prices that mean the world’s poorest families cannot feed their children properly.
Around 3.5 million children die every year because of malnutrition. The economic global downturn could kill another 2.8 million more children before 2015, the target set by many of the G20 leaders to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger around the world.
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