Hard up mum feeding kids food destined for bin as she shields in virus crisis

mirror.co.uk:

If there’s any moment that sums up Britain’s toxic relationship with food, it was this tweet from Annunziata Rees-Mogg – sister of House of Commons leader Jacob. “Tesco 1kg potatoes = 83p, 950g own brand chips = £1.35,” she posted, as the Prime Minister unveiled his new obesity plan.

She might as well have said “let them eat chips”. It’s not just the fact that cooking potatoes from scratch takes more gas, adding oil costs money, it takes longer for an exhausted parent with three jobs to provide and a kilo of potatoes is harder to get home from the supermarket on foot – it’s the fact that we’ve been here so many times before.