{"id":93353,"date":"2026-08-26T05:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T05:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=93353"},"modified":"2026-08-26T05:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T05:25:06","slug":"uk-faces-surge-in-youngsters-cutting-back-on-food-as-23-year-old-tells-of-food-bank-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/uk-faces-surge-in-youngsters-cutting-back-on-food-as-23-year-old-tells-of-food-bank-shame\/","title":{"rendered":"UK faces surge in youngsters cutting back on food as 23-year-old tells of food bank &#8216;shame&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA2aUT23.img?w=768&h=512&m=6\" alt=\"Newly released figures from food banks in the Trussell community show more than 240,000 food parcels were provided to 17 to 24-year-olds last year\" width=\"613\" height=\"409\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Almost a third of young people aged 16-25 have cut back on food so they can afford other essentials in the last three months, grim research shows. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/personalfinance\/uk-faces-surge-in-youngsters-cutting-back-on-food-as-23-year-old-tells-of-food-bank-shame\/ar-AA2aUT26?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a8e77faf2624ed8857b7249c21da979&ei=17\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Almost a third of young people aged 16-25 have cut back on food so they can afford other essentials in the last&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-food-and-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Food-bank-box.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93354,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93353\/revisions\/93354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}