Eating on a low income

Barbara Dobson, Alan Beardsworth, Teresa Keil and Robert Walker

1 November 1994

This study looked at how people adapted to the experience of eating on a low income and why they made particular choices about buying food.

All the families studied managed to get enough to eat but such 'success' was achieved at a price, such as self-denial, family stress and unwelcome changes in diet and shopping habits.

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