Health
Virus hits Vic family food budgets: survey – Blue Mountains Gazette
Cash-strapped Victorian families resorted to buying cheap and unhealthy food during the first COVID-19 lockdown, while some ran out altogether. The VicHealth…
Cash-strapped Victorian families resorted to buying cheap and unhealthy food during the first COVID-19 lockdown, while some ran out altogether.
The VicHealth research, released on Friday, showed one in four families (26 per cent) were forced to rely on nutritionally-lacking food as households felt the financial pinch of the first wave.
Of 2000 surveyed participants, low-income (49 per cent) and single-parent families (39 per cent) were the most likely to buy unhealthy food due to a shortage of…
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