Kathleen Kerridge
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Kathleen Kerridge
@K_Kerridge
Author of books, blogs & articles. anti food poverty campaigner.
Portmouth, UK Sumali Mayıs 2014
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@K_Kerridge @dunelmcuths @BBCBreakfast @BBCPolitics I'd be surprised if you didn't get a few 'well if she can afford fish food' etc. comments 😂🐠
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"Here I am again, checking labels, checking prices and wondering if I can buy my children an apple."
Mum-of-four Kathleen tells #BBCBreakfast why she's had to take fresh fruit off the shopping list because of rising living costs.
More: bbc.in/3LVQv0p
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@Eispyeileen @dunelmcuths @BBCBreakfast @BBCPolitics I didn't, no. My fish tank apparently is controversial though 🤣
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@dunelmcuths @BBCBreakfast @BBCPolitics Did she say she feeds her children crisps, sweets & junk food?
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Great to see @UKLabour voting to support the #righttofood at party conference. But families need support now. @Keir_Starmer @KateGreenSU do you agree that we need to expand #FreeSchoolMeals, holiday clubs and Healthy Start?
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@BenjaminARiley Hi! There will be, absolutely. All are being rewritten and re-released starting with book 1 (hopefully) this year 😊
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@theirishego You're still not a salamander, dude! What will the DWP do if you *actually* regrew your legs like they thought you could?🤔
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And another article on the subject of poverty/diet/obesity. amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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I found one of the blog posts about weight/poverty I wrote. Still valid, 3 years on, which is a shame.
Kathleen Kerridge@K_Kerridge
Eating Healthy Costs More and It’s Time To Stop Pretending It Doesn’t. kathleenkerridge.com/2018/03/12/eat…
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@theirishego @FT I'm so lucky to have such crazy talented friends, who do this random lovely stuff! Love you, you marvellous weirdo
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You should know that @K_Kerridge is a best-selling author, selling tens of thousands of books in the #SearchingForEden series and has written and spoken extensively about food poverty, most recently in the @FT
Im very lucky to have such talented friends!
ft.com/content/8df76a…
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"He has prosthetic legs... One night, round my house, he scared my daughter’s ex-boyfriend by twisting a leg behind his head. He’s that sort of person."
My wonderful friend @K_Kerridge writing in 2016. You can tell she really *gets* me!
kathleenkerridge.com/2016/02/09/wil…
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Free school meal handouts strip agency from UK parents ft.com/content/8df76a… via @financialtimes #ENDCHILDFOODPOVERTY
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📺Kicking off any moment now: youtube.com/watch?v=asYW8-…
Our director Anna Taylor will be delivering evidence to @HoCpetitions on child food poverty in the UK. Alongside @ChildrensComm , @HenryDimbleby , @TrussellTrust , @childrensociety & @FareShareUK
#EndChildFoodPoverty

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Food insecurity, at its heart, is a symptom of a wider disease: #poverty. A powerful piece on the stress that comes from empty cupboards and an empty purse by @K_Kerridge in today's @financialtimes
ft.com/content/8df76a…
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“The income threshold for those schemes is set too low at the moment. There is this group of kids that are falling outside of the scheme, and they need help.”
🗣️ Anna Taylor, FF Director
Further commentary from @jrf_uk @IFAN_UK @sabineegoodwin @K_Kerridge
ft.com/content/98b716…
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Covid has shone a spotlight on the scale of children’s food poverty in the UK. Young people are calling for gov to act now on their Charter: bit.ly/3gLRkZT
RT for children’s #Right2Food📢
@educationgovuk @DHSCgovuk @Food_Foundation
@10DowningStreet @CR2FCampaign
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Making healthy diets affordable was a key theme for @LordsFoodCom's Hungry for Change report & today's webinar. New analysis for our upcoming Broken Plate report shows the situation isn't improving - healthy foods are 3x as expensive as less healthy foods. Fruit & veg esp. pricey

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