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You are with all the fruit and veg, and there is a good reason? yes. and there is a good reason? yes, indeed, and there is a good reason? yes, indeed. good _ and there is a good reason? yes, indeed, good morning. _ and there is a good reason? 1a: indeed, good morning. we have sweet peppers here, we have some nectarines, or have we got here? aubergine, plenty of fresh fruit and veg. this is at the birmingham wholesale market. and the changing price of items like this affects the overall rate of inflation. inflation is a measure of how much prices have gone up compared with a year earlier for th...

The cost of living crisis is changing the way people shop. this is the bounty club in harlow, essex. there are schemes like this across the country offering heavily discounted food which would otherwise end up in landfill. there we go, that's all cauliflower. you can get two bag fulls if you're a big family for £5, so it really does help us. zoe is a full time carerfor her husband. three of her children each receive a voucher worth £75 for the duration of the holiday. but because of the rising cost of basic essentials, it doesn't stretch as far as it did last year. cereals have gone up by an...

We're bang in the middle of an area that doesn't have much access to fresh produce. so we're trying to encourage people to grow their own food, educate people, inspire people, hopefully. and, i think, even in the few months that we've been doing it one or two hours a week, there's been huge change to the space. it was really down and depleted before, and now it's thriving. a couple of weeks ago, we did a thing that we called tomato day. so we handed out 200 free tomato plants to the community. and it was an effort to get them interested in growing their own tomatoes, but also to get them to co...

Sorted the place out. but the idea was that it became a really nice, welcoming space that people could interact with and pick veg and sit on the wall and make it a generally nice spot really. so this is the warehouse. we work with a lot of public donations, charities and wholesalers. food stored here is used for the food bank, it's used for social supermarkets, it's used for hot meal provisions that we work with. so what we're growing here, we've got loads of tomatoes growing. we're growing courgettes as well. these ones are chard, so they've been picked a couple of times already and they're o...

And sugar as part of a deal. not everyone finds that palatable. no, i don't think it is, personally. i think you should be able to have the choice and, you know, you can eat and drink what you want within reason, you know? i mean, you can still buy it, but it might be more expensive. well, but you're alienating people, really, because people want what they want. there are way too many offers and things towards higher fats, and that is what people naturally go to because they think it's cheaper than fruit or veg. everything's labelled. you're making a conscious choice. so i think there's no nee...