Priced out of healthy eating: Canadians skipping meals, buying less meat

Canada’s food crunch is getting worse: more Canadians are skipping meals, while nearly half have cut back on meat, dairy or fresh produce as grocery costs bite.

Source: X (Mark Carney)

Runaway grocery prices are forcing Canadians to skip meals and cut healthy foods, as Ottawa’s own research shows the average household can no longer afford to follow Canada’s Food Guide.

An internal report, Survey On Consumer Perceptions Of Food: Wave VII, found 71 per cent of Canadians changed their food purchasing habits over the past year because of rising prices, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.

Suffice to say, soaring grocery prices are forcing Canadians to go hungry.