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By Rachel Lawler

 

Low income families cannot afford to follow healthy eating guidelines for their children, according to new research from the .

 

The organisation looks at the cost of following the government鈥檚 and compared this to average household expenditure from the Living Costs and Food Survey 2015/16.

 

More than a quarter of families (26.9%) would need to spend more than a quarter of their disposable income to meet the Eatwell Guidelines and more than half of these families include at least one child.

 

Families earning less than 拢15,860 a year would need to spend 42% of their disposable income on meeting the cost of the Eatwell Guide.

 

The Food Foundation says that the government should ensure that the low-income families are given adequate support to help them meet the Eatwell Guidelines.

 

Annie Denny, nutrition development manager at the , said: 鈥淓nsuring that young children have access to healthy and nutritious food is at the very heart of what we do here at the Early Years Nutrition Partnership. We鈥檙e deeply saddened to hear that children growing up in lower income families may not be able to get enough fruit, vegetables and other healthy foods to meet the government鈥檚 official guidelines.鈥�