food insecure
Uncertain about meals
Food insecure describes people or households lacking reliable access to enough affordable, nutritious food.
The term is the standard way institutions discuss hunger without using that blunter word: Fourteen percent of households in the county are food insecure.
Someone who is food insecure may skip meals, stretch portions, or rely on food banks to get by.
- hungryWanting to eat
- povertySevere lack of resources
- making ends meetEarning enough to survive
- stretched thinExtended beyond comfortable limits
- hungerNeed for nourishment
starving · skipping meals · pantry · stamps · welfare · government assistance · rations · scarcity · malnourished · soup kitchen · free lunch · school lunch program · foodbank · assistance · needy · struggling · empty · cupboard
- Vulnerable Groupshomeless youth, orphans, refugees, disabled people, elderly poor
- Disadvantageddisadvantaged, underprivileged, vulnerable, marginalized, needy
food insecureaffluent
Having abundant financial resources
prosperous · thriving · privileged · comfortable · self-sufficient
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