What did you have to eat this morning? Cereal? Toast? A roll and bacon? Or just a cup of coffee as you rush out the door?

Food on the table, every morning. This is something most of us take for granted. And yet, for many, this is not the reality.

Eight million people across the UK have trouble putting food on the table and half a million used food banks last year.

More and more people are finding that they simply don’t have enough money to buy food, let alone food that is healthy and nutritious.

This is why we in the Co-op Party have launched a Food Justice Campaign – because we want to see a “Right to Food” enshrined in law.

We want a duty to be placed on local authorities to measure so-called “food deserts” – places where it is impossible to buy healthy food easily.

And we want communities to enjoy a “right to grow”, which would open up new opportunities to grow food on disused lands and in co-operative allotments.

In the meantime, we can all do what we can to support local projects that are tackling food justice.

This year for Lent I’m not giving up anything – instead, I’m taking something up.

For a week in April I’m going to take a list from the foodbank of what food is in a package for a week – and that’s what I’ll eat for that week.

I’ll give the money that I save over the week to my local foodbank in Whiteinch.

Why don’t you join me?

Perhaps you could give up one thing for a week – say, coffee, or chocolate biscuits – and then donate the money that you save to your local foodbank.

If we all do a little, this can make a big difference.

To find out more about the Co-op Party’s Food Justice Campaign go to their website at https://party.coop/.