Food insecurity can be experienced in a number of different ways, for example:
- Increased anxiety and stress about the cost of food.
- Eating a limited variety of foods. Consistently eating the same, few, low-cost foods and feeling like you need to compromise the types of food you eat to save money.
- Increased concern that your food supply may run out or run low before you have enough money to buy more.
- Eating less than you would like to or less frequently than you prefer to save food or money until you can get more.
- Skipping meals or whole days of eating because you have run out of food and do not have the money or resources to get more.
- Having to choose between buying food and buying books and other supplies for your college courses.
- Sometimes being comfortable having enough to eat and other times needing to ration food or skip meals to get by.