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Mrs Shrager said she was “shocked” and “appalled” to learn of reports that 11% of the UK lives with food insecurity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Charity Trussell, aiming to end hunger, said 9.3 million people – including one in five children – are facing hunger and hardship<\/a> within the UK in a 2024 report, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I have a voice – being in the food industry, people might listen to me,” Mrs Shrager said.<\/p>\n

The chef told the BBC that the she had to relearn how to ride for the challenge and has been covering up to 50 miles per day on an electric bike.<\/p>\n

Meeting “pensioners who can’t afford to make ends meet” and “young people with children who can’t afford to feed them” has spurred her on between checkpoints.<\/p>\n

“People have been very sweet and kind because it can be lonely when you’re on your own,” Mrs Shrager added.<\/p>\n

She said she is also visiting charities that will support her Two Wheels for Meals fundraiser during the challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mrs Shrager said she was “shocked” and “appalled” to learn of reports that 11% of the UK lives…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-178680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114671073551733315","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}