Fine dining was firmly off the menu last week for one chaplain completing a challenge to eat for a week on just £5.

James Potter, 30, completed the five -day challenge last week to highlight world hunger and raise money for international charity Mary’s Meals who provide meals to children living in poverty.

Mr Potter, a lay chaplain at Wimbledon College, said: "I wanted to do something to encourage our students in the school to sit up and take notice about this problem.

"I thought I need to put my money where my mouth is and not just preach to them about this but lead by example, so I decided to try and live on a pound a day for five days."

His £5 shopping list included a bunch of bananas, two packets of spaghetti, a bag of frozen vegetable, a tin of chopped tomatoes, a loaf of bread, rice, six eggs, sweets and sour sauce, one tin of chicken soup and a tin of baked beans.

Following his week-long challenge Mr Potter said he felt weak and faint but that it was nothing compared to the struggle of those living in real poverty.

He said: "The worst thing about the food was that it tasted horrible and was dry.

"I couldn't afford any butter so I was having dry toast and pasta with tiny amounts of sauce.

"The blandness and tastelessness was worse than feeling desperately hungry but I was at home and I had a nice warm bed and I had security and electricity.

"It wasn't even the smallest taste of what real poverty must be like."

He added: "I have a little daughter and my wife is pregnant and I could just about face eating this food myself knowing it was a bad diet and unhealthy.

"I couldn't imagine what it would be like having to feed my pregnant wife and daughter a substandard diet." Mr Potter has so far raised nearly £300 for Mary's Meals.

To make a donation visit justgiving.com/5poundsfortheweek

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