It's not good when the reason they're skipping a meal is inflation.
maybe their standards became too high, hard to believe some basic food (pasta, bread, milk) are not affordable anymore..
If you aren’t aware of the cereal grain price issues in Europe I’m not sure you are paying attention. Here’s one recent relevant article; there are a ton more if you look:
Base on numbers in that article, average Italian eats 51lb of pasta annually or spends around 50-60 euro/y, or 5 euro/month, it is still not believable that it makes significant impact.
I think food costs like many other costs remain near historic lows, but a euro stolen is a euro earned in every subsequent month for the coalition to prevent housing supply.