The report shows that 14 percent of below-average-income parents are now being forced to skip meals on a regular basis so that other members of their family are able to have enough to eat.
The charity has been able to poll over 1,500 people living in the government's Households Below Average Income bracket- even including those that are using Coventry Foodbank- and have found that they are still being hit hard as food prices continue to increase by the day.
Nearly half those people that were surveyed are living on a weekly food budget of less than £60, with only 11% on less than £40-a-week and only 6% on less than £30.
Midlands campaigner, Gurvinder Sidhu said: "Because so many people are living on precariously low incomes, managing household budgets is pretty much like a daily tight-rope walk.
"Trying to balance the spiralling costs of food and fuel means that anything else people need to budget for-like paying for their child to go on a school trip or fixing a broken washing machine-are simply out of the question."
"It's an outrage that increasing numbers of people are having to visit charity foodbanks in order to feed themselves or put a hot meal on table for their children."
The start of the operation(Coventry Foodbank) began in January and has now fed over 3,500 people in the last 1o months, being able to supply food for 200 families at its peak.
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