Food Insecurity

[MaryN]

One of the main concerns for Preppers, it would seem, is to ensure that they have a supply of food sufficient to last them for whatever period they have deemed to be problematic.

With over 800 million people on the globe suffering from food insecurity, I just wonder what level of difficulty in obtaining food you would consider sufficient to describe you personally as being in a state of food insecurity.
Would that be if you were not able to afford/obtain, say, fresh fruit and vegetables in the quantities you would normally buy? Or perhaps you could not afford to buy chocolate or beer?

I realise that comparing the food needs of people in the UK with those of people in the more deprived parts of the world is not practical - we are obviously used to a far higher standard of living. But what would you consider to be food insecurity in your lifestyle? Would you consider a sudden drop in your standards of living a prepping emergency, and are you "prepared"?