This has a lot of back story, but I've not got the time to write it all, I'll summarise it.
Wife (whom I am carer to) was diagnosed with T2D a couple years ago by GP looking once over at them. No antibody tests or anything.
They were, where possible, taking the meds, which was a couple times a week, due to having an eating disorder, and the meds were to be taken after food.
Fast forward to last month, wife went into severe DKA and was hours from final death. Scared the absolute heck out of us, spent a week in hospital getting treated and blood tests done several times a day. Came home with insulin prescription, have been mostly getting along with it.
A month after, which takes us to last week, we go in, and are told that not only is it T1D, it has been since youth. So that's fun, 24 years undiagnosed and untreated for a serious condition.
We have an issue now though, we've been used to having a shit budget, and only buying enough food for like 1.5 meals a day on average. Now, we're buying for 3 meals a day + snacks.
The budget seriously can't take this. And I can't mess with the products we buy or anything, my wife and I are both autistic and very particular, plus, we already do most of our shopping split between B&M Express, and Iceland.
Currently waiting for my wife to wake up to explain to them that we don't have anything in that they can eat, and we don't get paid for 7 days.
Any advice? (on the situation, the informing wife bit sucks but it'll be alright)
EDIT: i should add, we were barred from the local food bank a year or so ago, due to 'overuse'. So that's not an option