Household food supply in Mexico was affected by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, which was shown by the results from a digital survey conducted in the states of Puebla and Oaxaca. The survey aimed at confirming whether there was a certain degree of food insecurity in the households to prevent it from being replicated in a second wave or expected resurgence of COVID-19. The Latin American and Caribbean Food Security Scale (ELCSA), which had previously been used officially by the Mexican National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL) and had been included in the National Survey of Household Income and Expenditure (ENIGH) since 2008, was used to measure the level of food insecurity. The ELCSA is appropriate at both the local and national level and is composed of 15 excluding questions divided into two sections, where the first one includes eight questions that refer to situations experienced by households with members above the age of 18, and the second one consists of seven questions that refer to the conditions affecting minors. The information obtained was processed using Excel software, which showed that households inhabited only by adults are more stable regarding food security, since the results indicate that there was moderate food insecurity at the most in these households, while there was severe food insecurity in households with minors.
