As the summer holidays approach many parents will not be looking forward to the extra cost of feeding their kids lunch over the long break.
Free school meals help many parents manage their weekly food bill in term time, but without that support over the holidays lots of families are concerned about how they will get by.
As the prices of even basic foods climb in supermarkets, our sister title the MEN has researched how much the price has gone up for a basic kid’s lunchbox of a ham sandwich, a tube yoghurt, a packet of crisps and an apple.
