'I am only eating the bread I make just so my children don't go without food'

mirror.co.uk:

“Another hungry day. I’m thankful I can make bread as that’s all I’ve been eating, just so my children don’t go without… It’s three weeks till pay day and I’m so worried about how we’ll make it through,” Maria Thompson, a single parent of two from Belfast, writes.

Milly writes: “Mental health of mine and husband is quite bad atm. I really hope things will get better soon.” Alex writes: “Stress is an understatement… Took dog out for a quick walk.

Watching families out together, coffees to go, chatting. I have no one.” These are just some of the thoughts and memories recorded by the Covid Realities project, which is tracking the experience of low-income families during Covid-19.