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Single mum living on one meal a day 'might need to start begging'

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A single mum who is finding it near impossible to feed her family has admitted she might need to start begging. Kelly Thomson, 43, is eating just one meal a day at the moment and has been hospitalised twice for malnutrition with just £40 per week to feed her family, reports the Mirror.

Although Kelly's universal credit covers her £1,300 monthly rent and a few other costs, she said she has just £160 a month left for everything else and she says the 10.1 per cent inflation rate will cripple them.The mum-of-two is trying to feed herself as well as her son, 14, and daughter, 11.She has lost two stone in weight because she only eats once a day, and was forced to take her daughter's birthday gift to Cash Converters to get money for food.Twice she has ended up in hospital suffering with malnutrition, she claims - even needing blood transfusions to replenish her depleted iron levels because she can't afford fresh food.This comes as new Office for National Statistics data released on Wednesday revealed the UK inflation rate is the highest it's been since 1982, at 10.1%.Kelly, from Slough, Berkshire, said: "I hate waking up every morning and thinking 'oh my God, not again'."The cost of living is crazy now and I don't know what I'm going to do.

We have nothing. I honestly feel I'm going to have to resort to begging."It's worse now than ever before. I feel sick over seeing the new inflation rate."Everything is more expensive every time I go in the shop and I can't bear to look at the gas meter."I do think about stealing but I can't bear the thought of what would happen to my kids if I got arrested."I just cry every day because it's getting worse and I feel so trapped, like I'm suffocating and there's nothing I can do."It feels

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