Families' weekly food shop already hits household budgets hard - but can hit even harder in the summer holidays as parents feed and water their hungry children

Parents are bracing themselves for being driven out of 'house and home' by their children's ruinously expensive scoffing which is due to cost them over £2,500 this summer.

As part of a new series on household spending, a mum of three reveals how the cost of living is squeezing her family out of everyday luxuries