Over 300,000 children were given food aid in the UK last year.

While politicians argue about why so many kids are experiencing food poverty, we ask the children themselves to tell us why they think the cupboards are bare.

Cara is 9 and lives with her gran in West London; Rosie is 8 and lives in Hull with her mum and sister; and Niomi is 14 and lives in Suffolk with her brother and her Dad.

Through their eyes, and in their words, we find out what it's like when there’s just not enough food on the table; when choices have to be made to heat or to eat; when loan companies hear you are struggling and start bombarding you with texts; and when sudden illness means that a normal life vanishes overnight.

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