Not being able to buy your next days food seems unthinkable for most of us but its actually happening today in hundreds of households here in the far west of Cornwall. Imagine, yesterday you found out that your work has come to an end, today you had a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach when you discovereded that you won't receive unemployment benefit and you haven't qualified for any emergency government grants either. You've enough money to last three or four days - then what. Young mothers are going hungry to ensure that their children get what food there still is. Children with worn out shoes now have no chance of a new pair unless someone passes on a second hand pair of hand-me-downs. Now the washing machine has broken down too. Parents have had their self-esteem stripped away an feel humiliated at not being able to provide for their loved ones, instead having to ask around or borrow from door step lenders with no means to make repayments.