Free school meals extended over the holiday- are they needed?

[GotAnyGrapes17]

Have been chatting about this with various people during the day. Opinions go from "if you can't afford a couple of quid a week to feed your kids something is wrong" to people feeling this is a hugely essential scheme.

I just wondered if anyone who is entitled for FSM genuinely struggles during school holidays with out them.

No judgment here, my child use to be entitled to free school meals, however I didn't miss them during the school holidays....I am just interested to hear other views.

@Nat6999 why is that, if you don't mind me asking?

Because ds is autistic & I am disabled, I qualify for a small amount of income based benefits. It annoys me that when I was really struggling but working, I had to pay the biggest part of my rent & pay for school meals, but now I could afford to pay for both I get them paid for me. I told school that I didn't want to claim free school meals but they pressured me so that they would get pupil premium money.