People don't know what middle-class deprivation 'looks like' because they believe it isn't real and because we are good at hiding it.
I avoid having kid-play dates here because I don't have healthy food to offer, only cheap food, AKA junk food: whatever is on sale rather than what I WISH I could get. I dread being invited to any socializing where people might ask me to bring food or bring a homemade lunch for my kids, that somehow I will be found out, that people might 'know' we are not doing ok.
I notice what people are eating all the time and find myself staring at people leaving restaurants or enjoying a deli meal.
