Sue McDonnell, who has three children, highlighted the cost of living saying that “everything is going up”.
“I actually shop around for everything,” she added.
“I’m going to have to sit down and work out how much I can actually afford for them to actually have for school dinners every week,
“Can I afford to give them a school meal, a hot meal, what three days a week at the minute or I might have to cut it down to two.”
She added that she batch cooks lots of her meals which is “quite handy” for school meals.
She questioned why the decision was taken to do an increase in one go.
“They haven’t done a price increase in the last couple of years. Nobody would have noticed over the last couple of years.
“It’s a lot of money in one go.”