YOUR STORY: Kids shouldn't go without breakfast

STARTLING new figures which showed three Sunshine Coast children in every classroom go to school without breakfast has ignited a debate about the rising cost of living.

Three Coast kids per classroom are going to school without breakfast. Is cost of living to blame? Picture: Geoff Potter

STARTLING new figures which showed three Sunshine Coast children in every classroom go to school without breakfast has ignited a debate about the rising cost of living. 

The Daily reported the findings of the latest Foodbank Australia report on Tuesday.

Despite the efforts of the organisation to supply 137,290 breakfasts a day nationwide, Coast kids were still missing out. 

Suncoast Care is a Nambour-based company that supplies 12 schools across the region with breakfast every day.

They have been running their Schools Pantry program for more than three years and executive manager Stuart Charlton said it was getting "bigger and bigger" with more orders coming every week. 

After we shared the story, readers on the Daily's Facebook page weighed in on the difficulties with keeping up with financial pressures. 

Three Sunshine Coast children in every classroom are going to school on an empty stomach. That's the starting new information from Foodbank. What's your favourite meal of the day? http://ow.ly/NKcry

Posted by Sunshine Coast Daily on Monday, 1 June 2015

Melissa Mallo: Probably because the schools are demanding proper uniforms instead of parents buying what they can afford.What's more important the "schools image" or a warm and fed child?

Janeene Maree Mansey: A lot of adults don't eat breakfast so not surprising kids don't. It's not up to the school community to give breakfast unless selling it for lazy parents.

Krystal Barrett: my mum was a school cleaner on the Sunshine Coast where was plenty more kids that didn't get to eat all day and she offer pay for and cook pancake on the school babecue after she had cleaned the school all morning. The school didn't wanna hear about it. As a mother of the four-year-old, trying to get my boy to eat his breakfast take about one and a half to two hours. He's in prep next year and if we have to be at school by 8.30 he gonna have to start he breakfast pretty early.

Kyla Weatherbee: I think the price of living is so high that most people are having trouble one way or another!

Kel Tyz Williamson My son eats lots of breakfast, and I have over the years made him realise its the most important meal of the day, now, he can't go a day without brekky

Shazza Fair Sima:Its not the parents.. there is other adults watching on and looking and no one taking action but pointing fingers... instead why not join as a community and fix this problem and stop judging those lives you never walked in their shoes..If you want to do something why not buy these kids lunch for a year or have a system for low income so they can get their meals even free?