"Today, we have yet to make lunch. We don't have lunch. Everyday is like this. This is our kitchen, it's empty. We have nothing in the kitchen, we have nothing. The kitchen is empty."

Eight years of conflict have devastated the economy and left millions of people across Yemen struggling to feed themselves.

A now-expired truce agreed in April offered some respite, but the United Nations says the number of families who lack adequate food has continued to grow since then.

Sanaa resident Umm Hani al-Sharaabi knows this too well

"Nowadays, I swear, we can't afford flour, look at the kitchen and everywhere. Even flour, simply flour, we don't have. And we don't have rice. We are waiting for what God bestows. We will look for anything to prepare. I won't say we don't have anything. We have a little bread I've just brought from the bakery. We will eat it with tomato sauce or anything available."

The Sharaabi household's struggles are shared across Yemen, both in the main populated areas like Sanaa controlled by the Iran-aligned Houthis, and the rest of the country held by forces backed by the Saudi-led coalition.

Both sides have come under international pressure to reach a peace deal.

The United Nations says about half of Yemen's population is experiencing what it calls acute food insecurity, where shortages put people's lives or livelihoods in immediate danger.

The World Food Programme, which is running the largest operation it has ever undertaken anywhere in Yemen, says aid from donor states meets only half of the country's needs.

Nabil al-Qadasi works for a Houthi-run humanitarian relief agency.

"The school feeding and humanitarian relief project has been facing many difficulties in distributing food aid. The biggest challenge to the distribution of this aid was the inadequacy of aid compared to the number of those in need who continue to increase on a daily basis, especially amid war in the country."

Families like the Sharaabis have battled on. Those who could, sold assets or family heirlooms, even parcels of land. Others have been supported by neighbors or relatives overseas.