MSE Parent Club - Part 2

cazscoob

29-stone mum feeds her eight-month-old triplets McDonald’s

A 29-STONE mum who feeds her eight-month old triplets with McDonald's has insisted she is bringing the tots up in the “best way she can".

Leanne Salt, 24, said she is “too busy” to properly feed daughters Deanna and Daisy and son Finlee.

So she lets them eat her takeaways and gives them Wotsits snacks and microwave meals.
Leanne today defended giving her kids junk food on Sun Talk – which broadcasts every day on thesun.co.uk — when quizzed by DJ Jon Gaunt.
She said: “I’m trying to bring up my children the best way I can and the best way I know. My children are happy.”
Sun columnist Jon branded the fast food diet as “child abuse”.
But Leanne insisted: “My children are healthy weights for their ages.”
A 68-strong team of medics delivered Leanne’s triplets last year, costing the NHS £200,000.
She now dresses them just one day a week when she goes out to collect her dole money.
The tots eat 1,249 calories a day instead of the 765 recommended for their 17lb weight
Leanne, who swelled to 40 STONE before the birth last August, eats an average of 3,000 a day — 1,000 more than is recommended for a woman.
She said: “My babies were six months old when they had their first McDonald’s. They like fish and chips too. I chew the food first so they can eat it because they haven’t got any teeth yet. I give them packets of Wotsits as a snack at 2pm.
“Sometimes I’ll cook them a microwave lasagne. Babies are always hungry — sometimes it’s easier to give them food that’s already prepared
They’re on the baby food jars and love the fish pie and cottage pie meals. But I see no harm in letting them have a few bits of my takeaways too.
“They like the taste of them and it’s a treat. I let the triplets eat fries off my plate as I think it’s best they try all kinds of food to see what they like.”
She added: “Anyway they don’t always have junk food — sometimes I cook a microwave meal. My babies are healthy.” Leanne, of Coventry, blames her obesity on thyroid trouble.

She got pregnant by her boyfriend of only four weeks in January last year. They split halfway through her pregnancy, and Leanne now lives with her brother and mum Jane, 46.
Their tiny house is strewn with laundry piles and toys.
Leanne receives £140 a week tax credit, £42 a week child benefit and £45 family allowance. She spends the £227 on food and ten cigarettes a day.
Her takeaways confession comes as figures show a shocking one in five children are raised on little but junk food.
The Infant and Toddler Forum poll also discovered that 65 per cent of mums NEVER cook meals from scratch.
Leanne said she also feeds her kids milk, scrambled eggs on toast and instant mashed potato with spaghetti hoops.
She told Closer magazine: “I feed my babies vegetables every Sunday, and a lot of the baby food has fruit in it.”
Leanne steers away from healthy foods in case it makes her tots anorexic. She said: “I don’t want them to think they have to watch what they eat. I’ll tell them big is beautiful.”
Mum Jane said: “I buy salad, but nobody eats it. They’d rather have sugary foods.”
The Sun’s Doctor Carol Cooper warned of the dangers of feeding kids junk food.
She said: “A balanced diet is important as it gives children the best possible start in life.
“A poor diet in the short term can cause bowel problems such as constipation.
“In the long run it may mean bone disease, obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and maybe kidney failure.”

cazscoob

now that is a slummy mummy so we are all def yummy mummies:D

redmel1621

cazscoob wrote: »

now that is a slummy mummy so we are all def yummy mummies:D

:rotfl::rotfl:Poor babies, if she is 29st she obviously lives off junk herself anyway so can't see any harm...a bit like smokers who ignorantly insist that there is nothing wrong with smoking/smoking around kids & babies...

Then again I take most things that paper says with a shovel full of salt, She probably gave them one chip or something:rolleyes:

Oh yeah caz, I mentioned you to dh today..well I was telling him about the new sterilisation procedure, and was saying you had told me about it.....so I mentioned that you had 5 kiddies at the age of 25, he said @she must be mad' I mentioned that incidentally, that is exactly what you have written in your sig:rotfl:

Mel x

Becles

Pleased you are both ok Agutka and MFD.

I had loads of small plastic pots for weaning foods. Any leftovers got whizzed and put in a pot! At the minute Charlotte is running round with one with a few mini eggs in it.

I'm not feeling well today. I've got a really sore throat and cold symptoms and instead of sympathy, they're all winding me up saying I've got swine flu!

I saw the mother feeding her babies junk food article earlier. I'm wondering if it is really true or if some of it is made up to get money off the papers.

Curious_George_2

cazscoob wrote: »

just saw this on the pregnancy thread OMG!!!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2399352.ece

thats disgusting!
nearly wet myself at the bit where is says she steers away from healthy foods incase it makes therm anorexic!! not much bloody chance of that

did you see the poll thats said 65% of mothers NEVER cook a meal from scratch? never??? :eek:
that cant be right surely?? we get a bit lazy occasionally and im not too scared to admit that Danny has had a happy meal (in my defence it was only fish fingers and fruit bag with his own juice for a drink...not as bad as it could be!) but NEVER? thats terrible...

cazscoob

PMSL MEL the new way sounds fab although i am scared!!! but its a lot less pain so im all for it:D and yes i am mad:D so as you mentioned me to your OH does that mean im famous!!!

cazscoob

CG im first to hold my hands up and say i have fish fingers etc in the freezer but my kids eat everything and maybe a lot isnt all made from scratch but at least 70% is! there is also always fruit on the table and they eat that before treats!

just had a thought !!!!!! does she spend her healthy start vouchers on? didnt know take aways accepted them!

Becles

cazscoob wrote: »

just had a thought !!!!!! does she spend her healthy start vouchers on? didnt know take aways accepted them!

I was in Tesco once, and the people in front had a frozen pizza, chips, beer and sausage rolls and part paid with Healthy Start vouchers. I asked the cashier as I was curious, and she said Tesco take them on any type of food.

weezl74

Hiya!

quick question

with a mothercare cot, do I need a mothercare mattress or can I get a cheaper one from somewhere? and if so, any tips on where is cheap?

So no-one wants my pea soup recipe then? :rotfl:

love weezl x

redmel1621

cazscoob wrote: »

PMSL MEL the new way sounds fab although i am scared!!! but its a lot less pain so im all for it:D and yes i am mad:D so as you mentioned me to your OH does that mean im famous!!!

Well if you insist;):D
You are very brave to go 'first' on the new procedure. I look forward to feedback from you as it 'may' be something for me to consider in the (distant) future:)

I was looking at my sig and thinking it would look nice if I could write 2010 on it as well:o

Mel x