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

Faith

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.”

You can listen again to Jon Gaunt's interview with Leanne on Sun Talk by clicking HERE.

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.
Taste

“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.”


THE average 40-year-old British woman has a “fat age” of 66 — after eating a level of fat that should have taken her 66 years, shock figures reveal.

Jesus. From here: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2399352.ece

Words really fail me.

Shanotheslayer

Disgrace

Leprachaun

Wow,I was shocked when I found out she wasn't american.

Raiser

She sounds like she could be an excellent substitute for our current Minister for health........

Seth Brundle

How did it manage to get pregnant in the first place?

omb0wyn5ehpij9

Absolutely disgraceful

Local-womanizer

kbannon wrote: »

How did it manage to get pregnant in the first place?

Some lad fell into it.

Aidric

A happy meal has probably lost all meaning for those kids.

stepbar

I suppose she's too busy being fat. That's a task in itself....

Abi

That is disgusting. Isn't it funny that all you need to qualify as a parent is functioning reproductive organs?

January

Those poor children...

Lockstep

Leanne steers away from healthy foods in case it makes her tots anorexic.

AIEEEE

Orla K

Some people just shouldn't be allowed to have children. I feel sorry for those kids, the amount of problems they are going to have in just a few years.

galwayrush

kbannon wrote: »

How did it manage to get pregnant in the first place?

Turkey baster?:rolleyes:

javaboy

Leanne steers away from healthy foods in case it makes her tots anorexic

Her actual words were “I don’t want them to think they have to watch what they eat. I’ll tell them big is beautiful.”

Sounds like some classy journalist put words into her mouth and she ate them.

rainbow kirby

Words fail me... seriously. Her kids should be taken from her.

GirlInterrupted

That level of disregard for her childrens future health is laziness morphing into child abuse.

Melange

Faith wrote: »

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

Busy? On the Dole? WTF?

The welfare state exists for a very important reason, but I do resent the idea that taxpayers' money is frittered away on supporting people like this in their slothful and useless existence.

Melange

javaboy wrote: »

Sounds like some classy journalist put words into her mouth and she ate them.

Along with a few pies by the look of it...

lynsalot

Its a disgrace that she can't be bothered to cook proper meals for her kids. I think it's terrible that ppl are sinking so low as to slag her off because she's obese. I'm not condoning her behavious at all she shouldn't be allowed those kids. I struggle with my weight but I eat well and I'm nowhere near 29 stone. It's just plain disregard for her children's health and in a way it's negligence.

lgoring21

'picking my chin up from the ground' :eek:

so many questions to ask that woman...

shes too busy to cook?? shes got no job!! dresses them once a week?? thats surely child negelect!

give that woman a slap hysterectomy and bit of common sense..

:mad:

people like that make me so mad they give us young single mothers a bad image...

El Guapo!

Her last name is SALT!!!!
Thats disgusting. Its child abuse. Those kids should be taken off her and she should be whipped to within an inch of her fat miserable life.

Fluffybums

Too busy to cook, unemployed. Only changes their clothes once a week when she goes to collect the dole.
The sad thing is that those poor kids will end up obese, uneducated (poor diet has been shown to adversely affect academic performance in a number of studies), diabetic (type 2) and unemployed and blame everyone but themselves and their mother.
And this is not child abuse!

MayoForSam

kbannon wrote: »

How did it manage to get pregnant in the first place?

Rolled her in flour and aimed for the wet spot?

Sharpshooter

She says she buys salads buy nobody eats it, why the hell would they when they know if they refuse, another McDonald’s plate of crap will be given instead.

Forget about their healthy weight, it would be their little hearts I would be worried about.

It's fecking laziness, that's all.

It is as cheap to buy in veg puree it and place it in bulk in the freezer to last for the week.
Poor kids.

Silverfish

How come you need a licence for a dog or a tv, yet not a child?

Mind boggles.

Riddle101

Oh god if LL Cool J saw this, he'd be livid.

Anyway I can't see how the mother thinks she's justified in feeding them because she thinks she's doing it the best way she can. She's potentially raising her kids to become overweight as well. What's worse is that one of those kids if not both could potentially get diabities. I wonder how the mother is going to deal with that considering that she dosen't look fit enough to take care of herself, no pun intended

partyatmygaff

Damn, she must of gotten paid something good(Probably crap money) by whatever newspaper interviewed her knowing what the reactions will be, it just sounds like the perfect story to get a reaction from as many people as possible especially with the recession.


Still there has to be some truth in it and tbh, those kids HAVE to be taken away from her, big is not beautiful ffs, her kids will be fat and will hate their mother for the rest of their lives for feeding them this crap every day.

lgoring21

just think of all the food she had to eat in her 24 years to become 29 stone thats mind bogglin enough as it is without thinkin how on earth she got pregnant...he must have been massive:eek:

Jesus Wept

British women have a fat age of 92 at age 50

lgoring21

partyatmygaff wrote: »

Damn, she must of gotten paid something good(Probably crap money)

maybe a piece of chicken??

Terry

I wash myself with a rag on a stick.

Jesus Wept

Surely McDonalds should provide her with some sort of loyalty card.

javaboy

Is "fat age" gonna be the new thing now? Bye bye BMI. Fat age is here.

I can see it now: Link

Adiboo

Dean09 wrote: »

Her last name is SALT!!!!

She's just retaining water.

javaboy

Adiboo wrote: »

She's just retaining water.

She's retaining chips.

lgoring21

lol javaboy

'I chew the food first so they can eat it because they haven’t got any teeth yet.'

if social workers dont investigate her thats an absolute joke...

maybe the worse part of all is that she see nothin wrong with it...

LeixlipRed

Question is, who read the Sun in the first place?

lgoring21

LeixlipRed wrote: »

Question is, who read the Sun in the first place?

or even..how did they find her she doesnt leave the house only to collect her dole!!!

Gummy Panda

I love how she 'cooks' them a meal by slapping on a microwave dinner. Seriously, microwave dinners are convenience food which are full of salt and sugar.

Also how would you get your cock up that.. serious, there would be a lot of obstacles so how?

And 40 stone :eek:

Scawgeen

See the piece in the article where one in five children are raised on little but junk food. I'm not familiar with Wosits ??? but everytime I meet a buggy with a baby in it they're either eating out of a bag of Chickatees or Meanies or clutching a Milky Bar.

Captain-America

The-Rigger wrote: »

Surely McDonalds should provide her with some sort of loyalty card.

Fat chance.



I hope she dies. I really do.

Scawgeen

lgoring21 wrote: »

lol javaboy

'I chew the food first so they can eat it because they haven’t got any teeth yet.'

if social workers dont investigate her thats an absolute joke...

maybe the worse part of all is that she see nothin wrong with it...

What's wrong with chewing food before you give it to your baby ?

Saibh

No mention of what her own mother thinks of this since they live with her.

Hopefully social services will be in contact with her and sort out this mess.

muckwarrior

lynsalot wrote: »

I think it's terrible that ppl are sinking so low as to slag her off because she's obese.

People who are fat through laziness and couldn't be arsed doing anything about it don't deserve any sympathy IMO. Especially when they try to blame a thyroid problem or some other bollox!

lgoring21

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Also how would you get your cock up that.. serious, there would be a lot of obstacles so how?

im tellin ya he must have been massive.. or else some very freaky and disturbing positions

lgoring21

Scawgeen wrote: »

What's wrong with chewing food before you give it to your baby ?

because i wood never eat somethin with somebodies spit all over it...fair enuf bitin a bit off and givin it but chewin it for them?? sounds like somethin a bird should be doin for its young!!

Melange

Captain-America wrote: »

Fat chance.



I hope she dies. I really do.

I'd never wish death on a person, but I have to admit that her immediate demise would be by far the best outcome for her unfortunate children. They'd be taken into care and put up for adoption, with the likely end result that they'd be raised by normal, sane, caring and diligent parents.

Terry

muckwarrior wrote: »

People who are fat through laziness and couldn't be arsed doing anything about it don't deserve any sympathy IMO. Especially when they try to blame a thyroid problem or some other bollox!

I can blame my obesity on something other than laziness?
Awesome.

Saibh

From SunTalk

I don’t have diabetes and I don’t have problems. The fact is yes, I’m doing something about my weight, and it’s got nothing to do with my kids. I’m losing this weight and it’s got f*** all to do with my kids.

From the article

blames her obesity on thyroid trouble.

She say she has thyroid trouble but when she is interviewed, she states she has no health problems?

Scawgeen

lgoring21 wrote: »

because i wood never eat somethin with somebodies spit all over it...fair enuf bitin a bit off and givin it but chewin it for them?? sounds like somethin a bird should be doin for its young!!

I used to do that