…”The babies each consume around 1,249 calories a day, nearly double the recommended 765 for their 17lb weight at the age of eight months…”
Anyway, they don’t always have junk food – sometimes I cook a microwave meal for them. My babies are healthy.’
Her own mother says she buys in salads, but as she has to go out for work as a carer and is the only one in the house who cooks, they never get eaten.
However Miss Salt – who herself consumes 50 per cent more calories than a woman’s recommended daily diet, snacking on cakes, crisps and chocolate – is convinced, bizarrely, that watching what you eat could lead to anorexia.
‘I do worry my kids could get picked on if they get fat, but I’d tell them that big is beautiful.’
And she now wants her own council house: ‘I know how to microwave a meal and make up instant mash, so I think we’d all manage.’
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