Didnt see it Cupcake, its sad really how some young mothers dont know how to cook basic healthy meals. She must be well off as eating like this is expensive, as well as unhealthy. Now and again , fair enough , but all the time ??

Hi Skylark. 

Thing is, this woman and her partner were on benefits, she was 21 and never worked, and her partner was unemployed, and yet they still manage to fork out at least twice a day for fast food meals for four kids and two adults.    Most people I know can barely afford to take the family out for a maccy d's or pizza or kebab etc more than a couple of times a month.  It does baffle me how 'some' people on benefits seem to do this, and smoke, and have expensive mobiles and pedigree dogs (pitbulls/rotties etc..)  Because again, most people I know cannot afford anything like this, and can just about pay their rent or mortgage and utility bills/energy bills and run their car.  I have never 'got' this.

Later on in the show, the young mum said that 'she' was brought up on fast food and by a mum on benefits, so it was like all she knew.  What a dreadful cycle...

She and the one child who was addicted to McDonalds went back to visit her home town and her partner (since split) tried and did cook meals from scratch which the three children enjoyed (he had worked in the catering industry) it was the mother who was just plain lazy,she fed the children McDonalds because it was easy.You only had to look at the state of the home to know that work of any kind was alien to her .

I agree Erin.    And that mum who said to her hubby 'if you want proper meals cooking for you and the kids, you get your chef's hat on then and do it yerself.'  Dear me.   

I know that maybe it's what they know, and they don't know any better, but sometimes, these kind of bad family habits need breaking.

Anyhoops, I must go.  Speak to you all later maybe

Kinda glad I missed it!

Didnt see it.  what channel, so I can look on catchup?