Mother denies junk food reports

Miss Salt said her children would be obese if the claims were true

A 29-stone mother from Coventry has rejected reports in the national press that she often feeds her eight-month-old triplets a junk-food diet.

Leanne Salt, 24, was reported as feeding Deanna, Daisy and Finlee McDonald's, crisps and microwave meals as she was "too busy" to cook.

She told the BBC she sometimes buys them a McDonald's Happy Meal to share.

But she said it was not a regular practice and her children were a healthy weight.

She said: "It's not the case that I go to McDonald's and I buy them a Happy Meal each.

'Healthy' children

"Yes I might buy one Happy Meal that they share between the three of them, they might have one chicken nugget."

She has been quoted in The Sun and Daily Mail as feeding her children Wotsits every day after lunch, as well as fish and chips, or chicken nuggets and chips twice-a-week.

Emma Warmington, a close friend, said: "I have known Leanne for a long time and she doesn't feed them what they say."

A neighbour Angela Scullion said: "Parents should let their children have a taste of what they need, she's not just giving them junk food."

The triplets' mother said they were "healthy" and "happy".

She added: "If I was feeding them junk food and the amount of junk food they were saying I was my children would be obese."