Viewers baffled after mother-of-22 reveals her £400 weekly shop

Mother of Britain’s biggest family Sue Radford shocks viewers as she reveals she spends £400 feeding 20 of her 22 children including 16 pints of milk and four loaves of bread a DAY in Channel 5 documentary

  • Sue, 45 and Noel Radford, 50 are parents of 22 from Morecambe, Lancashire 
  • Opened up about raising their large brood during lockdown in new docu-series 
  • In 22 Kids and Counting, Sue revealed she spent up to £400 on her weekly shop 
  •  Shocked viewers could not believe where the family’s money was coming from

Viewers were shocked after the mother of Britain’s biggest family revealed she spends £400 on her weekly shop in a Channel 5 documentary. 

Bakery owner Noel Radford, 50, and his wife Sue have 22 children, with 20 still living at home in Morecambe, Lancashire.  

Five-part series 22 Kids And Counting, which premiered last night, follows Sue, Noel and their brood, the youngest of whom is just 10 months old, as they navigate the pandemic and the challenges it brings, including home schooling.  

Viewers were shocked by the amount of money Sue and Noel admitted to spending on just food for their children, which amounted to £400. Sue explained her children go through six pints of milk a day and as many as four loaves of bread.

Viewers were shocked after mother-of-22 Sue Radford, 45, from Morecambr, Lancashire, revealed she spent £400 on weekly food shopping for her brood on 22 Kids and Counting on Channel 5

Sue said her brood, pictured with husband Noel, 50, left went through 16 pints of milk a day, three to four loaves of bread and could eat up to 80 yoghurts a week 

An example of Sue’s foodhsop for her family, which takes several shopping trolley filled to the brink 

Sue explained lockdown was responsible for the astronomical food bill because she was feeding a total of 24 people every day. ‘It’s just been massive, it’s never ending,’ she said.

Sue, Noel and children Chloe, 25, Jack, 23, Daniel, 21, Luke, 20, Millie, 19, Katie, 18, James, 17, Ellie, 15, Aimee, 14, Josh, 13, Max, 12, Tillie, 10, Oscar, nine, Casper, eight, Hallie, five, Phoebe, four, Archie, three, Bonnie, two, and 10-month-old Heidie all living under one roof. Oldest children Chris, 31, and Sophie, 27, have moved out.   

The family also can often serve up 56 sausages for BBQs, while a Mexican will set them back 5kg of chicken, 1kg of cheese and four packets of tortilla wraps. 

The Radfords expenses  

Sue Radford spends £400 a week looking after her family, which covers:

  • 16 pints of milk per day
  • 80 yoghurt a week for her brood. 
  •  Three to four loaves of bread a day
  • Three tubes of toothpaste for a week
  • 24 loo rolls a week. 
  • Three packs of pasta per meal
  • 5kg of chicken
  • 48 to 56 sausages per meal  
  • 1kg of cheese and four packets of tortilla wraps per meal

The family also eats 80 yoghurts a week, and goes through three tubes of toothpaste and 24 toilet rolls. 

While Sue and Noel joked they had to be creative with food in order to feed their hungry brood, viewers were left gobsmacked by the amount the family spent on food weekly. 

‘£400 on a weekly shop!!! Are you mad,’ one said. 

‘£400 a week on the food shop, OH MY CHRIST,’ said another. 

‘Having been on the Radford Pie Company site before, just how many pies are they selling to afford up to £400 a week just on the food shop,’ one wrote. 

‘I enjoyed the show-those kiddies are very loved, happy & healthy! Honestly don’t know how they only spend £400 on food shopping for 22 though when we spend £200 a week on 3 adults (dog food&treats separate from that too). Get L plates though Noel,’ another said. 

The couple fund their family thanks to Noel’s pie shop and do not rely on benefits.

They estimate they had spent £1 million on their brood before the birth of their 22nd child Heidi, whom they said could be their last. 

‘I try not to think too much about what it costs. What could I have had instead,’ Noel joked. 

‘A nice flash car. A Porsche on the driveway.’ Sue joked: ‘We could have been living in a mansion!’ 

Viewers could not believe how much the family spent on just food after the amount was revealed in the documentary

Meanwhile the mother-of-22 confessed the challenges of homeschooling six children of secondary school age and five at primary school can be difficult.

Sue joked: ‘We’ve got Heidie, who is 10 months, and quite a few toddlers so I am going in so many different directions when the kids are asking, ‘What’s this, Mum?’

“Trying to look after them has been hard.’

She added that the family have had to be extra careful after two ‘haircutting incidents’ saw younger children cutting each other’s hair.

But the mother-of-22 confessed she doesn’t like to ‘constantly shout’ and ‘lets a lot go over our heads.’ 

During the third national lockdown, the Radford family are not having to homeschool nine of their 22 children. Pictured: Family around table in March 2020

The Radford children, pictured two years ago. Left to right, top row: Luke, Chloe, Mille, holding Hallie, Katie and Sophie. Left to right, middle row: Daniel, Ellie, father Noel Radford holding Phoebe, mother Sue holding Archie, Josh, and Jack. Left to right, bottom row: Aimee, Tilly, Max, Casper, Oscar, and James

Despite the challenges, Sue added the family have become a lot closer since lockdown and said welcoming Heidie last April was extra special.

While the new show will document their time in lockdown and the chaos of homeschooling, Sue also regularly shares updates on family life via their YouTube channel and Instagram.

Earlier this month Sue admitted that the usual chaos in her home ‘couldn’t get any worse’ as she attempted to teach her youngest children during the pandemic.

She said she struggles to make sure all her children are on track with their schoolwork while keeping the household going.

In a recent Youtube vlog, Sue provided an insight into the family’s current morning routine as she battled to ‘prise’ all her children out of bed and get them fed before a day of virtual learning on Zoom.

In the video, as Sue attempted to prepare breakfast for every child and sort out technical difficulties for one of her children, another asked her questions about their work while another began to cry.

James, 16, Ellie, 14, Aimee, 13, Josh, 12, Max, 11, Tillie, nine, Oscar, eight, Casper, seven and Hallie, four, are all distance learning from the Radford family home.

The family, who starred in Channel 4’s 15 Kids and Counting back in 2012, regularly shared vlogs of their day to day experiences.

This is not the first homeschooling vlog their have shared, last month posting clips of the family sat around the kitchen table doing Maths and English homework.

22 Kids and Counting airs on Monday on Channel 5. 

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