Mum-of-22 Sue Radford reveals how she makes dinner for her huge family – and she’s got a very clever trick to save time
WHEN you are the mum to 22 kids, doing dinner every night must be time-consuming.
However, Sue Radford, 48, from Morecambe, Lancashire, has some clever tricks up her sleeve.
The busy mum revealed to her 519,000 followers how she manages to create an evening meal for so many hungry children after school.
And this is on top of their family doing filming for their Channel 5 show 22 Kids and Counting and their YouTube channel, where they have 367,000 subscribers.
Sue gave fans a behind-the-scenes look at their evening meals, and showed how she had loaded up a slow cooker for their dinner.
She wrote: “Trying to be more organised with tea times since the kids have gone back to school so have been doing slow cooker meals all week and it’s definitely made things easier, especially with filming.”
In a snap, the mum appeared to show a chicken dish cooking in a thick sauce that was being prepared for their dinner.
Sue and Noel Radford shot to fame in 2012 as the parents of Britain’s largest brood, landing their TV show with Channel 5 in 2021.
In the show, Sue revealed they have spent £1million raising their large brood and she has been pregnant for 16-and-a-half years.
They are parents to Chris, 34, Sophie, 30, Chloe, 28, Jack, 26, Daniel, 24, Luke,23, Millie, 22, Katie, 21, James, 20, Ellie, 18, Aimee, 17, Josh, 16, Max, 15, Tillie, 13, Oscar, 12, Casper, 11, Hallie, eight, Phoebe, seven, Archie, six, Bonnie, five and Heidie, three.
Sadly the couple’s 17th child Alfie was still born on July 6, 2014.
Husband Noel previously shared how their recipes need to be quick and food needs to be hearty.
He revealed in a YouTube vlog online, one of the meals he likes to feed his family is corned beef hash and most of it comes in a can.
For the recipe, he uses potatoes, corned beef, onions, onions, baked beans, chopped tomatoes, beef stock and cheese.
Sue previously revealed their staggeringly large weekly food shops.
The mum shared how their weekly food bill has risen from £300 to £400.
The Radfords use 16 pints of milk and four loaves of bread a day, and each week they go through 80 yoghurts, three tubes of toothpaste and 24 toilet rolls.
If sausages are on the menu that evening, Sue will need to ensure she puts a staggering 56 under the grill.
Sue also revealed that fajita night includes a staggering 5kg of chicken, 1kg of cheese and four packets of tortilla wraps.
And if it wasn’t expensive enough, the family has celebrated over 400 birthdays over the years.