Eat Well for Less?: Episode 4

Gregg and Chris face a particularly tricky challenge in Lancashire with their largest family yet. Single mum Angela is juggling a full-time job and bringing up five daughters aged eight to eighteen - one of them has coeliac disease and another has both coeliac and type 1 diabetes.

This family function on a day-to-day basis, with Angela shopping daily for that night's dinner. Zero kitchen confidence means this busy mum depends on convenience food, however she still finds herself catering for her girls throughout the evening as they return from school and college wanting to eat different things. By the end of the night Angela can't face cooking for herself so usually retires to bed with a bowl of porridge.

Angela knows this way of shopping and feeding her large family is not healthy or cost-effective and desperately wants to change. If Gregg and Chris can get her to start planning and cooking gluten-free meals all the family can eat, she might be able to start saving for her dream family holiday for the six of them to enjoy together.