Food writer baffles This Morning viewers with tips for cheap lunches – as she claims parents should bake cakes while prepping lunch boxes, freeze hummus and send children to school with crumpets to be toasted [Video]

A mother has been slammed by viewers on This Morning for her tips and tricks on how to meal prep school lunches. 

Food writer Suzanne Mulholland, known as ‘The Batch Lady’, from the Scottish Borders, went onto the television show today to discuss how parents can save cash by batch-cooking their children’s packed lunch. 

The former time management consultant told Dermot and Alison about the cheapest foods to include in the lunches, advising parents to make pasta ahead of time, freeze hummus and yoghurts and send their children to school with crumpets. 

Suzanne is a fan of freezing various foods and defrosting them as and when needed, and told parents to clear a drawer out to dedicate to school lunches – admitting that she had a large freezer to store all her items in. 

However, her tips didn’t go down well with viewers who said they wouldn’t give their children three day old pasta and questioned how they …