I am sorry but am lol at the cat/portaloo/death incident.
If Delia is trying to educate the masses who don't know how to cook (i.e. the poor and uneducated, we may as well say it) she is going about it the wrong way. A lot of the ingredients are FAR more expensive, lots of pricy stuff from jars, tinned mince from M&S, however disgusting, is going to be a lot more expensive than 1/2 a pound of proper stuff from a butcher. She has missed a real opportunity to demonstrate REAL cheap and quick meals.
I have not seen the programme, but I have the recipe book and there are actually quite a few decent recipes in it, especially for one pot roasts, where a lot of fresh ingreduents are bunged in a casserole, also quite a few Italian dishes which look good and are not full of processed shit. However, it seems like the programme is highly dependent on the Aunt Bessie and McCain frozen crap.
It's nothing new with her flogging stuff on the telly though, is there? Remember in the how to cook series where she raved about Marigold powder and Sauce Flour, and shops ran out of it?