The Food Our Children Eat: How to Get Children to Like Good Food

The Food Our Children Eat: How to Get Children to Like Good Food
Joanna Blythman

A majority of British children mainly eat processed and junk food. Award-winning food writer Joanna Blythman takes a controversial look at this curious phenomenon and offers parents practical tips on how to improve their children’s diet.Written in a highly accessible way, The Food Our Children Eat offers practical tips for parents who are concerned about what their children eat and looks at the long term consequences for human health and society of the increase in consumption of junk food. Joanna Blythman suggests strategies for ensuring our children eat more healthily, both at home and at school, with invaluable advice about how to interest children in nutritious food.This well-researched and fascinating book also discusses the impact of our eating habits on the younger generation and attacks the complacency that surrounds the emergence of separate kids’ food and mealtimes. The Food Our Children Eat explores the decline in the standard of food children eat and is an intriguing polemic on what we can do to improve it.

THE FOOD OUR

CHILDREN EAT

How to Get Children to Like Good Food

Joanna Blythman

CONTENTS

Cover (#ufe81b5f3-68ad-5d8f-9780-1bf6e98d3d4f)

Title Page (#ue9a228e5-98f4-5bbc-b3d9-df7266344e8f)

A few pages to read first (#ua4a8efa8-6565-59b9-bfa6-97a84a5dd124)

PART ONE: THE GHETTO OF ‘CHILDREN’S FOOD’ (#ubef22424-f74f-540d-9439-65655fc1e9e3)

The modern ‘children’s diet’ (#ud81fa190-2824-578d-8101-955578a62729)

‘Picky-eater’ culture (#u77817eed-f95d-56af-80ed-a377bde612b0)

Parents’ attitudes (#uea388651-7a67-543b-9680-096febf7e87b)

The rot begins with those little jars (#u360c8a9e-a6cb-5dc4-947a-74d54a4053c1)

Staggered eating (#u7b75fffb-7f49-5266-aeaa-369b933f80cc)

Sweets as food (#u6b4d0733-2e52-589f-b042-272d5df4b3b0)

Crisp crazy (#u3b266579-d33a-5c15-bc8d-784ad21c0381)

The flickering screen (#udf6cc288-429c-5052-89de-9344beafef2a)

Gift-wrapped junk (#u97a6b9c8-ae77-5cbf-914c-fd5357d3c004)

Goodbye dinner lady, hello cash cafeteria (#u195b05e9-0f54-57aa-b4d7-e1512a33956e)

Child (un)friendly restaurants (#u9c249f85-b849-542d-ac53-6d505823327d)

PART TWO: BREAKING THE MOULD AT HOME (#uf3683418-954c-520c-8a69-a5ff5e8071fc)

The real-food approach (#u170bdea0-9dd1-5b02-a4a9-596ad5fc310c)

Getting the message across (#litres_trial_promo)

Spending priorities (#litres_trial_promo)

The ‘tunnel effect’ and how to prevent it (#litres_trial_promo)

Eating together and why it matters (#litres_trial_promo)

The ‘never-satisfied’ snacker (#litres_trial_promo)

Don’t keep food you don’t want children to eat (#litres_trial_promo)

Presentation, boredom and the ‘yuck’ reaction (#litres_trial_promo)

Sweets, treats and bans (#litres_trial_promo)

Good food that children like (#litres_trial_promo)

What children should drink (#litres_trial_promo)

Healthier look-alike alternatives to common ‘children’s foods’ (#litres_trial_promo)

PART THREE: THE GENTLE ART OF PERSUASION (#litres_trial_promo)

Dealing with children who say no (#litres_trial_promo)

Avoiding the same old mistakes (#litres_trial_promo)

Setting up a cooperative food relationship (#litres_trial_promo)

Refining objections to food (#litres_trial_promo)

Serving up praise by the bucketload (#litres_trial_promo)

Making mealtimes work (#litres_trial_promo)

The scope for insistence (#litres_trial_promo)

Giving in gracefully but … (#litres_trial_promo)

PART FOUR: GETTING IT RIGHT WITH BABIES AND TODDLERS (#litres_trial_promo)

You know best (#litres_trial_promo)

The essential blender (#litres_trial_promo)

Introducing the world of food (#litres_trial_promo)

Pesticide residue risks and the organic alternative (#litres_trial_promo)

PART FIVE: INFLUENCING WHAT CHILDREN EAT WHEN YOU’RE NOT THERE (#litres_trial_promo)