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Top Tip of all:
You are in charge!
"Yes, there are pressures and problems that earlier generations knew nothing of, but the bottom line is that you do the shopping, you do the menu planning, and you do the cooking. So at least at home, your child can eat and drink only what you have decided to provide. Even if there is poor fare at school, there can be good food at home"
Extract from DUMP THE JUNK! by Mary Whiting
“We cannot afford to be passive about children’s junk because it amounts to a modern brand of malnutrition”
"Children are picky eaters naturally, it is to be expected":
“A self-fulfilling prophecy that has been promoted by the food industry, which makes a mint out of selling children junk. Children in most part of the world eat what adults eat. It’s mainly in the U.K and North America that children are considered to need a different diet. If you keep on presenting them with real food they will learn to like it. If you stereotype them as picky eaters, then that is what they will become"
Extracts from FOOD OUR CHILDREN EAT
by Joanna Blythman |