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

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.

How can you produce children who actually prefer a clementine to a cola chew? Award-winning food journalist Joanna Blythman examines how modern children's food has become synonymous with bad food and presents an inspiring alternative approach from parents who want to escape the junk food treadmill. From weaning a baby to influencing a teenager, she explains how to bring them up to share the same healthy and wide-ranging food tastes as you. No more tantrums, fights and refusals, her strategies are relaxed, low effort - and they work.

Packed with effective tactics to deal with sticky situations:

• What to do when they refuse food
• How to influence what they eat when you're not there
• How to deal with demands for sweets and junk

Full of practical ideas and recipes:

• Ways to get children to eat vegetables
• Main courses that both children and adults like
• Good snacks and drinks as alternatives to junk

An antidote to the prevailing gloom that surrounds what children eat, this is the only book that gives you all the confidence and help you need to get children to like good food.

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Joanna Blythman is Britain's leading investigative food journalist. She has won four Glenfiddich awards for her writing, a Caroline Walker Media Award for 'Improving the Nation's Health by Means of Good Food', and a Guild of Food Writers Award for The Food We Eat. In 2004, she won the prestigious Derek Cooper Award, one of BBC Radio 4's Food and Farming Awards. She writes and broadcasts frequently on food issues.