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

      THE FOOD OUR

      CHILDREN EAT

       How to Get Children to Like Good Food

      Joanna Blythman

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

A few pages to read first

PART ONE: THE GHETTO OF ‘CHILDREN’S FOOD’

The modern ‘children’s diet’

‘Picky-eater’ culture

Parents’ attitudes

The rot begins with those little jars

Staggered eating

Sweets as food

Crisp crazy

The flickering screen

Gift-wrapped junk

Goodbye dinner lady, hello cash cafeteria

Child (un)friendly restaurants

PART TWO: BREAKING THE MOULD AT HOME

The real-food approach

       Getting the message across

       Spending priorities

       The ‘tunnel effect’ and how to prevent it

       Eating together and why it matters

       The ‘never-satisfied’ snacker

       Don’t keep food you don’t want children to eat

       Presentation, boredom and the ‘yuck’ reaction

       Sweets, treats and bans

       Good food that children like

       What children should drink

       Healthier look-alike alternatives to common ‘children’s foods’

       PART THREE: THE GENTLE ART OF PERSUASION

       Dealing with children who say no

       Avoiding the same old mistakes

       Setting up a cooperative food relationship

       Refining objections to food

       Serving up praise by the bucketload

       Making mealtimes work

       The scope for insistence

       Giving in gracefully but …

       PART FOUR: GETTING IT RIGHT WITH BABIES AND TODDLERS

       You know best

       The essential blender

       Introducing the world of food

       Pesticide residue risks and the organic alternative

       PART FIVE: INFLUENCING WHAT CHILDREN EAT WHEN YOU’RE NOT THERE

       What you can expect from childcarers

       Negotiating with nurseries and playgroups

       The friend’s house

       School food

       PART SIX: TESTING SITUATIONS

       Shopping tips

       Car trips

       Birthday parties

       Grandparents’ houses

       PART SEVEN: CONSOLIDATING YOUR EFFORTS

       Encouraging children to cook