Most families are doing their best with food. Meals are planned around time, budgets, preferences and routines, not perfection. Yet even balanced home cooking can fall short of meeting everyone’s nutritional needs — particularly when children are selective eaters or schedules are demanding.
Hidden Goodness Tomato Sauce
If you’ve ever had a fussy eater in the family you will understand the frustration and anxiety this can cause. Try this hidden goodness tomato sauce on them.
Making friends with fruit and veg
Any parent of a fussy eater will know how stressful it can be to try and get fruit and vegetables into children sometimes. Often really fussy eaters will have one thing they are happy to eat loads of but try anything else and you are met with a major meltdown. Strawberries or cucumber perhaps go […]
‘Baby food’ for bigger kids
Feeding children can either be utterly satisfying or completely soul destroying. There is nothing more lovely than preparing a meal from scratch and watching your family devour it before your eyes. It’s one of those moments that makes you feel as if you are winning at parenting. You’ve cooked a nutritious meal with delicious, healthy […]
Coping with anaemia in children
If you suspect your child has anaemia, get a proper diagnosis from a doctor before you begin treatment. Anaemia can be temporary or chronic, mild or life-threatening. It has many causes, and treatment depends on cause.