“We know that letting our children eat too many sweets makes us a bad parent, hence the pointless ritual at Halloween when parents allow their children to go from house to house accumulating a big haul of treats, only to confiscate them at the end of the night, because they don’t want their child to get cavities. Yes despite their anxiety about sweets, parents will happily feed their children highly sweetened sports bars, fruit snacks and cereals which are sweets in all but name.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“While the form of ‘kid food’ is more varied than ever, however, the content is far less so. Foods marketed specifically at children tend to be higher than average in salt, sugar and fat.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“How can wholesome nursery food compete with hundreds of new and heavily advertised concoctions, calculated to appeal to a child’s sense of novelty?”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“The sense that children need their own special foods that are uniquely appealing and altogether different from a mainstream human diet - like pet food - starts early, with commercial baby food.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“What children need is to develop the skills to navigate the environment for themselves.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“In India, children’s food is just food.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“You never need to apologize
for how you chose to survive.
-You Have Six Tattoos”
Source: Mouthful of Forevers
“Have you noticed that when someone wants to express that something tastes extra specially wonderful, they will often invoke childhood?”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Large numbers of adults as well as children have now become habituated to eating a version of ‘kid food’ over a whole lifetime: sweet, salty, undemanding to chew and swallow and heavily processed.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Flavour has a remarkable ability to imprint itself on our memories and therefore to drive our future food choices.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat