Portion sizes for pre-school children

[sarah707]

I have written a new blog to share with our parents about portion sizes ... we are reviewing our menus for winter 2015 and will be making sure that we follow the latest guidance -

Portion sizes for pre-school children | knutsfordchildminding

I hope you find it useful

[blue bear]

Thank you Sarah. Interesting read

[loocyloo]

Thank you x

[Daisy1956]

Thanks Sarah I often feel we give children too big portions then we can't understand why they don't finish the food

[bunyip]

Excellent stuff Sarah: thanks.

I have the most terrible trouble convincing parents and CMs I speak to that a lot of children become obese on so-called "healthy" food (a complete nonsense of a term anyway.)

Did anyone catch 'Pass the Turkey Twizzlers' on the radio last Saturday. Still available on BBC i-player to listen. Lucy Kellaway set up a dinner party for some foodie snobs and 'experts' and picked apart a whole load of nonsensical media-driven received wisdom for the chattering classes. The only one there with any scientific knowledge was Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Science. He was doing quite a good job of ripping the pretentious foodies to shreds until even he admitted giving organic baby food to his children for no particularly good reason than feeling a bit better about it. If anything, it showed how deep-seated and endemic the whole subject of middle-class fact-averse food anxiety has become.

[natlou82]

Very helpful, thank you :-)

[TabbyTuTu]

very helpful thank you!