Food For Kids

IIn this episode of the Food for Kids podcast, Joanne shares simple, family-friendly July seasonal meal ideas using seasonal produce available in July. The focus is on easy-to-make recipes that require minimal prep time, making them perfect for busy families. Joanne discusses three main meals, a dessert, and a quick snack, all utilizing fresh ingredients that are in season. She gives suggestions o...

On today’s episode I am talking to Dr Kirsty Porter from Nutrition For Kids in Northern Ireland. Kirsty is a registered children’s dietitian with over 15 years of experience helping parents overcome mealtime and feeding challenges. She specialises in supporting fussy and sensory eaters, and offers evidence-based but practical advice that fits real family life. When we’re talking about why children...

In this episode, Joanne runs through a list of fruits and vegetables which are in season in the UK in July, and offers tips for getting children to try each of them. There is also a short list of tropical imports that are currently in season. This will be useful if you want to increase your intake of seasonal fruits and vegetables, and want some ideas for helping to build your child's familiarity...

Today is part of our series called “Help my child is bringing someone home for tea”. These episodes are intended to give families who don’t have a special diet themselves the basic information they need to be able to be inclusive for other people’s children who do have a special diet. This episode is about hosting children who need a gluten free diet either because they have coeliac disease or jus...

In this episode of the Food for Kids podcast, we're looking into the science behind why children can be fussy or anxious with food, especially with new foods. As parents we usually decide that it's our fault whenever our kids struggle and there are lots of messages in society and from family and friends that reinforces that guilt. But the science says that lots of other factors are involved, and h...

In this episode we are talking about how to keep a toddler busy in a garden, with Susan Hodkin from Two Dots Garden. This conversation explores the joys and challenges of gardening with children. ​Susan ​is the person behind the Two Dots Garden instagram account, formerly Two Dots Allotment, which grew an enthusiatic following of her fun, laid back and joyful images of growing food with her daught...

This episode is part of a monthly series where Joanne runs through some ideas to reduce food waste and save money by storing foods well and using them up effectively. This episode is about all kinds of summer berries so there are some ideas about how to store berries to make them last longer, and stop them going off. This includes how to store them in the kitchen, how to freeze them and how to dry...

In today’s show, I asked Jenna Brown, who goes online everywhere under the name Food Safety Mum, about how to make sure that we handle our leftovers safely so we can waste less food but not worry about anyone getting sick, especially little ones with their less established immune systems. Jenna is an experienced Environmental Health Officer with over 14 years of experience in food safety and publi...

In this episode of the Food for Kids podcast, Joanne shares simple, family-friendly June seasonal meal ideas using seasonal produce available in June. The focus is on easy-to-make recipes that require minimal prep time, making them perfect for busy families. Joanne discusses three main meals, a dessert, and a quick snack, all utilizing fresh ingredients that are in season. She gives suggestions on...

In this interview with ​Emma Shafqat from Dietitian With A Difference, we are talking about how to know if your child’s fussiness is just a ​"normal" level of developmental hesitancy around new foods, or whether you should consider asking for advice from a professional. I think a lot of us worry that we’re either making a mountain out of a molehill, or on the other hand, writing off actual eating...

In this interview with Kate Hall of The Full Freezer, we explore how to use your freezer to store individual ingredients rather than whole batch cooked meals to make family life easier. Kate was a batch cooker before she had her second child, but found herself buying food to cook for the freezer and then failing to find time and wasting food while also buying convenience foods to make up the diffe...

In this episode, Joanne discusses the benefits of eating seasonal foods, and then runs through a list of foods in season in the UK in the month of June. Joanne runs through a list of June seasonal foods - fruits and vegetables which are in season in the UK in June, and offers tips for getting children to try each of them. There is also a short list of tropical imports that are currently in season....

Today is a very special episode because it marks the end of a whole year of the podcast and also the start of a new era. Joanne talks through the way the podcast is set up as a reference book and what that will look like going forward. Link to the webform for submitting any special episode ideas: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfRRoMTN_9OFwdgQb--5qurUvX6-w12ooBboKcG3uLdQ1OnXg/viewform Mu...

Today’s episode is about school food and it’s a topic which is very close to Joanne's heart because she worked in school food for a number of years and knows first hand how incredibly important it is. There have been a lot of changes to school food over the years, and this episode walks through the history of school dinners and some of the negative and positive changes. The government has put out...

This episode is part of a monthly series where Joanne runs through some ideas to reduce food waste and save money by storing foods well and using them up effectively. This episode is about lettuces and salad leaves so there are some ideas about how to store alliums to make them last longer, and stop them going off. This includes how to store them in the kitchen, how to freeze them and how to dry t...

Hello and welcome to the food for kids podcast, I’m Joanne from the foodies. Today’s episode is for the parents who have sporty kids in their house and want to know if they should be doing something special with their food to help them. You can’t scroll for more than a minute on social media now without seeing someone telling you to eat more protein, eat more fibre, eat your way to your exercise g...

Today’s episode is part of our series of how to get kids to eat more of something, and today it’s the turn of pulses or legumes, so beans, lentils and peas. I don’t think I need to explain in too much detail why it’s great to help kids to like legumes. So you want to have more pulses in your family’s food, but how to get your child to accept them? As with our other epsiodes on this, we’re not actu...

In this episode of the Food for Kids podcast, Joanne shares simple, family-friendly meal ideas using seasonal produce available in May. The focus is on easy-to-make recipes that require minimal prep time, making them perfect for busy families. Joanne discusses three main meals, a dessert, and a quick snack, all utilizing fresh ingredients that are in season. She gives suggestions on adapting recip...

On today’s show we are talking about how to support other people’s children who have allergies. We have had a couple of episodes about what to do if your child invites a friend home who has a special diet, we looked at coeliac disease in episode 10 and plant based or vegan diets in episode 41. But today I wanted to look not only at inviting a child home for tea who has an allergy but also at the m...

In this episode, Joanne runs through a list of fruits and vegetables which are in season in the UK in May, and offers tips for getting children to try each of them. There is also a short list of imported foods that are currently in season. This will be useful if you want to increase your intake of seasonal fruits and vegetables, and want some ideas for helping to build your child's familiarity wit...

Today is the second of our two parter about preparing a child to feed themselves if they go to university or another post 18 route that requires living in dorms or shared accommodation. The two episodes will run slightly long, to pack everything in without running to multiple episodes so please excuse the slightly longer run time than usual. Joanne covers two different aspects, the catered route w...

Today is the first of a two parter about preparing a child to feed themselves if they go to university or another post 18 route that requires living in dorms or shared accommodation. The two episodes will run slightly long, to pack everything in without running to multiple episodes so please excuse the slightly longer run time than usual. Joanne is going to be talking about two different aspects,...

On today’s episode we are going to be focusing on food for teenagers, with dietitian Jo Scott. We all have a general idea that when kids reach puberty and through their teens their eating might change, we know they will probably eat a lot more, they might be more independent and bolshy about their food choices, they might eat more socially and they might worry about their appearance and fitting in...

This episode is part of a monthly series where Joanne runs through some ideas to reduce food waste and save money by storing foods well and using them up effectively. This episode is about rhubarb so there some ideas about how to store rhubarb to make it last longer, and stop it going off. This includes how to store it in the kitchen, how to freeze it and how to dry it. And then there are a few go...

My microphone actually broke just before I started recording this episode. So I'm recording it on a smartphone microphone snd I do apologize if the sound isn't up to the normal standard. Hopefully it'll be back by the next episode. Many listeners will be growing food with kids this year, either with children at home or in an education setting. And if you sometimes find that sowing seeds can be a b...