Food For Kids

In this episode Joanne runs through some suggestions for making the endless summer holiday snack production line a little easier. Joanne outlines a pick and mix approach using items from three different food types to make it easier to have variety but put things together quickly during a long week of holiday snack demands. Music "Happy Days" by Simon Folwar via Uppbeat

This episode is about how to handle food if you use a home based childcare professional, so that’s a childminder caring in their home, or a nanny caring in yours and I have a short interview with one of each about how they divide the responsibility with families. Nannies and childminders work under quite different frameworks in the UK, and that affects both their legal responsibilities and how you...

In this episode Joanne gives you three easy growing projects to choose from that can still be done at this time of year, work well with children helping, and don't need any special equipment or knowledge, literally just a cheap grow bag of compost. Idea one - windowsill pea shoots Idea two - rescuing supermarket herbs Idea three - Christmas potatoes Links in the episode: Growing peashoots: https:/...

This interview with Chris Lord took place a couple of years ago, when we were discussing the changes in the UK secondary school food curriculum. Chris has taught food for over twenty years in both the UK and Hong Kong and has some thoughtful insights in to the changes of emphasis in the way food is taught. Our conversation explored the need to move away from teaching as food technology to a more i...

This short trailer sets out who and what the Food For Kids podcast is for, and gives some examples of the kinds of things to expect from upcoming shows, so you can decide whether to listen or not. If you think it sounds interesting or at least worth dipping a toe (or a spoon!) into, then please subscribe so you will get the first few episodes. You should get a pretty good idea of what to expect wi...