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DirectScot Video: healthy eating for 5 to 9 year olds -
Published:Friday, 5 November 2010 Advice on helping your
children to eat healthy food and how to make it fun. First
parent: "What would be the best way to get my six year old and
nine year old healthy and actually eating the same things as my
husband and I?" First child: "Well, with my little brother -
it's quite annoying to get him started, but now he's getting to
learn how to eat his vegetables. I'm easy to do it." Penny
Brinckley, Food Standards Agency: "A great way to get children
involved in eating a varied and balanced diet is to not only get
them involved in cooking but also thinking about the ingredients
that go into a recipe. Get them to come with you shopping,
bringing the food home, preparing it, chopping, cooking, talking
about the texture and the taste of the food. When you actually
introduce it to them, they'll be much more familiar with it and
likely to try it. If they don't the fir