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Food For Kids

The Food for Kids Podcast is the quick, practical solution for anyone who wants to make feeding kids easier and less stressful. If you’re at your wits" end trying to juggle kids’ food alongside everything else in your busy life, this is your podcast for practical, fun, and easy-to-digest info on raising healthy, happy, confident eaters. With bitesize episodes of around 5-10 minutes twice a week, it’s perfect for the school run, your daily commute, or whenever you’re looking for practical tips and

kids & family nutrition

All Episodes

14:59

FFK57: How to be less anxious about weaning, with Liz...

Food For Kids ·

2025/12/11

On this episode Joanne is talking to Liz Priest who is a qualified midwife and health visitor and runs a support service for parents called Infant and Wisdom. There’s so much information and judgement around about food and eating, and we get very anxious about whether we are feeding our children “right”. And if our children don’t eat exactly the way we think they’re supposed to it can make us feel incredibly vulnerable.Liz talks about how to approach weaning if you're feeling anxious, how to trust

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07:14

FFK56: Five December seasonal meals, easy and family...

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2025/12/08

In this episode of the Food for Kids podcast, Joanne shares simple, family-friendly meal ideas using seasonal produce available in December. 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. They're all dead quick and easy to save energy for all the cooking at the end of the month.She gives suggestions on adapting recipes to

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11:33

FFK55: Why we eat a rainbow - all about colours of foods

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2025/12/04

This episode is designed to give you some information to help you explore the colours of fruits and vegetables with kids and to encourage them to try to eat lots of different colours. The idea of eating a rainbow has been around for a long time and you probably know that each colour brings something different to your table and your health. But do you know which ones have which benefits? For each of the rainbow food colours, I am going to tell you what the properties are that are associated with that

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09:16

FFK54: Foods in season in December in the UK

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2025/12/01

In this episode, Joanne runs through a list of fruits and vegetables which are in season in the UK in December, 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 with them, whether they eat the end result or not!Links in this episode:List of foods in season in

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15:50

FFK53: Helping kids explore foods from different...

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2025/11/27

At this time of year we are all thinking about getting together with family over the holidays and sometimes thinking about what our children might or might not eat. But for some families there are additional things to take into account when their family comes from a mixed cultural heritage and need to balance different food traditions too.Today’s episode is an interview with Rachel Mujanovic who is a Paediatric Clinical Lead Dietitian in the NHS, she comes from a family with Caribbean heritage, her

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14:23

FFK52: How to store apples and pears and use up...

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2025/11/24

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 apples and pears so there some ideas about how to store apples and pears 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 them. The episode includes our monthly Q&A with Kate Hall from The Full Freezer on how to freeze apples

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15:49

FFK51: Are screens always bad at mealtimes? With Emma...

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2025/11/20

On today's episode I'm talking to Emma Fitzgerald who's a paediatric feeding therapist with 16 years of NHS experience helping children with their eating and we're talking about whether it's sometimes okay to use screens to help our children with food.When we have children, I think we all have an ideal of what we want our family meals to be like. In previous episodes with dietitians we have touched on lots of good reasons why this style of eating is a good thing to aim for if we can. That family

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10:43

FFK50: How to increase your child's fibre with easy...

Food For Kids ·

2025/11/17

Today's episode is all about how to find sources of fibre for your child's body in everyday foods.We have a couple of episodes coming up about children's digestive systems with two fabulous dietitians. But because both of those interviews cover the fact that we need to make sure our children are having adequate fibre in their diet, this episode will have lots of practical ideas for how to get fibre into our kids' food. NHS article on fibre:

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17:05

FFK49: How to prep ahead for the holiday season,...

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2025/11/13

However you celebrate over this holiday period, one thing is certain, there will be lots of food, and that food will need preparing, and depending on whether you host or are hosted, some of that might be stressful.So this episode is all about how to use this slightly grey and flat couple of weeks at the end of November to think about making your holiday season a bit easier, food wise.Joanne runs through some ideas about preparing your kitchen, some ideas about preparing some food, and a short

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06:53

FFK48: Five November seasonal meals, easy and family...

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2025/11/10

In this episode of the Food for Kids podcast, Joanne shares simple, family-friendly meal ideas using seasonal produce available in November. 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 recipes to suit children's tastes and some swap ideas too.Links to the recipes:Meal 1 -Sausage root veg

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15:07

FFK47: Why your ADHD child might struggle with food,...

Food For Kids ·

2025/11/06

Today’s episode is a super helpful interview with Natalie Fox about how ADHD can affect children's relationship with food and how parents and carers can help.Natalie Fox is a Registered Dietitian and content creator who helps ADHDers cultivate a joyful, shame-free relationship with food and figure out how to work WITH their brains to make eating well easier and more ADHD-supportive. Natalie’s content is really good at breaking down why food related routines and aspirations come off the rails so

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11:25

FFK46: Foods in season in November in the UK

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2025/11/03

In this episode, Joanne runs through a list of fruits and vegetables which are in season in the UK in November, 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 with them, whether they eat the end result or not!Links in this episode:List of foods in season in

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15:23

FFK45: Weeknight dinners that are quicker and cheaper...

Food For Kids ·

2025/10/30

Today’s episode is full of ideas for those nights when you’ve come in from an activity or one of your kids has had a meltdown and by the time you have soothed them it’s late to start cooking, or you’re just knackered and really don’t want to cook. On lots of those nights we might order in, or pick up some ready meals on the way home. And there’s nothing wrong with that some of the time. But when you're fed up of shelling out big bucks for delivery and ready meals seem to take just as long as

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12:06

FFK44: How to handle halloween sweets and have...

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2025/10/27

This episode is going out in the week before Halloween and Joanne interviews Emma Martyn from Little Gannets about how to use children’s enthusiasm about Halloween to explore food.Emma talks about why we restricting children’s eating of their Halloween sweets in an overt way gives them negative messages about food, and that we should think of Halloween as just one part of the year and think of the whole celebration and everything it can add to a childhood. She gives some tips to make trick or

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11:13

FFK43: How to store pumpkins and winter squash and...

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2025/10/23

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 pumpkins and winter squash so there some ideas about how to store pumpkins and squash 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 them. There is also some information about making use of the seeds in squashes too.And then there

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14:05

FFK42: Ways to add more fruit and veg into food for kids

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2025/10/20

Today's episode is a high speed run through a bunch of ideas for including more fruit and veg in to everyday meals without lots of faff. This is taken from a guide Joanne published ten years ago which included 101 different ways to help kids love fruit and veg, and the ideas in this episode are all going to be easy additions to everyday cooking. This episode is focusing on fruit and veg because that’s Joanne's area of work and because there is a lot of focus at the moment on how to increase fibre in

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12:50

FFK41: My child invited a vegan friend home for tea,...

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2025/10/16

Today's episode is the second of our series on the theme of helpful information if your child asks to bring someone home for tea who has different dietary requirements than your own family. Back in episode 11 we talked about some tips for hosting a child who is coeliac and today we're talking about having a child for tea who is vegan or plant-based if your family is not. For this I spoke to Paula Hallam from Plant-Based Kids UK. Paula is a leading children’s dietitian, mum to two teen girls, author

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07:05

FFK40: Five October seasonal meals, easy and family...

Food For Kids ·

2025/10/13

In this episode of the Food for Kids podcast, Joanne shares simple, family-friendly meal ideas using seasonal produce available in October including a couple of Halloween themed kids’ favourites. 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 recipes to suit children's tastes and some swap

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08:48

FFK39: Five food games to help children to try new foods

Food For Kids ·

2025/10/09

Today’s episode is a short and fun one and is a quick roundup of some fun games you can play with your child away from the table in order to build familiarity with foods and help to increase their confidence about the fact that there is no pressure to eat when they explore foods.For all of these activities there is an opportunity for children (and adults) to taste a food, but there is an alternative of exploring the food without tasting it for children who might be more nervous. Joanne runs through

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13:53

FFK38: How to teach kids to cook even when you're...

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2025/10/06

Today’s episode is a fun one, Joanne talks to Florence Rebattet from En Cuisine Cooking School about how to teach kids to cook if you’re not very confident yourself. Flo has been running her cooking school in London for over ten years, and teached teaches children from aged 3 right through to 18 how to cook from scratch with classes, holiday cooking camps and courses. We have both worked with a lot of parents who are very anxious about getting their kids in to the kitchen and Flo has lots of

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