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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

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14:56

FFK68: Nutritious additions to bump up family...

Food For Kids ·

2026/01/19

This episode is full of suggestions for small ways that you can pack in a little extra goodness to foods that you already eat.Over the last week we talked to Maeve Hanan about why we shouldn’t hyperfixate on the label or category that one individual food or one meal fits into, but instead we should zoom out to the overall picture of the variety and benefits of the foods we are eating across a week or a month of meals. And coming up we have an episode with a gastroenterology dietitian who will also

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14:53

FFK67: Do we need to have goals about ultra processed...

Food For Kids ·

2026/01/15

Today’s episode is the second of our two parter talking about ultra processed foods. If you haven’t listened to the first part, I would urge you to go back and listen to that as some of the information in that will help you to understand today’s discussion more. Today we are going to talk about whether being more relaxed about some processed foods in the diet can actually help with being more consistent, and whether we should set goals about processed foods in our resolutions or not. Maeve Hanan is

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15:20

FFK66: Ultra processed foods and kids - what are they...

Food For Kids ·

2026/01/12

Today’s episode is the first of a two parter talking about ultra processed foods. I wanted to have some information about this topic at this time of year because there is so much food talk around, and so much resolutions and setting food goals and for parents there is the added weight of being responsible for your child’s health as well as their long term relationship with food.One of the things that will often come up on lists of food goals, especially for parents, is to eat less processed foods

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05:40

FFK65: Five January seasonal meals, easy and family...

Food For Kids ·

2026/01/08

In this episode of the Food for Kids podcast, Joanne shares simple, family-friendly meal ideas using seasonal produce available in January. 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 – Root veg crumble:

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15:59

FFK64: Plant based weaning, with Ailsa McHardy

Food For Kids ·

2026/01/05

In today's episode I'm talking to Ailsa McHardy of Little Nutrition about the guidelines for weaning a baby in a plant based family.In January information about plant based diets are everywhere and I wanted to ask Ailsa what the current best advice is for parents who want to raise their children with less or no animal products.Ailsa is an expert Paediatric Dietitian with 15 years of experience across NHS, academic and private settings. She is the founder of Little Nutrition, a freelance children's

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10:36

FFK63: Foods in season in January in the UK

Food For Kids ·

2026/01/01

In this episode, Joanne runs through a list of fruits and vegetables which are in season in the UK in January, 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:Rhubarb cookies recipe:

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15:40

FFK62: 7 positive food messages from 7 months of Food...

Food For Kids ·

2025/12/29

The podcast has been running for seven months now. So as we come to the end of the year,we wanted to bring you seven messages from those seven months that might make you feel more confident about your child's eating as we head into the new year.So coming up are seven short clips from some of our guests and I hope after you hear them you'll feel reassured that you're doing a good job. And we hope it gets you fired up to keep going on your journey to help your child develop a good relationship with

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00:43

FFK61: A short holiday message

Food For Kids ·

2025/12/25

A short message to wish you a happy Christmas or other happy holidays, whatever your family is doing, I hope it involves some happy eating!Music "Happy Days" by Simon Folwar via Uppbeat

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15:54

FFK60: Reducing anxiety around food during Christmas...

Food For Kids ·

2025/12/22

This is the last episode before Christmas and chances are that the bit of your brain that you reserve for interesting food things is overwhelmed with holiday prep. So today's episode aims to bring you something that might help you to enjoy this holiday season a little bit more, enjoy sharing food and fun with your loved ones, and give your children a different kind of gift, the gift of a household where food is relaxed and joyful at celebration times.For today’s episode Joanne is interviewing Maeve

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15:35

FFK59: How to store and use up Christmas leftovers...

Food For Kids ·

2025/12/18

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 Christmas and other holiday foods so is focused on planning ahead to make sure you have space and containers to store foods before you need them, advice on safely storing leftovers after the celebration meals, and ways to use up common Christmas leftovers.Links in this episode - the links for freezer tips and

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14:58

FFK58: Protecting kids from harmful food talk during...

Food For Kids ·

2025/12/15

Today’s episode is slightly different but very timely because I am talking to Bracha Kopstick about how to protect your older children from harmful food and diet talk during the holidays. Bracha works with tweens and teens to improve their relationship with food and their own bodies in a weight neutral way.Our families are not islands and we live in a culture of so many negative conversations about food and weight. So this episode is about how to insulate our children from the comments of other

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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...

Food For Kids ·

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

Food For Kids ·

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

Food For Kids ·

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...

Food For Kids ·

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...

Food For Kids ·

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...

Food For Kids ·

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,...

Food For Kids ·

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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