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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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13:46

How to teach kids to cook even when you're anxious...

Food For Kids ·

2026/10/05

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 practical

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08:32

Foods in season in October in the UK

Food For Kids ·

2026/10/01

In this episode, Joanne runs through a list of fruits and vegetables which are in season in the UK in October, 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!List of foods in season in October-

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16:13

Twelve surprising things you can freeze, that you...

Food For Kids ·

2026/09/28

Today's episode is not so much an episode about children's food specifically, as just about making family food easier in general and it's going to be a list of 12 types of food that you might not know that you can freeze.So hopefully one or more of these ideas might be helpful, whether it's to help you buy a bigger, more economical pack of something and then split it up to save some money. Also, you can do a lot of cooking or prep effort all in one go and then save energy on a busy weeknight or to

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14:32

Foraging with kids, five ideas and some blackberry...

Food For Kids ·

2026/09/24

In today's episode Joanne talks through some of the rules and precautions you need to think through if you want to try foraging with kids.This last Thursday episode of the month is normally reserved for talking about how to store, freeze and use up a group of foods, and this month's food is blackberries. Because we already covered berries in detail back in June, Joanne does cover how to store and use up blackberries and talks to Kate Hall about freezing them. But that short section leaves some time

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13:30

How to make mealtimes more relaxed with children,...

Food For Kids ·

2026/09/21

This episode forms a two-parter with the last episode about how to talk about food, and this one is about how to take pressure away from the dinner table in general and includes an interview with Kirsty Porter from Nutrition4Kids, who we last heard from when she talked about sensory issues with foods.After the interview piece Joanne runs through some other small and practical things you can do to make the dinner table feel more comfortable for kids.Links in the episode:My £7.49 familiarity workshop

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11:30

Low pressure ways to talk about food with kids

Food For Kids ·

2026/09/17

In today’s episode Joanne talks about how to talk about food with your child if you are trying to take the pressure off them and especially if you have a fussy or anxious eater.She goes over why it’s important to be careful about how we talk about food at the table, and then gives some suggestions for ways that we can talk when exploring food with our child, that isn’t linked to their being pressured to eat.Don’t forget that there are many stages to eating and tasting is just the final one.As

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15:30

How to reduce packaging in children's food, with...

Food For Kids ·

2026/09/14

In today's episode Joanne is looking at reducing packaging waste in kids’ meals, so that’s mostly snack foods and lunchbox foods, and it’s something we all want to do, but it can be quite hard when there are so many things to balance.Joanne runs through some of the arguments for trying to reduce packaged foods, and gives some practical suggestions for one item at a time.Joanne then has a conversation with Suzanne Moore about ways to pack fresh items or decant items from bigger packages at home. The

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06:06

Five September seasonal meals, easy and family friendly

Food For Kids ·

2026/09/10

In this episode of the Food for Kids podcast, Joanne shares simple, family-friendly meal ideas using seasonal produce available in September. 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:Main 1 - butternut and

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11:21

What children learn through cookery, with Chris Lord

Food For Kids ·

2026/09/07

This episode explores why cookery and food teaching is not just teaching a basic life skill although that is also very important, but how it is a vehicle for teaching lots of other parts of the curriculum and lots of skills that you wouldn’t necessarily think of as being related to food. So whether you have a child in pre-school, in a school, if you’re homeschooling, or if you just want to help your child to learn some things at home, hopefully this will interest you.Back in July we had an episode

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15:23

Packed lunch ideas for kids at school - not just...

Food For Kids ·

2026/09/03

In this episode Joanne runs through some ideas for school and nursery lunchboxes. One of the things that comes up all the time with packed lunches is that they can get boring. Some children of course don't mind having similar things most days but if your child is getting bored with the same old sandwich or you want to try and change things up a bit to add some variety, especially if your child's fed up with sandwiches in general, then what do you do?There are loads of great ideas online for lunches,

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11:15

September seasonal foods - fruit and veg in season in...

Food For Kids ·

2026/08/31

In this episode, Joanne runs through a list of fruits and vegetables which are in season in the UK in September, 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!List of foods in season in September-

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12:22

How to store courgettes and summer squash and how to...

Food For Kids ·

2026/08/27

In this episode, one of a regular monthly series, 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 courgettes and summer squashes so there are some ideas about how to store courgettes and thin skinned 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.And then there are a few good ideas on how to use up a glut of

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07:22

How to keep packed lunches safe, with Jenna Brown

Food For Kids ·

2026/08/24

Today’s fairly short episode is about packed lunches for the start of term next week, and specifically, about how to keep packed lunch foods safe until lunchtime.The main issue with lunchboxes is the storage of them between them being packed in the morning and them being eaten. If the hot weather in the last few weeks has made you think about how food will last in hot classrooms then this episode is for you.I interviewed Jenna Brown, an environmental health officer known as Food Safety Mum online,

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13:04

Child friendly BBQ ideas

Food For Kids ·

2026/08/20

In this episode I run through some child friendly barbecue ideas for these last few weeks of the summer holidays and into the warm September weekends.In the UK a barbecue can feel like such a treat. When you’re imagining it, it’s got a relaxed vibe, the sun’s out, friends or family are around, there’s the smell of the grill and some cold drinks and everyone is enjoying cooking and eating in the open air with some different food to the everyday grind.But if you’ve ever hosted with children in the

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12:26

When to start solid foods with a baby, with Ailsa...

Food For Kids ·

2026/08/17

In today's episode I'm talking to Ailsa McHardy of Little Nutrition about the guidelines for when to wean your baby onto solid foods.There is a lot more understanding, flexibility and information out there now than when my kids were weaning and I wanted to ask Ailsa what the current best advice is for parents on how to know if their child is ready or not. We talk about why age is a guideline and not a hard and fast rule, and what developmental cues to look for in your own child to see if they are

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07:06

Five August seasonal meals, easy and family friendly

Food For Kids ·

2026/08/13

In this episode of the Food for Kids podcast, Joanne shares simple, family-friendly meal ideas using seasonal produce available in August. 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:Lentil ragu:

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14:43

Seven cooking skills for kids, that they can learn in...

Food For Kids ·

2026/08/10

In today’s episode I am going to give you seven incredibly easy two minute tasks that your children can do in the kitchen, for when you want them to learn some skills but don’t have time to cook with them.I meet a lot of parents at school events and when I am out and about selling my books and activity boxes and at basically every event one of them says something to the effect of how they know they should cook with their young kids, or teach their older kids to cook, but they never get to it and

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13:11

How to reduce food waste and save money using your...

Food For Kids ·

2026/08/06

n today’s episode I am talking to Kate Hall from the Full Freezer about how we can reduce food waste using our freezer, both to reduce our impact on the environment, and to save us some money and time.One of the things that can really be a stressor when you are racing around trying to keep everyone fed while not bankrupting yourselves is the knowledge that there are a couple of things in your fridge that need using up or are going off and the guilt of knowing that you’re wasting food as well as

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12:47

August seasonal foods - fruit and veg in season in...

Food For Kids ·

2026/08/03

In this episode, Joanne runs through a list of fruits and vegetables which are in season in the UK in August, 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!List of foods in season in August -

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16:02

Does my child have a milk allergy? How to find out...

Food For Kids ·

2026/07/30

In this episode Joanne talks to Emma Shafqat from Dietitian With A Difference about childhood milk allergy, what the two main types are, what the differences are between the two and how to find out if your child has one.Emma then talks through what will happen next if you get a diagnosis and what the "milk ladder" is.She also explains the difference between a milk allergy and a lactose intolerance.Emma's instagram feed: https://www.instagram.com/fussyeating.dietitianEmma's milk allergy course for

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