Food fight, the sequel: Puree strikes back
But, seriously – enough! The kid is nearly 19 months old. Puffy corn-based toddler snacks and pureed fruit are not a reasonable diet on which to grow a developing little mind and body.
One of Curran’s day-care workers told me about a book written by Jerry Seinfeld’s wife Jessica, called Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food.
I looked it up, but it got bad reviews online, with readers often pointing instead to The Sneaky Chef. The Sneaky Chef it was, then.
(Sneaky chef author Missy Chase Lapine actually sued Mrs. Seinfeld for allegedly copying the idea , but the case was turfed out of court).
The book is based on a bunch of principles, such as, kids won’t eat any food that looks “weird,” in texture, colour, dry or wetness, and so on. The handful of most these successful tactics seem to be:
- The food has to be the right colour. You puree healthy stuff that’s the same colour as the beloved junk food, mix it in, and no one is the wiser.
Drewry Mason health fair draws 200
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
By ASHLEY JACKSON - Bulletin Staff Writer
About 200 parents and students took part in Drewry Mason Elementary School’s first health fair Tuesday night.
The school’s gym was filled with energetic kids and parents taking advantage of the chance to learn about fitness, nutrition and healthy eating habits. Lisa Galiger of Ridgeway, a parent, liked the bags of healthy snacks that school nutritionists handed out. Each bag also contained a healthy eating guide that showed the amount of calories contained in different food options at restaurants, she said. Galiger also enjoyed the Farmer’s Insurance table, where representatives collected hair samples for DNA, did fingerprinting and took pictures of children for identification cards. “It was free, and that was great,” she said.