Celebrating Mums are launching our week of features and ideas for healthy lunchbox and picnic ideas.
To mark this exciting initiative, we are giving away a copy of Children’s Nurtrition, A Parent’s Guide.
All we ask is that you leave a comment telling us your child’s favourite healthy food choice.
Bonus entry per person if you press the Twitter button at the end of this post.
Additional entry if you subscribe via email – see over on the right hand side.
Now, for more details on the really helpful guide.
Children’s Nutrition, A Parent’s Guide
By Angela Falaschi & Andrea Childs
Published by Need 2 Know
1st February 2011
£9.99, paperback
(Amazon, Nutricentre, Waterstones, http://www.need2knowbooks.co.uk and all good bookshops)
Children’s Nutrition: A Parent’s Guide is a new book from the popular Need 2 Know series to give parents, grandparents, carers and teachers of children aged 0 to 18, a helping hand to make the best food choices for their children.
Children’s Nutrition: A Parent’s Guide explains the importance of a good nutritional start in life to ensure long-term health, and provides tailored advice for ages birth to one, one to five, six to 10 and 11 to 18. Full of recipes for delicious, easy-to-prepare meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as tailored menus to help support children with specific health or behavioural issues – parents can immediately put what they’ve learnt into practice.
Choose from ‘First Foods’, ‘Good Start Breakfasts’, ‘Keep Going Lunches’, ‘Tasty Family Dinners’, ‘Snacks and Treats’ and even ‘Medicine Cabinet Meals’ that may help boost your child’s wellbeing when coping with common ailments.
As well as the role of good nutrition in physical health, the book explains how the food we eat can boost children’s emotional and mental wellbeing. It also discusses the importance of eating as a family, and the bonding experience of choosing, cooking and sharing meals.
Angela Falaschi says: “Providing healthy meals and teaching what makes a good diet is one of the ways you can protect and support the children you look after. Our book will show you that it doesn’t have to be difficult, or expensive to create meals that children love and will help them to develop a strong immune system and provide all the nutrients their growing bodies need. We hope they’ll learn how fantastic good food can really make them feel.”
The closing date for this competition is 25th June 2011. Open to UK residents aged 18 years plus only.
Thanks for entering and don’t forget to check back this week for recipes and more.
http://www.theprizefinder.com/
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At the moment my little girl is still on Mummy’s milk but I can’t wait for her to try different foods. This book would be great for advice x
Posted by Carolin | June 11, 2011, 3:13 pmboth my kids love berries – strawberries, raspberries, blueberries – they would eat them all day long!
Posted by Ashleigh | June 11, 2011, 6:40 pmMy daughters favoute healthy food is baked bean lasagne, full of goodness and gorgeous!
Posted by katherine grieve | June 12, 2011, 7:50 ambeans on toast
Posted by carole | June 12, 2011, 10:37 amMy eldest is 10 and loves broccoli and carrots (not sure where she gets it from but not me)
The 7 year old will eat any fruit
The baby so far will eat anything, but mainly still breastfed
Posted by Claire | June 12, 2011, 11:56 amSalmon, rice and tomatoes x
Posted by Debbie | June 12, 2011, 1:40 pmGrapes, Water melon.
Posted by claire woods | June 12, 2011, 7:57 pmStrawberries in his Nibbler, love this product http://www.amazon.co.uk/nuby-fresh-food-nibbler-YELLOW/dp/B003W4Q85W
Posted by Robyn Clarke | June 12, 2011, 9:26 pmmy daughter loves homemade pizza, cheaper to do and more heathly and you can make what you want, another thing she likes is veg spiced stew
Posted by laura stewart | June 13, 2011, 8:57 ammy 7 year old loves broccolli and my 4 year old is a big fan of apples
Posted by Lakes Mum | June 13, 2011, 12:58 pmMy 4 year old loves apples and my daughter loves her veggies. I must be doing something right!!
Posted by Heidi | June 13, 2011, 1:18 pmIts pears for my son – He will eat 2 or 3 a day and would prefer one to a chocolate bar.
Posted by g2-f00b3c1c71fa38737f025f4af190a280 | June 13, 2011, 1:19 pmMy girls love grapes, blueberries and pommegranats !!
Posted by Gina cohen | June 13, 2011, 8:34 pmOrange
Posted by Tolu | June 16, 2011, 10:35 amAt the moment my daughter is enjoying all the fruit and veggies we are growing together in our garden. We have had lots of fresh peas straight from the pod and a few early strawberries plus a couple of baby courgettes. We are now looking forward to potatoes, tomatoes, beans, apples and plums. This is the first year we have tried growing our own produce but it tastes so good straight from the plant (and my daughter loves all the digging and watering) so we will definitely be doing more gardening!
Posted by Sarah Ballantyne | June 16, 2011, 11:04 amMy daughter (3) loves making fruit salad and has really got into melon.
Posted by lucy Robinson | June 16, 2011, 11:14 amBoth of my kids love raw carrot. they cant get enough of it!
Posted by Kerry Robertson | June 16, 2011, 11:52 amBoth my kids love any kind of fruit, tomatoes and broccoli. They also love tuna
They’re only 4 and 2 
I have tweeted (@pipersky1) and subscribed to your email too
Posted by Cheryll H | June 16, 2011, 1:34 pmMy son loves fruit of all sorts and will even eat lemons and limes.
Posted by Erica Price | June 16, 2011, 4:05 pmMy grandaughter loves all kinds of fruit and veg
Posted by pamela gossage | June 16, 2011, 4:52 pmstrawberries are my grandaughtres fav of the moment
Posted by james | June 16, 2011, 4:54 pmGrapes are one of his favourite snacks.
Posted by Victoria B | June 17, 2011, 9:24 pmSatsumas
Posted by Solange | June 18, 2011, 8:31 amblueberries
Posted by ANNE TIERNAN | June 18, 2011, 4:02 pmPlease enter me,
Many Thanks
Good luck all xx
Posted by Helen | June 18, 2011, 10:47 pmand its carrot sticks! Ahh..
Posted by Helen | June 18, 2011, 10:48 pmapples and bananas
Posted by Helena Haddock | June 20, 2011, 10:41 ambroccoli
Posted by emmawaltersvn@gmail.com | June 21, 2011, 6:08 ammy son loves fruit, mainly strawberries, raspberries, grapes and his favourite is mango! He is also partial to a bit of brocolli!
Posted by angela sandhu | June 21, 2011, 1:35 pmGrapes!! They are also great for dropping on the floor for me to tread on
Posted by Heather Shaw | June 21, 2011, 5:44 pmsalmon,
Posted by vicky haddock | June 22, 2011, 6:17 amMine love all sorts of fruit, loquats, mangoes, etc.
Posted by Kelly Koya | June 23, 2011, 5:47 amMy son enjoys raisins and yogurt
Posted by Katherine Coldicott | June 23, 2011, 8:54 amBoiled egg with brococli dips and fresh fruit salad for pud. Yum all round.
tweeted the link at thge end of the post.
Posted by nel | June 23, 2011, 1:06 pmI am lucky as my kids love fruit, my youngest is into fresh pineapple at the moment. He loves it!
Posted by Clare White | June 23, 2011, 1:42 pmBoth my girls love smoothies… any flavours
Posted by Lynsey Blogg | June 23, 2011, 3:52 pmMy 7 year old daughter loves vegetable salad, for some odd reason
Posted by Clementina | June 23, 2011, 5:13 pmat the moment my little ones fav is chicken and apple balls
but he also loves fruit
Posted by Claire Osman | June 23, 2011, 8:31 pmalso tweeted @macker_29
Posted by Claire Osman | June 23, 2011, 8:32 pmI’m proud to say my kids love SPROUTS!!! theres always an argument over who has the most!
Posted by Stacey | June 23, 2011, 10:20 pmMy son 1 and only veg le loves is sweetcorn has to be green giant too as hvae tried various ones. Very rarely will he eat other veg but he is just 3
Posted by Claire | June 24, 2011, 3:59 pmMy 3 year old just loves fruit – bananas, pineapple, apples, strawberries. You name it, she can’t get enough.
Posted by Paul Witney | June 24, 2011, 7:54 pmMy toddler is pretty good at eating healthy things (as well as the not so healthy!). As others have said, he loves broccoli and I hope he continues to enjoy his greens. But the best way to get loads of veg into him is a spicy bean casserole with onions, carrots, tomatoes, pepper, butternut squash, courgettes – whatever veg we happen to have – added in.
Posted by Jessica | June 24, 2011, 8:26 pmMy DD loves apples, she would eat them all day long if we let her
Posted by @littleboo_21 | June 24, 2011, 8:40 pmMy son is becoming very fussy! But he still loves some fruit chopped up in a bowl, or a bowl of grapes.
Posted by Deborah Bird | June 24, 2011, 8:55 pmMine is obcessed with all sorts of fruit!
Posted by Carolina J. | June 24, 2011, 10:29 pmTweeted! (@pandcands)
Posted by Carolina J. | June 24, 2011, 10:29 pmMy son is hyperactive most of the time, so I ensure that he has the healthiest diet possible, and luckily he loves to eat healthily, and we love cooking together. This book would come in very useful.
Posted by Sara | June 25, 2011, 12:07 pmMy 2 youngest children love fruit, especially when it’s made into a smoothie!
Posted by Andrea Smith | June 25, 2011, 3:49 pmseedless grapes better than a choc bar
Posted by sue | June 25, 2011, 11:04 pm