Books & Ordering
Taste with your face: Adventures in healthy eating (Available now)
The first book in the Food Loving Kids series is entitled Taste with your face: Adventures in healthy eating. To combat the problem of mindless eating, this book teaches children to fully taste and savour their food. Tasting with your face is all about using your eyes and your nose, as well as the taste buds in your mouth, to experience fully the more fattening foods we might eat. Whether we then discover we like them or not, the outcome is equally valuable. By eating more mindfully, we feel more emotionally satisfied, which makes it easier to stop eating sooner. It is impossible to binge-eat mindfully! This book goes onto look at getting kids to eat more veggies bycreatively ‘selling’ them and by involving them in the choosing of vegetables, and in cooking the ‘Roast of Many Colours.’
To order a book and (for bulk orders for health professionals) click here and you will be taken to Dr Blair-West’s online order facility. Note that delivery is the same for 1, 2 or 3 copies – so if you have any friends with children …
THE OTHER BOOKS (To come)
The second book – Sneaky Foods, Sneaky People: Advertising Tricks & Secrets illustrates the exploitative nature of marketing to vulnerable children who are too young to appreciate the difference between advertising, product placement and general entertainment. It plays with the Popeye Principle – how a simple 1930′s cartoon character was able to make canned spinach the third most popular food in the USA after ice cream and roast turkey! Imagine the influence that can be brought to bear using the modern, post-star wars’ technology available to advertisers today.
The third book will creatively encourage children to try foods from different cultures. It also deals with the very challenging situation of a young child not being prepared to try new foods.
The fourth book will be the cookbook referred to in the first book. It will be a compilation of recipes submitted to this website by children who, in collaboration with an adult, have developed recipes that encourage children to eat a wider variety of healthy, fresh foods.
