Mention the words 'children' and 'healthy eating', and a whole series of associations will probably come up, perhaps including the 'war on obesity', Jamie Oliver, and reports that more than a quarter of English children are overweight or obese. It feels like all of us working with young children must respond, and urgently. But matters are not really as simple as they seem.
That is certainly what we found out at Kate Greenaway Nursery School and Children's Centre, in London's Kings Cross neighbourhood, when we started off a chain of actions which led us to rethink nursery food, build a new kitchen, work with a local restaurant and, finally, seek a specialist cook to work with young children.
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