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A Unique Child: Nutrition - Know your oats!

For a truly healthy snack, breakfast or dessert, replace the packaged cereals and grain bars with oats, using these suggestions from Mary Whiting.

It's almost a cliche to say we should all be eating lots of oats. Of course, the cliche is true, but working out exactly how to get oats into nursery meals can be another matter entirely. There's porridge (perhaps the healthiest breakfast going), and flapjacks (though they're unavoidably stuffed with sugar and fat), but what else can we serve?

It's worth thinking about, because eating oats regularly must be one of the most universally accepted tenets of a modern healthy diet, for people of all ages. And, as with any food, if children are used to eating oats when they are young, they are more likely to continue to like them in years to come.

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