Let's start with the bottom line: most British children's diets are seriously poor. Because of diseases that such eating produces (notably obesity, diabetes, cancers and heart disease), experts are now describing our nation's children as 'pre-ill'.
Many of the children we care for will be used to a very narrow diet of fast food and snacks, so presenting us with a challenge. But good food is a vital part of care and early eating patterns can last for life. Brightly coloured fruit and vegetables, whole grains, oily fish and high calcium dairy foods need to feature prominently in nursery menus - but how to get children to taste them?
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