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Feeding your children healthily: a constant challenge!
We feel guilty toward our children because we feel like we never do well enough, especially when it comes to food.
In this somewhat special episode, designed to also speak directly to children at bedtime storytime, we talk with Marie, mother of six and a prominent culinary author, and see that good habits may be simpler than they appear.
Guest: Marie Chioca
I’ve been following Marie Chioca’s work for a long time. She is the mother of six and the author of more than forty healthy-cooking books, mainly published by Terre Vivante.
She runs two blogs, one about cooking (saines-gourmandises.fr), the other about gardening (permaculture-familiale.fr), as well as an Instagram account about the joy of simple living and the beauty of nature.
Through her advice and tips, and even the little games she’s set up with her family, we’ll see that what’s important is both feeding these growing little bodies healthily, teaching them to do things themselves, and giving them good habits for the future.
And above all, without sacrificing pleasure, which is so important in cooking!
My questions
- Marie, tell us about your six children!
- What would you like to say first to the children who are listening?
- Which recipes do you most often make with children? With teenagers?
- How do you pass on your love of cooking?
- What do you recommend for the sacred snack time?
- And for breakfast, which is often quick, before heading off to school?
- Which foods do you think should be avoided for a small, growing body? Explain why.
- What good habits should be adopted as quickly as possible?
- How can you do your grocery shopping as healthily as possible for children when you have little time?
- A question for parents: how can you avoid feeling guilty?
- Do you have any tips for optimizing meal preparation in general?
- I often talk in the kitchen about pleasure, variety, and making meals more plant-based. How do we adapt that for children?
- And a question for future writers listening to us… How do you get started writing books?
