Like this:

Did I mention how much I hate weaning, I hate all the cooking, the mushing of the food, much of it I probably wouldn’t touch (avocado chicken and pear – actually, I think you can get that in a sandwich in Doorsteps on the Lisburn Road…). But I seem to be constantly cooking, or planning to cook. And when meals are just me and the kids it can bee a bit soul destroying when all of them refuse to eat. I mean I am not that bad a cook but the other day I was trying to get my 2 older ones to eat fish pie – I thought it was lovely, and the baby something from a Anabel Karmel ice cube tray… and it was refusals all round. If I give the baby anything else spiked with banana he will turn into one. I could give him jars, and I have given jars in the past but I kinda feel that in years to come when my children pour all sorts of unsavouries into themselves (blue drinks, questionable burgers, sweets so full of preservative they could easily be as old as me, given half the chance….)so this is the only time in their life I have control of their eating and that I can get good stuff in. I am not judging parents who feed their children nothing but jars (I am) but I do believe that on this issue Jamie Oliver might have a point. Diet is inextricably linked to health, and to a greater degree we can give our future health the best chance with a good food education in the early years.

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