No one at home mentioned the word “diet” while she was growing up. “We didn’t even have a weighing scale! We were never deprived of any junk food — I remember the freedom of buying food from the canteen — but ate tasty, home-cooked meals. There were always healthy snacks lying around and freshly cut fruit in the fridge.
A young mother is mindful of the building blocks of nutrition that can shape children’s relationship with food
(Sept 8): Getting her two young children to eat well sounds easy-peasy for Chloe Tong: Eat balanced meals together, snack on fruit and make mealtime fun. As for whether healthy eating came about naturally with motherhood, she says: “I wouldn’t even categorise it as healthy eating but just having a good relationship with food.”
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