It’s all well and good being aspirational and getting them to try something new, but for the best results try offering new dishes alongside the familiar.
We’ll tuck into it with a movie or Gladiators – our regular Saturday night treat – and if I don’t have too much guilt about the amount of sugar consumed, I’ll get them to make these fun Willy Wonka chocolate pops for afters.
But the snack cupboard is now bare, the kids have had a side of cucumber sticks with every meal as a token bit of “green” and there are only so many episodes of Bluey I can take (actually, that’s a lie, but you know, we can’t have it playing all day).
And finally, as Stuart Heritage explains in this lockdown article that features 15 tips for cooking with kids, the most important thing is to make food they’ll actually want to eat.
I’ve got Alice Zaslavsky’s traybake pizza lined up for Saturday night; the kids will love getting messy making that.
