It’s the last straw: a whole packet of 21 KitKats has disappeared, consumed by my four sons in an afternoon, an empty wrapper left as evidence in the biscuit tin. When I confront them, they deny all knowledge but it can’t be anyone else. “Right, no more“Eat more at mealtimes,” I tell him firmly, although deep down I know it’s not that simple. Like every other family we know, our children are.
I ask the Danish chef and food writer and mother of two, Trine Hahnemann, what a Scandinavian parent would give their child as a snack and she says it would be a piece of fruit, a glass of milk or a slice of rye bread with a nutritious topping. Indeed as Helen Russell, author of, discovered as she raised her three children in Denmark, the Scandis mock the British for their preoccupation with crisps.
Rituals, she says, are as important to the experience of eating as taste, and in Scandinavia the ritual of sitting down together at mealtimes is still going strong. “What he means is they don’t taste of sugar,” Hahnemann says. “Children have come to expect everything to taste sugary – you need to get them out of that mindset.”
Not so full that he doesn’t still demand a pudding, though. I’ve pre-empted this and made a traditional Danish rice pudding with cinnamon – it’s so heavy and sticky that I could grout a brick wall with it. The baby loves it, demanding a second bowl, but alas the others don’t like the texture, probably because they’ve become too conditioned to the soft and smooth consistency of
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