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Just give them a little portion to start with – if they want more they’ll come straight back and ask for it, mark my words!

This is so refreshingly simple that I feel calmed at once. Granny has raised four very healthy children this way, and that’s the only evidence I need to know it works.

So where does all of this lead us? The three main points about feeding children healthily I’ve learned from Granny today are as follows:

Children need to eat REAL food not processed foods full of hidden fats that make them fat.

Food preparation should be done at home, with your children where possible, with time and love as important ingredients.

Children need to eat child-sized portions, and will tell you if they need more.

No amount of muffins, biscuits or burgers we buy our children to alleviate our all consuming guilt for our frequent absences and hectic lifestyles, or because we simply can’t be bothered to cook them anything better, will make them any happier. The soup I have just eaten was better than anything I could have bought from the best food shops in the country, partly because it was healthier as it was home made, but also because it was made for me, with love, by my granny.

Before she returns to the wonderful world of the National Geographic Channel, Granny gives me one last piece of old-fashioned advice.