After some traumatic childhood experiences round the family dinner table, she set herself a parenting challenge: To create children who were non-fussy eaters and saw all food - not just chips and ice-cream - as one of life's biggest pleasures. It won't give you complicated child-friendly recipes or clever ways to sneak vegetables into meals - just easy-to-follow, easy-to-remember rules to help re-programme your child into a happy, healthy, adventurous eater. Yet, without realizing it, we are actually creating many of the problems ourselves with the things we do and say to our children around food.

This little book provides easy-to-follow, easy-to-remember rules to help re-programme your child into a happy, healthy, adventurous eater. The information provided is mostly common knowledge, but often you need the obvious pointed out to you and to go back to the very basics.Overall it's given me the knowledge of where we are going wrong and how to move forward confidently. Common habits like using pudding as a reward for eating the main course, or pestering them to eat their vegetables, actually encourage – not discourage – fussy eating! It worked for our family because we needed a reminder on how to parent better and function as a family (although this book is about how to get your children eat a healthy diet). There are no child-friendly recipes to follow, no trickery (like hiding veg in a pasta sauce) and no gimmicks (like smiley faces made from veg on top of a pizza). Finally a book that provides some useful explanations and practical tips to overcome fussy eating rather than bombarding me with a barrage of instagram-style photos and recipes of perfect healthy little meals that my child won't eat like so many books I've already bought.

Whether you are weaning an infant, struggling with a terrible-two or dealing with a finicky 11 year old like me, it works.She now has a couple of happy, healthy, adventurous eaters: Her son was more than happy to tuck into fried wood pigeon's heart on a bushcraft course and her daughter's favourite snack is. The format of Potter’s books make the content easy to grasp and implement with to the point examples, designated boxes for scientific notes and tips. But then you find you are doing things that are meant to make life easier but you still seem to be cooking three different meals a day.