GC, Sue is doing a fine job with your boys....
Was reading some research not long back on what people eat and find palatable. Now I could get the idea that mums milk would have differenent flavours depending on what she has been eating, so the correlation between wide ranging diet in later life and a mum who had more than chicken and chips when she was feeding you works for me. The research that shows a correlation between what you eat as an adult and what your mum ate when she was carrying you also works, but the research that shows that the relationship you have with food as an adult hs as much to do with what your gran ate...
The upshot of a lot of this was that many kids do not have the scope of tastes that allow them to have a good relationship with food (eating till you are full, eating savoury as well as sweet, moderate fat etc) and grow into adults with a poor relationship with food because they and their mums a babies were bottle fed formula milk. Most mums do not change the make of formula they give their kids, and the kids are then brough up to weaning on one flavour (sweet and yech) and as a consequence just cannot get on with the bitter and sours fo vegetables and the variation of flavours in good quality food.
Never make my boys sit and finish what is on their plate, they just dont get anything else. No1 has a pretty god relationship with food, even if his cold squid jambo etc dont go down well with the others kids at school. No2 has more of a sweet toth and needs to be monitored a bit more - but still demolishes a wide range of lovely grub. Not as keen on chillies as his brother mind he is only 3.
Ahh according to my research into one pot meals "Hotch Potch" was a common meal in Scotland when al th rubbish was lobbed into one pot and boiled up - and where we get the name for anything that is - well - a hotch potch of bits.
So we have Cawl, Pottage and Hotch Potch - will do the qustion fine as an answer
R
