Children need to see a food many times before they eat it.
Refusing it once is not a verdict.
How We Can Help · Family Nutrition
Family nutrition support.
Growing children, ageing parents, and feeding a household without cooking four different dinners. Practical support for whoever you are feeding.
Who this is for
You may recognise some of this.
A child who has decided there are four acceptable foods. A teenager who eats at eleven at night. A parent who has started losing weight without meaning to, and is not eating much when nobody is watching. Meals cooked three times because nobody wants the same thing. Or the quiet suspicion that everybody in the house is eating differently and none of it is quite right.
Feeding a household is a different problem from feeding yourself. It involves other people’s preferences, other people’s appetites, and a limited number of evenings in which to solve them. The aim is not that everybody eats the same thing. It is that one meal can be adapted rather than replaced.
Appetite falls with age.
Protein and nutrient needs do not — so smaller meals have to carry more.
One meal, adapted.
Not four meals, cooked.
Areas of support
What families come to me with.
| Fussy eating | The shrinking list of acceptable foods, and how to widen it without a standoff. |
| Family meals and routines | One meal that works for everybody, adapted rather than replaced. |
| Children and teenagers | Growth, appetite, sport, and what to do about the eleven o’clock hunger. |
| Ageing parents | Appetite, protein, and eating properly when appetite is down or health issues creep up. |
| Meal planning and the weekly shop | Fewer decisions, made once, for the week ahead. |
| Food stress at home | When mealtimes have become the hardest part of the day. |
Why Katia
Written on this, and living it.
Katia has a seven-year-old, which is how she knows that feeding a family is a different problem from feeding yourself. She has written on family nutrition, and her training includes the Post Partum and Paediatrics masterclass with Rhiannon Hardingham. She also runs cooking workshops for the helpers who do much of the cooking in Hong Kong households — because a plan that does not reach the person at the stove is not a plan.
- MSc, Personalised Nutrition · Middlesex University
- Registered with BANT and the CNHC — both numbers public
How we work together
Three ways to do this.
Different households need different things. All three start with the same conversation.
01. One conversation
Ninety minutes on whatever is hardest right now. Sometimes that is all it takes.
02. Thee months.
A consultation and two follow-ups, for when the whole household needs to shift. Some people stop there. Others carry on with occasional follow-ups.
03. In your kitchen.
A two-hour visit, then a week of meals built around what your household will actually eat.
Kind words
Feedback from clients.
“I had a great consultation with her that has really helped get our family nutrition on track.”
“I spoke to my mom, she said it went well and was impressed with the detailed consult.”
Questions
Questions about family nutrition support.
Who is family nutrition support for?
It can support households with different ages, preferences, routines or needs. We focus on flexible food ideas and realistic habits that work around family life.
Will everyone in the family need to eat the same way?
No. Recommendations can be adapted for different people, preferences, schedules and stages while keeping shared meals practical.
Can you help with picky eating or family mealtimes?
We can explore routines, food confidence, mealtime context and practical ideas. Any child-specific concern that needs clinical assessment should also be discussed with the appropriate healthcare professional.
Where to start
You are the one holding the week together.
This is the one that makes the rest of it easier.