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Speaker 2: It's the podcast for the time poor parent who just

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Speaker 2: wants answers.

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Speaker 2: Hello, this is doctor Justin Colison. Welcome to a Happy

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Speaker 2: Families podcast. So grateful to have you here and that

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Speaker 2: you're choosing to spend your time with me talking about

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Speaker 2: your kids and how we can make your family happier.

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Speaker 2: Kids are probably if your children are anything like mine,

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Speaker 2: showing up at home hungry after school and you discover

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Speaker 2: that they gave their lunch to somebody else because they

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Speaker 2: didn't like it, or worse, they threw it in the bin,

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Speaker 2: and you're sort of thinking, number one, it costs a

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Speaker 2: lot of money to do this, to provide lunches. But

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Speaker 2: number two, do you think that I've got time to

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Speaker 2: sit around in the morning and make you a lunch

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Speaker 2: that you're not going to eat? I mean, this is

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Speaker 2: the challenge with kids. Or alternatively, they're just complaining and

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Speaker 2: winging and whining and they saying I don't like anything. Today.

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Speaker 2: I'm having a conversation with Deb Blakely, the founded director

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Speaker 2: and lead a credited practicing dietitian of Kids Dig Food.

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Speaker 2: You can find everything that you need to know about

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Speaker 2: Deb and kids Digfood at kidsdigfood dot com dot you

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Speaker 2: Deb follow her heart, I think would be the easiest

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Speaker 2: way to say this, Like just loves this work and

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Speaker 2: created Kids dig Food in twenty thirteen. It's been ten

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Speaker 2: years now after many years as a community dietitian, community

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Speaker 2: nutritionist and a hospital based clinical dietitian, and Deb has

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Speaker 2: a sense to become passionate about supporting grown ups to

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Speaker 2: positively and joyfully connect or reconnect with food and eating

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Speaker 2: and share this with the children that they care for.

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Speaker 2: And now, Deb, I love food and I love sharing food.

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Speaker 2: My children don't appreciate the way of that I do.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you've noticed this, but kids they're

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Speaker 2: But kids, we sort of say they'll eat anything, and

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Speaker 2: then it comes to school lunch boxes and they won't

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Speaker 1: Yes, eating of school.

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Speaker 3: And there's different routines and expectations, and as we know,

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Speaker 2: we put lunchboxes together that are nutritious and that the

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Speaker 3: school is not the time really to be stretching our kids.

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Speaker 1: And you're probably not listening to this podcast if.

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Speaker 1: And that's a really good skill for kids to learn.

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Speaker 3: you must eat this food first because it's the healthy one,

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Speaker 3: it in whatever order they want to. If you weren't

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Speaker 1: That's okay to do.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and even you know, some throw some crunchy foods

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Speaker 3: But you know, any kind of packet, you know, cracker

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Speaker 3: your child's food range. If you can't put every food

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Speaker 1: There, do the best you can.

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Speaker 3: And if your child's lunchbox is looking pretty bland and

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Speaker 3: pretty base, communicate that with your teacher and explain why,

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Speaker 3: because I know that you're probably doing the very best

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Speaker 3: you can to work at expanding food range in other

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Speaker 1: We just need to get them fed.

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Speaker 2: I like that kids just actually need to be fed

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Speaker 2: because they'll be better learners. They'll be better kids if

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Speaker 2: they've got food in their belly. Deb Blakely is the founder, director,

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Speaker 2: and lead, a credited practicing dietitian of Kids Dig Food.

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Speaker 2: You can find out more at kidsdigfood dot com, dot

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Speaker 2: you and the webinar that you shared with your community.

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Speaker 2: I presume that's online. Can we have people who want

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Speaker 2: to hear more. They can visit your website, kids digfood

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Speaker 2: dot com dot you defined the webinar.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely so.

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Speaker 3: On our resources page, there's a link to our online

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Speaker 2: Perfect really appreciate the conversation. I have a number of

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Speaker 2: result of our chat today. We'll have to get you

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Speaker 2: back on the podcast. Have a great day, and thanks

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Speaker 2: so much for your time.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Justin.

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Speaker 2: That's Deb Blakely, a credited practicing dietitian and the founder

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Speaker 2: of Kids Dig Food. The Happy Family's podcast is produced

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Speaker 2: by Justin Roland from Bridge Media. Craig Bruce is our

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Speaker 2: executive producer. For more information, check out Deb's website or

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Speaker 2: visit happy families dot com. Today, you