Healthy Little Eaters

In her business Wal Herring not only helps clients with knowledge about nutrition, she also concentrates on how they can practically fit the advice into their lifestyles. [This] is topical given the diabetes / obesity / health crisis facing children and society.

Eastern Courier, Auckland

"If you don't eat your vegetables, you won't get any pudding." Oh, how many times I had that threat thrown over the dinner table by my desperate parents when I was little!...But that battling and bargaining doesn't really work, as we parents know underneath it all, and Dunedin nutritionist Wal Herring has come up with a different approach that throws out the assumptions around children and food. For example, why do we preface offering children something new by saying "I don't think you're going to like it." Giving an immediate impression that the food is not desirable is the worst thing we can do and Herring says tone, gestures and even body language can affect what and how we eat. Healthy Little Eaters is filled with ideas to set children on a healthy pathway for life, and a chance to change the threat to "If you don't eat your pudding, you won't get any cabbage!"

Food Technology in NZ

If your child is a fussy eater Wal Herring's Healthy Little Eaters is a book that helps us (as parents) understand how our assumptions about food impacts on our children's food decisions and gives strategies to help set them up for a lifetime of healthy eating.

Mikki Williden, New Zealand Herald