It’s that time of year again when Halloween hits the shelves of our shops and supermarkets in abundance, is it just me or does it seem to get bigger each year?

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I don’t get scared by all of the ghosts and ghouls, but one thing that does give me the creeps is all of the garish sweets, chocolates, cakes and biscuits heavily promoted and sold cheaply to encourage the ‘treat’ element of Halloween.

 

What makes food become a treat? Well that’s a complicated issue and one that I look at in detail during nutrition consultations and in my book ‘How Food Shapes Your Child’.  There’s a lot of biology that goes into making food connections, food memories and food addictions, all of these issues go on behind the scenes when we eat food, but its what’s in the food that counts!

 

I aim to make food fun, engaging and exciting whilst also enabling it to do what it should (nourish us).  When we eat food in this way it positively impacts on health, mood, sleep and behaviour plus creating the right food connections, memories and addictions.  That for me is the real ‘treat’

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