Let children bid farewell to the magical picture books that are picky eaters and recommend these to you.

What is the hardest thing about being a mother? It's just a child's food and drink, Lazar! Especially eating, it is really hard!

It is necessary to ensure that children have a balanced nutrition every day, but also to ensure that children love to eat their own cooking, and to take into account the tastes of other family members. The old mother who buys food and cooks, oh no, the nutrition regulator of the whole family is really bad!

We are like this, and so are mothers in other countries in the world.

Children from different countries have different diets because of their different geographical locations, cultures and parents' backgrounds.

Photographer Gregg Segal traveled around the world, visited the United States, India, Malaysia, Germany, France, Italy, Senegal, United Arab Emirates and Brazil in three years, and took photos of all their foods for children from different cultures in one week.

Next, we will take you to see what children around the world are eating.

Frank Fadel Agerbo Menu, 8 years old

From Dakar, Senegal

Frank lives in a luxurious community in Dakar. After his parents divorced, he lived with his mother, who was the organizer of parties and luxurious banquets and was very busy. Frank's family has a chef who is good at cooking fish. Frank loves to eat and is almost a child who is not picky about food.

Besides fish, shrimp, staple food and fruit, Frank's weekly food also includes various snacks, such as chocolate sauce, drinks, potato chips, ice cream cones and so on. He is a nutritious child.

Mesa Ndiaye, 1 1 year old.

From Dakar, Senegal

He is also from Senegal, but this child is from the local slum. As you can see, what he eats every day is very different from the child from the local luxury residential area.

Most of his food is bread with spaghetti, peas or chips. At the same time, as a Muslim, he also eats goat meat and occasionally eats fish. There are no snacks in his diet at all.

Edvita Venkatesh, 10 years old

From Mumbai, India

She is the only child in the family and lives in a local high-class apartment with her family. Adveeta is a vegetarian because of family factors, so she doesn't eat meat and is extremely picky about food. She hardly ate all the food in the picture. But she ate all the snacks and sweets in the picture. After the photo was taken, my father was surprised. I didn't expect my daughter to eat so many snacks a week.

Anchal Sahani, 10 years old.

From Mumbai, India

Anchal, a little girl also from Mumbai, lives in a small tin shed on a construction site in the suburbs of Mumbai. Her father earns less than $5 a day, just enough for her mother to prepare okra and cauliflower curry, lentils and barbecue.

She is eager to go to school and become a teacher when she grows up. However, the reality is that she must take care of her little brother and do housework at home. And the family loves the little brother more.

Whenever she has time, she will dress up, leave the construction site, enjoy jasmine and lotus flowers, watch other children play cricket and run freely.

It can be seen that she seldom eats meat, vegetables and fruits for a week, but those small particles that look like candy are actually colorful chocolate wrapping paper she found on the roadside of the grocery store.

Del Grosso Sands, 6 years old

From California, USA

The little girl's diet is as colorful as a rainbow, and there are many kinds of fruits, vegetables and staple foods. But there are many snacks, such as popsicles, jellies, lollipops, cakes and so on. The little girl likes sweets very much and has many cavities.

Rosalie Durand, 10 years old

From nice, France

The little girl's father is a chef in a restaurant. He will prepare many healthy ingredients for his children. Being close to the sea, she eats all kinds of fish and shrimp. Dad will also teach children to make their own crepes, salads and lentil sausages. But Rosalie has her own absolute insistence. She doesn't like spinach and cucumbers.

This little girl is one of the few children in this shoot who have good family conditions but don't eat snacks very much.

Kawakanih Yawalapiti, 9 years old

From the Neoancient region of Mato Grosso, Brazil.

This little girl is a member of the local Yawalapiti tribe. She lives in Neogu National Park, a protected area in Brazil's Amazon basin. There is no electricity and running water here. She spends most of her time playing in the river or helping adults with housework, such as digging cassava, making cassava powder and fishing.

Kawakanih's diet is very simple, mainly including fish, cassava, fruits and nuts. She said that if she was hungry, she would take the net to the river. It only takes five minutes to eat.

For her and her family, it is more important to carry forward their old and dying sayings in the tribe than to eat. She also goes to school regularly in the city, and is also a little girl who likes reading history books very much.

After reading the diets of children in so many different areas, I wonder if you have noticed that children in poor areas have fewer dietary choices than those in rich areas. But they can't eat snacks as they like, but their diet is also healthy. They seldom eat high-calorie, processed and refined food, and they are seldom picky eaters, because they are lucky to be full.

Xiong Haizi around us, like the children of these wealthy families, eats countless snacks every day and likes to eat high-calorie foods such as fried chicken, French fries and pizza. Three meals a day are always not so interesting.

It is necessary to recommend some food and educational picture books to mothers and read them with children, so that children can have a deeper understanding of food and increase their interest in food.

Good vegetable soup

Ri/ Hirokawa Shayingzi

My grandparents sent fresh vegetables with dirt from the countryside. Mom makes vegetable soup for peanuts, and peanuts help. While helping, I couldn't help but take a bite. The sound of cooking came and the fragrance floated. Peanut can't wait! Who can refuse such a fragrant vegetable soup?

I will never eat tomatoes.

English/Lauren julia child

This book describes an interesting brother and sister-Charlie and Lola. Mom and dad asked Charlie to coax Lola to dinner. Charlie used his rich imagination to make Lola willing to try food she didn't like.

When parents encounter food that their children don't like, they can also try the method of Charlie's brother in the picture book to guide their children to fall in love with food with their imagination!

I have a railway station in my stomach.

De/Anna Rothman

This picture book surrounds the children around their stomachs at the railway station, telling them which foods are better for their health and which foods are best not to eat in a way that children can understand and be interested in, thus guiding them to develop healthy eating habits.

Freda, who is very picky about food.

English/Julia Jamaan Jamaan

Frieda is a little girl who is very picky about food. No matter who cooked the meal or where she brought it, she always felt terrible. Suddenly, another day, she became smaller and smaller, so small that a cat could swallow her.

After that, she let her parents eat all kinds of food, and finally changed back to the original appearance.

This book vividly describes picky eaters with humorous exaggeration. And there is a diet pagoda at the end of the book, telling children how to eat the healthiest!

Chinese food on the plate

Zhong/Yu Hongcheng

Seek the life journey of a grain of rice and appreciate the long-standing farming culture! How does this picture book come out of a bowl of rice, so that children can understand that the food in front of them is hard-won, and they can cherish the hard work of farmers and cherish the food in front of them.

It is suggested that children who don't like rice can look at this picture book!

Let children form good eating habits, consciously reduce the intake of processed food and high-calorie food, and increase the intake of natural food, which is of great benefit to children's growth and development, and even their health throughout their lives.

Let's act! Whether you are poor or rich, you can have a healthier life by staying diligent and self-disciplined.

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