Food, Families and Work by Rebecca O'Connell Julia Brannen

Author:Rebecca O'Connell, Julia Brannen [Rebecca O'Connell, Julia Brannen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Agriculture & Food, Sociology, General, Anthropology
ISBN: 9780857857859
Google: 3OlvCwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-03-24T04:00:41+00:00

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How does children’s food play out across the different spaces of their lives?

While parents, usually mothers, are generally held accountable for their children’s diets (Maher, Fraser and Wright 2010), the home is only one space in which children eat. Children’s food practices play out across a number of contexts, including home, school and care (Punch et al. 2010; Punch, McIntosh and Emond 2011). Accounts given by the children in the qualitative sample at Wave 2 describe the different foods eaten in a number of places over the course of a routine weekday. For example:

Hayley’s (aged 11) food diary of her last weekday:

Breakfast: Coco puffs (no drink as has milk with cereal) or Readybrek.

Mid-morning: bought herself from own money apple juice and milkshake from school ‘tuckshop’ – ‘small ones’

Packed lunch: marmite sandwich, water and cheese puffs

After school: sweets

Supper: pizza and chips (oven)

Dylan’s’ (aged 11) food diary of his weekday diet

Breakfast: Shreddies, milk ‘and nothing else’; sometimes has toast and marmite. Drinks water

Packed lunch: Strawberry jam sandwiches; grapes; chocolate biscuit (Penguin) and crisps; always has the same

After-school club: ‘selections of chicken nuggets, fish fingers and – I chose chicken nuggets and chips. Orange juice for pudding and rocket jelly’

Evening school disco: ‘Sweets, packet of crisps and lemonade and cherry cola’

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