As a health and nutrition journalist with over 20 years experience, mother of a three year old and step mother to two teenagers Mandy Francis has always believed that children will eat well if you choose what you offer them carefully, keep your nerve and sense of humour and occasionally fib about what you've put on their plates. Mandy Francis is former editor of Here's Health and BBC Good Health magazines and the Daily Mail's Thursday Femail magazine section. A former health columnist for the London Evening Standard, she is now a freelancer and a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, Sunday Times Style and many women's magazines.
