When entrepreneur Meghana Narayan had her first child, her food role model was her grandmom who lived till 94 and was very active. She started her daughter’s solid food intake with ragi porridge with a dash of jaggery, and traded refined sugar, oil, flour and transfat for millets, cold-pressed oils, non-antibiotic meat and lots of greens.
But some parents are going extra mile to inculcate healthy eating habits in the children, in the hope that these will shape their food preferences as they get older
