Toddlers ‘not tasting veg’
ALMOST half of toddlers have tried a crisp before tasting greens.
A study for baby food Ella’s Kitchen also found almost 40% tuck into chips before carrots and one in six have pizza before peas.
Of 1,500 parents quizzed, half worry their under-five does not eat enough vegetables.
Yet two-thirds will not feed them things they do not like themselves.
Chief executive Mark Cuddigan urged patience, adding: “It can take eight tries for tiny taste buds to accept the taste of veg.”
DREAM Jonathan Ruffer
FOR Britain’s most generous man, his home really is his castle – or, at least, he lives in the grounds of newly restored Auckland Castle.
Business tycoon Jonathan Ruffer gave £150million towards transforming a former mining community and the castle – soon to open to the public – is the jewel in the crown.
He topped the “Giving List” last year after donating £320million to charity, more than
Auckland Castle chapel double his remaining £151million wealth. He joked of revamping the estate in Bishop Auckland, Co Durham: “They say if you want to go through money then spend it on loose women and fast cars. They should add old stationary castles to that list.”
The dad of one, 68, is married to palliative care doctor Jane Sequeira and the couple now live next door to the 800-year-old former
In its gothic splendour palace of the Prince Bishops. Until last year he owned over half his £775million investment firm, before he donated 35% to charity.
The dream began in 2010 when he saved £15million of art from the Church of England – but had to buy the castle as a catch. He now hopes to make it a tourist attraction.
It has also received £12.4million of Lottery funding, and opens on November 2.
One of the restored rooms after the castle’s redevelopment