Our friends nearby have reached a milestone with their first child - creche. Having reached 15 months old the very young boy has just started in a local creche for 3 days a week. This very lucky kid will end up with French as the first language they speak as they play with the other kids. And fluent in English as that’s what is spoken at home.
A great start to life. But look at the lunch menu for the under-3 children at the creche (I’m sharing only main course).
Monday - escalope de veau avec carottes et petit oignons (thin slice veal steak and carrots)
Tuesday - roti de porc et son jus avec trio des legumes (I don’t need to translate, do I?)
Wed - moules mariniere avec frites
Fri - filet de merlu avec legumes gratinee (merlu is obvs a fish)
This is the intro to food that French kids get. Some barely have all their teeth. No wonder some other nations are so overweight on fast food.
I had Tesco Chipolatas and runner beans from the garden.
I do admire the French understanding of what’s proper food. Merlu! wow. And I bet it’s not old and smelly like UK offerings.
Also…
I knew it was bad, but I didn’t know it was that bad.
Any wonder why so many people are ill now? With 1 in every 2 people expected to get cancer…
The greedy oligarchs are to blame - for pretty much everything! 
Its beyond dismal. It also means kids are very limited in the range of foods they eat now and as adults. Offal and cheaper cuts will soon disappear from shops and restaurants - meaning our waste from an animal butchered for meat gets higher and higher.
I hope Waitrose continue to sell their chicken livers. I wonder how popular they are nowadays? We have them regularly, good nosh and cheap.
They would be a lot healthier on a vegetarian diet, with as little ultra processed foods as possible.
French food consists of frogs legs and snails, great to raise a child on. later on just eat garlic and onions .
Nothing beats a good english fish and chips or english breakfast
Just give them gruel I say. 
I can’t say I remember much what I ate at such a tender age but I do remember I loved Farley’s Rusks.
and Wagon Wheels
Excellent post. Your worldly perspective and openness is an inspiration.
Yes, one wagon wheel and three hours of running about, never did us any harm.
RS always nails it.
You missed an S out of nails.
By the way, last weekend was escargolade in our village. I maxxed out at 40 snails. Delicious, if you do not know, then no-one can help you.
I hoped someone would make that link 
What if one has Frogs Legs?
We used to holiday in Jersey. French influence there and snails were on the hotel menu once in a while. I had some and found most of the taste was about what they were cooked in or flavoured up with (don’t know the process). Whatever, I ate a good number of them. They were quite tasty.