The best take I’ve heard on this topic comes from the geniuses at Sesame Street, who describe foods as being “anytime foods” or “sometime foods.” When you define these categories for your daughter, explain that anytime foods are unprocessed (and are the foods that take the best care of her body) and sometime foods are the heavily processed. If necessary, educate your daughter about how to identify a sometime food: it’s made in a factory, it comes in a package, it usually has more than five ingredients, and it contains things she can’t pronounce.
