Magical beans and the power of books 📗 The last two weeks before ballet my toddler has read “Jack and the Beanstalk”. At lunch she started to pop the seeds out of the green beans. Something she has never really done before and was eating them. I asked her “that looks fun, why are you just eating the little beans”? Her response was, “they are magical beans like the giant book”. I had no idea what she was going on about, until a good 10 minutes later on when it clicked. JACK AND THE BEANSTALK! This isn’t the first time a book has influenced her food choice or exploration. Reading books with food in them can be a positive food exposure moment.