Table 2 Facilitators and Barriers to Preparing and Offering Whole Grains: Example Quotes from Caregivers with a Child with Obesity and Prediabetes
Facilitators | Example Quotes |
Increased Knowledge and Positive Attitudes about Whole Grains | “I learned a lot about whole wheat foods. To be honest, it was useful even as a family lesson, because we all learned. We learned to read labels.” “From now on, I’m going to keep eating the whole grain instead of eating the food that’s not healthy, and it’s very important for the children nowadays because a lot of them have diabetes, high blood pressure. He′s eight years old, and I do not want him to get that.” |
Improved Whole Grain Purchasing Behavior | “When we go shopping now, I read the contents more, especially for bread, things for the sugar content and the grains. Because a lot of things that have the grains actually have a lot of sugar. So that’s something I watch now, the sugar content and the sodium.” |
Resources to Prepare Novel Whole Grains | “I was using Pinterest before, and I just found it easier to try and kind of Google things that would make less salt, less seasoning but still more flavor for certain things like the barley.” |
Developing Strategies to Encourage Child Whole Grain Consumption | “What I found easier was to implement the whole grains, such as, the quinoa, in recipes that we normally eat. Like if I made a salad, “Oh, we should put quinoa [in it].”” “At first, nobody wanted any [whole grain cereal]. I don’t remember, but it was one they gave me. Everybody said, “No, I don’t want any,” and I told them, “It’s good,” and he tried it and now, he likes it.” “Quinoa is something I didn’t know about, I made it a few times and I tried it and I liked it and I gave it to them. They didn’t like it very much, but they tried it. And it was something new for me because I didn’t know about it, but it’s tasty, it’s good.” |
Barriers | Example Quotes |
Poor Experiences Cooking Whole Grains | “Trying to get our wheat noodles to cook without breaking apart to keep its little wheel shape, oh my goodness, I’m like “okay.”” |
Lack of Resources to Prepare Novel Whole Grains | “I still have a rice that is like dark, like Indian? That one I did not know how to make it, so I have still not made it.” |