Healthy and Indulgent Food Consumption Practices Within Grandparent–Grandchild Identity Bundles: A Qualitative Study of New Zealand and Danish Families

Both grandparenting and food provisioning practices play an important role in contemporary family life, but the of grandparent–grandchild wider relationships is underresearched. Popular academic discourse often focuses on grandparents as indulgent feeders with negative implications for children’s weight eating practices. Drawing concept identity bundles interviews Danish New Zealand grandchildren, it was found that, both generations, being alone together a treat itself time treats, although they were fluent balance moderation. Grandparents’ food-related shaped by internalized well actual presence parents, tended to experience rather than express tensions over parental feeding These findings offer nuanced account grandparents’ (un)healthy intergenerational relationships.