{"id":90554,"date":"2025-09-28T10:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T10:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/90554\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T10:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T10:14:11","slug":"my-favourite-room-i-came-up-with-the-idea-of-making-eating-fun-for-fussy-children-inside-the-family-home-of-plate-creator-samantha-forrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/90554\/","title":{"rendered":"My favourite room: \u2018I came up with the idea of making eating fun for fussy children\u2019 \u2013 Inside the family home of plate creator Samantha Forrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nScientist Samantha Forrest says she\u2019s not usually creative or artistic but when it came to getting her young kids to eat, she came up with a brilliant idea. Her creativity is also evident in the elegant home she shares with husband Barry McCarthy and their kids\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Entrepreneur Samantha Forrest with her sons Charlie and Harry at the island of the spacious kitchen\/living\/dining extension at her bungalow home in Dublin 12. Photo: Tony Gavin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/NTHA FORREST ROOM 7.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Entrepreneur Samantha Forrest with her sons Charlie and Harry at the island of the spacious kitchen\/living\/dining extension at her bungalow home in Dublin 12. Photo: Tony Gavin<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The legendary actor Michael J Fox once said \u201cFamily is not an important thing. It\u2019s everything\u201d \u2013 and scientist and food entrepreneur Samantha Forrest would heartily agree. So much so that when she decided to start her own business, Fussy Food Plates, it was inevitable it would centre around family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">She and her husband Barry McCarthy have their own lovely family \u2013 two young boys and a girl \u2013 but going back even further, Samantha experienced first-hand how extended family was there for her, her brother and her mother when tragedy struck them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientist Samantha Forrest says she\u2019s not usually creative or artistic but when it came to getting her young&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,4746,4850],"class_list":{"0":"post-90554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-life-magazine","13":"tag-mary-osullivan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}