"I can't eat bread, potatoes, rice, " says Hill.

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Hungry farmers and riders eat plates of smoked lamb, potatoes, beetroot and canned peas.

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Encourage your daughter to eat starchy carbohydrates such as cereal, bread, rice, potatoes, pasta or beans at every meal and snack.

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Held each June on the closest weekend to the longest day of the year (this year from 22 to 24 June), midsummer is Finland's most enthusiastic party -- an excuse for lakeshore bonfires, midnight airshows, drinking games, skinny dipping, saunas and all-you-can-eat banquets of grillimakkara (grilled sausages) served with mustard and the season's first new potatoes.

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