Christmas - a time of peace, joy and goodwill to all men right? Or... a time for tears at the table, mealtime melt-downs and judgmental comments about your parenting skills?
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Variety,variety,variety, variety (variety)
This is my picky eating mantra. A child who is not served a varied diet will not eat a varied diet. Easy to understand - so much harder to act upon.
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Exposure: why it pays to be relentless
I recently wrote about menu shrinkage; how parents of picky eaters often describe themselves looking up one day and realising that the number of meals their picky child will eat has become smaller and smaller and smaller... until they are only preparing three or four meals on rotation. Exposure is the enemy of menu shrinkage, and the key to fostering a great relationship with food.
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Buffet style, or "here you go"? How best to serve food to picky eaters.
Many people will advise you to feed your picky eater buffet style, in other words, to have several dishes on the table and let everyone take what they like. This is in contrast with the more old fashioned approach where the adult presents the child with their meal on a plate, including a bit of everything. This post is all about weighing up the pros and cons of both styles to see which best serves (sorry!) the picky eaters in our lives.
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