Whether your child is an extremely anxious eater or loves to eat a wide range of foods, this week's article has something for you. I explore different ways to bring more variety into your child's diet, wherever they are at.
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My Take On Hidden Veg For Picky Eaters
Someone asked me the other day, where the line is between varying a child’s safe foods in a small way (an effective approach to helping them feel confident with change) and sneaking in ingredients. It was a thought-provoking question and got me reflecting on the values underpinning my negative feelings about hidden veggies.
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How to help your picky eater when you've run out of ideas.
Sometimes it really can feel like the end of the road for parents. If you have completely run out of ideas, the strategy I share in this post can be the beginning of your child's journey towards a varied diet.
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Picky Eating - It's time to shift the goal posts
Have you ever had that sinking feeling that whatever you do, nothing seems to make any difference to your child's fussy eating? Maybe it's time to redefine success.
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Your road-map to a varied diet
So you know you'd like your child to eat a varied diet, but the problem is how to help them make the transition. This post is a practical guide to doing just that.
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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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Learning to leave food is part of learning to love food - Part 1
This is the first of a two-part piece on throwing away the food your child doesn't eat.
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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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Have you experienced menu shrinkage?
Menu shrinkage. the phenomenon whereby parents play it safe and find themselves serving fewer and fewer different meals to their fussy eater. On the one hand, who wouldn't want to keep meals conflict-free and have their children eating happily? On the other hand, it's a case of prioritising a short term win over long term gain.
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