Blogs for picky and fussy eaters
Does your child eat enough protein? A big concern for many parents of fussy eaters is that their child is not getting enough protein from their diet. However, a news article explained that many pensioners in the UK get the majority of their protein from bread. Yes, protein is found in the most unexpected of
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Help for Picky Eaters Although eating challenges can be tough on the whole family, there are many ways you can help. Everything from autism to allergies can set your child off on a different path around food. The longer you journey on this path and the further you wander from the direction everyone else is
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Why is my child a picky eater? With picky eating knowing what the problem is can often help with the solution. To explain this, I will talk about a family I have worked with. They have as lovely little girl who is 4 and we will call her Mia*. From age one to two, she
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Food for picky eaters Having a picky eater is exhausting and one of the big challenges can be “what do I give them to eat?”. Some parents wake up in the morning and their first thought is about food for their child. When it comes to food and your picky eater there are 3 suggestions
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The Cafe, this Thursday, 16th July I was delighted to be invited onto The Café last week for an interview with Mel. It was done via remote and as happens occasionally, not everything went according to plan! Mel could see and hear me, but I wasn’t able to see her. It made for an interesting
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The moral of the chicken nuggets Working with over 100 families a year as a Picky Eating Consultant, provides a lot of stories from the meal table. Some of them are memorable because they are amusing, some because they are the story of a 1,000 other families, and some because they teach us a really
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What an exciting morning! Today I was in the studio of Radio NZ on the Nine to Noon show. Kathryn Ryan interviewed me in the parenting slot and then I took listener questions. The talk was quite toddler focused (just the way it went) but of course, much of the advice is equally applicable to
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We eat with our eyes – and why colours rock! Colour is the most important sensory component in setting people’s expectations when it comes to food. We really do eat with our eyes as we decide more about how a food is going to taste by its colour than anything else. Young children and colour
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5 Common mistakes made with a fussy eater I was speaking to a group of mums with pre-schoolers who all had challenges around getting the children eating, especially dinner. One thing that came out of the session was how easy it is for us to inadvertently make eating more difficult for our fussy eater and
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Ah, my other child is following my picky eater! Siblings are always going to copy each to some extent, and it is usually the behaviours we like the least that they follow the most! If our fussy eater is the oldest it can make the situation even more tricky as they are modelling behaviour for
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When smells make eating difficult You’re busy frying some onions when your child enters the kitchen, looks at you in horror and begins gagging. They rush from the room in disgust refusing point blank to have dinner or even sit at the table if the onions are there. One mum told me she went to
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Success story – peas, corn, beans and mince! I just had a lovely e-mail from a mum. I ran a parent workshop with her and her husband right before “home retreat” started. *Hunter’s diet included the picky eating favourites of toast, crackers, rice, tinned spaghetti but excluded any fruit or vegetables. At preschool he had,
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