Creating Confident Eaters – THE guide for picky eaters
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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How to help a slow eater, especially a picky one! One common complaint about picky eaters is that they eat too slowly. Often mind-numbingly, the food could evaporate more quickly, slowly. Children eating very slowly is very, very frustrating. Especially when we are tired, we are busy and often because we have other places to
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Parents Centre magazine, Kiwiparent I wrote an article for the Feb/Mar edition of Kiwiparent magazine that is published and distributed by Parents Centre NZ. I’m a bit behind the 8 ball in posting it up, but I’ve been consumed with other priorities! This was written as a piece to help parents of under 5’s get
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Griddle scones The lovely Camilla, from Corlight Programmes, who I interviewed last year, shared this recipe last night. If you don’t have yeast, no problem, and it’s a good compromise between a flat bread and a scone. I think it would tick boxes for a lot of picky eaters – especially slathered in the favoured
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More than ‘just’ cooking Helen was jumping for joy. Her 8-year-old daughter, a long-term fussy eater, with a limited range of foods she ate had just bitten into a burger. This was huge. Lily had never eaten any sort of mince before so Helen couldn’t believe her eyes. Lily had started helping in the kitchen
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Why make changes to food? I know this is a crazy time, but it’s also a rare opportunity. Aside from parents who are both working full time from home, with young children, many people have unprecedented amounts of time. Even if working, there are no commutes, no pick-ups or drops offs and no external activities.
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Routines improve eating challenges When I run tailored workshops for families, I always start with routines. Why? Because those alone can make a huge difference to feeding dynamics and therefore outcomes. I am, therefore, a huge advocate of routines as you can see below: 8 reasons why routine is king: 1. Familiarity. Our brain loves
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Additional support During these unprecedented times there will be a lot of upheaval and uncertainty. We are already though, seeing some of the positive side-effects with time being freed from all the usual activities and gifting us the opportunity to reconnect as families. It was starkly illuminated to me last week as I realised I’d
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Structure and routines are important even in uncertainty I feel we’re all entering a whole new world. There are many unknowns and that alone can be anxiety producing. On the other side when we have children, maintaining routines is a great way to support them to remain calm. What may happen There could well be
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These are unprecedented times for the modern era Although we’re based in NZ, which at the moment has not seen a big outbreak of the Corona Virus, most of our family is based in the UK, with some in Australia. My parents contacted me to say they have been told to self-isolate for 4 months
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Hit a wall with picky eating? Have you exhausted yourself and all the alternatives with your fussy eater but still seem stuck in the same patterns? Then let’s gift you a 6 step plan, the proven way to gently move a picky eater from their favourite foods to new foods. Step 1 Get in touch.
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How to hide foods for picky eaters No.1 – don’t No.2 – don’t No.3 – still not a good idea! Picky eaters and hiding food There has been a story doing the rounds on social media about Donald Trump having his cauliflower hidden in mash as he’s unable to eat vegetables. On a local radio
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