Stuffed tomatoes Tomatoes can be a challenge due to the texture of the insides, with the seeds and the wetness. One solution is to scoop out the middle and leave just the firmer outer part – which is then like many fruits. We can add a favourite filling like bacon, cheese or a dip like …
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Help your picky eater eat from their school/kindy lunchbox Judith is an internationally certified nutritional therapist and AOTA accredited picky eating advisor. She works with 100+ families every year resolving fussy eating and returning pleasure and joy to the meal table. Lunchboxes returning unscathed is an ongoing problem for many parents. All that time and …
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Reflections on “home-retreat” It’s been exactly a week since we dropped to Level II in NZ. That’s meant a partial return to the office for my husband, school for the boys and the ability to do a whole range of social activities that have been out of reach (4 teen boys over for a sleepover …
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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I love hearing happy endings from parents of picky eaters, especially when they have a child that is really struggling around food. This is one of my favourite stories as mum is a marketing expert and used her skills masterfully to support her daughter to accept an apple in her lunchbox for the first time. …
I am always, always delighted when a fussy child is able to eat something new that previously would have been a challenge. It’s the reason I work long hours, nights and weekends. It’s why I wrote Creating Confident Eaters and is what has me leaping out of bed at 5.15am (well, mostly!). My goal is …
Lots of studies show that resolutions often don’t work. But then I’m wary of not throwing the baby out with the bath water too! I take stock and look at areas in life that are causing stress or frustration on an ongoing basis, and see if there are ways that I can improve the situation. …
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Many years ago, I realised that school holidays were really stressful for me. As I primarily work from home, I was entertainment coordinator at the same time as trying to cram the same amount of work as usual into a day. Plus doing all the regular household chores. This meant a lot of work at …