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How to Help an Extreme Picky Eater – 7 Simple Ideas When You’re Feeling Stuck or First Starting Out
This article discusses how to help an extreme picky eater and how to improve extreme picky eating when you’re just getting started or feeling stuck. Maybe you’ve been struggling with your child’s extreme picky eating for a long time. You’re feeling...
6 Simple Dos and Don’ts for Feeding an Extreme Picky Eater
This article discusses 6 simple dos and don'ts for feeding an extreme picky eater that can help them try new foods. Is your child stuck eating a small number of foods? Are you packing food for them every time you leave the house and worried they will never learn to...
5 Signs That Your Child’s Eating Could Be More Than Picky Eating
This article discusses when your child’s eating habits might be more than picky eating. Does this sound familiar? As a baby your child ate everything. They even loved salmon and broccoli! Then, suddenly, their palate became much more discerning and your child started...
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How to Have Better Holiday Meals with a Picky Eater Who Won’t Eat the Turkey (Or Anything on the Table…)
Holiday gatherings like Thanksgiving and parties are supposed to be a time for joy, connection, and celebration, right? For many families, food plays a central role in these festivities—a symbol of love, tradition, and togetherness. But what happens if your child has...
12 Ways to Get Your Super Picky Eater Regularly Eating New Foods
This article shares 12 ways to get your super picky eater regularly eating new foods. Use these tips when your child is tasting new foods or has eaten them a few times but isn’t yet eating them consistently. It feels like you’ve done everything right with your super...
Valentine’s Day Food Play Ideas for Picky Eaters
This article shares our favorites Valentine’s Day tools and food play activities for picky eaters. Exposing extremely picky eaters to new foods is crucial when you’re working to end picky eating, but simply serving your child new foods at a meal is only one piece of...
Five Ways to Prevent Food Loss in Super Picky Eaters
This article shares how to prevent food loss in super picky eaters and also shares an organic way to add more safe foods to their diet. Rigid and highly specific food preferences, little diet variety, and a tendency to eat foods on repeat leaves extremely picky...
Four Life Saving Hacks for Sick Picky Eaters
Here are my four best tips for handling illness-related appetite changes with a sick picky eater and guidance for how to get back on track with eating once sick kids are better. Anyone else been living at the pediatrician's office lately? Our family’s been passing...
My Top 10 Favorite Holiday Gifts For Picky Eaters
I know, I know - "fix picky eating" isn't what comes to mind when you think of holiday gifts for kids. But, these food-related toys and tools are things kids use for years and years and they have the added bonus of potentially helping your child become more...
How to Use Food Play to Improve Picky Eating
So, you want to start doing food play with your picky eater? You may have heard getting hands-on with food is the key to helping picky kids try new foods. While food play is just one piece of the puzzle, it’s true that hands-on experiences can accelerate progress...
Lunchables Have a Few Things Right About Picky Eating
I grew up in the 90’s when Lunchables were all the rage. And while a lot of things in the school lunch department have changed since then (someone please tell me when brown paper bags stopped being a thing), one thing remains the same: kids loooooove Lunchables....
The Ultimate Thanksgiving Tip For Super Picky Kids
Thanksgiving’s around the corner. It’s officially the Holiday Season. Cheer! Joy! Magic! And…. Stress. Your child’s eating is a major stressor in an already incredibly magical chaotic time of year. You know because you live it every day: when you have a picky eater,...