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How to Get A Picky Child to Try New Foods They “Don’t Like”
If your picky child tries a new food and doesn’t like it, how do you get them to try again? “I don’t like it” is a common refrain from picky eaters. Often you’ll hear this before they even try a new food. “I don’t like it” becomes a phrase that they use to avoid...
Extreme Picky Eating in Children: 5 Causes and Easy Solutions
Parents with young children often wonder if their child's eating habits are typical picky eating or if it's something more. Picky eating is often a common phase of development that many children naturally outgrow. However, some children experience severe food...
How to Fix Your Picky Eater’s Constipation: 10 Effective Solutions
Have you been struggling to fix your picky eater's constipation? It’s common for picky eaters to be constipated. Often constipation and picky eating work together to create an unhelpful cycle. When a child isn’t pooping regularly, they often feel full and have low...
10 Fun and Easy Ways to Garden With Your Picky Eater
Today we're sharing 10 fun and easy gardening ideas for picky eaters. Gardening is a fun and low pressure activity that can improve picky eating. Children who grow food in a garden are more likely to eat fruits and vegetables. Plus, gardening can increase confidence...
6 Reasons to Garden with Your Picky Eater
Gardening is a fun, hands-on activity that can transform your child’s relationship with food and consequently improve picky eating. Any interaction with new food, whether it’s in the kitchen or outside in the dirt, is beneficial for an extreme picky eater. Activities...
5 Fun Spring Sensory Food Play Ideas to Help Picky Eaters
Sensory food play is a simple but effective solution to help picky eaters add new foods to their diets. These sensory food play ideas for picky eaters allow children to interact with food in a low-pressure way, which increases a picky eater's willingness to try new...
Fun Winter Food Activities for Picky Eaters
Research shows that positive food interactions and repeated exposures to new foods increases both a child’s willingness to eat and the likelihood that they enjoy a new food. If you’re struggling to get your extreme picky eater to try new foods at mealtimes, try...
5 Fun Fall Food Activities for Picky Eaters
This article shares fun fall food activities that can help picky eaters start to feel more comfortable with new foods. Research shows that positive food interactions and repeated exposures to new foods increases both a child’s willingness to eat and the...
Holiday Gifts for Extreme Picky Eaters – 2020 Guide from the Autism Nutritionist
Every year the Autism Nutritionist publishes a gift guide with the best selections for super picky eaters and kids with autism. Below you’ll find a selection of my favorite toys and tools that kids love, but that also work to improve picky eating - either by...