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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...
What to Do When a Child Refuses to Eat – 8 Simple Solutions
Few things are as frustrating as making a meal that your child refuses to eat. (To be clear, I’m not talking about chronic refusal or inability to eat, but the occasions that happen every so often.) You’re doing everything right. You know they need to eat, but the...
7 Things to Expect When Introducing New Food to a Picky Eater
You finally took the leap and began introducing new foods to your super picky eater - despite their resistance and meltdowns and despite all of your reservations. Congratulations! It’s an important first step. Only is the experience not like you expected? Many...
10 Healthy Breakfast Ideas for Picky Eaters
This article shares healthy breakfast ideas for picky eaters. This article is inspired by an Instagram follower who asked about healthy breakfasts for a picky eater who doesn’t eat eggs. Eggs are commonly not a favorite food among picky eaters. That’s okay! Not every...
9 Ways to Improve a Picky Eater’s Diet
Feeding a picky eater is stressful! Many of the parents I work with in Conquering Picky Eating are not only worried about the small number of foods their child eats. They also worry about whether or not their child will grow properly. They question whether their child...