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How to Find the Best New Foods for Picky Eaters
This article discusses how to you can select the best new foods for picky eaters when you are trying to expand their diet and get them to eat more variety. Your child is an extremely picky eater. You’re ready to help them try new foods and eat more variety and you...
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...
15 Fun Food Play Ideas for Picky Eaters
Think about how your toddler or young child learns about their world. They ask questions. They touch things and feel them. This is often known as play-based learning. It is a natural experience of learning, building confidence, and acquiring new skills. Experiences...
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13 Nutritious Nut-Free Bars for School Lunches
In this article you’ll find 13 nut-free bars and snacks that are nutritious and safe for school. Limitations with eating are hard, no matter the reason. So, whether your kid loves PB&J…and only PB&J, or they’re one of the many peanut/tree nut allergic...
5 lunch packing hacks to prevent picky eating
This article shares five lunch packing hacks to prevent and improve picky eating. If you've ever felt like you're the head chef of a restaurant that only serves nuggets and crackers, I know you’re desperate to leave picky eating in the dust. Packing school lunches...
6 Practical and Nutritious Beach Snacks for Kids
Read on for 6 beach snacks to pack for a better beach day with kids. Normally I’d say that the best beach snacks are the ones that your child eats. However, when we’re talking about beach snacks for kids, you want to make sure the snack makes sense. Four Qualities...
A Picky Eating Expert’s Favorite Tools That Get Kids Eating
Read on to find my 22 favorite tools that can help even the pickiest eaters try new foods. It’s no secret that I love having kids get hands on with food. Research shows that positive food interactions and repeated exposures to new foods increase both a child’s...
Summertime Must-Haves to Help You Win Eating On-the-Go and Every Outside Adventure, According to A Picky Eating Expert & Mom of 2
Summer's only just beginning and already it's on-the-go all day every day. Whether you're looking ahead to a roadtrip, spending your days on the beach, or park hopping all summer long, there's one thing I know you need to make your days a success: to be prepared! ...
4 Fun Things May
Welcome to May’s installment of Four Fun Things – a roundup of things I’m using and loving lately. Baby Z is starting solids, and I’m preoccupied by all things feeding kids (I guess what else is new?). That’s all to say: get ready for four fun things related to...
6 Tips for Raising a Healthy Picky Eater
This article shares tips for raising a healthy picky eater - even in the face of a limited diet and a love for sweets and carbs. You'll read about what to look for in a multivitamin and if one is even needed, you'll get a list of healthy picky eater approved foods you...
Game-Changing Tips for Introducing New Foods to Your Picky Eater
If only getting your child to eat a new food were as simple as serving it. The reality is that so many factors go into if and when your child will eat a new food. Yes, you want to address them all, but you also want to be intentional and focused. In my work with...
13 Genius Ways to Get Your Toddler to Try (and Actually Like) New Foods
Whether your toddler eschews anything green that rhymes with megetable, is turning up their nose at all the nutritious foods they used to like, or actually gags at any foods that aren’t beige and crunchy, these tried and true strategies can help. Yes,...