by Jenny Friedman, RD | Mar 4, 2025
If feeding picky eaters weren’t my job I’d say there’s a crisis brewing in the Friedman household: one of my kids is ending his love affair with pasta. No, pasta’s not the most nutritious food in the world, but versatile? Convenient? It’s up...
by Jenny Friedman, RD | Feb 5, 2024
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...
by Jenny Friedman, RD | Jan 23, 2024
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...
by Jenny Friedman, RD | Jan 9, 2024
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...
by Jenny Friedman, RD | Nov 28, 2023
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....
by Jenny Friedman, RD | Oct 10, 2023
Here’s why I stopped buying packaged snacks for my kids: Just kidding! I’m in my packaged snacks era. Seriously, bring ‘em! After a summer of painful car rides with one impatient toddler, I stocked up on all sorts of packaged goodies and have never looked back. Why?...
