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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...
Mealtime Tips
10 Reasons Your Child Isn’t Eating at Meals (and Easy Solutions to Help!)
This article discusses some reasons why a child isn't eating at meals and provides simple solutions to help your child eat better at mealtimes. As frustrating as it is, a child refusing to eat at meals is normal. It is defeating and annoying to spend time planning,...
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...
5 Mealtime Musts to Improve Picky Eating
We can’t talk about picky eating solutions without addressing mealtimes. When providing the right structure, support, and opportunities, mealtimes can be the springboard that allows your picky eater to begin eating new foods. Think of these five principles as your new...
Picky Eating
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...
5 Simple Tips to Get Your Picky Eater to Eat Foods They Used to Like
This article discusses 5 ways to get your picky eater to eat foods they used to like, but stopped eating. When your picky eater starts to refuse food they used to love, it can feel like all your progress has come to a screeching halt. For those who already have...
Why Forcing Picky Eaters to Eat Doesn’t Work and 3 Alternatives to Pressuring a Child to Eat
This article discusses why forcing picky eaters to eat doesn't help them try new food and provides 3 alternatives to forcing, pressuring, and requiring a child to eat a new food. Many of us grew up with our parents forcing healthy food. Whether we were told we had...
For Sensory Eaters
5 Simple Summer Sensory Food Play Ideas to Improve Picky Eating
Sensory food play is a fun and effective way to help picky eaters eat more fruits and vegetables. Serving a picky eater new foods is an important way to help them learn to eat new foods. But simply offering new foods and providing new food exposures often is not...
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...
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...
Food Play
5 Simple Summer Sensory Food Play Ideas to Improve Picky Eating
Sensory food play is a fun and effective way to help picky eaters eat more fruits and vegetables. Serving a picky eater new foods is an important way to help them learn to eat new foods. But simply offering new foods and providing new food exposures often is not...
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...
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...