Picky Eaters

I have a huge number of friends with picky eaters.  This is a situation that I did not have to deal with much in my own home.  I got lucky and have kids who will eat just about anything I put on the table.  In doing my research for this blog I found that some of the stuff I had done was the recommended strategy for feeding picky eaters.   One of the things that helped is that my oldest could not have sugar so we never kept sweets in the house.  I have been fighting with my weight for years, as a result I make healthy meal and snack choices for me and my kids.

I see the frustration and anxiety on the faces of my friends, when we talk about meal times.   They express to me the battle over foods and the seemingly never ending struggle to get their child to eat a healthy meal.  On such conversation put me on the path to see if I could offer any worthwhile advice.  Here are some tips I found to help the parents of picky eaters.

Don’t forget to make it fun.  Letting your children help make meals and pick out foods at the store will get them involved.  Making funny faces out of veggies or using cookie cutters to make meals entertaining can be a great way to introduce new and healthy foods to your child.

I hope the above tips help meal time become less stressful at your house.  To often I think we forget that the world will not end if they refuse to eat and go to bed hungry.  That just means they will eat a bigger breakfast the next morning.

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