Comments on: How To Help Your Child Embrace Food

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:35:37 +0000

We just started feeding our family some healthy chocolate that has a ton of antioxidants and omegas and digestive enzymes, so we aren’t fighting with them to eat their vegetables..much easier this way…we found it at eatingchocolates.com

By: Melissa T

Melissa T — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:17:13 +0000

I was never a picky eater and wasn’t allowed to be. But our daughter is a different story. I think some of these ideas are good, but the old adage that “if they are hungry, they will eat” doesn’t work with some children who have sensory issues relating to food. So I encourage parents to talk with a nutrionist or a feeding therapist/OT to find out if there is something other than stubborness behind their child refusing to try or eat food… Just a word of caution.

By: Tany

Tany — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 08:43:04 +0000

For a long time I fretted over the kids not eating this and that, and it seemed that the more I worried about it, the fussier they became. In the end, I didn’t push them that much so if they didn’t eat a lot of their food, I’d take it away and not make any fuss about it. They realised quickly that the became hungry quickly and in time, I found they started to eat and try more things.
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By: Pam

Pam — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 03:01:21 +0000

I certainly agree with getting the kids to cook with you. Great idea. Also, at our house each person is allowed to have 3 foods that never pass their lips. Other than those three you had to try a bite. It gave our son some power and also got him to try a few things. Lastly, I think mouth-feel has a lot to do with what kids like and don’t like. For example, not many people want to eat a wet potato chip. Perhaps trying a vegetable very soft, crispy, or maybe coated in panko breadcrumbs and baked might make a difference.

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By: Sasha

Sasha — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:16:04 +0000

I love love love this post – and TOTALLY agree with it. I am trying to raise my almost 9 month old healthy and non picky. I am having her try world flavors, even now at this young age.

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By: Meredith

Meredith — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:41:38 +0000

My siblings and I managed to be trained not to be picky to the point where we all remember -quite- clearly how upset [furious, well and truly] we were when, upon visiting some friends of my parents, the children were relegated to the kitchen to eat bologna sandwiches for dinner while the grown-ups had Chinese. Though we did have to try ‘brownie bites’ of everything [with much encouragement to hold our noses if it helped, of course!], I think my mother’s trick was mostly the ‘eat it or starve’ ploy- with the exception of a thing or two that a child absolutely loathed [even at the age of 24 I still cannot abide fish-sticks and used to hate broccoli passionately, no notion why, now], she refused to ever let us eat something different than what was being served to everyone else. If that meant we went without curry one night, we were all the more likely to eat what was served at the next meal. We also never, as she put it, ‘joined the clean-plate club’. If there was food left over on our plates, so be it, fighting to make a child eat food they don’t want is unhealthy, and promotes overeating later in life as well. If it could be dumped in the tupperware with the rest of the leftovers it was, if not, it hit the trash or compost, but the portions were generally small, so it was no big waste

Of course, we proved early on to be adventurous, so this helped. After taking the crying infant out to calm her down at a restaurant one evening, Mum returned to find that her calamari appetizer had been inhaled by myself [three] and my older sister [six]. Dad had carefully refrained from telling us what it was, so we just thought it was tasty.

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:49:11 +0000

Thanks for the good read. It’s always nice to hear other stories and ideas. Yesterday Ava and I made fresh spinach pasta and wow- when it came time to eat her creation- she was thrilled to suck the noodles down. I agree that giving kids a bit of a say in what’s for dinner – letting them choose between some of your choices that is- has been a great way for our two rug rats to eat healthy…
ps- Fun to see our little ‘egg gathers’ hand in this post.