Tag Archives: picky eaters

Tips for Packing your Kid’s Lunch

With more and more parents tired of fattening and calorie-laden school lunches, the number of brown bag lunches is on the rise. However, being a single parent, while trying to find a few precious minutes to pack something healthy and delicious can be difficult. In this article, I wanted to provide you with some helpful dos and don’ts for making your kid’s lunch easier and better. For starters, try getting your kids involved with the planning and preparing of the lunch. This way, you will find fewer moans and groans. Next, steer clear from making the traditional bologna and cheese … Continue reading →

FUN with FOODS for Sensory Integration Dysfunction

Is your child a picky eater? Creative food play might help. In San Antonio, Texas, a group of families who have children with Sensory Integration Dysfunction (DSI)–and other eating disorders– get their kids together for a special kind of play group once a month. They appropriately named their program “FED UP.” Each “Fed Up” meeting not only provides a social opportunity for the preschoolers and toddlers involved, but it’s based around a theme. On one gathering, the theme was “balls and circles.” The children began their socializing in a ball pit in a tent to warm them up to the … Continue reading →

Learning New Recipes

My children won’t eat anything. Okay, that’s not entirely true. My daughter will eat lasagna, my oldest son will eat cucumbers, my second son will eat oranges, and my 21-month-old will eat grapes. But trying to get them all to agree on one meal that isn’t pizza or some other item of questionable nutrition is a challenge. It’s frustrating to me as a parent because I know how important good nutrition is. My husband is an alternative health care practitioner and he cares how the children eat as well. We’ve both lost large chunks of hair at dinner time when … Continue reading →

The Sneaky Mama’s Recipes: Yogurt Based “Salads”

In my first blog of this series, I talked about children who were seriously picky. They gag, they sputter, they vomit even–at the mere mention of a vegetable or fruit! Or anything else that is not the incredibly short “acceptable foods” list. So now, we’re working on broadening the repertoire with a few ways that “sneak” in fruits and veggies. Today, we’re going to talk about upping the likeability factor by adding fruits and veggies to yogurt. I will admit, that this is one area where I lied to my children. I told my oldest daughter that yogurt was really … Continue reading →

Sneaky Mama’s Top 9 Tips for Picky Eaters

A few weeks ago, I promised to share some of my secrets to get a picky eater eating more than 2 foods. This is what came of that: The Sneaky Mama’s Guide. I welcome questions on your picky eating problems and I will share a one or two recipes each week until I run out of all my picky eating ideas! I hope it is helpful. I cannot pretend to have all the answers for getting your picky eater to eat. I do hope however, that over the course of several weeks you find at least one tidbit in this … Continue reading →