picky eating
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What To Do If Your Kid Hates Crust
My son, like many children, has had an ongoing love-hate relationship with bread crust. More emphasis on the hate, though, especially recently. When he was a toddler, I avoided them completely by making his sandwiches on “sandwich thins.” But that only worked if I was able to find the variety that didn’t have any visible…
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Let Your Kid Eat With Food Picks
Every time we go to my friend Anna’s house, she puts a plate of fruit out for the kids. Plums, Asian pears, melons. My daughter always devours piece after piece. However, whenever I feed the child the same type of fruit at home, she’s rarely interested. What’s the difference? I’ve concluded that it has to…
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A Picky Eater’s Guide To Dinner Parties
I am a secret picky eater, so much so that once at a holiday dinner I refused to eat the holiday dishes and instead ate nothing but bread with hot sauce. My hosts are still talking to me for some reason, but other hell eaters out there should take care not to follow in my…
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Get Your Little Kids To Eat Their Dinner By Flipping A Coin
If you have a little kid, you probably have some kind of food battle raging in your home. They don’t want to sit in one spot long enough to eat a meal, they don’t want to eat that, or they don’t want to eat anything.