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Getting Your Picky Eater To Try New Foods #KidLit #PictureBook

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January 6, 2020 by Home Jobs By Mom
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Getting Your Picky Eater To Try New Foods

Some babies are naturals when it comes to eating. Pop them in a high chair, throw on a bib and they will devour anything that you put in front of them. Most are a little more cautious though. As babies enter toddlerhood and early childhood, a lot of them become pickier in what they eat.

As a parent, having a picky eater can present some challenges. For starters, it can make things difficult when you want to plan a family meal. What’s more, if your child isn’t eating a balanced diet, you might start to worry about their health.

So, just what can you do if you have a picky eater on your hands? Read on for a few ideas.

Offer Up Taste Tests

Ok, so imagine you sit down to dinner and serve up a plate of Chicken Piccata. It looks and smells delicious. But, just as you are about to dig in, your child says they don’t want this. Why not you inquire? But, you can tell this meal probably isn’t going to happen. So, instead, you make a separate meal just for your picky eater.

Trying new foods can be intimidating for kids, especially if they have to dive right in with an entire meal. So, instead of introducing an entirely new meal, you might try offering just a bite or two.

For example, imagine what would happen if you served up Chicken Piccata for most of the family, but gave your child mac n’ cheese or some other meal that they know and like. Then, while everyone is eating, you offer up a bite or two of Chicken Piccata.

This is a much less daunting way to try new foods, and your child might be willing to give it a shot.

Let Them Choose Some New Foods

One way to get your child excited about trying some new foods is to let them have a say in what new foods they will be trying. Take a trip to the grocery store and see what piques their interest. Maybe they will like the look of some of the brightly colored produce or a different cut of meat.

You can also browse through a cookbook with them or one of your favorite recipe sites. If their eyes light up at a picture of a meal, offer to make it so they can give it a try.

Make Them A Chef


If you really want to get your child involved, make them one of the chefs. Sometimes, just seeing the process of ingredients going together and helping with stirring and other simple tasks can get them excited about the meal.

After all of the work they put in, they just might want to try the finished result.

Introduce New Foods Along With Favorites

Instead of introducing a whole new food all at once, you might try introducing something new along with something familiar. For example, let’s say that your child likes plain chicken.

Well, maybe they would like to try chicken with some BBQ sauce on it? If that’s a hit, maybe they can try pork with that very same BBQ sauce that they know and love even if they have never had pork before.

Once they are comfortable having BBQ pork, they might find they like pork without BBQ sauce as well.

Just like Anteater two in the book, I Don't Like To Eat Ants, discovered that you never know what you'll like until you give it a chance. Your child may find that love pork, all you have to do is find a way for them to take that first bite.

The next thing you know, they have a whole new food in their repertoire.

Final Thoughts

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Most kids go through a phase of picky eating at some point along the way. So, there is certainly no cause for alarm if this is something that you are dealing with.

While it might get frustrating at times, it’s a good idea to keep a cool head and not to make too big a deal over it. Just keep trying to broaden their horizons here and there whenever there is an opportunity. In most cases, this will do the trick.

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And, it never hurts to read books that teach children to branch out from the familiar like I Don't Like To Eat Ants.

In this cute, rhyming story two anteaters are debating over what they should eat. Anteater one wants to try new foods while anteater two only wants to eat ants. In the end, anteater two discovers a food he loves and realizes that it's important to try new and unexpected things.

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Besides the moral of the story, I absolutely love the illustrations in this book, especially the expressions of the anteaters and the ants. We absolutely loved the ants! They are hilarious and make funny little remarks as the two anteaters debate.
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They turned a great lesson into an adorably witty and fun read for the whole family. While this book is perfect for younger children like toddlers who are prone to being picky, the moral is perfect for older children (and adults) as well.

Heck, I am always a fan of smooth flowing rhyming books. They are just plain fun to read and something that I am happy to read over and over again.

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Don't forget to check out other great books from Picklefish Press and read a book before bed every night 😉

So get out of your comfort zone and try something new today. You never know what you're missing until you try it!

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  1. Donna L Holder

    January 23, 2020 at 2:50 pm

    this sounds awesome. i must try it

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  2. Donna L Holder

    January 23, 2020 at 2:46 pm

    its so hard sometimes to get a picky kid to eat good food. i try all kind of ways to change it

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    • Home Jobs By Mom

      January 28, 2020 at 8:11 am

      It is very hard. You just have to keep trying new things and hopefully, they will like one of them

      Reply
  3. Donna L Holder

    January 8, 2020 at 9:58 am

    i have seen many peeky eaters. thanks for sharing

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    • Home Jobs By Mom

      January 28, 2020 at 8:11 am

      Kids are known for being picky eaters

      Reply
  4. Linda Linneman

    January 7, 2020 at 6:42 am

    My grandson is a very picky eater. He will not eat a lot of things that are so good for him. Thank you so much for sharing these great idea. I will be giving these a try soon. Thank you so much for sharing. God Bless

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    • Home Jobs By Mom

      January 28, 2020 at 8:12 am

      Hopefully, your grandson becomes less picky as he gets older. That’s typically the case

      Reply

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