HAPPY HEALTHY EATING FOR KIDS

Laura Fuentes shares some of the picky eater strategies that she learned over the last seven years of getting help for her picky eaters. She is the founder and CEO of MOMables.com and Laura Fuentes where she helps parents feed their families fresh food on an everyday basis with meal plans, recipes and so many other things.

Help Your Picky Eater Video with Laura Fuentes

How to Determine Whether Your Child is Picky

I want to explain a little bit the difference between selective eaters and a really a true picky eater.

The clinical definition of a picky eater is a child who will eat anywhere around twenty foods or less. I’m talking twenty ingredients.

You have to sit down with a piece of paper and figure out if your child eats less than twenty. If so, seeking additional help from professionals is a good idea. That way you can establish if it is something clinical like swallowing issues or a food allergy. There’s a lot of contributing factors that can make a child picky.

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Until you have a child who's a picky eater, it's difficult to image the impact that it can have on your entire family life. Jo Cormack is a feeding specialist who helps families with picky eaters return to a calm and peaceful way of life, especially at meal times.

When Picky Eating Becomes a Problem Video by Jo Cormack

Is Picky Eating Just A Phase?

Picky eating covers a huge variety of people and one of the questions that people always ask me is, is it a phase and how do you know it's a phase?

Picky eating covers a really wide range of behaviors from a child who just doesn't like their squid to a child who is only eating three foods.

Picky Eating is a Spectrum

It is important to distinguish between mentally normal picky eating which is more about the boundary challenging and attention seeking and the other end of the scale, the very problematic eating, which is characterized by anxiety type behaviours.

Two Thirds of Picky Eaters Grow Out of It

Research says two thirds o...