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Written by Holly Howard, Founder of Nanny Cooks. Having nannied across the world, I have supported young ones from babies who are weaning all the way up to 12 year old children. I have come across a fair few fussy eaters along the way. This has allowed me to create a bank of resources to help deal with the challenges of fussy eaters and test tricks to help prevent it.
Written by Claire Burgess, Family Consultant. At one time or another most parents and child carers find themselves in the position of trying to persuade a little one to eat something and quite often it is something they have previously loved and are now refusing!
We all go through phases and stages of enjoying certain foods but then sometimes just not wanting to eat it. Lots of things can impact on this, from the amount of fresh air that we have had that day, exercise or lack of exercise, number of snacks or size of the previous meal, peer pressure or generally just how you might be feeling! Our children are no different and often they aren’t involved in the process of preparing food, so plates of food are just be put in front of them and sometimes they just don’t feel like eating it!
Read MoreWritten for Doddl.com by Claire Burgess, Family Consultant. The term fussy eating (or sometimes picky eating) is commonly used to describe when children start to refuse food, but I would prefer to use a more positive reference, and this would be ‘choosy’ eating. So, do you have a choosy eater? Have you suddenly noticed that your child, who has eaten pretty much everything up until now is now refusing food that they have always eaten? Or have they narrowed down their choices to only eating certain foods, perhaps just beige food such as pasta, potatoes etc (which is very common), or only eating certain vegetables (if any) or things such as cucumber/tomatoes etc. If so, it might help to reassure you if I say that it is completely (and developmentally) normal for children to go through this stage.
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