No Bad Food When it comes to food, we often hear terms like "good" and "bad" being thrown around. We are constantly bombarded with messages about ...

As a busy parent, you understand how important meal planning is. Having a solid plan (and a solid back-up plan ... and maybe a back-up plan to your...

One of the best ways you can encourage your kids to regularly try new foods is to demonstrate trying new foods yourself. The fact is that modeling ...

Valentine's Day is just around the corner, but you don't have to spend hours in the kitchen lovingly making homemade cookies, pink pancakes, and mu...

It is that time of year when sugar is everywhere. Fruit cakes and peppermint bark. Frosted sugar cookies, candy canes, chocolate gold coins. Holida...

 It's Thanksgiving, Now Be Grateful When I was a child, the expectation at our Thanksgiving dinner was that we took turns going around the dinner t...

November 15th is National Clean Out the Fridge Day. And while I'm pretty sure that is meant to be a day that you clean out the fridge, I like to t...

If I were the betting type, I would put a lot of money down on the fact that your child has - on more than one occasion - asked "How much do I have to eat in order to get dessert?" If I'm wrong then I'd venture to say that you've been asked - on more than one occasion, after setting a lovingly prepared dinner on the table and before a single bite has been tasted - "What's for dessert?"

A balanced diet for toddlers is different from that for adults since the nutritional requirements of a person changes throughout their life. Infancy to early childhood is an important developmental stage, so they need a lot of nutrients to assist with their rapid growth. For babies until 12 months, breast milk and iron-fortified formulas are enough to give them the nutrients they need. But when your infant becomes a toddler, you’ll definitely need to incorporate more foods into their diet.

As we move headfirst into spring it seems the appropriate time to talk about one of my other long-term food goals that I have for my family: that they know where their food comes from. I don’t mean that they need to know where every cucumber and apple are grown and to have been able to shake the hand of the person that grew them, but I do want them to know that cucumbers grow on vines and apples on trees.

There are countless examples of you absolutely crushing it at this parenting thing. You can bandage boo-boos like a boss, scare away monsters under...

I don't love referring to kids as "picky eaters" because it can often be used as an excuse or internalized (by our kids) as a permanent state of being. Which, I can assure you, it is not! "Picky eating" is a behavior - and like any other it CAN be changed. It can be addressed and tweaked. Especially if you understand why your little one has such strict standards for what they will and won't eat. 

But knowing that picky eating can be changed, doesn't necessarily make having a picky eater at home any easier. Here are 5 tips you can use to tackle picky eating at home.