I recently wrote a guest post on how to help a picky eater become an amazing eater using 3 simple tips. I loved being a guest blogger for Kenda Mullert. I have never met Kenda in real life, but I loved interacting with her through emails, phone, and Facebook. I like how genuine she is and how much she wants to [...]
I have been writing about picky eating and constipation since I started this site over 2 years ago. If you have been following me, you know that I am very passionate about these two topics. And if you have a picky eater or a constipated child, this might be the moment you have been waiting for. Why do I talk a lot [...]
One of my goals as a holistic nutritionist is to give parents the information and the tools they need to do their own research and make informed choices for their child's health. My goal is not to diagnose your child with sensory processing disorder (SPD). I simply want to make you aware of this disorder and give you a starting [...]
My friend Karen and I are organizing spring session for the Nutritional Workshop for Parents and Grandparents. If you would like to know how this workshop came to be, here is some background info about it. The Nutritional Workshop begins on April 13 and includes a total of 7 weekly sessions. Each session is 2 hours. Please read the workshop poster [...]
Do you remember how during the months of August and September, articles about school lunch ideas were everywhere - how to plan, how to prepare, tons of ideas and recipes? It seems that nobody talks about school lunches by December. We all plan and prepare school lunches 5 days a week (or we help our kids do it) and we [...]
I have not written a book review in a while and not because I don’t read books anymore, but because I have not found one in a long time that I feel compelled to write about and encourage you to read too. Lately I have been reading more books on picky eating as I have been trying to gain as [...]
I am guilty of saying some of these and I have heard many parents use some of these too. We are all guilty of using them, but let's put a stop to that. Let's help our children have a great relationship with all foods. So here they are, 9 things NOT to say to your child at the dinner table: 1. [...]
As promised last week when I shared my thoughts on if you should hide vegetables in your child’s meals, today is story time. I would like to tell you the story about my son and his love-hate-and-back-in-love relationship with cherry tomatoes. When my son was less than 2 years old (he is now 6 years old), he used to eat [...]
This is a loaded question that many parents feel strongly about. My answer, based on working with many picky eaters, is: yes and no. Please allow me to explain why it is both yes and no. 1.If you have an extreme picky eater (they eat maximum 10 foods all together), then your best bet is to hide vegetables in your [...]
My friend Karen and I are organizing a Nutritional Workshop for parents and grand-parents. If you would like to know how this workshop came to be, this is when I first mentioned the workshop on my site. The workshop begins on Wednesday October 7 and includes a total of 8 weekly sessions. The sessions are 2 hours each. You can read [...]