Planning meals Ask your kids what they would like to eat next week. Better yet, ask them more detailed questions about which ingredients they would like in the next week's meals. You and your kids can look up recipes together in cookbooks, or on the Internet, or choose some of your family's favourite recipes and decide together on which meals to make. Encourage your child to [...]
Meal time and children. Is it ever simple and easy? Not very often, but sometimes it can be. Here are some tips that I applied along the years to make meal time less stressful. Sometimes these tips work. Other times I need more patience than usual. In the long run I hope these tips help my kids develop good eating [...]
Sitting down together to enjoy a meal is sometimes hard to do, but it is worthwhile in the long run. My husband and I have not had a completely quiet meal with our children since 5 years ago when our first one was born. Kids and meals are far from being a quiet and relaxing combination. However we keep at [...]
Allowing children to spend time with us in the kitchen is a great way for them to see, touch, taste, and smell different ingredients before they are made into prepared meals. Kids become familiar with what is going on in the kitchen and they might be more willing to try new foods. I am not saying that they will like [...]
This post opens up a series dedicated to helping parents with picky eaters. We all struggle with various degrees of “pickiness” in our children. We all want our children to eat nutritious foods that taste good. We all want our children to grow up adventurous and willing to try new foods. Bottom line, we want our children to appreciate and enjoy [...]