Raising healthy eaters- Making mealtimes work with toddlers

Before you read on through this post, I just wanted to alert you to a couple of important items mentioned at the very bottom of this post, in bold and italics- please make sure that you don't miss them! And now, on with the post... As promised, after some great discussions on other aspects of feeding young children (see this post and also this one), here are some ideas from our house on the actual preparation and presentation of meals. We keep breakfasts very simple [...]

Raising Healthy Eaters- Involving Children in Choosing and Cooking Food

kitchen chair

It's hard to get around in my kitchen these days. It's not really that it's too small, or poorly designed, or anything like that. It's mostly just because these days, my kitchen has a new, rather permanent, addition: Image by qmonic Some days both of the chairs from my daughter's little table set join us in the kitchen, and sometimes she drags in one of the big ones like this from the dining room instead. Whatever the chair (or chairs) du jour, if I am [...]

Raising healthy eaters- Requiring children to eat foods they dislike: A discussion

Raising healthy eaters- Feeding picky toddlers

Raising healthy eaters- Back again next week

Raising healthy eaters- Making your own baby food

Raising healthy eaters- What to feed baby

In my post last week, I discussed the importance of ensuring that your baby is truly ready, waiting longer than the typical age promoted by most doctors and books, and focusing on breastmilk as the foundation for baby's nutrition. So now that you've determined that your sweet baby is ready to eat some solid foods, what do you start with? Before I launch into what I believe are appropriate foods for a baby to begin eating, I will mention some foods that I do not [...]

Raising healthy eaters- Introducing solids to babies