Parenting is tough enough… don't battle a fussy eater too!
One thing that I come across time and time again…
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Raising a child that is a fussy eater can be…
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The general rule of thumb for harmony at the dinner…
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One thing that I come across time and time again with mums who have young kids is a concern about nutrition. If a child is a fussy eater then nutrition is often one of the biggest concerns for a parent. Regardless of whether a child is fussy or not, a parents nutrition regularly comes as ...
Raising a child that is a fussy eater can be testing to say the least. It comes with daily challenges and the struggle is real! The dinner table can become a battle ground and it is difficult enough to raise our focus from the meal that is currently in front of us but we have ...
How to be a snacktivist! There was a time when the phrase, “I want a snack” sent a shiver of fear right through me. Even with a fully stocked kitchen I have still found myself struggling to find a suitable snack that I want to feed my kids and that they also want to eat. But ...
The general rule of thumb for harmony at the dinner table is to ignore anything that our parents told us, said to us or did to us. Psychologist and nutritionist have re-written the rules for successfully building positive relationships between families and their food. These five principles will get most families on the right track! Principle ...
Raising kids is hard and trying to feed them can be one of the toughest daily battles we face especially when there seems to be so much conflicting information out there. If only there was someone who would answer all those “What the hell to feed our kids” questions we have been dying to ask! ...
We all suffer the occasional brain freeze when we just can’t think of any to cook for the family. Here is my list of more than 50 go to meals for our family. They are mostly very straight forward to make from scratch at home and don’t require lots of time or any exotic ingredients….. a ...
"No dessert until you have eaten your dinner!", I think almost every parent in the land must have uttered these works at some point. It is often used when other forms of encouragement, coercing and the general battle of wills has reached that ‘all in’ stage. Kids don’t even need to be what some would call ...
Teenagers…. We don’t have the pleasure of them living in our home yet but having two young kids it is (hopefully) an unavoidable inevitability! When parents are in that situation, how do we best feed these stroppy lodgers? We want to feed them organic eggs with avocado, smoked salmon and kale for breakfast… they want ...
We all run out of snack ideas for our kids from time to time, and can occasionally be found staring into the cupboard trying to convince ourselves that this isn’t the fourth day in a row that we have fed them chocolate Hobnobs in that tricky hour before dinner. There’s nothing wrong with a Hobnob ...
I don’t know what it is specifically about spaghetti bolognaise but for some reason kids love it. It seems to be on the favourites list of every child and is a “go to” meal for most parents. To be honest, I love it too but even with some modern day modifications (adding chorizo, serving with ...
