The Ultimate Guide to Helping the Picky Eater, from Toddler to Tween
Although you encourage your child to eat, it doesn’t always work. If you’re living with a picky eater who won’t try new foods, or you’ve tried all the picky eating strategies and nothing works, this workbook will help!
Written by renowned childhood dietitian and nutritionist, Jill Castle, Try New Food builds your understanding of why a child is picky and uses a strategic approach to getting children to taste, eat and (eventually) like new foods, without tactics like hiding vegetables or mandatory tastes, which can backfire.
Using the latest science, practical strategies, developmental insight, and food tips, this picky eaters book for parents helps you better understand and navigate the motivations of the picky child.
Often parents with picky eaters are asked to “wait it out,” but that can cause more stress and worry. Instead of hoping for picky eating to go away, or bribing your child with dessert, Try New Food offers a thoughtful alternative.
You’ll learn:
- The various causes of picky eating, from typical toddler stage to extreme pickiness
- How to interact with the picky eater at the table
- How to set up a fun, engaging eating environment (without pressure)
- What makes picky eating worse
- When (and where) to seek more help, if needed
- A step-by-step, predictable food trial and tasting system for the resistant eater
- Nutrient watch-outs for picky kids
- Food lists that target specific (and common) nutrients of concern
- How to make mealtimes calmer
- Building more nutrition into the diet, whether through food or supplementation
Try New Food will help parents nourish and nurture their child while cultivating good eating habits and a healthy relationship with food.
Your child isn't destined to be unhealthy or picky!
Jill Castle is one of the nation's premier childhood nutrition experts. Known as a paradigm shifter who blends current research, practical application and common sense, Jill inspires audiences to think differently about feeding kids. From babies to teens, Jill takes a unique, "whole-child" approach to showcase food, feeding and childhood development as the secret ingredients to raising a healthy child.
A sought-after speaker, advisor, and media contributor, Jill has inspired TEDx, American Academy of Pediatrics, WIC, university groups, and a range of nutrition, medical, government and parent audiences. Jill is on the Board of Advisors of Parents Magazine, and is scientific advisor to a handful of privately held child nutrition companies.
She is the author of Eat Like a Champion, Try New Food, The Smart Mom's Guide to Starting Solids, and co-author of Fearless Feeding. She pens The Nourished Child blog, interviews experts on her podcast of the same name, and regularly contributes to US News & World Report's For Parents blog. She has appeared in The New York Times, WebMD, Fast Company, USA Today, CNN, the Wall Street Journal, Fox and Friends, NBC-CT, and Parents Magazine.
