Living with a picky eater who won't try new foods? Tried everything to get your child to eat? Renowned childhood nutrition expert, Jill Castle outlines the Nourished Path® to Try New Food, a systematic and strategic approach to help picky eaters taste, eat and like new foods, to move parents from frustration to optimism, and picky eaters from cautious to adventurous.
Instead of waiting it out, or worse, sneaking vegetables or bribing kids with dessert, Try New Food walks parents through a step-by-step process to help kids overcome picky eating. By remodeling the feeding environment and creating a child-centered method, parents learn how to engage and help their picky eaters instead of making things worse. As a workbook, resource and guide, Try New Food equips caretakers with the latest research and practical tips for feeding picky eaters with love, patience and healthy food.
Picky eaters aren't destined to be unhealthy eaters! Parents are empowered to move their kids beyond typical and extreme picky eating behaviors. Try New Food maps out a plan for sensible food options, positive feeding, and effective parenting.
Parents will learn:
The roots of picky eating
The best way to interact with fussy eaters around food
How to set up a fun, encouraging eating environment (without pressure)
The counter-productive interactions (and language) that make picky eating worse (and what to do and say instead)
When (and where) to seek more help for extreme picky eaters (those children with ARFID)
A step-by-step food tasting approach
How to make mealtimes calmer, meaningful and nutritious
Most of all, Try New Food will help families nourish and nurture their picky eaters while cultivating healthy eating patterns and a healthy relationship with food.
