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Having a picky eater can be exhausting! Here is a video from one mom and how she handles her 3 year old picky eater. Here on Toddler Craft I can relate to this, as I have one very picky eater myself. Here are a few posts that give some more ideas on helping to get your picky eater to eat healthy.
One healthy favorite I have had success in getting my picky eater to eat, is apples and cinnamon. It is one of the only times he eats fruit, but he eats it all up with a little bit of cinnamon spice sprinkled on it!
What are your tips for getting picky eaters to eat?
My son has always been a picky eater and I have tried a variety of things to help expand his diet. This video has some good tips on how to deal with your picky eater. It shows Some simple things you can do such as making food sculptures like using cookie cutters for sandwiches, and happy faces on pancakes. I have always had success in make things like zuchinni bread. It’s one of the only ways my son will eat vegetables!! What are some tricks you use to get your child to eat?
It’s the Mclinky Blog hop again! This weeks theme is to share a recipe! The above picture is not of the recipe I am sharing, but I thought it was so cute, I had to share it. The recipe I am going to share is for Honey Candy-It is quite delicious, but has peanut butter in it. So stay away if you have peanut allergies in the family.
Honey Candy
1 Cup Crunchy Peanutbutter
1 Cup Honey
1 Cup Powdered Milk
2 Cups Crispy Rice Cereal
Chocolate chips
Mix Peanug Butter and Honey in a blender. Add in powdered milk. Blend with your hands. Add Cereal and continue to blend with your hands. Roll into walnut-size balls. Press 3-4 choclate chips into each ball and then refrigerate. Once cold, they are ready to eat! Enjoy!!
This recipe was passed to me from my mom, I do not know where it originally came from.
I have 2 children. My first is perhaps the pickiest eater alive! I really don’t exaggerate. He eats no vegetables what so ever! Last summer I was thrilled when I actually got him to try a cucumber from our garden!. He doesn’t even eat pizza! What child doesn’t love pizza!! He likes simple and plain foods. Occasionally he will eat watermelon or cantelope. I go out and buy a lot of what ever fruit he is interested in!!! I really only have myself to blame as I was always a picky eater as a young child and would have rather had a chocolate bar then vegetables any day!! Truth be told, I still LOVE chocolate but also enjoy a good salad and love fruit now. So I know there is hope for him!
Because he is such a picky eater I am always looking for ways to get something healthy into him!! I have made pancakes with ground flax seed in them and cookies with flaxmeal instead of all the sugar!!
Other strategies I have tried:
Choclate chips in muffins
Zuchinni bread
Sandwiches cut in dinosaur shapes
Choclate covered bananas
Choclate covered strawberries (have you guessed he love choclate yet? LOL)
I recently discovered The book Deceptively Delicious by Jessica Seinfeld. This book gives creative ways to get healthy food into your child!! I was all over it!! I haven’t tried all the recipes in it yet, but the ones I have tried are good. Some require a little more work to prepare as they have vegetable purees you put in them. What I have done is doubled recipes and made extra puree’s and frozen them.
One recipe that was a hit is the bananna bread with cauliflower puree!! I would have never have thought of adding that!! I have even added some ground flax seed to it for extra nutritional value!!
Some of the Recipes in this book are:
French Toast
Peanut butter and Bananna muffins
Pancakes
Meatball Soup
Mozzarella Sticks
Macaroni and Cheese
Homemade Ketchup
Twice Baked Potatos
All of the recipes have a puree or added nutritional value in them. The above are just a few of the recipes. There are many more!
I would love to hear your creative ways that you get your kids to eat healthy food!! If you have fun food for kids -Please share your ideas in the comments!!
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