8 Simple Tips for Healthy Family Meals
7. Offer Variety, With a Big Side of Patience
I read recently that it’s totally normal for kids between about 2 to 5 to really resist eating new foods, and they may only have a handful of foods they’ll readily eat. While frustrating, especially when you’ve really made a delicious meal and deserve mad props and tons of kudos for it, just know that tough customers are the norm. This is why it’s good to offer familiar meals a lot of the time, with new foods thrown in a couple of times a week. If they don’t eat something, just keep offering it. They change their minds like the tide, and they may love it the next time you make it. If possible, you can keep foods separate to increase the likelihood they’ll be accepted. So for instance, don’t mix the marinara and the pasta, serve them separately so they can be in charge of the sauce.