Difficulty: Moderately Challenging
Step1
Eat as a family. While lives are very busy, choose one meal a day--it can be breakfast--that you eat together. Model proper nutritional choices for your children at this meal. Provide a variety of options that you and your partner like and don't let your child dictate what everyone in the family eats.
Step2
Don't give too many choices. Your goal is to get your child to eat a wide variety of foods, so feel free to try new recipes and set them before your family. If they don't like it, that's fine. Tomorrow is another day. But this is the meal--don't give in and heat up mac n' cheese just to appease your fussy eater.
Step3
Let them be hungry. It's a valuable lesson for a child to go to bed hungry one night. They won't suffer and they will learn that their dining choices are now family choices. You provide the meal, they decide whether to eat. Period. It's a lesson quickly learned, though it can be painful to parent through.
Step4
Do provide kid-friendly choices. Not every child revels in broccoli, so throw a little cheese on top to make it more palatable to the littlest members of your family. Your goal is not to alienate your kids, but to make your life easier and the child's palate more inclusive.
Step5
Avoid things that are too sophisticated for a child's palate. Spicy foods, strongly flavored items and foods that look a little gross are unlikely to be winners at the table. Start off with something easy--a lasagna and salad, for example. This meal provides pasta, which most kids love, and greens, which most parents want their kids to eat. Remember you're feeding everyone in your family, so find a middle ground that provides nutritionally sound, family appropriate and yummy meals together.
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