Help for the picky eater brigade (Diana1215 this means YOU!)

Got this today from Daily Candy, marketing a site called mmmunch. Check out their site, they seem like "healthy eating" consultants (ooooo I can just HEAR my mother laughing at this one ) and they'll make a home visit and give you cooking strategies, new food tips, shopping help, and pantry makeovers!!!
mmmunch.com

Happy Meals
MMMunch's Tips for Picky Eaters

Every meal feels like a heavyweight bout in your house. And you don’t have much help in your corner.

Before you throw in the kitchen towel, try these tips from the healthy eating experts at MMMunch.

Don’t Be a Short-Order Cook
Unless your kids tip big, don’t take orders. That’s how picky eaters are created. Give them a choice occasionally, but remember management’s policy: You get what you get, and you don’t get upset.

Involve Them
Take them shopping. Let them pick out something new and have them help cook, because if they chose it or made it, chances are they’ll try it.

Go Jedi
Put a taste of a new food on their plates without explaining. Intrigue works better than bribery. Kids can smell desperation and will think if you’re selling something it must be awful.

Change It Up
Think outside the broc. Turn kale into kale chips. Carrot sticks into carrot juice. And pretty much any fruit can become a smoothie.

Be Patient
It may take ten to twelve tries before a kid likes something new. But it will happen if he can dip it, stick it, stack it, or roll it.

Should have your picky eater chomping like a champ in no time.

MMMunch (917-771-6114 or mmmunch.com).

Re: Help for the picky eater brigade (Diana1215 this means YOU!)

Thanks for sharing. I must have an advance picky eater on my hands though, since a lot of these tips aren't doing much good. But I do have to say, by not sweating it and stopping the bribes, cajoling, etc. to eat a bit more, meals have become more pleasant for me and I think for him. He actually eats more than he used to overall, just not vegetables or meat.

So I guess some tips have worked on second thought, though his food world is still narrower than I would like.