My daughter was very young when I decided I had a picky eater on my hands. From the very moment I introduced solids at 6 months of age things didn’t go smoothly. While the other children in my mother’s group were gobbling yoghurt and pureed pumpkin by the bucket load,...
I don’t set New Year’s resolutions anymore. They’ve never lasted much past March for me. Around this time last year a wise friend of mine asked me to pick one word that radiated the essence of what I wanted my year to be. In 2014 my word was BALANCE. It was about...
Have you ever wondered when kids should learn to use utensils and what is the best way to introduce them? I interviewed Nicole Grant, Occupational Therapist from Gateway Therapies to find out... How is learning to use cutlery and kitchen utensils helpful to a child’s...
OK, time for a home truth. I’m not friends with my kitchen this week. There, I said it! I feel disorganised, lacking in inspiration, and just plain uninspired. Last night’s family dinner was frankly ho-hum. Great cook, Masterchef or barely able to boil an egg, many of...
Kids Dig Food welcomes Kate Wengier, Dietitian from Foost as guest blogger for October. Foost is a family-owned business in Melbourne that offers products, workshops and classes that support families to find inspiration and ideas for fun, fresh food. Read on to find...
Do your kids wriggle and fidget at the dinner table? It’s often more than food choice that determines how settled children are at the table. A child who just won’t sit still can put the whole family off their dinner. Here are my 5 top tips for getting kids to fidget...
It’s winter school holiday time and hopefully you’ll be getting a little time to spend with your little (and perhaps big) kids. In my 15+ years as a Dietitian I’ve learned that quite often kids learn the BEST lessons about food away from the dinner table or the family...
Do you have picky eater? If you’re constantly comparing your child with the kid who “eats everything” then it may seem as if you do. The truth is, some of the most frustrating and (as a parent) worrying things about how kids eat are quite typical. Most are nothing to...
I’ll be honest, sometimes I don’t cope well with criticism at the dinner table. Criticism of what’s been prepared that is. It often seems that mealtimes are either triumphant successes or abject failures. If I’m having a particularly bad day, just one “Yuck” can make...
I am overjoyed when Miss 5 doesn’t eat everything on her plate. It’s not some kind of rebellion left over from being made to clean my plate as a child and it isn’t that I love waste either. When my daughter leaves food on her plate, I know that she is listening to her...
Kids and knives. Words that together bring forth images of trips to the hospital emergency department, tears and blood. For many parents, handing over a knife to a child is not something that’s on top of the skill list. Here’s why we should consider it earlier. In...
