Five Tips to Help Your Toddler Be A Less Picky Eater

This post is sponsored by BabbleBoxx on behalf of Oroweat Organic Bread 

I’ve put together five tips to help your toddler be a less picky eater. Read on for easy ideas for how to get a child to try new food.

Five Tips to Help Your Toddler Be A Less Picky Eater

How to get a child to try new food? It’s a question I’ve asked every mom I know. Toddlers are notoriously stubborn and picky when it comes to eating habits, but there are ways to help even the pickiest eaters and their moms find peace at mealtime. 

I’ve put together five tips to help your toddler be a less picky eater. While we’re still working on these steps, they have also helped both of us find fun, balance and sanity at mealtime. 

Recruit Your Child’s Help at Mealtime

We started with fun cooking activities such as making cookies or cupcakes together. Then graduated to pizza making and now we love making sandwiches together. 

Sandwiches were something we had to work up to, as initially Fernando liked to eat all of the components separately. But, then we discovered Oroweat Organic White Bread made with Whole Wheat which features Disney’s Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse and suddenly F was all about making fun sandwich combinations. 

Oroweat Organic White Bread made with Whole Wheat is perfect for picky eaters. This bread is delicious and has a soft and smooth texture and is made with organic whole grains as the first ingredient. It’s USDA Organic, plant-based and provides a good source of Vitamins A, D, & E. 

Another fun fact? This bread is sustainably baked using renewable wind energy. 

Five Tips to Help Your Toddler Be A Less Picky Eater

 

How To Get a Child To Try New Food By Being Creative 

Not only are we making our sandwiches together, we’ve also gotten creative. Pinterest has tons of fun kid lunch ideas and making creative sandwiches together has also been a great way to introduce new ingredients. 

Tomatoes have been the hardest new food to get F to try, but otherwise we’ve had small successes with other new to him sandwich staples. 

Five Tips to Help Your Toddler Be A Less Picky Eater

Respect Your Child’s Appetite and Preferences

This brings me to my next point. For the longest time I would pick up a blueberry muffin (my personal favorite), for Fernando whenever we visited a local coffee shop.

He would take a couple of bites and that would be it. Then one time, I decided to try out a chocolate chip muffin. He ate the entire thing. The lesson here is simple. Your child may have a completely different palate. So, I stopped pushing things. That’s not to say I don’t encourage F to try new food, because I do, but I don’t insist he take a bite or try it again unless he is ready. The fact is he may never like tomatoes, and that’s ok. 

Set a Good Example

As soon as Fernando was old enough to see what I am consuming, I made a conscious decision to make healthy choices in my own diet. To be honest, we eat pretty healthy in general. But, it always makes me giggle when F proudly announces somewhere that “salad is mommy’s favorite.” Especially because pizza and red wine is totally mommy’s favorite. But cheers to setting a good example and eating all the greens, right?

 

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Be Patient When Introducing New Foods To Your Child

Thanks to Oroweat Organic White Bread made with Whole Wheat for featuring Disney’s Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, now Fernando is interested in sandwiches and helps me put them together. It also gives me an opportunity to introduce a variety of sides to his sandwich meals. 

Research says that a person has to try something at least 7 times before liking it. I would say for a toddler it’s probably double. To me this means I can continue to add a variety of toppings and sides to his meals for him to try. But I must be patient and ok with him not eating these foods. 

Once I took the pressure off myself that I must encourage healthy habits all the time, and then took the pressure off Fernando that he MUST try everything, we were both happier. 

Patience is key to encouraging a healthy relationship with food and how to get a child to try new food. It’s also key to mealtime happiness.