So I googled hangar when I started working on notes for this episode, and I realized that what comes up is clothes hangars, which is not what we're talking about today.

If you aren't familiar with the term hangar or hangary, it's just a combination of hungry and angry.

And I bet you've experienced this with your toddler at some point.

If not, it's coming for you. So you get the bonus of

being prepared. But you've probably even felt it yourself, like when you're so hungry that you

start snapping at everyone and you just need to get something in your body, I hate that feeling.

So I'm going to talk about the quickest way to bring your little one out of that hangary state

and how to

prevent it from happening in the first place.

This is Feeding Toddlers Made Easy, the Mom-N-Nose Nutrition podcast.

I'm your host, Casey Barnes, registered dietitian nutritionist, Master of Clinical

Nutrition. That always sounds so weird to me, like a master's degree, like I am the master.

I just can't get over it, but that's what I have. Anyway, I'm a mom of a new first grader and a

three-year-old. Actually, she's probably going to be four by the time you hear this, which is so crazy to me.

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Hi, Casey. This is Leslie. I wanted to ask you for advice about my child who gets hangary. She's three and a half and she isn't exactly picky, but we've gotten into a bad habit of grazing and her preference is pure fruit. So I have a hard time getting fats into her in order to get her to be full. Unfortunately, this has resulted in a lot of hangar-induced tantrums, where I then

can't get any food into her system to pull her through it. I've tried a lot of your suggestions

on how to get fats into her, and I want to implement your meal schedule, but I'm worried about

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