Welcome to the feeding toddlers made easy. This is the Mama Nose Nutrition podcast. I'm your host

Casey Barnes, registered dietitian nutritionist with a master of clinical nutrition and a lot of

experience helping families make feeding their toddlers easier. The toddler age is a really, really tough one,

so I hope that my tips and bits of advice can help you feel supported in this stage. Fun fact,

I actually started Mom and No's nutrition because feeding my toddler, my first one, was like a slap in the face.

I thought he was going to eat everything because I'm healthy

and I know nutrition stuff and it's just going to be easy, right? Okay, no, no, it was not. So here we are

a couple years later and I am helping other people get through this stage that can be really,

really trying.

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Let's hear from Rebecca and the trouble she's having with her son, refusing foods no matter what.

And remember, you can call in at any time to leave a voicemail and ask me a question to be featured on the podcast.

The number is 469-552-5527, and you can always find this info on my website at

mom-in-nowsnutrition.com forward slash podcast. Here's Rebecca. Hi, my name is Rebecca. My son's

name is James. He's three and a half and two things. He pretty much flat out refuses to try anything new that he's not comfortable with despite trying to make it fun and trying different approaches and showing him new foods. It can be anything really, like any new type of food that he's not familiar with and I will continue to expose and he still

refuses and it's sort of a battle. He won't even consider just a tiny bite, especially if it's a

food I think he'll really enjoy. So I'm wondering how to get around that. And then the second

question is he flat out refuses and meat especially, except if it's like a ground beef or ground chicken

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