Your kid won't eat something new and they hate it even being on their plate.

What do you do?

This is a question that came in from a mom who is so frustrated and feels stuck not being

able to even put something on her son's plate.

I'm going to talk you through it.

I'm Casey Barnes, registered dietitian nutritionist, and this is feeding toddlers made easy.

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Here's the question that came in. She said, what do you do when a child refuses to eat because something they detest,

in my case, strawberries or cucumbers, is on their plate. I offered cucumbers at dinner with safe foods yesterday, and my son wouldn't even sit down until someone else ate the cucumbers.

Putting them in a no thank you bowl didn't work because he refused to touch

them. You might cover this in Picky Wins, but a podcast would be a helpful, quick overview.

There might be some things in here that you're like, what's that? So she mentioned safe foods,

which is just basically a food that they regularly eat and enjoy. I have an episode on this too.

And then Picky Wins is my course. Simple Steps to Piggy Wins is my picky eater course. It goes step

by step through getting them to actually try new foods, to branch out from their favorites,

and make meal time much less stressful on you.

And them too. It's a win for everybody.

Now, the first question that I'd want to ask this mom is, why do you want the food on their plate?

Why is that important to you? And you might be like, duh, because I want them to eat it.

But it's feeling like a power struggle right now. You want it on their plate because you want them to eat it. He doesn't

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