Hello, friend. I just love the question that I'm discussing in today's episode because, as most of you know,

I am just anxious by nature and I find myself asking the, is this bad question for so many things,

especially in parenting. So this is one that I can weigh in on and hopefully ease your worries or concerns when it comes to you eating something different from your kids or different from the rest of the family.

And you're worried about maybe how they're going to perceive this, if it's setting them up to be more picky or have a negative

relationship with food or any of those kinds of things. So let's talk about it. The question that came

in, I don't know who it's from, but this is what they said to me. She said, is it bad if I'm making

myself something else different on

occasion? For example, I hate lots of breakfast foods, pancakes, waffles, French toast. I just

don't like them. My family enjoys them though, so on weekends, I'll make them pancakes and make

myself avocado toast. Is it setting a bad example that I'm doing that?

Before I answer these questions, welcome to the Mom and No's Nutrition podcast.

I'm Casey Barnes. I'm a registered dietitian nutritionist.

Mom up two. We're in Dallas, Texas. We have a dog. What else do you want to know? Yeah, let's just dive right in.

So in general, should you eat the same things as your kids?

What do I want you to keep in mind here?

Number one is setting an example for foods that you want them to eat.

So I'm not specifically talking about the example that this question asked of like the pancakes versus she makes herself avocado toast.

But if there are foods, especially like vegetables and other dinner foods that you want your kids to eat.

Like sometimes people will tell me, I really want my kid to eat more vegetables, but I don't eat

many myself. So it's a little bit harder to get them on the vegetable train when you are not

riding it yourself. So I do like to say, even if it means you are trying something new and you're a little bit

out of your comfort zone, you still want to set an example in that way for them to see like,

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