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Just the Good Stuff

Kacie Barnes MCN, RDN - Mama Knows Nutrition on Picky Eaters and What The Beep to Do

Just the Good Stuff

Rachel Mansfield

Entrepreneurship, Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Business

4.8841 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

#76: In this episode we sit down with Kacie Barnes, the Registered Dietician Nutritionist behind the website and social media account Mama Knows Nutrition. Kacie provides us with SO many tips, tricks, courses and resources for feeding your toddler and kids. This is a hot topic and we chat with Kacie about the daily struggles all parents and caregivers go through while trying to provide the best meal time options for your little ones.    Here is a preview of some of the topic and questions we discuss in this episode: What age picky eating is common to start around and when it ends What we should do if a kid no longer wants to eat a food they loved in the past The difference between picky eating and a food aversion How to reverse bad eating habits How to introduce a new food at meal time without overwhelming your child Tips on how to prevent your child from throwing food Can my child go to bed hungry What do you do if your child wont eat dinner but then always asks for dessert Thoughts on adding "hidden" veggies into meals Best approaches to packing your child's lunch for school My child won't eat anything green, what can I do How to deal with extended family unsolicited feeding comments How do you know if your child ate enough, should you cut them off + SO much more!   For more from me, I'm over on IG @rachLmansfield, tiktok @rachLmansfield and rachLmansfield.com

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Just the Good Stuff. This is your host, Rachel Mansfield,

0:08.6

and this week's episode is all about picky eating. We sat down with Casey Barnes. She's a registered

0:15.5

dietitian and a picky eating expert. Now, we've spoken a lot about introducing solids and feeding your kids more when they're like infants and introducing foods. But what do you do when your three-year-old or four-year-old or eight-year-old all of a sudden is rejecting classic spaghetti meatballs that you've been making for years, cough, cough Koff, Ezra, Koff. How do you approach

0:38.3

this? What do you do? Do you make another meal? Do you just say, go to bed hungry? Do you offer

0:43.4

them something else? Like how to approach picky eating is something that I personally have been struggling

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with in our home. Now, my kids do eat very well. And I'm not naive to that. I'm super grateful for their

0:56.8

approach to food and, like, the diverse amount of different fruits and veggies and all the

1:02.9

things that they'll eat. But my kids are kids. They reject food that we make. They're very

1:07.8

particular, very opinionated. And I'm so excited to be sharing this episode

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with Casey with you guys because she is so, so passionate about what she does. She's filled

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with knowledge. And she also just comes from a judgment-free place in terms of how she approaches

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picky eating and feeding your family.

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So if you know of a friend who has some kids that are, you know, getting a little picky

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with their eating or they eat the same three food groups and they don't know what to do

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and the parents are getting frustrated, this episode is for them.

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Highly recommend listening.

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Share it with your friends.

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Subscribe and rate just the good stuff if you are listening over on iTunes and subscribe

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if you're on Spotify as well.

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I can't wait to hear what you think of this week's episode.

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And I'm going to stop labeling now.

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And we'll hop right on in.

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