Rewind: Feeding Toddlers: Finding Joy in Family Meals with Nita and Jessica of

No One Told Us

Rachael Shepard-Ohta

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 590 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Feeding Toddlers: Finding Joy in Family Meals with Nita and Jessica of ⁠@happyhealthyeaters⁠ Have you ever struggled with picky eating or stressful mealtimes? This is so common- feeding toddlers can be very challenging! In this episode, Rachael speaks with Jessica and Nita, co-founders of Happy Healthy Eaters, ALL about feeding toddlers to make mealtimes more enjoyable! Here’s what they discuss inside this episode: The different challenges of feeding toddlers including “picky” eating or selective eating How and why it is important to trust your child’s eating preferences How much food should your toddler actually eat? Tips for keeping your child engaged and interested in mealtime Guiding parents on allowing kids to eat when they're hungry and stop when they're full How valuable family meals can be for modeling eating behaviors and passing on cultural traditions Ways to adapt meals to fit each family's schedule and preferences Tips for adapting culturally appropriate meals for babies Facts about the food supply in North America and it’s safety When to seek support from professionals if a child's eating habits are severely challenging or interfering with their growth and development Jessica and Nita are co-founders of Happy Healthy Eaters - a community dedicated to supporting parents in feeling relaxed and confident about feeding their child. They are both Registered Dietitians with a combined 25+ years of education and work. They started Happy Healthy Eaters in 2020 after Nita had her second baby with the hopes of supporting parents through these exciting milestones, minus ALL the misinformation. Their online course - Starting Solids Confidently- launched first and is widely popular and now they have a second course: Feeding Toddlers Confidently- which debuted after more than two years in the making! Mentioned in this episode: Happy Healthy Eaters Website: ⁠https://happyhealthyeaters.com/⁠ Happy Healthy Eaters instagram: ⁠@happyhealthyeaters ⁠ Feeding Toddlers Confidently Course ⁠here⁠ Code for No One Told Us Listeners: HHE15 ⁠How to Keep Your Toddler at the Table⁠ Blog Post: ⁠How to Adapt Recipes to be BLW Friendly⁠ If you enjoyed this episode, please rate 5⭐️ and write us a review! ⬇️ ✨For sleep support and resources, visit⁠ heysleepybaby.com⁠ and follow⁠ @heysleepybaby⁠ on Instagram! 😴☁️🤎✨ Rachael is a mom of 3, founder of⁠ Hey, Sleepy Baby⁠, and the host of this podcast. ⁠Instagram⁠ |⁠ Tiktok⁠ | ⁠ Website⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to No One Told Us. I'm your host, Rachel, and today I'm so excited to be speaking
0:08.5	with Jessica and Nita co-founders of Happy Healthy Eaters. This is an Instagram community dedicated to
0:15.2	supporting parents in feeling relaxed and confident about feeding their child. Nita and Jessica
0:20.2	are both registered dietitians with a combined 25 plus years of education
0:24.8	and work with children.
0:26.9	And they started happy at Healthy Eaters in 2020, right around the same time I started
0:30.9	my account.
0:31.5	So we've been connected for a really long time.
0:33.5	After Nita, after you had your second baby, right?
0:35.9	And you wanted to just kind of support parents through this journey of feeding and feeling confident with feeding.
0:42.6	So I'm so excited that you're here today.
0:44.6	We're going to talk all about, mostly about toddlers today.
0:47.7	You guys have so many resources on your website and on your Instagram as well.
0:51.8	But today, just thank you for being here.
0:54.2	Thank you for coming to talk to us about feeding toddlers because it's rough out here.
0:57.8	It is. It is. It's like equally magical and the Wild World West. It's like TikTok, right?
1:04.8	Like it's unhinged feeding toddlers.
1:08.2	It really is. I have a toddler and she's my third one. So you would think that I'd have
1:13.8	the feeding thing down. But it's so funny because it turns out every kid has their own personality
1:19.2	and their own feeding preferences and things like that. So she has really thrown me for a loop.
1:24.4	So I'm really excited to get some tips. Before we kind of dive into
1:27.9	that, I would love to just hear a little bit about your journey to starting your Instagram and
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