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Parenting a Picky Eater

Nonna Joann • May 21st, 2008 • Spoonful of Love

Take the Baby Bites quiz—
Find out how proficient you are at promoting picky eating in your prodigy.
 
If your offspring is eating primarily fast foods, white flour, sugar, and only a few whole foods, you’re headed in the right direction for raising a picky eater. Picky eaters universally love these foods while refusing to eat whole […]



Transform Your Picky Eater

Nonna Joann • April 23rd, 2008 • Spoonful of Love

Children are experts at parent manipulation. If you have a picky eater, you know firsthand how frustrating it can be to get her to eat one tidbit of nutritious food.
Picky eaters have built a wall of resistance to avoid eating nutritious foods. They love fast foods and junk foods, while refusing to eat whole foods, […]



Picky Eaters Can Love Veggies

Nonna Joann • April 21st, 2008 • Spoonful of Love

The only vegetables six-year-old Heather eats are French fries and ketchup-and that’s using the term “vegetable” loosely. What’s alarming is that she’s not alone. Today over 60 percent of children, ages two to nine, don’t consume the recommended five servings of fruits and vegetables per day.
You might be surprised, but even the most resistant child can […]



Pain at the Pump = Higher Food Prices

Nonna Joann • April 8th, 2008 • Spoonful of Love

When gas prices jump, we not only feel the pain at the pump, but the cost of food is fueled by the escalating price of gasoline. The food you purchase costs more, because transporting grocery products to the grocers costs more. Unfortunately, that’s not the only factor for the gigantic grocery inflation we’re experiencing.
The scarcity in our wheat […]



Taste of Fun

Nonna Joann • April 8th, 2008 • Spoonful of Love

Click under the photo for a riddle about fish.
Okay, you may know the answer to this one, but ask your kids. They’ll get a giggle out of it.
Why is easy to weigh fish?
Because they have their own scales!
What has a head, but cannot think?
You should be able to figure out this riddle, because it has three correct answers:
Lettuce, […]