057: The Scoop on Picky Eating Strategies and Less Mealtime Stress with Nita Sharda

The Ultimate Baby Podcast

I'm thrilled to have Nita Sharda on the show, the co-founder of Happy Healthy Eaters, a digital platform and community that supports parents to feed their children from a place of trust and confidence and none of the fear and judgment. Although this is such a tough area to navigate with your little ones, how, what, and when to feed them, Nita breaks it down to make this so much easier.

In this episode, we get into what it's like to feed toddlers, how to help them navigate picky eating, how to create food resiliency, and how to reverse selective ways of eating that aren’t ideal. We also talk about the right things to say and not say at the dinner table, what to offer at the table, and how to approach it positively while still nourishing them.

Nita shares tonnes of helpful tips and you are going to learn so much in this episode.

Highlights from this episode:

• Selective eating is normal
• What is the division of responsibility?
• Creating a flexible routine
• How to tackle taste fatigue
• Nita’s approach to snack time
• Signs of iron deficiency
• How to shift mealtime to a positive experience
• The benefit of serving dessert with dinner
• Should you praise your child for eating?
• Serving deconstructed meals family style
• Food for play
• Feeding toddlers confidently

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