Archive for the 'picky eaters' Category
Feeding a “Picky Eater”
December 21st, 2011by Caroline A friend of mine is currently waiting patiently for the birth of her second son, “due” two days ago but taking his own sweet time to arrive into this world. And her waiting has me thinking about all the ways in which our children never quite do what we expect them to do, [...]
Warm Escarole Salad with Apples and Nuts (Success!)
September 26th, 2011by Caroline As Tolstoy didn’t write, easygoing eaters are all the same; every picky eater is picky in his or her own way. So I was reminded the other night when I unpacked our CSA share and pulled out a bunch of escarole bigger than my head: “Yum!” said Ben. “What’s that?” Can we just [...]
Feeding the Really Sick
January 28th, 2011by Caroline I am a little bit obsessed with school lunch. My essay for this book is on the subject, my next column for Literary Mama is on a school lunch documentary; I volunteer in the cafeteria as often as I can because I feel so strongly that it’s a place that can be as [...]
Giveaway! Eating for Beginners: An Education in the Pleasures of Food from Chefs, Farmers, and One Picky Kid
August 2nd, 2010by Caroline I love food and cooking, love raising and feeding my kids, love to write. Sometimes, as in this blog, those interests intersect and I get to write about the food I feed my kids. Sometimes, almost even better, I get to read about someone else doing all of that. This is one of [...]
Thousand Island Dressing
April 16th, 2010by Lisa It’s a snack food, a packable lunch dish, a side dish, an appetizer, an all around helpful thing to have in your kitchen. It’s lightening fast to make. It’s completely addictive. It’s a way of getting your kids to eat more raw vegetables. And even you won’t be able to stop eating it [...]
Chard & Walnut Lasagna
February 1st, 2010by Caroline It seems amazing to me that three and a half years ago, I began a blog post, “Ben’s not a picky eater…” What happened?! One day he was eating toasts spread with goat cheese and eggplant caviar and then, one by one, foods started to leave his diet. I wonder sometimes about the [...]
Feeding the sick
October 14th, 2009by Caroline Despite timely flu shots, good eating habits, and frankly pretty impressive personal hygiene in kids this age, my sons have been passing a cold back and forth for over two weeks now. I can hardly remember what it feels like to send two children to school. And although I’ve managed to stay healthy [...]
One Step Forward, One Step Back
May 28th, 2009by Caroline A friend, with boys about the ages of mine, takes comfort in the fact that my children are picky eaters. “I get that my kids don’t like my cooking,” she says, “but if your kids don’t eat, then it really must not be about the cooking!” And every time we talk, and we [...]
The Power of Suggestion
April 23rd, 2009By Lisa The age old wisdom is true: put something in front of your kids–even the pickiest eaters–enough times and they will, very likely, eventually, eat it. It may take 6-months or a year or five or ten (as it did with me and squash, a food I refused to eat in any form for [...]
Feeding Moosie
March 27th, 2009by Caroline A new member of the family joined us this Christmas. At the time, we thought he was just a simple stuffed animal, a soft, brown baby moose that accompanied a larger moose my sister’s family gave to Eli. But Moosie, as Eli quickly and logically named him, has taken on a larger role. [...]