Picky Eaters in Your House?
Try This Strategy!
Do you have a house full of picky eaters, including adults?
The
“This is what’s for dinner”
tactic may work for kids, but what about for the adults who are convinced that lima beans are inedible? I married Mr. “I’m not picky, but I don’t like to eat ______ (fill in the blank with a large variety of food items).
He is not a child and is capable of making his own food choice. My husband decided to eat a smaller variety of healthy foods and he is content with that. But this too can have its problems.
Obviously my husband can prepare a different meal if he is unhappy with what I have served. This is fine with me, as long as he cleans up the kitchen when he is done. In the interest of time, my husband usually eats what I have prepared.
He is a very good sport.
Try This Strategy To Solve the Picky Problem
1. If the food is new for the whole family, enthusiastically present it in a small portion on everyone’s plate.
2. Only introduce one new food at a time and ask everyone to try it.
3. If they do, great! If they don’t, great!
Why does that work?
Because that food will appear at regular intervals on their plate.
After about five, ten or fifteen times my family realizes that the food, and their enthusiastic mom are not going away, so they try the new food.
It really works.
Just ask my husband and my jicama-loving kids.
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