Roasted Butternut Squash with Mixed Salad Greens and Homemade Dressing Recipe

Feeding Therapy, Feeding Toddlers to School Age

Roasted Butternut Squash with Mixed Salad Greens and Homemade Dressing Recipe

The first time you introduce your child to salad, offer the greens and other mix-ins separately for the child to try.

By Melanie Potock

Adventures in Veggieland: Help Your Kids Learn to Love Vegetables―with 100 Easy Activities and Recipes (The Experiment, 2018), by Melanie Potock, is a wonderful guide to get kids involved in the kitchen. Potock provides many useful ways to get kids prepping and playing with the veggies they prepare. By exploring the veggies before they eat, kids may be less apt to turn their noses at what they prepared.

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Choking hazards - tis’ the season! Just a quick reminder because life can get a little chaotic this week and there’s a lot of chokable holiday food within reach of little hands…

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🤍I often have advice, scripts and guidance for parents of picky eaters when holidays are approaching, but this post is about keeping it all in perspective.

✨One day, one roll, one snide comment from your in-laws or Aunt Betty (or whomever)…it’s just one moment in time.

😎Maybe playing it cool and vowing to just breathe and move on is what’s best for your mental health, what will call the least attention to the comment in front of your child, and never forget, there is a lot of power in silence.

🥂So here’s to the cool mom’s everywhere, and here’s to your incredible kids!

All the love,
🥰Melanie

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🥣Want your picky eater to learn to love soups? Deconstruct them! Four more tips below…

💕Hey, I’m Melanie, a pediatric feeding specialist here to help you raise healthy, happy eaters!

✨1✨Deconstructing simply means you pull out ingredients before or after making the final dish. So, I roasted some of the veggies and put some raw veggies in the soup to cook down. Both will end up with different tastes and textures and both are great to offer in the right container.

✨2✨That right container could be an ice cube tray or try my new favorite @soupercubes – simply the best endlessly reusable trays! Great for freezing small portions of soup too so you can offer soup in small samples to your picky eater throughout the winter (flu) season!

✨3✨Did you see all the herbs and garlic I threw in there? Don’t be afraid of FLAVOR, it can actually be a huge help for kids hesitant to take a taste. They often crave flavor! Herbs and garlic also provide antioxidants to support the immune system, and potentially have anti-inflammatory properties. At least, that’s what my RD friends tell me, so it must be true. Also that pop-out frozen garlic is THE BEST from @traderjoes!

✨4✨ALWAYS cut down a straw so that when they do try a taste, they instantly get that taste. A long straw means they have to prime and wait, prime and wait…and that just creates a lot of anticipatory anxiety.

🤍🤍Bonus Tip: Don’t forget the love. Always add love.

Happy Holidays my friends!
🥰Melanie
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