To add more information to my post from last week, I wanted to add Ellyn Satter’s words. This is her advice about how to be considerate when dealing with your toddler at meals without turning into a short order cook.
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Be considerate without catering. (Link to Ellyn Satter’s website)
Don’t try to please every eater with every food at every meal. Settle for providing each eater with one or two foods they generally enjoy at each meal.
- Include 4 or 5 foods: Meat or other protein; a couple of starchy foods, such as rice, potatoes, bread or tortillas; fruit or vegetable or both; and milk.
- Include high-fat foods (butter, salad dressing, gravy). To get filled up, people with high calorie needs eat more, those with low calorie needs eat less.
- Don’t limit the menu to foods that are readily accepted. Children and adults learn to eat unfamiliar food when they see it again and again and when you give them an out by pairing unfamiliar with familiar food. Always put bread on the table—family members members can eat bread if all else fails.
- Let children and other family members pick and choose from foods that are on the table. Don’t try to persuade, entice, encourage, or cheer-lead them to eat anything they don’t want to eat.
- Don’t short-order cook or put substitutes on the table. Family members who aren’t excited by today’s meal will get lucky some other time.
- Let yourself and your child eat as much as you are hungry for.
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– See more at: http://ellynsatterinstitute.org/htf/family-friendlyfeedingtips.php#sthash.4472YP6K.dpuf
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