Dinner ideas for very fussy eaters — meat

Dinner is frequently crunch time for families. If we are working and the children are at school or Kindy, it seems the only time we have for getting the nutritious food eaten and to work on that pickiness!

However, dinner is NOT the time for teaching our child to eat.

It is though, a great time for role modelling. For showing them what to eat and how to do it easily and pleasurably. Have you noticed that your children seem to pick up on all your bad habits? Or is that just mine? 😉

Much of our children’s learning comes almost by osmosis. They are constantly watching and listening to us and that is where the lessons get learned. Vegetable eating parents produce vegetable eating children — however far off that seems at the moment.

What we do not want to be doing is making dinners the place where the broccoli has to get eaten, or the chicken tried. Although it may seem like the only opportunity for this and that without it, our child will never willingly eat new things, having these pressure situations generally does not help.

But what happens if our child does only have two options that reliably get eaten at dinner? How can we manage that?

My advice is make sure they do have food they are able to eat at the table. No one comes to the table happily…