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How do you get your preschooler to eat and eat well?
Posted on Wed, January 6th, 2010
Written by: Julie Mellen,
email: editor@syracuseparent.net
Feeding a 2-to-5-year-old is not always easy! Those of you, who are likely reading this, know all to well that this can be a challenge. Eating or not eating is often how preschoolers express their growing independence. They are developing their own opinions and their own taste preferences and they are willfully expressing those opinions and preferences.
Preschoolers often go through stages, depending on the day! They may choose to eat the same food for weeks at a time (food jags) and then never touch that food again or they may decide or omit whole food groups for a while all together. As long as they are growing, I would not get to upset by it. Look at your child’s intake over the course of a weeks worth of meals.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) developed a MyPyramid for Preschoolers website that can help guide you in creating an eating plan for your preschooler as well as offer you several great tips on nutrition and exercise. You can access this at MyPyramid.gov.
Following is a collection ideas to help your preschool eater expand their food choices.
-Keep meal time positive. Avoid any negative power struggles at meal time.
-Do not bribe or reward your child to eat.
-Do not punish or threaten for not eating.
-Do not force feed or expect children to eat everything on their plate.
-Model good eating habits…children learn what they see!
-Offer a variety of foods at each meal.
-Consider serving different shapes, textures and colors to make food more interesting and tempting.
-Offer familiar foods with unfamiliar new foods.
-Eat with your kids. Family meals serve many benefits.
-Stay calm and don’t take pickiness personally.
-Turn off all outside distractions during mealtime...computer, television, etc.
-Set and stick to a consistent meal and snack schedule. Offer meals every 3 to 4 hours, this will help your child learn what hunger and fullness feels like.
-Offer nutritious snacks two or three times a day, but not right before a meal.
-Combine 2 or more food groups for snacks (graham cracker and peanut butter, apple or pear with a cheese stick, pretzel with low fat cheese, raw veggies with cottage cheese or ricotta, popcorn sprinkled with grated cheese, toasted whole wheat pita with salsa)
-Limit Junk foods! Allow it only once in a while.
-Encourage your children to experiment with tastes and textures. Touching the food is part of the sensory experience of eating.
-Encourage your child’s participation in meal or snack preparation. Visit the library and take out a children’s cookbook.
-Be realistic about your child’s attention span at meal times.
-Try serving, what I call, 1- 2- 3
Julie Mellen RD, CDE, CDN, works at SUNY Upstate University Hospital
Julie Mellen is a registered nutritionist with Morrison Healthcare Food Services at SUNY Upstate Medical University and a regular contributor to Syracuse Parent.
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Posted on Wed, January 6th, 2010
Written by: Julie Mellen,
email: editor@syracuseparent.net
Feeding a 2-to-5-year-old is not always easy! Those of you, who are likely reading this, know all to well that this can be a challenge. Eating or not eating is often how preschoolers express their growing independence. They are developing their own opinions and their own taste preferences and they are willfully expressing those opinions and preferences.
Preschoolers often go through stages, depending on the day! They may choose to eat the same food for weeks at a time (food jags) and then never touch that food again or they may decide or omit whole food groups for a while all together. As long as they are growing, I would not get to upset by it. Look at your child’s intake over the course of a weeks worth of meals.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) developed a MyPyramid for Preschoolers website that can help guide you in creating an eating plan for your preschooler as well as offer you several great tips on nutrition and exercise. You can access this at MyPyramid.gov.
Following is a collection ideas to help your preschool eater expand their food choices.
-Keep meal time positive. Avoid any negative power struggles at meal time.
-Do not bribe or reward your child to eat.
-Do not punish or threaten for not eating.
-Do not force feed or expect children to eat everything on their plate.
-Model good eating habits…children learn what they see!
-Offer a variety of foods at each meal.
-Consider serving different shapes, textures and colors to make food more interesting and tempting.
-Offer familiar foods with unfamiliar new foods.
-Eat with your kids. Family meals serve many benefits.
-Stay calm and don’t take pickiness personally.
-Turn off all outside distractions during mealtime...computer, television, etc.
-Set and stick to a consistent meal and snack schedule. Offer meals every 3 to 4 hours, this will help your child learn what hunger and fullness feels like.
-Offer nutritious snacks two or three times a day, but not right before a meal.
-Combine 2 or more food groups for snacks (graham cracker and peanut butter, apple or pear with a cheese stick, pretzel with low fat cheese, raw veggies with cottage cheese or ricotta, popcorn sprinkled with grated cheese, toasted whole wheat pita with salsa)
-Limit Junk foods! Allow it only once in a while.
-Encourage your children to experiment with tastes and textures. Touching the food is part of the sensory experience of eating.
-Encourage your child’s participation in meal or snack preparation. Visit the library and take out a children’s cookbook.
-Be realistic about your child’s attention span at meal times.
-Try serving, what I call, 1- 2- 3
Julie Mellen RD, CDE, CDN, works at SUNY Upstate University Hospital
Julie Mellen is a registered nutritionist with Morrison Healthcare Food Services at SUNY Upstate Medical University and a regular contributor to Syracuse Parent.
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