You can’t blog about kids and food and not address the looming question that comes around every year at this time: what to do about all that candy? Last year was my first Halloween blogging here on The Lunch Tray and I tackled that knotty question in two parts. First, I justified (shakily) my own [...]
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One thing that’s surprised me about blogging is how quickly you get on the radar screen of PR people. Not long after I launched TLT, my inbox started clogging up daily with sales pitches for anything and everything food related. (And some of these pitches are so off the mark, it’s hilarious. Remember this one?) [...]
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Regular TLT readers know about my one child who has been a veggie-phobe since age two, continually astounding me with his refusal to eat vegetables, no matter how deliciously prepared or how much the rest of the family is enjoying them. There have been glimmers of hope, and I’ve shared those here. There was that [...]
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It seems like most families have some sort of rule about the consumption of candy, such as allowing the eating of sweets only once a week, or no more than a certain amount per day, or maybe taking an Ellyn Satter approach and giving kids free reign so long as candy-eating doesn’t interfere with meals. [...]
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Not long after I started The Lunch Tray I told you about Dina Rose, the blogger behind It’s Not About Nutrition. Dina’s a mom with a PhD in sociology from Duke University who teaches workshops and provides private counseling on kid and food issues, especially picky eating. Dina’s latest post may raise some eyebrows. In it, she [...]
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There was an amusing story on NPR’s Morning Edition yesterday about the reporter’s battles to get her three-year-old son to eat vegetables. An excerpt: “I only want mac and cheese! Not peas!” he said to me recently when I tried to tempt him with something green. I replied, “Do you want to grow up to be [...]
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In a perfect world, my kids would gobble up all the fresh, organic produce I buy every week — all the clementines, apple slices, berries, and cubed pineapple or melon I put in their lunch boxes, not to mention the wide variety of vegetables I creatively prepare and serve for dinner every night. In reality, [...]
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I’ve been thinking a lot these days about the issue of control in the kitchen. I’ve always been a believer in Ellyn Satter’s philosophy that parents decide the “when, where and what” of meals and snacks, and the kids decide whether and how much to eat. That translates into three meals a day, plus set [...]
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[Ed. Note: Earlier today we talked about what treats we give out on Halloween. Now, a discussion of managing all the candy that comes into your house.] When my kids were little, dealing with the Halloween candy was easy. I let them eat a fair amount on the night of trick-or-treating, then some more after [...]
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Today was Bento Day on TLT, which means we saw some adorable bento lunches that three talented moms prepare for their kids regularly, and then I interviewed those moms to find out more about bento. But now I want to ask an overarching question: what do you all think, generally, about making kids’ food cute? [...]
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