Many of you read an article in today’s New York Times on the growing ubiquity of “food pouches,” i.e., fruit, vegetable and grain purees for young children, packaged like this: I’d certainly noticed the recent proliferation of these squeezable foods in my own market, but with a 10- and 12- year-old at home, they didn’t make much of an [...]
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So, for any TLT newcomers out there who haven’t read about my struggles, I have one child, now nine, who has continually astonished me since age two with his stubborn stance against vegetables. While there have been little pockets of success over the years (remember the spinach malfatti and the “Miracle Mu Shu Vegetables“?), it’s [...]
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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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