This easy shift in perspective has launched a lot strain when feeding my youngsters. (PHEW.)
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Final week, I shared the story of how I misplaced my urge for food final yr, through the stress of divorce. And there was part of that story that I saved to share immediately as a result of it’s barely separate, but very associated to the work I do right here. I’ve constructed a profession sharing recipes for households with little youngsters (or for anybody who simply needs simple and yummy). I share recommendation for “choosy consuming” as a result of I understand how laborious it may be to feed youngsters.
However I additionally know, now in a a lot completely different method, that lumping so many feeding challenges below the “choosy consuming” bucket isn’t serving to us discover simpler methods to feed our households—or serving to the children to eat any otherwise.
In my life at residence feeding my youngsters‚ and after I probe deeper with curious questions to oldsters in my DMs, feeding challenges are often not simply in regards to the meals. Normally, there are different forces at play. And as somebody who simply lived by means of a protracted time frame when it was very laborious to search out meals that was interesting, satisfying, and that tasted good, I ate quite a lot of the identical meals again and again. And plenty of got here out of a package deal.
Similar to our children typically do.
So many instances, after I sat with a meal in entrance of me that I wasn’t involved in, however I knew I needed to eat, I knew deep down why feeding youngsters can really feel so inconceivable.
And the way understanding this a part of feeding youngsters can change a lot in regards to the course of.
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