How to Get Your Kids Eating Healthily Without the Tantrums is the ultimate guide for parents looking to encourage healthy eating habits in their children—without the mealtime battles. Whether you're dealing with picky eaters, food refusals, or constant tantrums over vegetables, this book offers practical, research-backed strategies to make healthy eating fun, stress-free, and sustainable for your family. Inside, you’ll discover: Why kids are picky eaters and how to manage it without conflict. Creative ways to make healthy food exciting, including fun recipes and presentations. Proven techniques for handling mealtime tantrums, refusals, and emotional eating. How to build a positive, lifelong relationship with food, encouraging flexibility, balance, and independence. Written with busy parents in mind, How to Get Your Kids Eating Healthily Without the Tantrums provides simple solutions that work in real-life situations. From positive reinforcement and family mealtime tips to sneakily incorporating more veggies into your child’s diet, this book covers everything you need to transform your child’s eating habits—without the drama. Perfect for parents of toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age children, this essential guide will help you create a peaceful, healthy eating environment that your entire family can enjoy.

SAY GOOD-BYE TO the daily frustration of picky eating with these effective child-tested, parent-approved No-Cry solutions—including healthy, family-friendly recipes "Without expecting parents to earn their registered dietitian degree by the end of the book, [Pantley] ably explains why a healthy diet is important and includes some kid-favorite recipes from best-selling cookbooks. Parents love the No-Cry series, and libraries would do well to add this to their collections." —Library Journal About the Book: Are you convinced your child will eat only pasta and chicken nuggets for the rest of her life? Worried your son is not getting adequate nutrition? Tired of vegetables being cast as the villain during mealtime battles? Nearly all parents experience a finicky eater at their table, but finding solutions can be difficult. That’s why Elizabeth Pantley, author of the bestselling No-Cry series—the most trusted name in parenting guides—developed gentle, effective, and easy solutions for dealing with picky eaters. Full of tips and tricks, The No-Cry Picky Eater Solution helps you: Get your child to eat—and enjoy!—vegetables, grains, and other healthy food Reduce the sugar, fat, and junk food in your child’s meals without your child noticing the change Make subtle, healthy improvements in favorite recipes to boost nutrition for the whole family Relax and enjoy mealtime and snack time at your home Instill good eating habits that your children can take into adulthood To make your picky eater and the whole family happy, Elizabeth has tapped her culinary friends to share delicious recipes that are not just healthy but kid-friendly, too. Recipe contributions come from: Missy Chase Lapine (The Sneaky Chef) Jennifer Carden (Toddler Café) Kim Lutz and Megan Hart (Welcoming Kitchen) Lisa Barnes (The Petit Appetit) Barbara Beery (Green Princess Cookbook) Cheryl Tallman and Joan Ahlers (So Easy Toddler Food) Janice Bissex and Liz Weiss (No Whine with Dinner) Armed with Elizabeth’s proven advice and these tasty recipes, you’ll be able to serve healthy meals and snacks, along with peace and happiness. With a Foreword by Missy Chase Lapine

The complete guide for parents of picky eaters -- how to end mealtime meltdowns and get your children the nutrition they need Does your child regularly refuse foods or throw a fit at mealtimes? Are you concerned she isn't getting enough nutrition, or that that your child's pickiness might be caused by a hidden medical issue? For every frustrated parent, the food chaining method offers a medically-proven, kid-tested solution. Developed by a team of internationally known medical experts, Food Chaining helps you identify the reasons behind your child's picky eating habits -- be it medical, sensory, or because of allergies. Then, with a simple, 6-step method centered around taste, temperature, and texture, target foods are selected that are similar to the ones your child likes, gradually expanding to all food groups. Does your kid like French fries but won't touch veggies? Try hash browns, and slowly expand to sweet potato fries and zucchini sticks -- and then work your way to steamed vegetables. With helpful information about common food allergies, lists of sample food chains, advice for special needs children, as well as a pre-chaining program to prevent food aversions before they develop, Food Chaining is your guide to raising lifelong health eaters.

Does your child refuse to eat anything but their five favorite foods? Do you wonder if your child's upset stomach, rashes, and behavioral issues are related to food? Do you wish you could introduce veggies to your child's plate without a full on food fight? You're tired of flipping through dietary advice, only to think, "Sounds good, but my kid will never eat this way." In this book you'll learn: How our modern food, medicine, and everyday toxin exposures have left you with a kid who's picky and unhealthy. Three methods to get your child on a new healing diet, with recommendations for different age groups. What to expect during the first two weeks, which is the toughest time. Supplements and foods that can accelerate healing. Troubleshooting tips for the most common problems you'll encounter, like constipation, bedwetting, and eczema. Plus, a section on alternatives if you find your child won't eat or drink something that's required on the diet you've chosen. This book gives you principles that you can use, whatever diet you choose. Whether you're Paleo, gluten-free, sugar-free, elimination, or any other kind of diet, the strategies I share with you in this book will help you to bring that diet to your family dinner table, with no complaints.

Sometimes in our family lives we come across particular problems that we struggle to overcome. This new series of books from Prentice Hall Life will help parents find solutions to specific, yet common, parenting problems. Stress-free Parenting: Meals without Tears is quick and easy to use, giving fast advice to stressed out parents. Dealing with just one issue means that help is focussed and parents can easily access the guidance and techniques they need. The book will also help parents to identify, understand and alleviate their own stresses around eating and mealtimes and help them to recognize the flashpoints and triggers for problems.

This book is written to solve the one of the biggest problem of mothers of today's world i.e. how to teach kids eat healthy food themselves. This book provides you with the insight of what actually you are feeding to your kids. Food is the basic need, there should be no such fuss about it. Yes, we should take care of our child but besides taking care we have to make them independent individuals as well. Think for yourself if your kid can't eat food themselves how will they survive in the society. Most of the mothers think kids are not eating enough food but data shows that child obesity is on the rise. These are two contradictory statements which prevails in the society. This book will help you in finding the solutions of all these questions. In present times there is a need for change in the lifestyle of a whole family then only we can deal with the lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity. The purpose of this book is a very direct and simple one. This is simply a practical, direct action, personal improvement manual. It is written with the sole objective of helping the reader to achieve a healthy lifestyle for themselves and then to the future generation i.e kids.

The Good Parenting Food Guide offers straightforward advice for how to encourage children to develop a healthy, unproblematic approach to eating. Explores key aspects of children’s eating behavior, including how children learn to like food, the role of food in their life and how habits are formed and can be changed Discusses common problems with children’s diets, including picky eating, under-eating, overeating, obesity, eating disorders and how to deal with a child who is critical of how they look Turns current research and data into practical tips Filled with practical solutions, take home points, drawings, and photos Mumsnet Blue Badge Award Winner

What your kids should eat to get a real nutritional edge "This is a book every parent can use and appreciate." -Julie O'Sullivan Maillet, PhD, RD President, American Dietetic Association Does your grade-schooler ever trade away his lunch? Does she only pick at her dinner at home, or complain she doesn't like what's set before her? The grade-school years are nutritionally a very important time for children, and getting your child to eat healthy and make smart choices can be a challenge. Written with the full support of the American Dietetic Association, the American Dietetic Association Guide to Healthy Eating for Kids arms you with practical skills to make sure your kids are eating right even when they're not under your roof. Jodie Shield and Mary Catherine Mullen are mothers as well as registered dietitians with more than twenty years of professional experience in childhood nutrition. Their five-star system offers hands-on advice on how to turn eating dilemmas into fun, nutritionally educational opportunities. Whether your child is a breakfast skipper, an unreasonable eater, a lunch trader, or even a snack-a-holic, you'll find fast, real-life solutions for transforming eating habits, including: Banishing brown bag boredom * Secrets of successful family meals * Smart snacks for hungry kids * The top nutrition mistakes parents make * Fueling your grade-schooler for fitness * The principles of menu planning * Breakfast basics for busy families * Teaching smart nutrition to your young athlete * Developing a gold-star feeding relationship with your child Offering delicious recipes your child won't be able to resist, this timely reference gives you all the nutrition knowledge you need to teach your child how to eat smart-now and for the rest of his or her life.