#57: Get Your Toddler To Eat Meat With These 5 Food Play Ideas!

In this quick tip episode, I’m letting you in on my top 5 ideas for encouraging your toddler to explore meat! Now, does this mean they’ll definitely eat it? No! But, exploring food, touching food, playing with food... these are all great first steps towards actually eating the food. When it comes to picky eating, the strategies are not immediate, there is no one magical, quick fix. But, there are really effective strategies that you can use, at home, to help them make progress, and baby steps, towards being adventurous and trying a food that they’d usually ignore. One of those strategies is food play. I go over why it’s so important to let your toddler play with their food - even at the dinner table - and how to do so in a strategic, non-pressured way, to help encourage them, and work towards seeing some success. If you get value from this episode, please take 1 minute to head over to Apple Podcasts to leave a rating and review (and don’t forget to subscribe while you’re there!). This means the world to me and helps me get this podcast in front of more parents like you who are looking for strategies to help with feeding their babies and toddlers too! ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: If you want more info on how to manage picky eating, with a complete step-by-step strategy, and all the nutritional info you need to feed your toddler healthily, it’s time to enroll in my Feeding Toddlers online course! With everything you need to tackle those picky eating tendencies that often show up in toddlerhood, this course is your ticket to happier mealtimes with your toddler. FEEDING TODDLERS: https://mylittleeater.com/feeding-toddlers/ FOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM FOR MORE FOOD PLAY IDEAS: @mylittleeater CANADIAN AMAZON SHOP: https://www.amazon.ca/shop/mylittleeater US AMAZON SHOP: https://www.amazon.com/shop/mylittleeater SKIP TO... Why try food play? (1:09) 5 Simple ideas for food play with meat (4:57) Bonus tip (10:41)

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Baby led weaning or purees? What foods do I feed my baby? How do I get my toddler to eat veggies? How do I respond when my toddler asks for snacks all day?! Hey there, I’m Edwena Kennedy, registered pediatric dietitian and mom of two, and this is the My Little Eater podcast! Each week, I’ll be dishing out all the best info on feeding and nutrition for your baby and toddler, answering all of your what-do-I-do-when scenarios, and helping you gain complete confidence in, not only feeding your child, but in parenting as well. Every episode is filled with actionable and proven feeding strategies, delivered by a mama and feeding expert, who’s been there and done that. I hold your hand and take you step by step through all stages of feeding, while showing you how to implement what I teach you, so you can raise a happy and healthy little eater of your own!