Planning meals can feel like an endless battle. When you are feeding a family and everyone doesn’t like the same things, it seems especially hard! I recently told my husband that if I could cook for just myself, there would be a lot more variety in the kind of foods…
When my son was little, he used to complain about his food often telling us that things were spicy. I chalked this up to him not liking certain foods and using the word “spicy” as a catch-all for things he just didn’t want to eat. It frustrated me that he…
One the biggest food struggles in my family are trying new foods. We have gone through various stages of having new foods on plates, not putting it on the plate but having it available at the table, making our daughters try at least one bite before being excused from the…
When I was growing up we didn’t have a choice about what was served to us. I ate almost everything because I knew I wouldn’t get anything else if I didn’t. There were still things I didn’t like (split pea soup and scalloped potatoes were on that list!) but I…