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Welcome to\u00a0YTF Community<\/a>, a place to safely share in the challenges and joys of feeding our families. And make all of it easier!<\/em><\/p>\n

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I have built a career sharing recipes for families with little kids (or for anyone who just wants easy and yummy). I share advice for \u201cpicky eating<\/a>\u201d because I know how hard it can be to feed kids.<\/p>\n

But I also know\u2014from my own struggles with losing through my appetite<\/a> through the stress of my divorce two years ago and then rediscovering it<\/a>\u2014that lumping so many feeding challenges under the \u201cpicky eating\u201d<\/a> bucket isn\u2019t helping us find easier ways to feed our families. <\/p>\n

And the hyper-focusing on continuously serving new foods that goes along with it is definitely not improving how, or what, anyone is actually eating.<\/p>\n

Truthfully, I mainly eat the same foods over and over when I am left to my own devices. This is easy, comforting, and cost effective. Then, every so often, I try something new, get excited about some other random food, or have a wild craving for something else. I fully own this without guilt because it seems so normal to me!<\/p>\n

But I also FULLY see that the way I eat would be labeled as \u201cbad\u201d or a problem to solve if I was a little kid.<\/p>\n

We have to ditch the idea that we have to keep introducing new foods to our kids\u2014and getting them to eat all of them\u2014as the marker of us doing a \u201cgood job\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are SO many other ways to have happier meal times and gently expand the list of accepted foods. And while I admit that this is not a buzzy sound bite that would do well in a social media post, here\u2019s my take on how to do just that. <\/p>\n

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