{"id":9976,"date":"2015-06-26T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/candostreet.com\/blog-parents\/?p=9976"},"modified":"2015-06-25T07:31:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T11:31:27","slug":"picky-eaters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/picky-eaters-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Picky Eaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/candostreet.com\/blog-parents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20-01-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9997\" src=\"https:\/\/candostreet.com\/blog-parents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20-01-2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Picky\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20-01-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20-01-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20-01-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20-01-2.jpg 1667w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em><strong>Mealtime with a picky eater is a daily challenge! Getting a picky eater to eat more than one or two foods from the food pyramid is a feat.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">There were a few years there when my mother had two picky eaters and three that had the following rigid eating guidelines:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #003366;\">No food could touch another food on the plate.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #003366;\">All foods on the plate needed to be in the same amount so the eater could eat in clockwise order and finish all the foods in equal rotation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Each bite of food had be followed by one sip of water or milk.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">The mealtime rules had to be followed otherwise the meal could not be eaten!<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em><strong>Eventually we all grew out of our picky and ritualistic meal behaviors. Today we all eat just about anything under any mealtime conditions.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">What follows are URL addresses of sites that have suggestions for handling the picky eater in your home. You may have tried some, but hopefully there will be some suggestions that you haven&#8217;t tried. Good Luck!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/healthy-lifestyle\/childrens-health\/in-depth\/childrens-health\/art-20044948\">http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/healthy-lifestyle\/childrens-health\/in-depth\/childrens-health\/art-20044948<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org\/education\/picky_eaters\/\">https:\/\/www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org\/education\/picky_eaters\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.choosemyplate.gov\/preschoolers\/picky-eaters.html\">http:\/\/www.choosemyplate.gov\/preschoolers\/picky-eaters.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parentingscience.com\/picky-eaters.html\">http:\/\/www.parentingscience.com\/picky-eaters.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/parenting\/features\/feeding-a-picky-eater\">http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/parenting\/features\/feeding-a-picky-eater<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-socializer wpsr-buttons\"><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"\" data-layout=\"button\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-show-count=\"false\" data-related=\"\" data-url=\"\" data-size=\"small\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\">Tweet<\/a><\/span><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-google_plus\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" ><\/div><\/span><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-linkedin\"><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"\" data-counter=\"none\"><\/script><\/span><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-pocket\"><a data-pocket-label=\"pocket\" data-pocket-count=\"none\" class=\"pocket-btn\" data-save-url=\"\" data-lang=\"en\">Pocket<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">!function(d,i){if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(\"script\");j.id=i;j.src=\"https:\/\/widgets.getpocket.com\/v1\/j\/btn.js?v=1\";var w=d.getElementById(i);d.body.appendChild(j);}}(document,\"pocket-btn-js\");<\/script><\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mealtime with a picky eater is a daily challenge!<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-socializer wpsr-buttons\"><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"\" data-layout=\"button\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-show-count=\"false\" data-related=\"\" data-url=\"\" data-size=\"small\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\">Tweet<\/a><\/span><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-google_plus\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" ><\/div><\/span><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-linkedin\"><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"\" data-counter=\"none\"><\/script><\/span><span class=\"wpsr-btn wpsr-srvc-pocket\"><a data-pocket-label=\"pocket\" data-pocket-count=\"none\" class=\"pocket-btn\" data-save-url=\"\" data-lang=\"en\">Pocket<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">!function(d,i){if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(\"script\");j.id=i;j.src=\"https:\/\/widgets.getpocket.com\/v1\/j\/btn.js?v=1\";var w=d.getElementById(i);d.body.appendChild(j);}}(document,\"pocket-btn-js\");<\/script><\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1927,1840,444,1960,1885,1841,300],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9976"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10000,"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976\/revisions\/10000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}