Drs. Laura Jana and Jennifer Shu, who also wrote “Heading Home with Your Newborn”), continue to bring “peas and harmony” to family meals with practical advice gleaned from their experience both as pediatricians and as moms in their new book, Food Fights, 2nd Edition.
Knowing what to feed children is one thing. Getting them to eat it is quite another! In Food Fights, 2nd edition, the authors tastefully blend the science of nutrition and pediatrics with the practical insights of parents who have been in your shoes―offering simple solutions for your daily nutritional challenges. Whether you’ve got an infant, toddler, or young child, Food Fights promises entertaining, reality-based advice on:
▪ How to pick your battles (and arm yourself accordingly)
▪ Whining and dining, throwing food, and other dietary distractions
▪ Heaping helpings, TV dinners, fast food, and other nutritional minefields
▪ Eating out, grocery shopping, and travel
▪ The 5-second rule
▪ Drinking and dozing, juice, soda pop, and other classic drinking problems
▪ Sick kids, vitamins, body weight, allergies, constipation, spitting up…and so much more!
This revised second edition also includes new chapters on healthy breakfasts, what’s lacking in snacking, and supermarket sanity, and serves up important guidance on making sense of package labels and choosing foods wisely. Add the cornucopia of resources such as recipes for success, a nutrient primer, and phone apps that help families stay on a tech-savvy track to good nutrition and this new and improved edition of Food Fights is guaranteed to leave you satisfied.
This book was written so well and was so easy to read! They pretty much cover any questions you have about food, eating, drinking, and even illnesses that you would have with your children from birth to teen years! My favorite chapter was the 5-Second Rule!
As pediatricians and moms, Drs Jana and Shu know that it’s important to focus on good nutrition, but also to pick your battles. Food Fights offers reassuring and practical advice for parents who are worried about whether their kids are eating too much, not enough, or nothing green. I worry a lot and my kids and I have had some huge battles over their eating habits but know I know what is important and what is an dhow to deal with it better.
Buy It: You can purchase Food Fights for $10.17 on Amazon.com
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I live in a small Georgia town that you most likely have never heard of and I LOVE it! My house is more than full as I am a single mother of four & caregiver to my aging mother and uncle. Lover of all things Outlander. Goes to the beat of her own drum woman.
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No kids yet but I would love to read this to get a head start. Thanks!
Really there is not trick with me. I find that if I have my kids help me chop veggies or help me pick them out in the store…they are more willing to eat or at least taste the food.
mine is just to feed them lots of veggies and fruit, if they dont eat veggies then to sneak them in the fruit
We are currently struggling with our two year old. We’ve created bad bad habits in her, and dinner time has become war time in our house. I’ve started doing all the things I know I shouldn’t, like having separate meal times for her and us, only preparing foods I know she’ll eat, using pressure and bribery to make her eat, and using sweets as a reward for “eating a good dinner.” Last night, I told my husband we were going to start feeding her what we eat and eating as a family. She devoured the pork loin, carrots, and green beans and even tasted the potatoes! She also tried and LOVED gravy I’d made from the stock left in the crockpot. My husband still wants to give her candy that he hides in a little drawer while she washes up from dinner, but, after she finished the candy and asked for dessert we gave her a banana. Small steps, I guess. I’m still hoping to convince him that rewarding her with sweets for eating a good dinner is basically telling her that sweets are better than dinner and putting pressure on her to eat. He is more concerned that she not go to bed hungry, and I think she should learn self-regulation when it comes to food. He and I have both struggled with our weight and both were encouraged to be in the “clean plate club” as children. I’ve recently lost 65 lbs, and I know how hard it is, and I don’t want to set Savannah up for the same sort of future.