Holly Tickner, Next Bite SP

10/09/2023

Not my usual kind of post, but we’ve had a shocker of a winter like many families around. So here’s a couple of ideas to keep your kid busy if they are stuck in the house but you can’t handle the sound of the Frozen movie soundtrack any more 🤪

1. Sensory play tea party. Grab those dried chickpeas you swore you were going to make hummus out of, some uncooked rice, some lentils… whatever you’ve got kicking around. Add in some water, give your kid some little bowls and spoons et voila! Pro-tip: Put it all on a tray or on top of a tea towel to catch (most of) the mess. Want to make it feeding therapy? Chuck in some tiny pieces of a new or non preferred food to be added to the potions being created.

2. Just add water. When in doubt, let your kid play with water. Wash the dishes with extra soapy (and bubbly) water, have a second bath, make your doll a swimming pool in the laundry sink, give the cars a car wash, wash some tea towels in the sink and hang them up. Wanna make it feeding therapy? Add a new sensory experience to the play (like some yogurt ‘mud’ you need to wash off the cars) or introduce a new food into functional play (like washing the potatoes while they’re at the sink).

3. Make comfort food together. We’ve been baking cakes, making cinnamon sugar toast, eating hash browns… whatever is needed to keep tummies full. Food is food, it has no moral value. Feed your kid, you’re doing a great job.

Bring on summer and good riddance to this germ-riddled winter!

08/08/2023

The Taste Buds name is changing! 👀 It’s been a wonderful five years (or more, six I think!) working under my Taste Buds business name. But now that I’ve joined with the wonderful Asha Bodycoat (Speech Pathologist) and Annie Robertson (Dietitian) it’s time for a fresh name 🍍 🍊 🍏 🍉 In the next couple of days this page will change over to Next Bite! Well, it will change to ✨ Holly Tickner, Next Bite SP ✨

Thank you for being here and for the support so many of you have shown me over the last five years, it’s been a pleasure and I am so excited to start sharing with you what’s to come 😊 💕

To find out more about my new business & colleagues, head to Next Bite Paediatric Feeding Centre or visit www.nextbitefeeding.com.au 🙌

Professional learning in paediatric feeding for allied health professionals.

20/06/2023

This recipe is for all the babies out there who hate Weetbix. You know the ones. They 💕love💕 finger foods, they 👹hate👹 spoon foods. I get it - not all kids like sloppy or sticky wet foods. But how can we get that same great nutrition into them, without spoon feeding them? (And how do we use up that packet of Weetbix now sitting in the cupboard?). This recipe is for YOU!

💃🍌Super easy four ingredient Weetbix banana bites! 💃 🍌
Mash 1 ripe banana, beat in 1 egg. Crumble in 2 weetbix and stir all together with a teaspoon of sweetener (I actually used golden syrup but you could use date syrup, maple syrup, or honey for the >2yo).
Plop into patty pan cases or into a shallow slice pan. Cook for about 8-10min at 180*C in the air fryer or oven.

I added choc chips because why not. But you could add in sultanas, frozen berries, some chia (let it soak a bit first) or whatever you like!

They end up like little flat pancake-type discs with a soft easy to chew texture. An excellent finger food no matter what your age (I ate most of them… ahem).

Do you have a kid that refuses the spoon?

12/06/2023

Who is this 👀 It’s still me! Hi! 👋 I’ve finally updated my social media deets to my ✨ new ✨ business! I’ve loved being TasteBuds Feeding Therapy. Very nostalgic to see it go, tbh 🥺 BUT I am so so so excited about all the big plans has to come, and am loving this new adventure with my beautiful & talented colleagues Asha Bodycoat (SP) and Annie Robertson (DT).

THANK YOU to all my delightful followers, I hope you stick around. It will be the same erratic content, with no cohesive Canva styling, and most of my posts will still probably still be memes and recipes 😆 Thanks for coming along for the ride! Please keep staying in touch, messaging me, and tagging me in your things - I love the connection that this platform brings. So it’s still me, TasteBuds, just… more me?! 😄

(I’ll slowly update my other social media and webpage, as I find the time)