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08/01/2026

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08/01/2026

2025 Wins and Losses 💛

If u ain’t losing, u ain’t trying (right?? 🥲)

Here’s to another year, new opportunities, new failures, new successes!!

May 2026 be whatever u need it to be friends 🥰

06/01/2026

Hellooooo 2026! 💛✨⭐️🌟

I took a lovely wee hiatus over the silly season and as I prepared to get back into posting for the year I realised that I have no freaking idea how I should be marketing my Food Explorer cards 🥲

I went pretty hard trying to grow socials at the end of last year, because:

💛 I want families to have access to high quality feeding info without barriers, and social media is a great way to provide that

💛 as a small business with next to no marketing budget, socials are essentially a free way to find potential customers and ppl who would be interested in my game

But I was going for quantity over quality, posting 2 times a day but not loving the format, it didn’t feel quite personal enough for me, so I’m back to the drawing board

I think 2026 will be a year of trying out different things and seeing what sticks! As always, devastating to know that the process of trial and error inevitably includes making errors but alas, we must persist!

That’s what I’ll be chipping away on this year, and I’m wishing you all lots of luck with whatever you’re planning to chip away at! 💛

Keep on keepin’ on team! It’s only up from here (surely 🤞)

02/01/2026

The double edged sword of picky eaters is that they create chaos for the adults in their lives BUT chaos makes picky eating worse! 😖🥺

If ur feeling like ur stuck in the chaos cycle, swirling and whirling around, here’s some things to try and introduce structure for u both 🥰

📝 create a mealtime routine (e.g. select a dinner time song, wash hands together, give ur little one an age appropriate task to do like put out the cutlery or the cups, and then enjoy the meal. At the end take the plates up together) this can be as simple or elaborate (and whimsical) as u can handle

📝 set clear mealtime expectations, in ways that work for u and ur little eater - “we stay at the table for 20 minutes, I’ve set a timer to show us when mealtime is done”, “it’s okay if u don’t want to try new foods but we don’t say foods are yucky or gross”. Clear expectations that are reasonable and functional for ur family, which are re-enforced clearly and consistently create a sense of structure and predictability

📝 letting them know ahead of time what foods are on the menu, this gives them time to familiarise themselves and their expectations and offers predictability and structure

Good luck team! Ur doing better than I think u are ###

02/01/2026

Food waste is a big challenge with picky eaters!

Seeing meals go uneaten

Knowing u need to expose ur kids to new foods but not wanting to waste food

Especially when the cost of living is so high, it’s incredibly hard

This post is reassurance that ur not alone! ❤️‍🩹
lc posts lots of excellent vids about reusing kids food to minimise waste ❣️

And as for my part, here are some ways I help families expose their picky eaters to new foods whilst being mindful of waste and cost:

💛 use small portions for exposures! A teaspoonful of the family meal on a side plate alongside the meal ur kid will actually eat is a great way to expose them to new foods without overwhelming them or wasting it!

💛 use produce that’s close to expiring for food play! If something is on its last legs it’s a great way to use it up without knowing ur trading off someone eating that food instead

💛 pick one special research ingredient a week, get ur picky eater involved and at the supermarket let them know they can pick one special ingredient to investigate as a food explorer - this keeps cost low

💛 get them involved in food prep - hands on, easy to make playful, a way to get sensory exposures while food is still being used for it’s intended purposes

Keep on keepin’ on team ###

01/01/2026

Okay team, here we go!

There are 24 steps between complete food refusal and eating a food - I’ve posted other videos that show the steps in their entirety but the abridged version is:

🐌 tolerating a food on their plate
🐌 touching the food with a piece of cutlery or another accepted food
🐌 touching the food with their hand
🐌 smelling the food
🐌 touching the food to their face/lips
🐌 taking a bite and spitting it out
🐌 taking a bite and swallowing

If going from refusing to eating a bite is too far for ur picky eater, ur not alone! Try aiming for one of the in between steps instead!

🤎 follow their lead
🤎 don’t push further than they’re comfortable
🤎 slowly and steadily u can move up the ladder

Good luck food explorers ###

01/01/2026

Trying to convince a picky eater to try a new food basically never works!

As it says in the vid:

🪲 when the brain feels fear, the ability to learn is turned off. Most picky eaters have brains that produce a fear response to new foods

🪲 kids’ brains are under construction. Logic and reasoning are higher level thinking and this is an emerging skill for kids at the best of times, when they’re dyregulated or fearful it’s a non-existent skill! They genuinely cannot connect to the reasoning ur providing

So… what now?

🐞 playful exposures to foods with no pressure to eat are helpful for helping kids stay in their regulated brain, having fun, building positive emotional memories with new foods. Over time this is far more likely to help them eat new foods than logic or reasoning

🐞 providing safe foods for nutrition - “fed is best”. When brains and bodies are fed, and new foods are just there for exploring, we are dealing with more regulated kids who are able to tap into learning and curiosity - again more likely to help them eat a new food in the long term!

Good luck team! Keep on keepin’ on xx

31/12/2025

Happy New Year 🥳🤩

Let me begin this new year by reminding u that two seemingly opposite truths can both be true at the same time

💛 u can love ur child deeply, and feel frustrated by them often

💛 u can be frustrated about their eating, and still know that they’re not doing it on purpose, they’re just struggling

💛 u can feel like their picky eating is a personal attack some days, and know that it’s just something going on in their brain and body

💛 u can wish they ate well like their peers, and still love them deeply for exactly who they are

It’s all swirling and whirling around together 🌀 the presence of one feeling doesn’t negate the presence of another 💙

As we step into Jan I am wishing all the parents of picky eaters a year where mealtimes feel more joyful, the dread subsides just a little, and u give urself and ur picky eater more slack (ur both doing ur best!!) 🩵

Keep on keepin’ on team ### welcome to 2026 baby!! 🦋

31/12/2025

What do I mean by this?

Most parents who struggle with their picky eater try to address the feeding challenges during mealtimes (that feels like it makes sense right?)

But the problem with this is that it leads to:
❌ pressuring kids to eat
❌ force feeding
❌ arguments
❌ meltdowns

Basically all the stuff we’re trying to avoid

To really make progress with picky eaters we need to recalibrate the mealtime ✨vibe✨

I know it sounds woo woo but in reality, when adults approach mealtimes already tense and anxious the tone is already set and all this does is reenforce to picky eaters that mealtimes are stressful which further strengthens their negative associations with foods!

Instead, make mealtimes a space to:
✅ connect
✅ chat about the day
✅ have giggles together

And to support your picky eater’s progress:
✅ find other times during the day to playfully expose them to foods (preparing meals together, and afternoon activity with foods, etc)

I promise u, this recalibration will make a world of difference 🌏

Good luck team, keep on keepin on ###

30/12/2025

Summoning the families of beige eaters 💛🥐🍞🥞🧀🥨🍟

Let’s chat:

💛 beige foods are typically processed and/or mass produced, which means they have a high level of consistency. Our brains use familiarity and consistency as metrics for safety. For brains with overly sensitive threat detection systems that often means anything highly consistent = safe, and anything variable or unfamiliar = unsafe. Kids who gravitate towards processed foods often have a brain that perceives foods which vary (fruit, veggies, homemade food) as threats, AND perceives unfamiliar foods as threats

💛 beige foods can be quite bland in flavour (although not all the time), sometimes kids with sensory systems that process flavours more intensely can find beige foods attractive because they have a manageable flavour profile

💛 beige foods often have a dissolvable texture or a texture that can be managed with a munching pattern (the jaw moving just up and down, not going round and round like it does for us). Kids with oral motor delays often gravitate towards beige foods because with the current skills they have these foods are manageable. Now what foods are hardest to manage and require more developed oral motor skills? You guessed it - fruit, veggies and meats (fibrous foods)

It may be any of the above reasons, OR a combination of all 3! In feeding therapy we can investigate and see what exactly is going on 🕵️‍♀️

Is a beige diet a sign of bad parenting? Nope! ❣️

Is a beige diet a sign of something going on with feeding that makes it tricky, AND beige foods happen to be very appealing foods to eat that accomodate for those challenges? Yes! ❣️

Good luck team, keep on keepin’ on xx

30/12/2025

As we head into the new year, let me offer this gentle reminder that u don’t need to overhaul everything all at once!

Small steps, consistently, in the direction u want to head will be much more effective ❣️

I help families struggling with their picky eaters, and this is a reminder to all of u in the trenches with ur little one’s feeding, that picking a single strategy to work on, and doing it every day (or every other day) is going to get u closer to the end goal than trying 10 new strategies all at once (and then inevitably crashing and burning)❣️

HOWEVER - the lesson applies to everyone and everything hehehe to whatever situation ur facing, that u would like to change, I am wishing u a slow, steady, and consistent journey ❣️

This is a message to myself as much as it is to u hehehe

29/12/2025

I made the Food Explorer Cards to help picky eaters and their families for a few reasons:

🩷 I wanted families to have affordable access to feeding therapy strategies, based on real evidence to help their kids make real progress

🩷 I know that even when families hear and understand the strategies, they’re exhausted and their brains are maxed out so trying to think about using the strategies throughout the day is a huge hurdle - our cards take the thinking out of it! Grab a card and play, picky eaters can take the lead and adults can facilitate. Easy peasy lemon squeezy 🍋

🩷 I know so many parents dedicated to learning everything they need to know to be better parents, but fundamentally it doesn’t make sense for u to have to learn everything I know about feeding in order to help ur kid - the cards have the evidence embedded into them so u don’t need to learn anything new, just play the game and it does the heavy lifting

🩷 picky eating causes stress for the whole family! Play and fun are magical antidotes to tension and stress. But sometimes parents say to me “I don’t know how to be playful like you” - the cards take care of that too!

I wanted an easy, simple, meaningful tool for families that brought joy back to mealtimes again! So… I made it 🥰

If this sounds up ur alley, the link is in our bio

Keep on keepin on team ###x

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