Finding meals to please everyone is hard…impossible even. My advice would be not to try.

When planning meals for the week, pick a family member you’re going to most please one night, another family member another night and so on.

We can’t please everyone all the time and through not always eating their favourite foods, not only are children exposed to the wide variety of ingredients they need to be in order to learn to like new foods, they also learn to be understanding, how to compromise, how to deal with disappointment and much more.

If you need to, you can add some preferred foods to the table for those who are going to find the meals challenging. This way there is something on the table you know they’ll eat. 

But PLEASE don’t forget yourself! So many of the parents I work with have lost all joy for cooking and eating because they have restricted their diets to just what they know their children will eat or because they’re pleasing everyone else and not themselves.

Can you pick a day next week to make and enjoy a meal that you’d like to eat? Take the first step towards introducing more variety back into your mealtimes whilst supporting your children to learn to like more foods.