In Is Your Baby Ready to Eat Solid Foods? What a Good Eater Podcast, we help you to answer the question: Is your baby truly ready to begin chowing down?

If your baby is around 4-6 months old, there are five checkpoints needed to begin solid foods. We’ll take you through each of them so you can feed your baby confidently and enjoy watching them experience those first yummy bites.

Be sure to stay tuned for our next episode, where we discuss how to begin solid foods with your baby.

Links mentioned

• What a Good Eater! cookbook on Amazon
• American Academy of Pediatrics Recommendation for Complementary Feeding

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Check out the What a Good Eater! cookbook for fantastic ideas on family-friendly meals, sample food schedules and menus by age, healthy snack ideas by age, and meals ready in about 30 minutes or less for busy parents.

In Useful Tips for Drama-Free Dinners: What a Good Eater Podcast, Ali & Amy offer six useful tips for drama-free dinners and practical ways to put them to use. Mealtimes can be stressful, but they don’t have to be! Try out a few of these with your family and take the tension out of mealtimes.

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Links Mentioned:

• Ellyn Satter Institute
• USDA National Agricultural Library
• What a Good Eater cookbook, on Amazon

Check out the What a Good Eater! cookbook for fantastic ideas on family-friendly meals, sample food schedules and menus by age, healthy snack ideas by age, and meals ready in about 30 minutes or less for busy parents.

In the Which Foods to Purchase Organic and Why: What a Good Eater Podcast, Ali and Amy share:

• why it’s important to purchase organic foods
• the “Dirty Dozen” list of foods to purchase organic
• their favorite places to buy fresh produce and meat
• tips on eating clean within budget, as well as what to look for when purchasing meats.

Links Mentioned

• Top 10 Reasons to Go Organic, Prevention Magazine
• 2018 Dirty Dozen List
• Organic Consumers Association Safeguard Organic Standards
• What a Good Eater! cookbook, on Amazon

Check out the What a Good Eater! cookbook for fantastic ideas on family-friendly meals, sample food schedules and menus by age, healthy snack ideas by age, and meals ready in about 30 minutes or less for busy parents.

Dealing with sugar-loving kids can be challenging: how much sugar is okay? What foods can we purchase that are lower in sugar? How can we wean our kids off of excess sugar? In the How to Handle Kids Obsessed with Sweets: What a Good Eater Podcast, Ali and Amy talk about how much sugar is okay for kids, what to look for on labels, and ways to keep the family happy while keeping our kids healthy.

Check out the What a Good Eater! cookbook for fantastic family-friendly meals, sample food schedules by age, healthy snack ideas by age, tips on how to deal with picky eating, and meals ready in about 30 minutes or less for busy parents!

Links Mentioned

• American Heart Association guidelines on sugar for kids
• What a Good Eater cookbook, on Amazon
• For healthy dessert options, consider fresh fruit or homemade popsicles from the What a Good Eater! blog

Getting kids to venture out and try new foods can be tricky. In this episode of How to Get Your Kids to Try New Foods: What a Good Eater Podcast, Ali and Amy discuss how to get your kids to try new foods, including specific strategies to entice your little eater to venture out of their comfort zone!

Check out the What a Good Eater! cookbook for fantastic family friendly meals, sample food schedules by age, healthy snack ideas by age, tips on how to deal with picky eating, and meals ready in about 30 minutes or less for busy parents!

Links Mentioned:

Tips for getting out of your food rut (serving the same foods over and over)

What a Good Eater!, on Amazon

Keeping little ones entertained while we cook can be trying. In 4 Ways to Entertain Your Kids While You Cook: What a Good Eater Podcast, Amy and Ali offer helpful tips on how to keep your kids happy and busy so you can put dinner on the table.

Check out the What a Good Eater! cookbook for fantastic family friendly meals, sample food schedules by age, healthy snack ideas by age, tips on how to deal with picky eating, and meals ready in about 30 minutes or less for busy parents!

Links Mentioned:

• What a Good Eater! cookbook, on Amazon
• V-Tech Computer for Toddlers
• Trolls Puzzles
• Jumbo roll of kraft paper
• Sample Schedule of Life with 2 Toddlers

Every parent struggles with some form of picky eating with their kids at one time or another, but a certain things can help mealtimes go smoothly. In How To Ensure Success with Kids at Mealtime: What a Good Eater Podcast, Amy and Ali discuss ways to help your kids eat successfully and calmly.

Check out the What a Good Eater! cookbook for fantastic family friendly meals, sample food schedules by age, healthy snack ideas by age, tips on how to deal with picky eating, and meals ready in about 30 minutes or less for busy parents!

Links Mentioned:

What a Good Eater! cookbook, on Amazon