Recipes - Your Kid's Table

Starting Solid Foods

Starting solid foods with your baby can be an exciting and nerve racking time. Here you’ll find the best practices for how to spoon feed, when to introduce baby food, and how to transition to table foods. Looking for food ideas? Grab our Mega List of Foods for Babies and Toddlers below!

Top 5 Guides for Starting Solids

Child Development Skills

If you want to support and encourage kids' overall developmental skills, you’re in the right place.  You’ll find incredible guides here on core strength, fine motor skills, executive functioning skills, and lots more. Check it all out below!

Top 5 Developmental Skill Guides

School Age Kids

From preschoolers to kindergartners all the way up through the elementary school aged years, this is the place to get all the strategies targeted towards school age kids! Check out our free meal plan for kids and how to help kids fall asleep!

Nutrition

Learn more about kids nutrition, especially as it pertains to picky eaters! Find tasty recipes, portion size recommendations, and even how to teach kids about nutrition.

Top 5 Nutrition for Kids Guides

Recipes

With every one of our picky eater and family friendly recipes, you’ll find simple strategies for helping kids learn to explore and enjoy them. Check out some of our faves like potato skins, crispy green beans, or our mega list of vegetable recipes!

Sensory Issues

This is the place for ALL things sensory: sensory processing, sensory diet, sensory activities, sensory toys, and more, because as OT’s, sensory is our thing!  Get started by grabbing our printable list of 21 sensory red flags you might be missing.

Sensory Diets

A sensory diet is all about meeting your child’s sensory needs to calm, regulate, and improve focus through specific sensory diet activities. Grab our free sensory diet template and list of sensory diet activities below!

Sensory Toys

Sensory toys can be amazing for encouraging any child’s development, but it's especially helpful for regulating kids with sensory issues. Figure out which sensory toys, like fidgets or a sensory swing are best for your child below.

How to Teach Your Baby or Toddler to Eat Table Foods

As OT’s, we’ve worked with A LOT of babies and toddlers that won’t eat solids. Eating is a skill just like talking or walking, and some babies need more help. Snag our Learn to Eat Table Foods printable to get started!

Top 5 Guides to Help Babies That Won't Eat

Baby & Toddler Feeding Milestones

In the first few years of life, babies and toddlers go through a lot of different feeding milestones, from learning to chew to drinking from a straw. Here at Your Kid’s Table, you’ll find detailed guides for each of the feeding milestones. Check them out below!

Feeding Therapy

Here you will find all sorts of resources about feeding therapy, including feeding therapy strategies like food chaining. To get a printable of 20+ feeding therapy ideas and oral motor exercises, click below!

Top 5 Feeding Therapy Guides

Occupational Therapy

Our team is all occupational therapists, so here you will find incredible resources for and about pediatric occupational therapy. Some of our top picks to check out are spatial awareness activities, primitive reflex testing, and sensory integration!

Teens

We have eating and sensory strategies for teens too, and you can find them all here. Let us know if there’s a topic you’d like to see covered for teens!

Top 5 Guides For Teens

Strategies

Get the help you need with our library of strategies to help kids progress in their development or overcome a challenge. Check out our specialties: sensory, picky eating, and babies learning to eat.

Recipes

Find easy and delicious recipes for kids and toddlers that they’ll actually eat, even picky eaters. Vegetable, meat, and protein, breakfast ideas for kids, lunch, dinner, and nutritious bedtime snacks!

Natural Weight Gain Smoothie Recipe for Kids

Worried about your child’s weight? Try this easy healthy high calorie weight gain smoothie recipe that’s specifically designed for  toddlers and kids. Help picky eaters to gain weight! Affiliate links used below.  Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure.   There are two big worries parents often have when they’ve got a kid that’s a picky eater… One, are they getting all the nutrients they need? Two, are they...

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Healthy Kid-Friendly Meals For Picky Eaters

25+ healthy meals for picky eaters that are easy and kid friendly. Free PDF printable with meal ideas! We’ve all done it. You’re scrolling on social media with hopeful excitement and see a super healthy meal that any picky eater will supposedly eat. You decide it looks promising and are going to try it.  You quickly realize that this is anything but simple. There are ingredients you need to buy, and time you need to set aside to set up and...

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7 Fun Ways to Serve Watermelon to Kids

Discover the benefits of watermelon for kids and 7 fun and easy ways to serve watermelon to kids that will have them gobbling it up!    Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure.   Want to get your kid interested in watermelon and have some inspiration for easy ways to serve it? You’re in the right place! Watermelon is an amazing fruit with many benefits and good reasons to include it in your kid’s diet, some that I bet...

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Surprisingly Delicious + Healthy Homemade Kale Chips: A Perfect After School Snack!

Kale is an amazing super food and this kale chips recipe is a perfect way to get it into your kids, even if they’re a picky eater. Enjoy these kale chips as an after school snack or side dish!     In the chaos of getting a 4 year old out of the door after a playdate, my friend leaned in and said, “I made kale chips with the kids for a snack, and James loved them.” At the time, James ate very little veggies, so I was particularly excited...

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Chocolate Dipped Fruit Pops: An easy healthy dessert recipe for kids

Try this delicious and easy healthy dessert for kids… chocolate dipped fruit pops. Two different ways to make them and only 2 main ingredients, you probably have what you need to make them right now!     Kid got a sweet tooth, and you want some healthy dessert options? Or, maybe your kid isn’t too interested in fruit and you want to get some into their diet. I’ve got you covered with this delicious and super easy dessert that’s...

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Kid-Approved Chicken Skewers: A Healthy Protein They’ll Devour!

This chicken skewers for kids recipe is not only delicious, it’s kid-approved. Even picky eater approved! This recipe has a few special tricks that will get kids asking for more…   One thing I hear from Your Kid’s Table followers ALL THE TIME is that they want their kids to eat more protein.  And, I know why.  So many kids these days, even the ones that aren’t picky eaters, are obsessed with carbs and sweets. Some kids...

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7 Day Easy Peasy Meal Plan for Kids + Families

Want a 7-day meal plan for kids that includes meals for breakfast, lunch, snack, and dinner time? Find these easy, do-able, and healthy recipes inside that are perfect for the whole family!   Another day, another dinner to make. Does anyone else feel that way?  Because the truth is, I do sometimes, and if I don’t have a meal plan for kids at the ready, I am DEFINITELY feeling that way. I specify “for kids” because even though I want...

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Green Bean Recipe That Kids Will Chow Down On!

Try this crazy simple way to cook green beans for kids! Learn the special twist to preparing green beans so that your kid comes back for more. Perfect for picky eaters too, with just 5 minutes of prep time.   If you’re like most parents, you wish your kids would eat more vegetables. Or, any vegetables at all. The truth is, vegetables are hard for kids. They’re bitter, often green – a color most other foods are not, and they tend to be...

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Crispy Whole Roasted Cauliflower Recipe: A Perfect Veggie Recipe for Kids

Learn how to make a delicious whole roasted cauliflower recipe that kids, and even picky eaters, will love. It’s unique, easy, and only has a few simple ingredients!   Not too long ago, my husband was flipping through a recipe book a friend had passed along to us. He stopped on one page in particular and stared. He pushed the book towards me and said, “We have to try this!” I knew immediately why he was interested, it was cauliflower recipe,...

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The Picky Eater Approved Chicken Nugget Recipe

Want your picky eater to eat meat or chicken? I’ve used this recipe to get my own kids, and many others, eating meat because of a special, but easy, technique. Find out what it is and the best way to serve your picky eater.   There are two types of food that most parents of picky eaters want their child to eat more of: meat and vegetables. In this post, I’m going to share with you my own recipe, designed from a feeding therapists perspective to...

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