Nutrition - Page 5 of 6 - 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.

Connection Changes Everything

A weekly podcast for parents raising kids with sensory needs, ADHD, and big emotions.  Alisha Grogan, pediatric OT and mom, shares do-able strategies for parents short on time and energy that build regulated, capable, and connected kids.

Nutrition

Learn about nutrition for toddlers and kids, especially for picky eaters. Get started with our guide for teaching kids about nutrition and our favorite smoothie recipes for kids that are having trouble putting weight on.

Immune Booster Carrot Cake Smoothie for Kids

Fight back against the germs with this delicious and easy super immune booster smoothie recipe that’s perfect for kids too. This is a sponsored post, all opinions are my own. It’s that time of year again… cold and flu season. Boooooo! But, honestly, it seems like its always cold and flu season around my house. Between my three kids someone always seems to be sick and spreading it to someone else, and while I used to have the immune system of a...

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Does Your Child Need Vitamins?

Do you ever wonder if your child needs a vitamin, especially if they are a picky eater? It’s a common question and a legitimate concern for sure. To be honest, it’s one I’ve wondered myself. That’s why I turned to the amazing Sarah Remmer, a Pediatric Registered Dietitian and blogger. She has stopped by to answer this ever nagging question and I’m thrilled to have here, because she is truly an expert in childhood nutrition. Sarah is...

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Mega List of Vegetable Recipes for Kids

Wish your kid would eat more veggies? Most parents do! This collection of vegetable recipes for kids will inspire you and get your kid eating! Ugh, vegetables, aren’t they the thorn in most parents side? I know very few parents that are happy with the amount of veggies their kids eat, and the parents of picky eaters are often down right concerned about it. If you’re new here, you may not know that I don’t like to get into forcing, bribing, or...

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Is Your Picky Eater Healthy?

  The biggest reason picky eating is incredibly stressful for parents is because parents are worried that their child isn’t getting enough nutrition or calories to be healthy and growing well. I have heard the questions hundreds of times: “My son doesn’t eat vegetables, does he need a vitamin?”, “How could they possibly be eating enough to grow?”,or “What if they aren’t getting the nutrients they need?”...

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A Hidden Cause of Picky Eating: Acid Reflux

This post is sponsored by Maty’s Healthy Products. I will be the first to admit that there are many causes to picky eating, and most often there are several layers to the problem. However, working to get to the bottom of why the whole thing started has a lot of value because then you can actually fix what is going on. One of the most hidden causes of picky eating is acid reflux. Is that surprising? I’m guessing yes, but hear me out on this. I know it...

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Does Organic Matter (and Other Food Questions Parents Ask)?

  Does it matter if you give your child organic foods? Should you worry about artificial food dyes? Is processed food okay? Oh my, the list could go on and on. I’ve been wanting to tackle this topic for a while because I think it is really important for parents to hear. How we answer these questions is totally a personal choice, but one I encourage you to thoughtfully consider because the way we handle them can have a big impact on our kid’s...

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Does Your Child Eat Enough Variety?

    What is the biggest frustration parents usually have with picky eaters… The lack of variety! That is the very definition of a picky eater, right? Even parents that wouldn’t consider their kids to be picky eaters would usually prefer their kids to eat a wider variety of foods. How do you get your kids there though? Isn’t that the million dollar question? As an OT, and in my own home, it is a problem I have faced MANY times, and from...

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Family Friendly April Monthly Menu Plan

Family friendly, easy, budget friendly, kid-approved, monthly menu plan with regular food from a mom of three and pediatric OT.   For quite some time I have wanted to share my monthly menu plan with you all, and today I FINALLY get to do that. In this post you will find a family friendly monthly menu plan. I have the calendar set up for April, but it can be easily adapted for any month. I have listed breakfast, lunch, and dinner for every day of the mon....

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How to Help Picky Eaters Take Medicine

*This is a sponsored post.   It’s that time of year… The weather is changing… Kids are in school… Germs are being shared… Kids are getting sick. While there are certainly measures we can take to prevent these infections, sometimes they are just inevitable. While it isn’t a picnic for any kid (or parent) when they are sick, it can be that much more difficult for the picky eater or problem feeder that needs to take medicine....

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The Ultimate List of Baby/Toddler Meal Ideas

Huge list of toddler and baby meal ideas. Perfect for baby led weaning, transitioning to table foods, or toddlers. Meals the whole family can eat.     Three years ago, I wrote a big list of baby finger food ideas (when my second child was in this stage), and it has remained one of the most popular posts on Your Kid’s Table to date. I know parents are looking for baby/toddler food inspiration! I wanted to take this post a step further and share...

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