FFK39: Five food games to help children to try new foods

Today’s episode is a short and fun one and is a quick roundup of some fun games you can play with your child away from the table in order to build familiarity with foods and help to increase their confidence about the fact that there is no pressure to eat when they explore foods.For all of these activities there is an opportunity for children (and adults) to taste a food, but there is an alternative of exploring the food without tasting it for children who might be more nervous. Joanne runs through some fun games that you can do together and gives alternatives for your children to do in the games if they are not likely to want to taste foods. Even if they never taste a food in a game, they will get to explore the foods, see their parents or siblings tasting or exploring them and reinforce that sense of security that we are trying to give them that they don’t have to eat a food until they are ready and want to, exploring without tasting is valuable too and they are not letting anyone down.Music "Happy Days" by Simon Folwar via Uppbeat