Food is the worst. Helping our kids not have weird issues with food is really complicated and difficult and frustrating.

Things that have helped:

Having a quality “safe food” alongside the “challenge foods”

Trying to make sure the foods we have available are foods we’re comfortable with;

Giving the kids as much control as we can over which things they choose to eat. from the selection we provide;

Trying to model exposures: touching, smelling, tasting, biting things we’re not sure we’re ready to eat.