Food & Nutrition Child Developement

Feeding your growing kids can be quite a challenge, especially if they are going through a fussy eating phase. So take up the challenge and learn some new tricks, ideas and innovative ways to present food to your young ones that it becomes hard to resist. We share some of our favourite ideas from Instagram mums that might just persuade your fussy eater to eat!

Play with shapes

Add on to the lunchtime fun by presenting your regular sandwiches into different shapes, forms and figures using a sandwich mould maker.

Source: @thelunchpunch

Innovate with cutlery

Use innovative food cutlery, like this food separator and see the magical effect it has on your picky eater.

Source: @busymomza

Sandwich fun

Cut out shapes like bunnies out of your regular bread loaf to make attractive sandwiches. Couple it up with an interesting bunny story to make breakfast time even more fun.

Source @lizpoplil12

Creative Food

Kids would love to have their favourite cartoon characters become a part of their food. Innovate with ideas like these corncob minions.

Source: @leesamantha

Pizza delight

Add nutrition to your kids favourite food like this no bake chocolate pizza and make it even more irresistible. 

Source: croque_maman

Happy Lunching

While the sandwich shapes use the centre of the bread, the crust can also be used to make French toasts or even a perfect sunny side up trapped between the crusts. The new look to the egg will be an eye catcher for your fussy eater.

Source: @lunchboxpals

Finger foods

Use grazing platters like these to encourage healthy eating. These platters, once kept around the kids, act as the perfect pick up snack in between games for the kids with their different colours and crunch.

Source: @littlepeepseats

Fun foods

Turn your orange slices into this colourful cut fruit bird to draw their attention and make them grab a bite.

Source: @creativefun4you

Variety is the slice of life

Combine a number of healthy and fresh homemade food items to make your child eat better. Like this platter of homemade sausage and apple roll, cheese puffs, peas, a strawberry, banana and an apricot energy ball.

Source: @feedingmyfussytoddler

Plate faces

Use your plate to create a face and make your fussy eater stay with the food rather than run away from it. Like the awesome strawberry, cucumber and berry combination below.

Source: @motherfudgerblog

If you try any of these ideas, we want to know if your toddler loved it! Tag us at @mykinderpass on your Instagram post.