Yearly archive for 2021

How to Encourage Healthy Eating Through the Holidays

The holidays are here! That means lots of celebrations, busy schedules, school breaks, and favorite holiday treats. Keep reading for tips about how to encourage healthy eating through the holidays. 1. Involve kids in the kitchen. Let them help you pick a holiday recipe, prepare, and cook

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Changing Family Dinner Expectations: As a Pediatric Dietitian, I Often Want To Do Away With Family Dinner

By Amanda Gordon, MS, RDN, LDN, IBCLC and Nia Batmunkh, Dietetic Intern Changing family dinner expectations can be important for parents struggling with dinner. As a pediatric dietitian, I talk with many families about what dinner looks like in their homes.  After countless conversations with exasperated and

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Greek yogurt for kids: Why It’s Healthy and How to Serve It

Greek Yogurt For Kids Why is Greek Yogurt Healthy? Greek Yogurt, also known as strained yogurt, has 187 mg of calcium content (14% of dv for teens and 19% daily value for kids 4-8). Plain Greek yogurt is also high in protein and lower in carbohydrates and

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Breakfast Ideas For Picky Eaters

Picky eating is common in kids and even teens! In this blog post, Feed to Succeed Registered Dietitians give their input and tips on breakfast ideas for picky eaters! Try Non-Traditional Breakfast Foods  “Truthfully, I feed my picky eater non-traditional breakfast food! She loves pasta with tomato

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Check out our latest article, published 3/4/21 in Building Blocks for Life!

Betsy and Amanda, in conjunction with feeding therapist Ellie Trefz, and dietitian Dan Frazier, are featured in this month’s publication of the AND PNPG newsletter! Click the link to download the PDF for more info! PNPG Case Study Article

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What I would do differently now: reflections of one mom’s experience feeding a child with a G-tube and trach.

One of our passions at Feed to Succeed is tubies (tube-fed kiddos). I recently asked one of my long-time, favorite moms to share her insights on what she would have done differently in regard to feeding her tubie if she knew then what she knows now. She

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