Family Meals – Why and How – Feed to Succeed Podcast Season 1, Episode 4 Click here to download Jen and Betsy dive into family meals – ups and downs, challenges, and how to overcome some of the most common obstacles such as time, frequency and benefits
Read more →You’re Not a Short Order Cook – Feed to Succeed Podcast Season 1, Episode 3 Click here to download Have you ever found yourself feeling like a short order cook in your own kitchen? We all have. Betsy and Jen discuss this approach to feeding kids, and
Read more →How Are Kids’ Nutrition Needs Different? – Feed to Succeed Podcast Season 1, Episode 2 Click here to download Join Betsy and Jen as they delve into kids’ nutrition needs, and how the heck are they different from adults?!? This lighthearted discussion addresses concerns from milk consumption,
Read more →Introducing the Feed to Succeed Podcast – Feed to Succeed Podcast Season 1, Episode 1 Click here to download Funny, down-to-earth, engaging talk show about kids’ food and nutrition; hosted by dietitian and pediatric nutrition expert, Betsy Hjelmgren and her co-host, culinary arts teacher and foodie expert,
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Before specializing in pediatrics, I could have never imagined how much stress picky eating could cause parents and caregivers. At first parents may feel their child just likes certain foods more than others. Then maybe they don’t like fruits and vegetables. Then parents may begin to watch
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Believe it or not, FPIES, Food protein-induced enterocolitis, was beginning of my love story with Feed to Succeed. I first met Betsy, the owner of Feed To Succeed, at a dinner lecture on FPIES. We quickly realized we had lots in common in the pediatric nutrition world,
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Key to Early Intervention services (EI) for many children is nutrition therapy. In a typical month, four registered dietitians from Feed to Succeed see over 50 children through EI. Assisting these children under the age of 3 meet nutrition requirements to grow and thrive is crucial to
Read more →Rare is the family that doesn’t have a child who goes through a phase of picky eating (or never grows out of one!). Speaking in Northbrook in October to a group of moms of young children with the Mighty Mom Spot, there was not one mom who
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Nutrition is tied to everything in life. Even things that may seem as if they have nothing to do with food and nutrition, like rising rates of ADHD, can be in one way or another linked to diet and eating habits. It’s when I discover these kinds
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The more families I meet, the more peanut free snacks and lunches I discuss during consultations. It feels like almost every school or daycare in the area has gone “peanut free” due to the increase in peanut allergies in children. I clearly have not been the only
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