Just Two More Bites!: Helping Picky Eaters Say Yes to Food [Paperback]

Linda Piette (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 25, 2006

Turn “Yuck!” into “Yum!”

How often do you find yourself begging or bribing your child to eat? Every parent experiences the frustration of picky eating, but how do you know if it’s just a passing phase—or cause for concern? Pediatric nutritionist Linda Piette has the answers that will help you solve the frustrating problem of infant, toddler, and preschooler mealtimes.

Filled with insightful and inspiring stories of many children’s struggles with food, Just Two More Bites! gives concrete help to frustrated parents with real-life answers for how to handle day-to-day food struggles. Inside, Piette will also tell you:

• How to make food more appealing to children

• Why your child loves a food one day and rejects it the next

• How to spot food allergies and digestion problems

• Mealtime Do’s and Don’ts

Just Two More Bites! will revolutionize mealtimes in your home and help you and your child enjoy food and develop a lifetime of healthy eating habits.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Pediatric nutritionist and first-time author Piette provides a concise and helpful guide to parents of young children who are picky about what they'll eat. She advocates a whole child approach, arguing that several factors influence children who fuss, including development; biology; personality and life experience; family, friends and peers; and society. A chapter dedicated to helping parents separate what is normal from what should raise alarms is an informative prelude to Piette's strategies for helping children eat, from babies who may need help learning to suck and chew, to willful preschoolers who go through stages of interest and disgust at new foods, to dealing with a child who has learned to vomit at will. Nutritionally balanced recipes designed to appeal to young palates, additional reading suggestions and an eating habits quiz round out the book. Piette's accessible writing makes this an excellent supplement to any program a parent has begun with a pediatric nutritionist.
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“This book should be exceptionally useful to parents.” —Ronald E. Kleinman, MD, Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and editor of the Pediatric Nutrition Handbook

“Thorough and practical ... what a relief for parents struggling with their child’s eating issues to have such a wonderful resource!” —Maria Bartlett, RD, MPH, Certified Parenting Educator and Nutrition Consultant

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Product Details

• Paperback: 294 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press; 1 edition (July 25, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1400081092
• ISBN-13: 978-1400081097
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.7 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #107,757 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book about development and food!, January 2, 2007

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This review is from: Just Two More Bites!: Helping Picky Eaters Say Yes to Food (Paperback)

The title isn't totally what the book is about. This book has so many great points on development and food and the relation between the two and speech development. Not only that but it goes into autism and other special need children and coping with food and development related to food. I love her no nonsense...no emotion approach to food. Its filled with recommendations on other books and readings, recipes, as well as actualy clients storys she has worked with to help the reader relate.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars If you're parenting picky preschoolers, it's too late to get help from this book, October 15, 2009

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Erin K. Simons "Aspiring writer, voracious re... (Central Indiana) - See all my reviews
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Like many mothers of preschoolers, I have a picky kid. My three-year-old daughter will devour asparagus, broccoli and artichoke hearts with vigor. My five-year-old son, on the other hand, won't eat condensed Campbell's chicken noodle soup -- even with the fun shapes! -- because it has miniscule chunks of carrot in it. It can make dinnertime a bit challenging.

I've been trying to find ways to work around his picky palate and get him to try new foods, and thought Just Two More Bites might be the solution. While the book had some good ideas, most of it was really common-sense advice ("Let him choose his own foods!") and repetition of ideas we've already exhausted at this point. There were a few recipes to help sneak vitamin-rich veggies in on kids, but not as many as I'd hoped. And I have to note -- there is no way in hell I'd get my son to eat "green balls" of baked spinach, cheese and bread crumbs. Seriously? My kid with the adventurous palate might even turn up her nose at those.

Overall, I think most of the advice is geared toward parents of young picky eaters -- the recommendations and hints seemed most appropriate for older babies just experimenting with textures and new foods, up to two-year-olds in their defiant stage. I don't think other parents with older kids would find much new information or helpful advice here.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Help for the NON-EATING child., March 29, 2010

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This book helps parent and child alike. It gives ideas to entice the child to eat through behavior modification methods staying calm in this stressful time of your child's life. Offers medical routes, possible physical reasons and so much more that the parent has many avenues to try to help themselves help their child eat well ballanced diets. Example: A child with an open bite may not be able to successfully even tear out a bite of apple or shear of a piece of meat. This book, it explores all facets of digestion and succesful eating and development. Thru this book we are achieving more success ( our 4yr old has open bite, diagnosed by dentist, not gastroenterologist)