TPP 114: Nutritionist Jennifer Scribner on Ending the "Picky Eater Battles"
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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Why does Jennifer Scribner say she doesn’t believe in “kid food”?
I don't believe in kid food. Kids are human beings. Yes, we need to feed them appropriately, weaning, and that kind of stuff. But before all these processed foods and packaging and special shapes were invented, they were just eating a mashed up or smaller pieces of what the family ate. So this whole idea that there is kid food or a special diet that appeals to them is really made up and pushed forth as a commercial. agenda and it has nothing to do with child nutrition or what children really can eat.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rieber, and today I'm talking with Jennifer Scribner, a nutritional therapy practitioner and author of the new book From Mac and Cheese to Veggies Please: How to Get Your Kids to Eat New Foods, End Picky Eating Forever, and Stay Sane in the Process, which is based on Her work with hundreds of clients and details how any parent can dramatically change the diet of their pickiest kids. I know that many of us raising differently wired kids have challenges surrounding food, whether it's sensitivities to textures, intolerances, or simply our desire to get them to expand their food choices to include more greens and healthier options.
In this conversation, Jennifer and I talked about how to achieve these goals all all while eliminating battles around the dinner table. I hope you enjoyed this episode. Hey Jennifer, welcome to the podcast. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. Well, I'm looking forward to talking about this. We have not done too many episodes on nutrition. And when I heard about your book about picky eaters, I think even just that phrase, picky eaters, is something that me and many of our listeners are like, oh my gosh, I need to know more about this because it Especially with differently wired kids, the issue of picky eaters is um it's something a lot of us are dealing with. So I think you're gonna have a lot of insight to share for us today.
Yeah, it's a really common struggle.
Yes, absolutely. So before we get into talking about your book, can you just first introduce yourself, tell us a little bit about who you are and I always like to ask people's personal why, so why you do the work that you do.
Sure. Yeah, so I am by education a nutritional therapy practitioner, and I got into this field for my own reasons of wanting to have clear skin. But what brought me into kind of the current why was working with nutrition, and I'm also a GAPS diet practitioner, gut and psychology syndrome. I primarily ended up working with kids on the autism spectrum. sensory processing disorder or with serious gut issues, eczema, life threatening allergies. And one of the places I was finding a lot of success was helping people with picky eating one on one. But then in the wider world I saw so many families not making any food changes because they were so afraid that their kids wouldn't eat and they couldn't overcome any of this picky eating.
So they're just kind of sitting on the fence there. feeling like they want to make changes, but not doing it. And that is what prompted me to write the book. And that's a message I just don't think is being talked about enough that how doable this is. So I feel really passionate about whatever food changes you want to make. We all want our kids to be healthier and to have more nutrients in their diet. Here's the steps you can take to do that, whatever clan you're choosing.
It's fantastic, you know, just hearing you talk about that. I talked about this when I had a nutritionist on probably a year and a half ago on the podcast to talk about specifically the relationship between diet and ADHD. And one of the things that I said to her was I always felt as if, you know, I have so many other things that I'm focusing on, I don't have the energy to focus on this. Like I'm already dealing with this, this and school problem, you know, just all these other issues. I'm like, if I dive into dietary changes, I may lose my mind.
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