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Cooking Claire
Cooking Claire is a mother three and a child psychologist. Aside from raising her own kids she has a lot of experience with elementary and middle school kids. We discussed what was hard about picking a meal for a picky child and also what could be better. Picking meals was largely trial and error, it’s hard to find something that is popular especially when there is more than one child (she had one child who only ate cheerios for a while). Nutrition is important, but its hard to get kids try things that are new or nutritious. To fix this the meals were usually separated into pieces so the child could pick the parts they liked. She ended up tailoring the meals to the children’s needs, but didn’t have a single place to hold what all of the kids liked. The most important thing for Cooking Claire was having the whole family together at the dinner table. She would do whatever she could to find a meal that everyone would like.
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Children 5-10 years old (the ones who eat)
These are the children. They might be really picky or not very picky at all. They are the ones who need nutrition most of all, and often become obsessed with certain foods.