Readable Moments Book Club

8 Delicious Books For Fussy Eaters

If you have a fussy eater, there are probably around 3 times a day when your anxiety shoots through the roof. Objectively, we know our children will (probably) eat before they starve but damn if it isn’t hard to sit through mealtimes where it seems like our kid probably ingested about 10 calories (and expended 100 more from the wailing and flailing). Sooner or later, it’s a phase most kids will go through so this part of raising kids is very much a stress-inducing rite of passage. In moments of calm, I try to put on my kid hat and recall what I hated eating (green beans… still don’t like them) and I try to have grace that sometimes there are just foods a person doesn’t and won’t like. No matter how old they are. Here are some book recommendations that hopefully make mealtime less combative and more empathetic and, dare I say, even fun…