09/24/2026
Trying foods, spitting them out, and making pucker faces are all parts of the process. But that doesn’t make the rejection of foods sting any less. One recent time I served pancakes, Arthur turned his head toward me and calmly looked me square in the eyes while he slowly dropped the pancake pieces from his tray onto the floor one by one. It’s starting to feel personal!
If my food and nutrition career has taught me one thing in preparation for parenting, it’s that food preferences aren’t set in stone. Scientific studies, interviews with feeding experts, and examples from cultures around the world all paint the same picture. We learn to like what we like by repeated exposures to foods and flavors over time.
Needless to say, I don’t have a family friendly pancake recipe for you today. We are still working on that one. (We are also still clearly working on the mealtime etiquette of keeping food on our plates.) But a perseverance of repeated exposures has worked for us for other foods, including one I’m sharing with you today. Read more: https://bit.ly/4hlM5RC
—Kelly
