Our daughter isn't eating mango quinoa salads just yet, but food therapy has helped our picky eater
CHICAGO - The breakthrough bite took place about 30 minutes into treatment. My daughter Kate bravely raised a cracker to her mouth and, with little hesitation, took a bite. That cracker had cinnamon in it, a spice she hadn't tried in years.
Most parents have struggled with picky eating children. But Kate, my funny, ordinarily easygoing 12-year-old daughter, is an extremely picky eater.
She has never met a fruit she likes. She won't sit next to someone eating bananas, blueberries or yogurt. And she's so choosy about breakfast and lunch foods that for the past four years, she's been drinking Ensure, a nutritional supplement, for those meals.
That's what led us to seek the aid of Karen Dilfer, a Chicago-based occupational therapist
