Serving one family meal for different palates

Liane Weintraub, MA CEO & Co-Founder of Tasty Brand Inc, shares advice for parents on how to make one family dinner that your kids with different palates will all enjoy
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Serving one family meal for different palates

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It is so difficult to have 2 different children who eat differently than each other. And I feel very lucky that they both have healthy diets. But my son especially loves fruit. He loves certain things that my daughter, she's more on the vegetable side. They just have different palates. And sometimes that can be really challenging at a family meal, to put something on the table and actually be able to sit down and not be a short-order cook and making one meal for this one and one meal for that one and whole other one for my husband. That can be a big challenge. So I've kind of learned how to just put lots of different options out and everybody knows that's what for dinner, that mommy's not getting back up to make another thing, and if there's something else they would like, there's always hummus and there's always vegetables. There's always almond butter and peanut butter and that's their fall back position. So I am not going to be the one getting up and making yet another option and adding to the menu. They're on their own at that point.

Liane Weintraub, MA CEO & Co-Founder of Tasty Brand Inc, shares advice for parents on how to make one family dinner that your kids with different palates will all enjoy

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Liane Weintraub, MA

CEO & Co-founder, Tasty Brand Inc.

Since 2007, Liane has been on a self-proclaimed “tasty mission” (along with her business partner, Shannan Swanson) to improve nutritional options for children of all ages through their organic snack food company, Tasty Brand Inc. Liane was born and raised in Manhattan, NY, where city life presents some challenges to healthy eating and living. After attending Columbia University (BA), Oxford University and USC School of Journalism (MA), she worked as a local television news reporter at United Paramount Network. She has also been a regular contributor to an array of local and national print/online publications. In that capacity, she encountered many people with heart-gripping stories, the most touching of whom were children. Her commitments to the environment and to children’s causes are an integral part of Tasty Brand. As a journalist, she understands the power of story-telling and is committed to spreading Tasty Brand's message far and wide. A self-taught cook, Liane has a passion for food and good nutrition. Liane and her husband Richard have two children: Ava, age eight and Cole, age seven.

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Transcription: 
It is so difficult to have 2 different children who eat differently than each other. And I feel very lucky that they both have healthy diets. But my son especially loves fruit. He loves certain things that my daughter, she's more on the vegetable side. They just have different palates. And sometimes that can be really challenging at a family meal, to put something on the table and actually be able to sit down and not be a short-order cook and making one meal for this one and one meal for that one and whole other one for my husband. That can be a big challenge. So I've kind of learned how to just put lots of different options out and everybody knows that's what for dinner, that mommy's not getting back up to make another thing, and if there's something else they would like, there's always hummus and there's always vegetables. There's always almond butter and peanut butter and that's their fall back position. So I am not going to be the one getting up and making yet another option and adding to the menu. They're on their own at that point.