Feeding Therapy | How To Introduce New Foods | Pediatric Occupational Therapy Tips

How to Introduce New Foods
Hi, today we’re going to talk about how to introduce new foods. It’s kind of a scary topic but it can be really fun. So we first want to start out with a preferred food. I like chips!
So some of the things I like to do is put it on the tray and have them eat two or three of their preferred foods and then after that I like to go “Clean up, Clean up.”
And then we start with a food that is a similar color, similar size, or a similar texture. One of my favorite things to use is veggie sticks.
Veggie sticks are the same texture, they’re both crunchy. So it’s a good segue.
Veggie sticks are also green, so it’s a good segue into a vegetable.
With a veggie stick, if they like to eat them, if not I like to use a masher. We can mash the veggie sticks or I like to use a chopper and we can chop the veggie sticks and hopefully they’ll eat them. If not, playing with them is still good.
After that, I like to link it to a vegetable like sugar snap peas. Because they’re green.
Chips are similar to veggie sticks and veggies sticks are similar to sugar snap peas based on the color.
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