Help my picky eater try new foods
A calm, low-pressure plan for widening a child's food range, with meal ideas and what to say at the table.
The prompt
Help me support my picky eater in trying new foods.
Child's age: [AGE]
Foods they reliably eat: [LIST]
Foods or textures they refuse: [LIST]
What mealtimes look like now: [e.g. "battles every night", "separate meals for them"]
What I've tried: [e.g. "bribing with dessert", "hiding vegetables"]
Family schedule and cooking time: [DETAILS]
Give me:
1. A short explanation of why picky eating is common at this age and what usually helps (repeated low-pressure exposure, division of responsibility, modeling).
2. A "food bridge" list: new foods that are similar in taste, color, or texture to the ones they already accept.
3. A 3-week plan: how often to offer a new food, how to serve it alongside a safe food, and how to track exposures.
4. Phrases to use and phrases to avoid at the table.
5. Ways to involve them (shopping, washing, choosing) that build curiosity.
6. How to handle refusal without a battle or a separate meal every night.
Tell me plainly to talk to my child's doctor if they eat a very limited number of foods, are losing weight or not growing, gag or choke often, or show strong distress around food - these can need professional support.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- AGE
- LIST
- e.g. "battles every night", "separate meals for them"
- e.g. "bribing with dessert", "hiding vegetables"
- DETAILS
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the Few-Shot structure (Few-shot prompting). A few-shot prompt includes one or more worked examples of the input and the output you want, so the model can copy the pattern instead of guessing it.
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