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Hi! We’re Anna and Elizabeth, two moms who are also Registered Dietitians and child-feeding experts with over 20 years of experience each supporting families and raising our kids. We’ve helped thousands of parents build anti-diet homes.
We know what it’s like to struggle with feeling overwhelmed with feeding kids who eat very differently and have very different body types. Between us, we have 5 children ranging from teenagers to young children, who have definitely made us feel frenzied at times and tested our own patience around food. We know what it’s like to be working moms juggling packing lunches, planning dinners, and worrying if we’re doing it “right.”
We are also child-feeding experts.
For almost 20 years, we have been helping families decrease their worry about feeding their families and empowering them to trust themselves. In our offices, we support parents who are worried about their child’s eating and health. We love partnering with parents in their quest to end the family legacy of dieting.
When we look around, we see so many parents anxious about what their children are eating and worried if they are eating too much or too little. We’ve been there!
We’ve been the mom of an infant feeling like we have to make homemade baby food. We’ve been a mom who is worried their child is too picky, and we just want them to eat more veggies.
We’ve felt like we need to make every meal from scratch and felt like a failure if our child doesn’t eat what we make. We’ve used all different tactics to try to get our children to eat. We are passionate about keeping diet culture out of parenting and supporting parents to make food simple and stress-free.
We met in graduate school at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health in 2000 and have been friends ever since. Elizabeth is a former professional baker who also loves to cook. She develops recipes and writes about cooking, diet-free parenting, and picky eating. Anna does not love to cook, but she’s passionate about family meals, nutrition, and opting out of the diet and weight loss culture.
In addition to the blog, podcast, and newsletter, we recently created a membership available for parents who want additional support: Take the Frenzy Out of Feeding: A No Pressure Formula for Raising Confident Eaters and Feeding Your Family.
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