Kids Dig Food

06/11/2025

✨ Feeding Kids: Why It’s Tough (and Totally Normal!) ✨

Feeding children can be one of the most challenging parts of family life. Even with the best intentions, parents often face resistance, unpredictability, and frustration at mealtimes — and that’s completely normal!

Did you know that 50–70% of Aussie kids show fussy eating behaviours at some stage? Understanding this helps take the pressure (and guilt) off. Kids naturally crave sweet and carb-rich foods — they fuel growth and brain development — and nutrient intake balances out over time, not at every single meal. 🍞🍌

It’s also normal for children’s appetites to fluctuate — growth spurts, tiredness, or routine changes all play a part. The key? Keep offering balanced choices and model positive eating.

Encourage autonomy by letting kids choose between two options (e.g. “carrot or cucumber?”) or help prep meals — it builds confidence and reduces mealtime battles. 🥕

To read more about this topic head to our blog: Common Challenges of Feeding Children and Young People at www.kidsdigfood.com.au/blog

If mealtimes feel stressful or your child’s diet is very limited, our Accredited Practising Dietitians can help with tailored strategies. You’re not alone — support is available to make mealtimes calmer, happier, and nourishing for everyone.

Call us on 1300 971 609 or click the link in our bio to complete our online booking form and one of our Client Care Officers will be in contact soon.

The Kids Dig Food team ♡

21/10/2025

🌟 Children’s Week 2025: Celebrating the Rights of Every Child!

This year, Children’s Week runs from 18–26 October 2025, under the powerful theme: “Everyone should know about Children’s Rights!”, inspired by Article 42 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

From national to local levels, communities across Australia are hosting many free events that shine a light on children’s achievements, creativity, and their right to be seen and heard. It’s a time to honour childhood, education, and well-being.

Here at Kids Dig Food we believe every child deserves the chance to feel safe, confident, and joyful. Our passion comes from knowing that we all benefit when our children see the world as a place of possibility ✨

For more information head to https://childrensweek.org.au/

The Kids Dig Food Team ♡

02/10/2025

💪 Did you know that Deb our Director has delivered hundreds of face-to-face workshops and online webinars to Childcare and Early Learning services and Schools over the past 12+ years?

🧡 She loves working with services who are passionate about improving the nutrition and also the eating experiences of children.

🌼 Deb will change the way you think about food and feeding forever!

DEB'S SPECIALTY: Deb always tailors workshops to the specific needs of early childhood educators and their parents and communities. She knows that questions facilitate learning, so there is always plenty of time to ask questions and share experiences along the way.

Here's what Angela from Tarragindi Childcare had to say about working with Deb:

"The webinar was practical, honest and covered diverse aspects in relation to feeding children. Very reflective and supportive for situations families may find themselves in."

If this sounds like something your Childcare service needs, have them reach out to us via our website or online booking form (link in bio) and we'll schedule a free 15 minute discovery call with Deb.

The Kids Dig Food Team ♡

25/09/2025

What happens when kids (and adults) understand that humans come in all shapes and sizes?

🦋 Kids (and adults) feel good or neutral about their bodies - they have an improved body image.

🙌 Bullying based on body size doesn’t happen.

✨ Disordered eating and eating disorders become less prevalent.

🌼 Weight stigma isn’t a thing.

🙂 Physical and mental health and wellbeing is improved for everyone.

If you need support with your child's nutrition, eating or relationship with food, we're here to help. Head to our website www.kidsdigfood.com.au and complete the booking form. One of our Client Care Officers will be in contact soon.

The Kids Dig Food Team ♡

23/09/2025

☀️ Happy Nourish Day ☀️

Last Thursday the team got together to celebrate our Nourish Day, except things looked a little different!

For the very first time, the team trialled doing a condensed version VIRTUALLY and it was a HUGE success.

While we love nothing more than getting together in-person, there are times when we need to be flexible in terms of travel and wellness (our team lives all over SE Qld and the GC).

The theme for Thursday's virtual get together was team and client well-being.

Here at Kids Dig Food, health, balance, and connection is at the core of everything we do 🧡

For our clients, this means feeling heard, valued, and cared for in every interaction.

For our team, it’s about fostering open communication, balance, and compassion so we can continue to show up wholeheartedly.

Together, we’re welcoming the final 3 months of 2025 with gratitude and care, and looking forward to all that’s ahead.

The Kids Dig Food Team ♡

22/09/2025

🎉 Weight Stigma Awareness Week () - 23-24th September

Tomorrow kicks off Body Equity Alliance () and teams co-creation of programs to eliminate anti-fat bias-rooted in racism, to end the resulting stigma, shame, trauma, and discrimination around body shape and size!

What to expect:

✸ Live Educational Sessions: Join them for ten FREE LIVE virtual educational events to learn about combating weight stigma, and have the opportunity to earn up to five CEUs for FREE!

✸ Engagement: Learn how you can take action to make a difference in your own community. Start by exploring the White Paper created to discuss crucial changes that need to be made across several sectors.

✸ Collaboration: They have created a social media toolkit to help us spread the word, as well as compiled a list of vetted resources for you to learn and share from safely.

To learn more or register for these awesome two days, head to https://weightstigmaawarenessweek.org/ 💜 Remember it starts tomorrow!

The Kids Dig Food Team supports weight neutral care. To learn more about our approach, head to the link in our bio to read our blog on 'Weight Neutral, not Weight Loss: Kids Dig Food paediatric dietitians provide a common-sense and compassionate approach to supporting children in larger bodies' or head here: https://kidsdigfood.com.au/weight-neutral-not-weight-loss-kids-dig-food-paediatric-dietitians-provide-a-common-sense-and-compassionate-approach-to-supporting-children-in-larger-bodies/

If you need support with your child's nutrition, eating or relationship with food, we're here to help. Head to our website www.kidsdigfood.com.au and complete the booking form. One of our Client Care Officers will be in contact soon.

The Kids Dig Food Team ♡

15/09/2025

What is the best way to “teach” body size diversity to kids? Speak kindly about bodies, always!

🐝 Speak kindly about your own body
🐵 Speak kindly about your child’s body
🦚 Speak kindly about other people’s bodies

Check out this blog for more detail on how to do each of these things… https://www.health.tas.gov.au/news/blog-posts/three-ways-parents-can-shape-childs-body-image

And check out this cool Youtube video: https://youtu.be/dG76B1iqw5w

Dear Parents, if your relationship with your own body could be better, please go gently. Taking tiny steps towards body acceptance isn’t just good for our kids, it benefits everyone, including you

If you need support with your child's nutrition, eating or relationship with food, we're here to help. Head to our website www.kidsdigfood.com.au and complete the booking form. One of our Client Care Officers will be in contact soon.

The Kids Dig Food Team ♡

A positive body image is about respecting your body whatever its shape, size or colour. The way you feel and talk about bodies and eating has a big impact on...

11/09/2025

💛 Today is R U OK? day and the team over at R U OK? Want to remind us to Ask R U OK? any day, because life happens every day.

Whether it’s a friend, family member, partner, or colleague, the people around us go through life’s ups and downs every day. That’s why we want everyone to feel confident to check in with the people they care about and Ask R U OK? Any Day.

A CONVERSATION CAN CHANGE A LIFE

inspires and empowers everyone to meaningfully connect with the people around them and to start a conversation with those in their world who may be struggling with life.

You don't need to be an expert to reach out - just a good friend and a great listener.

R U OK? suggests using these four steps to have a conversation that could change a life:

🗣️ Ask "R U OK?"
👂 Listen
🙂 Encourage action (ie getting outside, seeking a professional's help, suggesting other helpful strategies)
🫂 Check in

To learn more about the organisation R U OK? or for more supportive resources head to https://www.ruok.org.au/r-u-ok-day?

The Kids Dig Food Team 💛

08/09/2025

Embracing body size diversity “means fostering environments where all individuals feel seen, respected, and valued for who they are, not just for how they look.”
Reference: https://lifestyle.sustainability-directory.com/term/body-size-diversity/

Unfortunately, our society has a very narrow ideal of “acceptable” body sizes and shapes that are considered desirable, which is not consistent with the natural variability of human bodies!

This shows up as:
✸ Diet culture,
✸ Body size discrimination and bullying,
✸ Weight stigma,
✸ Disordered relationships with food and body; and
✸ Eating disorders

All of which we know have a profound negative impact on mental health, physical health and wellbeing.

No wonder this often leads grown ups and kids to think that certain body shapes are more desirable, better looking or “healthier” than others.

Believing that human bodies should look a certain way has a profoundly negative impact on the way kids and adults think about our own bodies, regardless of our body shape or size.

How might our kids’ lives be improved if we support them to appreciate the amazing diversity of human bodies?

How might our lives be improved if we learned to understand this for ourselves?

We would love to know your thoughts!

If you need support with your child's nutrition, eating or relationship with food, we're here to help. Head to our website www.kidsdigfood.com.au and complete the booking form. One of our Client Care Officers will be in contact soon.

The Kids Dig Food Team ♡

04/09/2025

👣 Body Image and Eating Disorder Awareness Week 1 - 7 September - Unpacking the 'WHY'

This week the Butterfly Foundation () is raising awareness to expand understanding of how eating disorders develop and how to access better support.

According to the Butterfly Foundation, eating disorders are complex mental illnesses. There is never one cause of an eating disorder – an eating disorder develops due to a combination of biological, psychological and sociocultural factors.

Eating disorders are not always related to body image – while body dissatisfaction is one of the leading risk factors in developing an eating disorder, it is important to understand other causes and risk factors that may contribute. Eating disorders can also develop due to a range of other influences, including but not limited to:

✸ Trauma
✸ Sensory sensitivities
✸ Genetics
✸ Personality traits
✸ Culture
✸ Family history
✸ Co-occurring health conditions, such as diabetes, endometriosis and others.

No matter how the eating disorder developed, recovery is possible, and Butterfly Foundation is here to help.

If you need support for an eating disorder, please reach out to Butterfly Foundation - 8am-midnight, 7 days a week on 1800 334 673 or head to https://butterfly.org.au/get-support/helpline/

The Kids Dig Food Team ♡