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Course + 60 chains
Extreme picky eating · Food chaining
When it stopped being fussiness a long time ago.
Twelve accepted foods and shrinking. Meals that end in tears — sometimes theirs, sometimes yours. This is the structured method feeding therapists use, explained so you can run it at home, and a straight answer about when you need one.
60Food chains
12Modules
9Ladder steps
40+Scripts
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Not a recipe book. A method, with the exact sequence of small steps between what they eat now and what you want them to eat.
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- Food chaining, properly explained. Start from what they already eat, change one thing at a time
- Zero pressure. Every technique here works without a single "just try one bite"
- The red flags, up front. A clear list of when to stop and get a professional evaluation
- Something to do tonight. The first step is small enough to take at dinner today
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It isn't fussiness. And it isn't your cooking.
You already know that, because you've tried everything the blogs said and it made things worse. This starts from a different place.
Where you actually are
Picky. Selective. Or something with a name.
These are three different situations that get the same useless advice. Module one helps you work out which one you're in, because it changes what you should do next.
Typical
Ordinary picky eating
- Refuses things, but the list changes week to week
- Eats roughly 30 or more foods
- Will eat a food again after a break from it
- Eats differently at a friend's house
- Growth is steady, meals are annoying but calm
Usually resolves with time, structure and no pressure.
Extreme
Extreme selectivity
- Around 10–20 accepted foods, and the list only shrinks
- Drops a food permanently after one bad experience
- Brand, shape and packaging matter enormously
- Won't eat at school, at family houses, on holiday
- Real distress when a new food is on the plate
This is where a structured method like food chaining belongs.
Clinical
ARFID territory
- Weight loss, or growth curve falling away
- A whole food group missing for months
- Relying on supplement drinks to get through the day
- Fear of choking, vomiting or a past frightening episode
- Panic, not stubbornness, at the sight of food
Needs a proper evaluation. The course tells you who to see and what to ask.
Before anything else
The part most products leave out.
This list is on page four of the course, not buried at the back — because for some families it's the only page that matters.
Stop and get an evaluation if any of these are true
None of them mean you've done something wrong. They mean this needs a team, and the sooner the better.
- Losing weight, or falling off their growth curve
- Fewer than about ten accepted foods
- An entire food group gone for months
- Depending on supplement drinks for calories
- Gagging, vomiting or choking at meals
- A frightening food episode they haven't recovered from
- Panic, sweating or shutting down at the table
- Meals routinely taking more than 30–40 minutes
- Trouble chewing or moving food around the mouth
- You're worried and nobody has taken you seriously
The course includes what an assessment involves, who does what — paediatrician, feeding therapist, occupational therapist, dietitian, psychologist — and a printable page of questions to bring, so the appointment isn't wasted.
The method
Food chaining, on one page.
You don't ask a child to jump from chicken nuggets to grilled salmon. You build a bridge of foods where each one differs from the last by a single property — and you walk them across it.
Example chain: from the only chicken nugget they'll eat, to fishReal chains take weeks per step. This is one of the 60 already mapped in the course.
AcceptedTheir brand of chicken nugget
The safe food. Nothing about it changes yet — it stays on the plate through the entire chain.
Bridge 1Same nugget, different shape
Same brand, same coating, same taste. Only the outline is different.
Changed: shapeBridge 2A different brand, same shape
Now the coating and flavour shift slightly, but the form they've accepted stays.
Changed: brandBridge 3Homemade breaded chicken strip
You control the crumb. It looks and crunches like what they know.
Changed: made at homeTargetBreaded fish strip
Same crumb, same shape, same dip. Only the protein inside has changed.
Changed: what's insideThe rule that makes it work: one property changes at a time — shape, colour, texture, temperature, smell, brand or flavour. Change two and you're back to a new food, and a new food is a refusal.
The distance between a nugget and a piece of fish is nine small steps, not one big one.
Every chain in the course is built the same way, from the foods your child already accepts.
The ladder
Eating is the last step, not the first.
Every chain link is walked up this ladder. A child who will let a food sit on their plate has already done something enormous — and most parents don't know that's the win.
1Tolerates it in the roomno plate involved
2Tolerates it on the tableat a distance
3Lets it sit on their platenot touching other food
4Touches it with a finger or forkthis is a huge one
5Picks it up and moves itplay counts
6Smells it deliberatelyoften the hardest step
7Touches it to lips or tonguea lick is progress
8Bites and spits outallowed, and celebrated
9Chews and swallowsthe last step, not the goal
Weeks can be spent on step three. That's not failure — that's how it works, and the course is explicit about the pace so you stop measuring the wrong thing.
Why the usual advice makes it worse
Every "one bite rule" costs you a food.
Pressure at the table — bribing, bargaining, hiding vegetables in the sauce, the dessert-if-you-finish deal, the plate that comes back at breakfast — all of it teaches the same lesson: mealtimes are dangerous and food is a negotiation you're going to lose.
Hiding food is the most damaging of all: the day they find it, the safe food stops being safe, and you don't get it back. The course replaces every one of these with something that works and takes less energy from you.
- You decide what and when. They decide whether and how much
- A safe food is on the table at every single meal, forever
- Exposure without demand: it's there, nobody mentions it
What to say instead
Forty scripts, because in the moment you'll forget every one of them.
Half the work is what comes out of your mouth at the table. Here are six of the forty in the course.
Instead of
Say
"Just try one bite."
"It's on your plate. You don't have to eat it."
"You liked it last week!"
"Some days are different. Yours is here whenever you want it."
"No pudding until you finish."
Pudding is served with the meal, in a small portion, for everyone.
"Look, I ate mine!"
Eat yours, say nothing about theirs, and talk about something else entirely.
"You're being difficult."
"That one looks tricky. You can put it on the side plate."
"One more spoon for mummy."
"You're all done? Okay — plate on the counter."
There's also a page for what to say to the grandparent who thinks they'd eat if they were hungry enough, and a printable note for school.
The sensory side
It's rarely about the taste.
Selective eaters usually refuse on texture, smell, temperature or appearance long before flavour comes into it. Wet touching dry. A crunch that goes soft halfway through. A smell that fills the kitchen before the plate arrives. A sauce that has moved.
Once you know which property is the problem, you stop guessing. The course includes a sensory audit — you map the ten foods they do eat, and the pattern that shows up tells you which chains have a chance and which are wasted effort.
- Why foods must not touch, and why that's fine to allow
- Food play away from mealtimes, and why it moves the needle
- Food jags: what to do when a beloved food is suddenly refused forever
The curriculum
Twelve modules, in the order you need them.
Short chapters. You can read module one tonight and change something at breakfast tomorrow.
01
Which situation are you actually in
The three-column check, what each one means, and the red flags that send you to a professional first.
4 lessons
02
Getting an evaluation that helps
Who does what, what an assessment involves, and the printable question sheet so you don't leave with nothing.
3 lessons
03
The sensory audit
Mapping the foods they accept by texture, temperature, colour, smell and shape — and reading the pattern.
4 lessons
04
Rebuilding the table
Division of responsibility, safe foods at every meal, meal length, seating, and the end of negotiating.
5 lessons
05
The exposure ladder
All nine steps, how to know which one you're on, and how long to stay there before nudging.
4 lessons
06
Building your first chain
Pick the food, map its properties, generate the bridges, and choose a realistic target. Worked through twice.
6 lessons
07
The 60 ready-made chains
Organised by starting food — nuggets, plain pasta, crackers, toast, yoghurt, fries, cereal, and more.
Reference
08
What to say
The 40 scripts, the pause before you answer, and what to do when it goes wrong mid-meal.
4 lessons
09
Nutrition on twelve foods
Covering the gaps with what they already accept, when a supplement makes sense, and when to ask a dietitian.
4 lessons
10
School, family and the outside world
Lunchboxes, birthday parties, restaurants, grandparents — with the note you can hand to a teacher.
4 lessons
11
Setbacks and food jags
Illness, holidays, a bad experience, a food suddenly dropped. How to hold ground without going backwards.
3 lessons
12
The parent at the table
The guilt, the marriage arguments about it, and how to stop measuring your day by what was eaten.
3 lessons
What you get
Everything in one download.
Written to be read on a phone at 10pm, and printed for the fridge in the morning.
The 12-module course
Short chapters, in the order the problem unfolds, with something to do at the end of each one.
60 ready-built chains
Organised by the food your child already accepts, each with every bridge step mapped out.
40 mealtime scripts
What to say, what not to say, and what to do when it falls apart halfway through dinner.
Tracking sheets
A simple weekly log — ladder step per food, not "did they eat it" — so you can actually see progress.
The professional pack
Red flags, who to see, what an assessment looks like, and the question sheet to take with you.
The letters
Printable notes for school and for family, so you stop explaining it from scratch to everyone.
Nobody is asking your child to like broccoli tomorrow.
The first goal is a table where nothing bad happens. Everything else is built on top of that.
Honest fit
What this is — and what it isn't.
It's for you if…
- Your child eats a short and shrinking list of foods
- You've read the blogs and everything you tried made it worse
- You're on a waiting list for a feeding service and need something now
- You're already seeing someone and want to do the work properly at home
It isn't…
- A diagnosis, a treatment, or a replacement for a feeding team
- Therapy for ARFID — that needs qualified people who know your child
- A promise that your child will eat vegetables by a certain date
- Fast. Chains move in weeks and months, not days
The details
Course at a glance
FormatPDF course + chain library + printable sheets
Modules12, from assessment to the parent's own head
Food chains60, organised by starting food
Scripts40 mealtime phrases, with what to avoid
MethodFood chaining, exposure ladder, division of responsibility
AgesRoughly 2 to 12, with notes for older children
PrintablesTracking log, question sheet, school and family letters
LanguageEnglish
DeliveryInstant download after payment
Questions
Good to know
Is this treatment for ARFID?
No. ARFID is a diagnosis and it needs qualified people who have assessed your child. This course explains the same structured approach feeding therapists build on, so you can understand what's happening and do the home work well — and it tells you plainly when to stop and get an evaluation instead.
We're on a waiting list. Is this useful in the meantime?
That's who a lot of this is written for. Rebuilding the table, removing pressure and starting the sensory audit are all things that help now and make the eventual appointment more productive — you'll arrive with weeks of real data instead of "he doesn't eat anything".
How long does a chain take?
Weeks per step is normal, and some steps take longer. The course is honest about this throughout, because measuring progress in days is the fastest way to give up on something that was working.
My child is autistic. Does this apply?
Sensory-based selectivity is very common in autistic children and the sensory audit and chaining logic are used widely with them. It isn't autism-specific though, and if there's an OT or feeding therapist involved, follow their plan first and use this to support it.
What age is it for?
Mostly written for ages two to twelve. The mechanics work for older children too; the scripts change, and there's a section on that.
Do I have to cook separate meals forever?
No — and the course is specific about how to stop. There's always a safe food on the table, but it stops being a whole second dinner cooked to order.
What if we've already tried everything?
Most families arrive having tried a lot of things that quietly work against each other — pressure, hiding foods, negotiating, grazing between meals. The first module is largely about removing those, and things often ease before you start a single chain.
Is there any pressure or "just one bite" in this?
None. Everything here works through exposure without demand. If a method needs your child to be forced, it isn't in the course.
Will my child eat normally at the end?
Nobody honest will promise you that. What the method reliably gives is a calmer table and a slowly growing list — and for many families that's the thing that actually changes the house.
Can I print it?
Yes, and several pages are designed for it — the tracking log, the question sheet and the letters for school and family.
How do I get the files?
Straight away. The download appears on the confirmation page the moment you pay, and a copy is emailed to you. Nothing is shipped.
What if it isn't right for us?
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