For parents who dread the words "I'm not eating that"
Understand How Your Child Eats And Finally Know What to Put in the Lunch Box
A practitioner-built guide that identifies your child's eating profile and gives you the exact strategies, 40+ lunch box ideas, and recipes that actually work for it, grounded in real infant-feeding research, not guesswork.
Get The GuideIf mealtimes feel harder than they should, you're not doing anything wrong β and neither is your child.
Every child who's ever been called "a fussy eater" is actually doing something quite specific and quite logical β even when it doesn't look that way from across the dinner table. How your child eats has never been about the child alone. It's shaped by the relationship between their own appetite and how they've been fed from the very beginning.
This guide walks you through four common eating profiles, what's really driving each one, and what to do about it β including the part every parent actually wants help with: what on earth goes in the lunch box.
Built on Real Research, Not Trends
This guide is written by Jodi Duval, MHumNut, BHSc (Nat), ANTA β Founder & Principal Naturopath at Revital Health, and CEO of HOMeHOPe Australia.
Jodi is co-author of "Understanding dyadic phenotypes of eating and feeding in infancy" (submitted for publication in the journal Appetite), a study of 1,092 Australian infant-caregiver pairs that identified four distinct feeding patterns β the same research foundation behind the framework in this guide.
This isn't a generic lunch-box list. It's a clinical framework, adapted for the everyday reality of packing a lunch box five days a week.
What You'll Get
The Eating Profile Questionnaire
A downloadable worksheet to identify your child's dominant eating profile (most kids fit more than one)
Four in-depth profiles
Fussy/Picky, Sensory-Driven, Grazer, and Food-Neutral/Adventurous β each with the "why," practical strategies, 10 lunch box ideas, and 3 tested recipes
A complete lunch box guide
40+ lunch box recipe ideas for the different eating profiles
The research behind the framework
How caregiver feeding practices shape a child's relationship with food, explained in plain language
What impacts appetite
Sleep, growth spurts, illness, stress, and social context, so you can tell normal fluctuation from a real pattern
A guide to when it's worth looking further
Food intolerance vs. behavioural eating, so you know when a lunch box tweak isn't enough
This guide is for you if:
- Your child eats the same 5 things and mealtimes have become a source of stress
- Textures, smells, or foods touching each other derail meals
- Your child grazes all day but won't sit through a meal
- You have an "easy" eater and want to make sure variety isn't quietly sliding
- You've tried bribing, negotiating, or pressure β and it hasn't worked
This guide won't:
- Turn a fussy eater into an adventurous one overnight
- Replace a clinical assessment if there are digestive symptoms, growth concerns, or suspected food intolerance (see the Next Steps section inside)Β
How to Use the Guide
- Complete the questionnaire to find your child's dominant eating profile (or profiles)
- Read your matching profile section(s) β strategies, 10 lunch box ideas, 3 recipes each
- Pack with confidence using ideas built for how your child actually eats, not a generic list
- Know when to go further β clear guidance on when a pattern might be more than behaviouralΒ
Get the Guide
$49
Instant digital access β read on any device.
- The Eating Profile QuestionnaireΒ β a downloadable worksheet to identify your child's dominant eating profile (most kids fit more than one)
- Four in-depth profilesΒ β Fussy/Picky, Sensory-Driven, Grazer, and Food-Neutral/Adventurous β each with the "why," practical strategies, 10 lunch box ideas, and 3 tested recipes
- A complete lunch box guideΒ βΒ 40+ lunch box recipe ideas for the different eating profiles
- The research behind the frameworkΒ β how caregiver feeding practices shape a child's relationship with food, explained in plain language
- What Impacts AppetiteΒ β sleep, growth spurts, illness, stress, and social context, so you can tell normal fluctuation from a real pattern
- A guide to when it's worth looking furtherΒ β food intolerance vs. behavioural eating, so you know when a lunch box tweak isn't enough
Q: My child fits more than one profile β is that normal?
Q: Is this guide a substitute for seeing a practitioner?
Q: How is this different from other lunch box guides?
Stop Guessing What Goes in the Lunch Box
Get the framework, the strategies, and 40+ tested lunch box ideas built for how your child actually eats.
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