A holiday table
Holidays add people, late meals, and food your child does not know. Serve a familiar food first, before the table gets exciting.
The usual food in a loud room
Let them skip the new dishes. A holiday can be a success when they eat their usual food in a loud room.
Feed them before the long table if you can. A late, loud, hungry toddler is a hard guest.
Tell the cook early
The allergy and one familiar food, before the shopping. A holiday kitchen is a bad time for a surprise.
Cheese boards, milky sauces, and shared bread are easy places for milk and wheat to travel. Serve their plate yourself if you need to.
Let the meal be short
They can eat and then play nearby. Matching the adults’ three-hour table is not the goal.
Watch foods that are easy to choke on while they are excited. When you are unsure, leave that food off.
A sentence you can say
“Your usual food first. The rest is optional.”