Calm, practical feeding help for early eaters.
The My Little Eater Podcast translates baby and toddler feeding questions into concrete meal, texture, and safety decisions. Its episodes move between baby-led weaning, purees, picky eating, snack ingredients, and everyday family meals with a calm, evidence-aware tone.
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The My Little Eater Podcast is built for the daily pressure points of feeding babies and toddlers. It is practical first. Episodes take common parent questions and turn them into concrete choices about foods, textures, timing, ingredients, and mealtime behavior. The show spends a lot of time on starting solids, especially the uneasy space between purees, finger foods, gagging, and choking fears. It does not frame baby-led weaning as a rigid identity. Instead, it encourages responsiveness: watching a baby’s cues, adjusting textures, and using purees or finger foods when they fit the child in front of the parent. That flexibility is one of its clearest strengths. Safety advice appears often, but it is paired with nuance. Honey under one is treated as a firm no, while salt is discussed with more context than the usual blanket warnings. Fish, crackers, oils, rice-based snacks, added sugars, and seed formats are handled as specific feeding decisions rather than abstract wellness talking points. The toddler material is just as table-focused. Episodes on vegetables and balanced snacks emphasize neutral presentation, patience, and avoiding bribes that make vegetables look like punishment. The FFP formula gives parents a simple structure for meals: fat, fiber, and protein. The show also pays attention to family logistics. Baby-friendly recipes are described as a way to serve one meal across the table, not a separate project that creates more work. Guest conversations, such as the super seeds episode with Kim Pabla and Tina Rajani, add product and ingredient detail while staying close to everyday meals like smoothies, oatmeal, yogurt, meatballs, and meatloaf. The pacing is friendly and explanatory. The tone is warm, but the show is not fluffy. It is strongest when a parent needs a calm answer to a very specific question, such as whether a cracker ingredient matters or why tiny soft pieces can still trigger gagging. It suits listeners who want reassurance, but also want actual criteria. Across the episodes, the message is consistent: feeding skills develop through practice, exposure, observation, and less panic at the table.
Made for: Parents and caregivers of babies and toddlers who are starting solids, managing texture progression, or trying to reduce picky eating stress. It especially suits families who want evidence-aware guidance without strict feeding dogma.
What sets it apart: The show combines pediatric dietitian-level nutrition detail with highly specific mealtime tactics, from milled seeds to cracker oils to neutral vegetable language. Its strongest distinction is its flexible stance on purees, baby-led weaning, and texture advancement.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A practical family-meal episode with clear baby-feeding guidance and a light promotional finish.
This bonus episode closes season four by making baby feeding feel less separate from the rest of family life. Edwina Kennedy, a registered pediatric dietitian and mom of two, keeps the focus on one shared-meal strategy: recipes that work for a baby without forcing parents to…
A steady, practical episode on using larger finger foods to help babies build texture skills.
Bigger pieces can look like the scary step when a baby is moving past smooth purees, and this episode takes that worry seriously. The host makes a calm distinction: small, soft foods may not necessarily be the bigger choking concern, but loose bits like rice or couscous can…
A calm, practical review of responsive feeding that gives families room to adjust as readiness becomes clear.
Purees versus baby-led weaning comes through as a choice families can make with some flexibility, rather than a fixed camp to join. The most useful thread is responsive feeding: watching the baby's cues, adjusting when readiness is not quite there, and treating comfort as part…
A grounded, practical episode on using milled chia and flax in familiar meals for young children.
Seeds come across as a small but useful parenting tool in this episode, as Edwina Kennedy, a registered pediatric dietitian and mom of two, speaks with Kim Pabla and Tina Rajani, co-founders of Tiny Sprouts Foods, about super seeds and nutritional boosters for babies and…
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Edwina Kennedy, a registered pediatric dietitian and mom of two, uses this My Little Eater bonus episode to argue that the adult meal should also be the baby meal.
Registered pediatric dietitian Edwina Kennedy explains how to introduce fish from about six months, including isolating it from other highly allergenic foods for several days.
The My Little Eater Podcast episode explains Edwina Kennedy's counterintuitive claim that larger, harder food pieces can sometimes be safer for babies than small pieces during early solids.
Edwina Kennedy argues on The My Little Eater Podcast that purees and baby-led weaning do not need to be treated as opposites, and she centers the discussion on texture progression, allergy exposure, and responsive feeding.
Edwina Kennedy talks with Kim Pabla and Tina Rajani about using flax, chia, and hemp as nutritional boosters for babies and toddlers.
Registered pediatric dietitian Edwina Kennedy evaluates baby and toddler crackers using ingredient quality, nutrition, processing, and choking risk.
Registered pediatric dietitian Edwina Kennedy presents five strategies for helping toddlers eat more vegetables, beginning with serving them at 50% to 80% of meals and snacks rather than concentrating them at dinner.
Registered pediatric dietitian Edwina Kennedy presents The My Little Eater Podcast’s FFP formula—fiber, fat, and protein—for building balanced toddler meals and snacks.
The My Little Eater Podcast episode “Why Does my Toddler Eat Differently at Daycare than at Home?” examines why toddlers may eat more or less in the two settings.
Laura Fuentes of Momables explains how to reduce meal-planning overwhelm by starting with a 10-minute weekly plan, dependable family recipes, and prepared ingredients.
Edwina Kennedy, a registered pediatric dietitian and mother of two, explains how to schedule solids and milk feedings from 6 to 12 months.
Registered pediatric dietitian Edwina Kennedy explains how to serve baby-led-weaning-friendly holiday foods during Christmas, Thanksgiving, and other family meals.
Registered pediatric dietitian Edwina Kennedy explains how illness can reduce a baby’s or toddler’s appetite and increase preference for yogurt, applesauce, popsicles, and other easy-to-eat foods.
Edwina Kennedy, a registered pediatric dietitian and mother of two, gives parents scripts for handling holiday comments about a child’s eating.
Edwina Kennedy, a registered pediatric dietitian and mother of two, gives a 2021 gift guide covering baby monitors, feeding tools, sleep products, courses, and developmental toys.
Edwina Kennedy, a registered pediatric dietitian, interviews Katie Kimball about teaching children to cook and build food-related life skills.
Edwina Kennedy interviews Mallory Whitmore, founder of The Formula Mom, about formula-feeding stigma, practical education, and choosing among formula types.
Edwina Kennedy interviews Stephanie Alexander of Alexander Family Farm about A1 and A2 milk, toddler nutrition, and milk digestibility.
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Registered pediatric dietitian Edwina Kennedy examines whether vegan and vegetarian diets can support babies and toddlers, distinguishing plant-based eating from simply serving more vegetables.
Edwina Kennedy, a registered pediatric dietitian and mother of two, explains why babies and toddlers put too much food in their mouths and how parents can respond.
A pediatric dietitian interviews a speech-language pathologist about extreme picky eating and food chaining for babies and toddlers.
Edwina Kennedy interviews her husband about the role of dads in feeding children, in honor of Father's Day.
A pediatric dietitian interviews parents of twins about their experiences and tips for starting solids with multiple babies.