Baby Bites (by Nonna Joann Bruso)

Baby Bites

Description: Baby Bites: Transforming a Picky Eater into a Healthy Eater is a guide for parents of picky eaters that actually works!

  • Do you want to change your picky eater's preference for fast foods and sugar?
  • Does your preschooler refuse to touch the food you prepared for dinner?
  • Does your little darling throw her food on the floor in defiance?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you're not alone! A recent American Dietectic Study found that 49 percent of moms said they have a picky eater!


With picky eaters on the rise, moms and dads are searching for answers to this ever-increasing problem. Joann Bruso offers innovative as well as practical solutions for parents of children who refuse to eat healthy foods.

Most of us are aware that food choices are important for our children's health. In the last fifty years, we have changed the way we cook (or don't cook). Increasing numbers of children are experiencing diseases once reserved for adults. In addition, many of our children are overweight. The end result is a national crisis in children's health!

Baby Bites is a must for parents of any problem eater...the skinny fussy eater as well as the chubby fast food-lover child. Nonna Joann Bruso tackles picky eating from a child’s perspective. Joann takes a radical departure from other books on the topic. She throws the One Bite Rule out the window as she tackles the picky eater dilemma from the child's perspective, no matter what age.

Baby Bites offers nutritional information, oodles of tips, fun food facts and activities, plus super-nutritionally packed kid-tested recipes. Baby Bites provides a clear plan, which is easy for parents to follow. Along with directed-play, parents improve the nutritional value of their children’s food and simultaneously incorporate positive discipline. Transform previous dinner disasters into positive learning experiences.

Endorsements: "Baby Bites, Transforming a Picky Eater into a Healthy Eater, offers positive, practical, and playful techniques that will make mealtimes and kids, happier and healthier. Joann Bruso's expertise in nutrition and love of children, make her the ideal coauthor of this delightful, transformational book. Children will love mealtime play with Try Rannosaurus and Betty Baby Bites. Joann's strategies and recipes are sure to bring happy hearts—and mealtimes—to moms and dads—and grandmas!" --LeAnn Thieman, co-author of Chicken Soup for the Grandma's Soul, Co-author of 7 Chicken Soup books including New York Times Bestseller List Chicken Soup for the Nurse’s Soul.

Baby Bites will transform your daily food battles to a fun multi-sensory learning experience for both you and your child. Even children who have sensory integration issues will benefit from the Baby Bite Steps. Her step-by-step method of food exploration and desensitization makes perfect Nonna-sense."-- Stephanie M. Foster MS, Occupational Therapist OTR/L

Product Details
Publisher: Heard Above Publishers
Paperback: 168 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0-9792036-0-0, ISBN-13: 978-0-9792036-0-2
Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.5 inches
Shipping weight: .9 pounds

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About the Author: “Nonna*” Joann Bruso began her writing career over thirty years ago with a monthly nutrition column. After the demands of raising children lessened, she worked full-time editing the Colorado Christian News. It seems fitting that Nonna Joann has returned to the topic of healthy eating. Nonna Joann and her husband, Dick, make their home outside of Denver, Colorado. They have four grown daughters and six grandchildren.

*Nonna is Italian for Grandmother.