Free 5-Day Food Introduction Protocol™
Help Your Child Explore a New Food—Without Pressure
Turn one unfamiliar food into a five-day investigation using sight, touch, smell, taste, and sound. You’ll get simple activities and exact language to build curiosity—without bribing, battling, or forcing a bite.
Get the Free
Food Introduction Protocol™
Turn one new food into a five-day investigation your child can explore—without pressure to take a bite.
Caution. May Develop Foodies.
You’ve tried the reward chart. The one-bite rule. Hiding it in the sauce.
And your kid still won’t come near it. That’s not a parenting failure — it’s a mismatch. Most food advice asks a child to like something before they’ve ever been allowed to get curious about it.
The Food Introduction Protocol flips that order. Your child never has to eat anything. They just have to investigate — one sense at a time, at their own pace, with a role they already feel like themselves in.
Five days. One food. A whole lot of clues.
Take the Mission Profile Quiz
60 seconds tells you whether your child explores the world like a Detective, an Engineer, or a Scientist.
Choose the Mission Food
Bell pepper or green bean — whichever one causes more drama at your table right now.
Run one Mission a day
5 days, 5 senses, one script written for your child’s exact profile and age — plus a video for every mission.
Fill in the Mission Debrief
A simple page that turns “how did it go” into real information you can actually use next time.
Meet Their Mission Profile
We don’t ask your child to trust the pepper. We ask them to trust the part of themselves that already knows how to investigate.
The Detective
Collects as many clues as possible before deciding what they think. Loves the words “case,” “evidence,” and “record to beat.”
The Engineer
Finds as many structural details as possible before deciding what they think. Wants to know how it’s built, not just what it is.
The Scientist
Collects as much information as possible before deciding what they think. Motivated by data points, not pressure.
The Missions
The Observation Mission
No touching, smelling, or tasting. Today’s only job is to look, and to build the biggest list of clues possible.
The Feeling Mission
Tap it. Hold it. Use a tool if hands don’t feel ready yet. Nothing else is asked of them today.
The Scent Mission
Big and small. Close up or far away — whatever distance feels safe is where they start.
The Flavor Mission
Lick it, touch a little juice to the tongue, or take a tiny taste only if they feel ready. A bite is never required.
The Sound Mission
Tap it, snap it, or cut it and listen from the outside. If they feel ready, they can also investigate its sound inside the mouth — with no pressure to swallow.
Everything You Need to Run the Mission.
This isn’t a PDF you skim once. It’s a full 5-day experience, built the same way we run this with families in our own practice.
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The Mission Profile QuizFind out if your child is a Detective, Engineer, or Scientist in under a minute.
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Scripts for two age rangesEvery mission is written separately for ages 4–7 and ages 8 and up.
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A video for every missionWatch exactly what to say and do before you try it yourself.
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A real example — with my own sonSee the protocol run in real time, not staged.
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A printable Mission Log & DebriefTrack what happened each day and spot the pattern by day 5.
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A bonus food kitTo keep the momentum going once your 5 days are up.
This Is Just One Food. Here’s What It Tells You.
You may be onto something. You can grab our optional expansion activities to keep the momentum going, and run the same profile and scripts on a new food whenever you’re ready. This is a strong sign it’s not a bigger issue — you’ve got what you need to keep going on your own.
That’s real information too — not a failure. If your child struggled to engage at all, or across most of the five senses, that’s a bigger signal than one hard day. You don’t have to figure out what’s next alone. We’ll walk you through what’s likely happening and exactly what to do next.
Free 5-Day Food Introduction Protocol™
Help Your Child Explore a New Food—Without Pressure
Turn one unfamiliar food into a five-day investigation using sight, touch, smell, taste, and sound. You’ll get simple activities and exact language to build curiosity—without bribing, battling, or forcing a bite.
Get the Free
Food Introduction Protocol™
Turn one new food into a five-day investigation your child can explore—without pressure to take a bite.
Caution. May Develop Foodies.
