Choose My Food app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Haymachine Entertainment
First release : 03 Sep 2012
App size: 30.93 Mb
Customize your picky eater’s journey to a healthy diet
For some kids, even the most basic foods are a challenge. Different textures, tastes, smells, temperatures and colors can all be overwhelming and unwelcome to the picky eater.
CHOOSE MY FOOD allows kids to explore, choose and ultimately try a range of healthy foods! If you have a child with autism, special needs or an extremely picky eater, CHOOSE MY FOOD is a useful tool for introducing food in a fun and stress-free manner.
Choice, Control, Motivation, Fun!
CHOOSE MY FOOD gives kids options and a sense of control over what they eat.
• Explore 100+ foods (fruits, vegetable, familiar breakfast, lunch and dinner foods) within and outside of a child’s comfort zone with lots of visuals.
• Ease the anxiety of tasting a new food by making the process fun!
• Motivate kids through game play by earning cool virtual stickers and stars for foods tried.
• Give kids a sense of control through the selection and rating process. Color-coded stars help kids track their progress and rate the foods they’ve tried.
• Reward stickers encourage kids to give new foods a try!
Key Customizable Features:
✭ Enables customization of foods and sticker groupings to be earned.*
✭ Includes a broad range of foods, but also allows the user to add new ones. If you don’t see the food of your choice on the list, create a food and add your own photo using your iPhone / iPad camera!
✭ Multi-user game - enough avatars for the whole family and some.
*Every child is different and faces unique feeding challenges. Parents/therapists can customize the sticker groupings to help kids broaden their pallet and diet. For example: If soft and wet foods are a challenge, a sticker grouping can be created to include soup, yogurt and applesauce. When the child completes the tasks of trying those foods, he/she will rewarded with a virtual sticker.
NOTES
Food Allergies / Special Diets
If your child has food allergies, aversions or is on a special diet, they can still join in the fun of learning. Feel free to give your child credit for learning about the foods they can’t taste, by allowing them to rate foods and earn stars and stickers. There are gluten-free, vegetarian and vegan-friendly foods included in this adventure.
Recommended Age
Pre-K and up.
Easy enough for little ones to use yet sophisticated enough for big kids to appreciate.
5 star ratings on iTunes for CHOOSE MY FOOD would be greatly appreciated!
If you have ideas and suggestions on how to improve this app, please contact us at www.kidsfoodadventure/choosemyfood/#contact as we can not respond to comments posted on the iTunes store. Thank you!
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CHOOSE MY FOOD is a member of Moms with Apps, a collaborative group of family-friendly developers seeking to quality apps for kids and families.
Latest reviews of Choose My Food app for iPhone and iPad
This app sounds great, but does not include instructions and is not intuitive. I was excited as I wanted this to use for my daughter who is a picky eater. I tapped on "?" for help, but help was not helpful, it didnt explain how to use the app at all. I then tried it on my own and added my daughter as a user, but ended up with another user I didnt even add and there was no way to delete that user. Then when I went to track the foods, it pulled up a picture of the user, but no name associated with it. This app has great potential, but needs more work.
I love the new rating system. I am an OT and work with kids to expand their diets. I could not use your app, with the old (yucky) rating system. I emailed (and I am guessing many others did too) and you responded with a great system that gives kids a chance to express their views, without labeling things as yucky (and refusing to ever try them again. Thanks for making new foods a little less scary.
I would give this app 5 stars if it worked as it was intended. I could not delete or edit their example kid and then could not edit or delete my characters. I also could not get the app to stay on the childs name and then select foods for that kid. When I tried to go back to settings, it would not take me back, but rather remained on a page that had the word "settings" on the top left and an arrow. Nothing happened when I pressed the arrow! How frustrating.... Therefore the app is not useful and my money will be wasted if the problems are not fixed. I see a lot of promise with this for use with my feeding therapy kiddos. I greatly appreciate the development of this app. However, I gave it such a low rating because I cant use it until the developer works out the bugs.
I would like this app better if the foods were organized by food group. It would be great if there was a feature where the child could choose foods that they want to eat that night and practice making a balance meal. Or even just some way to easily view all the foods that the child likes. I think the photographs are well done though and I like the rating system.
Badly designed, awful interface, not worthy even if it was free.