Rhode Island Monthly
“After two years of hard work, Desrochers officially launched Pick-Ease and a new website this summer. Pick-Ease is BPA-free and made entirely in the USA. The Pick-Ease mold, and the products themselves, were made at Rihani Plastics in Cranston. Barrington Printers, which is pretty much across the street, made the packaging and found a printer in California that could make the specialty decorative labels Desrochers needed. She ships them from her house.”
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Carolyn Dalgliesh
Mealtime can be a challenging time for many sensory kids. This can be due to attentional issues, fine motor challenges making utensils difficult, or Sensory Processing Disorder that brings challenges with the texture, smell, and taste of many foods. Melissa Desrochers, a mom and an owner of a day-care business, saw a need with her own picky eaters at home and through her profession. She also notices that these same picky-eaters loved eating off toothpicks and Pick-Ease was born! Read More…
Momacado
“I know a few awesome mamas who make their child’s lunch SO cute every day. I’m always amazed at their talent! However, I know with a full time job and 2 kiddos, I’m not going to make lunches as art projects every day. BUT I can make them just a little cute in a short amount of time. Cookie cutters and fun tools like Pick-Ease have helped me do this easily!” Read More…
Kid Food Ideas
“When you have slaved away in the kitchen to prepare a homecooked meal for your family, nothing hurts more than having your cooking be rejected. As a parent, I understand that humans have their own preference when it comes to food and flavours, but that does not make it any less frustrating.” Read More…
One Mother To Another
“I had been following Melissa from Pick-Ease on Instagram for several months before I approached her about this product. Having seen the pictures of her kids using Pick-Ease, I was really intrigued by how it would work for a young toddler that was between self-feeding stages: at 14 months, Chase has mastered finger foods, but still struggles with a fork and spoon. I wanted him to develop the fine motor skills necessary for fork and spoon manipulation, but he gets easily frustrated with his inability to feed himself with them and gives up quickly every time. I thought the Pick-Ease might be a nice transitional tool.” Read More…
Savvy Every Day
“Are your kids fussy eaters no matter what you offer them? All kids pretty much go through phases of being picky, or loving a certain food one day (so you stock up), only to tell you a day or so later that it’s gross, but Melissa Desrochers thinks she may have found the solution to most picky eater problems ”
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Mommy Life With Marya
“Pick-Ease makes eating FUN! They have many designs and colors to choose from. You can see them HERE. Right away, my daughter asked me to make chicken, pancakes, and hot dogs (all at once Ha!Ha!) so she can use her new “toothpicks”. She loves to use her Pick-Ease on grapes and other cut up foods.” Read More…
The Lieber Family
“I’ve discovered two things I can do almost every night that greatly increase the chances that Benjamin will eat more than rice with butter on it: tiny portions and Pick-Ease (say it out loud!)”
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Writer Mom Blog
“Melissa Desrochers had the genius idea to try and get her picky eater to try and eat new things by serving them to him on a toothpick. It’s a genius idea! And it’s totally born of necessity. Trying to get a picky eater to eat nutritious foods is a truly frustrating thing! You’re pretty much faced with two paths to follow…”
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Food, Wine & Poopy Diapers
“Pick-Ease is a super cute, fun little utensil made especially for picky eaters. They come in bright colors, with little designs on one end, and a pick on the other end, sort of like a toothpick but bigger. It allows kids to stab their food.”
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I Heart Rhody
“Now she asks for it at lunch time and almost all her food makes it into her mouth!…If you can poke it with a fork, you can serve it with a Pick-ease. This product worked for our family, and if you have a fussy eaters, it may work for you too. ”
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Brittleby’s Corner
“Small pieces of food are always more fun to eat! My daughter loves her Garden Pack and my son’s two favorite sports right now are soccer and baseball, so the Play Pack was perfect for him. My kids enjoy using these instead of using their fingers or a fork.”
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Mom Fuse
“I remember when the kids were younger, it was such a fight to get them to eat anything. My daughter was really bad at first, she’s getting a lot better but can still see some improvement…I wish I had know about Pick-Ease.”
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Mom Link
“I know a feeding concern of some moms is that their picky eaters won’t touch their food. Sometimes changing the way food is presented is all it takes to get picky eaters to try something new. Pick-ease are easy to use in conjunction wit Dr. Sear’s Nibble Tray. I had a friend comment that these two methods combined worked for her.”
Outnumbered 3 to 1
“You can literally use these for everything. All you need to do is cut it up into small pieces first. We even use ours with pepperoni and ravioli. I also like to include them in my daughter’s packed school lunches as her utensil. You are never too old to use these as even I like to eat with them!”
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Champagne To Crayons
“I know you are all asking, can this really solve my whole problem with my picky and fussy eater? The answer: for me, it did help…These little utensils, are a creative and easy for kids to pick up food with. It is similar to a fork, but shaped in a way that “jabbing” the food to pick it up is easier.”
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Family Review Center
“Pick-Ease is a utensil specially designed for children who are picky eaters. It is the easy, safe way for children to enjoy eating. All kinds of foods work with Pick-Ease including: sandwiches, vegetables, meats, cheeses, and fruits.Pick-Ease is the best way to get fussy eaters to eat, ending the ongoing problem of arguing with your child to eat a meal.”
Macaroni Kid Allentown
“As the mom of two picky eaters, mealtime can be a challenge. Melissa Desrochers, the inventor of Pick-Ease, understands my struggle. When her children became picky, she discovered that allowing them to eat small bites of food off of toothpicks was a sure-fire way to get it into their stomachs.”
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Mommy’s Favorite Things
“My toddler is an INCREDIBLY picky eater. He has his certain foods he loves that ARE healthy (grapes, cheese, yogurt, apple slices, etc), but he doesn’t like trying new foods and he’s definitely not a fan of meat…He has gotten better about trying new foods with the Pick-Ease. I’m actually really impressed. If you can stab it with a fork, you can use a Pick-Ease!
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Mama Smith
“Pick Ease utensils are BPA free, made in the USA, and dishwasher safe – three of my top checklist items while shopping! They come in 12 different characters that you can choose from. I think these are great and would make fun stocking stuffers this holiday season!”
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The Shopping Mama
“Who has a picky eater? Raise your hand! I can see many hands being raised, because at some time or another your kids just won’t eat without using some sort of trick.”
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Mom Does It All
“Like a lot of other parents, I have found that when I put my daughter’s food on a toothpick, it makes her eagerness to eat multiply. But toothpicks are also sharp, pointy objects that many children like to stick up their nose or even in their ears. With Pick-Ease, you do not have to worry about any of that.”
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Parenting Healthy
“A Pick-Ease is a change from a silver fork or that spoon they’ve been using for a while. Now it’s a tool or like my nephews would use as-a food sword! Now that broccoli needs to be destroyed. Stab it-eat it! Mom wins! Simplicity can sometimes be the best solution!”
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Mom Generations
“Pick-Ease is one of those products that you’ll see and wish you had invented yourself – especially if you have little ones learning to feed themselves. Pick-Ease utensils were invented by a mom (of course!) out of necessity.”
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Pea of Sweetness
“Kids love eating things with toothpicks, right? I know our kids do, and I even remember being drawn to foods with toothpicks when I was a kid. Toothpicks themselves aren’t safe, and breaking off the ends is time consuming (and doesn’t exactly make them much safer). Pick-Ease offers a fun, safer solution – a kid friendly toothpick.”
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Mama to 5 Blessings
“I have some of the pickiest eaters ever! What I can do is still serve healthy delicious foods but make it fun for them to eat it because if I do they will eat it without giving me a hassle. The best solution is Pick-Ease.”
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It’s Free At Last
“Do you have a child who is a picky eater? I have a great product to tell you about that may help you out called Pick-Ease. Pick-Ease is a utensil that is specially designs just for children who are picky eaters. You can use Pick-Ease with sandwiches, meats, vegetables, fruits, and cheeses. It is a safe, easy way to get children to enjoy eating.”
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Confessions Of A Mommy
“My children are very picky about certain things; silverware, plates, cups etc and Pick Ease is an perfect addition to utensils but safe for little ones to use. Kids love when food is bite sized and easy to grab and with Pick Ease that makes it easy for them to do.”
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A Sampling Bee
Welcome 🙂 Today, I share with you a cool product for picky eaters. It’s Pick-Ease! Every young child should have some! Let’s make meal time fun and exciting! Read More…