I need some good and healthy toddler snacks and or meals!?

Question

I am looking for some healthy and FUN ideas for meal's and snacks for my 16 month, and 4 year old boys. The 4 year old is pickyer, and I'm looking for ways to get him to eat his fruits, and veggie's and other healthy snacks, that are FUN and easy, and he can maybe even prepare with me. Does anyone have any idea's? or links? thank's

Answer 1

I work at a day care and I know what you mean about kids being picky. Some thoughts that come to my mind would be ants on a log: celery with peanut butter and rasins. Aslo a fun fruit salad that they could help with. Top off a bowl of cereal with a smiling face featuring sliced bananas for eyes, raisins for a nose, and an orange slice for a mouth.Eat dried fruit instead of candy.Make frozen fruit kabobs for kids using pineapple chunks, bananas, grapes, and berries. There is a few we try and have fun with. Try the website below!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

There is no one single Paleo Diet, as our ancestors from all over the world ate dramatically different diets depending on the climate where they lived, their landscape, accessibility to water bodies, and the latitude that they lived. This is a detailed meal plan for the paleo diet https://tr.im/Fo7DE

In some cases, a Paleo Diet may be 90% plant foods and 10% animal foods, and in other cases, a Paleo Diet may be 90% animal foods and 10% plant foods.

For example, our ancestors that lived near the equator had year long access to more plant materials such as root vegetables and various fruits, veggies, and nuts.

On the other hand, our ancestors that lived at higher latitudes further away from the equator only had access to fruits and vegetables seasonally at one specific time period per year, and had larger periods of the year where they ate a higher % of meats, organ meats, fish, and other animal-based foods, or fermented foods that could be stored for winter.

Answer 4

What I do is make fun shapes out of them. I am not a creative person, but I found that if I used my imagination, I could make things my son will eat.

Here are a few ideas.

Use raisins as eyes on other things that you are making.

When cooking carrots, cut them up like fries.

Make crazy shapes and faces.

Stay away from normal looking things.

Remember, he's a boy. Make something and tell him it is a monster or something else he'd like.

Answer 5

race cake facies. are fun to do. a little peanut butter spread on the rice cake, add raisins for the eyes, peel a carrot and use the curled peels as "hair" use a slice of carrot (around) for the nose and an orange (or apple) slice for the mouth.
"dirt cups" plain or vanilla yogurt with crubmled chocoalte cookeis, a variation is dirt cups with worms...adding "gummy worms" you can get the sugar free gummies anywhere.

Answer 6

Fruit and veggies -always good cooked or raw.
Dips: yogurt, caramel, apple sauce, jam, fruit puree, salad dressing, guacamole, salsa, etc.

Pita bread, bagels, bread, breadsticks, pretzels, etc.

Cheese sticks

Pasta salad, mac 'n' cheese,

Chicken fingers, fish sticks, any meat really. Slices of beef or chicken. Cold chicken broiled, boiled, baked etc. Hamburger patties made from any meat or lentils. Falafel balls (Make from scratch or buy the mix)

Chickpeas -just rinse the ones in the can. Kids love them!

Answer 7

My son will eat anything with velveeta melted on it. that's how I get him to eat broccoli, cauliflower and other veggies. It gets really soft so he can eat it. he's 16 months. Also you can buy those little mold like for cookies and cut out fun fruit shapes for them.

Answer 8

Ants on a log. It's a classic kids snack. Put peanut butter on celery and decorate them with raisins, or a few M&M's.

Answer 9

try gerber fruit and veggie puffs. my 20 month old daughter won't touch veggies, and hardly eats anything else, but she loves these. and they're made with real friut and veggies so they're healthy.

Answer 10

Buy cookie cutters in fun shapes and use them with anything thats possible......like sandwiches, pancakes, apple slices, really anything thats big enough. that will make it fun.

You can go to these sites. I hope they help.