Healthy snack food for toddlers?

Question

I have 18 month old twins, boy and girl, while my little girl will practically eat anything i put in front of her, her brother is the total opposite, he prefers to graze rather than have a big meal. He'll eat cucumber sticks and banana, carrot sticks and apple dont really work coz all he does is chew the juice out of it and spit it out. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Let him chew the juice out of it... That's fine...
There is no one correct way to eat snacks... Don't make it an issue... Just continue offering them healthy snacks and meals.
Allow them to eat when they're hungry. Not sure who decided three huge meals a day were best, but any gastroentologist will let you know that small meals and grazing during the day is actually better for you.

Don't make an issue out of something so small.... Take what he has sucked dry and throw it into your compost pile.... When it's turned to dirt, plant flowers.. :o)

Really.... it's not a big issue...

Answer 2

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Answer 3

When I couldn't get my two-year-old to eat anything other than fruit snacks for snack time - I finally tried pretzels. They do have salt on them, but their not going to eat a whole bag so it's not a huge deal. But they are filling enough and taste good. Worked for me. Maybe it will for you.

And I agree with the person above me - don't make it a big deal - at two they are really trying their independence and food is definitely one arena they try to take control of. So, just be patient and don't make snack-time or any other eating time stressful.

Answer 4

grapes (cut in half), string cheese, mellon (watermellon, honeydew), pears, strawberries, blueberries, Any kind of berrie (let you kids pic a fruit out to try) applesauce (make your own using fresh apples and don't add any extra sugar), yogurt, Smoothies (I make chocolate bananna ones or berry/bananna vanilla) toast, bread and butter, steamed veggies with ranch dressing, muffins (again make your own. sometimes I make Apple bananna chocolate chip muffins. It has 2 fruit servings and a tiny amount of chocolate (which all kids love)) Make your own frozen yogurt, or even your own popsicles. make mini pizzas (put diffrent toppings out and let each kid make their own @ 18 months they can "help" in the kitchen).


This is almost like the recipie I use to make my apple bananna chocolate chip muffins. But It is not the exact one I can not find the one I use online and my recipie is at the daycare i work at.

In this recipie just omit the nuts and add chocolate chips in it's place (I never add the amount the recipie calls for I add less)

http://www.recipezaar.com/recipe/getrecipe.zsp?id=59046

for my smoothies I Use the carnation instant breakfast add that to 1 cup of milk in the blender add the other ingredients and a little ice and blend till smooth. Try experimenting with diffrent flavors. Sometimes I add yogurt and fresh fruit with some ice and a splash of juice. In the summer time it seems my kids live on smoothies.


When My youngest was 18 months she loved smoothies. She would always ask me for a moovies. It took forever to figure out that she wanted a smoothie.

Answer 5

Keep offering what ever food you consider to be health eventually he will get to like them at the moment they are still experimenting with food
My son would hardly eat anything especially health food but now he is 6 and enjoys fruit veg, fish etc in fact he has a better eat ting style than me

Answer 6

Brown bread in finger slices with low fat jam or cheese spread.

Grapes and little cubes of cheese.

Cherry tomatoes.

Raisins

Carefully cooked low fat cocktail sausages

melon slices or chunks, because this kind of melts in the mouth when hes trying to suck the juice out

Wouldnt bother with the chew bars in shops because they are full of hidden sugar and fats.

Wholegrain cereal such as shreddies or weetabix are good as you can add fruit to these; such as strawberries and bananas.
Here your son will be getting calcium, wholegrain and vitamins from the fruit.

Answer 7

The juice has the goodness in it so dont worry hes getting his vitC.Sounds to me their getting what they need and good for them too.My son used to lve small peices of cubed up boprown bread with marmite just a scraping as its a strong flavour,but very good for you.(vegimite).Or blend a soft boiled egg with asmall amount of cheese n a slice of cucumber a slice of tomatoe 1 spring onion head and spread that on instead.Enough for 2 healthy appertites .theyll enjoy picking the savoury chunks up and popping a whole cube into their mouth instead of biting for a change.

Answer 8

If he likes juice then smoothys are a gr8 idea.Juices such as Innocent are full of fruit and only fruit!My little boy loves it.You can also get fruitipura yoghurt type snacks,both my boys love!

Answer 9

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Answer 10

HAve you tried apple rings from health food shop, they are a bit squidgy but so very tasty - my 9 month old loves them.