What to feed a toddler?

Question

He'll be two in May and he's picky.

Answer 1

If it were up to my 2 year old he would be a vegetarian.....he isn't a big meat eater.....So anytime I give him meat I have to give him a small bit of ketchup for dipping.....Try making meal time into a game....this seems to work for us as well.....use his food to teach him colors and shapes.....be like oh the carrot is round and orange....know what I mean?make sure he has tons of variety.....and more than likely he will only want to eat what he see's Mommy eating.....So if Mommy is a picky eater......Say she only eats meat that comes from animals with 2 or less legs.....Then he will probably follow suit...

Answer 2

This is no surprise that your toddler is very picky. Even when they are babies, they seem to have a sixth sense about what is good for them. If we put a lot of sugars into babies and toddlers, we are definitely asking for troubles down the road!
By a means possible, find organic foods and diary products to give to your toddler. I've copied and pasted a website for you to read latter, as to why this is very important for you to do, especially now that your child is a toddler. He needs the fat content of the milk and not the pus, and antibiotics that are found in pasterized milk and diary products! And he certainly doesn't need any genetically engineered growth hormone (rBGH) that is found in inorganic milk and diary and even meat products!!

Answer 3

Remember toddlers like to graze through the day, not eat big meals. Feed him small portions several times a day and realize that you can't really expect him to sit at meal time for more than 15-20 minutes or so at this age. Since he is picky you have to make sure that what he does eat is full of nutrition. My kids all liked: sliced bananas, strawberries, blueberries, melon. Cheerios, crackers and cheese, toast fingers, English muffins, bran muffins. Scrambled eggs, pasta, plain baked chicken in little pieces, yogurt, and almost any kind of soup. I used to incorporate vegetables into lots of things - blended into tomato sauce, carrots or zucchini in the muffins, grated carrots in the meatloaf, lots of vegie soups.
Keep trying new foods over and over again, and good luck!

Answer 4

I've noticed that my children (2 & 4) are only pickey when they're not hungry.

If they're hungry, they will devour 3 helpings of something that they refused to even taste two days ago.

Just keep offering what you're eating and if he doesn't eat it then he's probably not hungry. Especially if he doesn't even taste it first.

Or, just keep creating seperate meals to cater to your childs wants and then when he's 5 wonder why he won't eat anything but noodles and grilled cheese sandwiches and won't ever try anything new.

My son's favourite things right now are French toast and eggs and sausages. Try those items. Peanut butter sandwiches are also huge.

At that age, my fav brekfast for my sone was PB toast and peeled & sliced apple. He usually ate the apple first but he wouldn't get seconds until he finished his toast (including the crust) and he never complained about that for breakfast.

I've also had experiences where my kids refused to try something and then when left with no other options, tried it and ate it and liked it.

Answer 5

My children are always basically eating whatever I am eating. If they see you eating it and enjoying it then they will want some too!
To help him over come his pickieness ( and believe me, you can't overcome all of it) you should introduce a food several times The book "My Child Wont Eat" reccomends serving the food 14 times before the child will become accustom to it and eat it!
Here is a link to the book http://www.amazon.com/MY-CHILD-WON%C2%92T-EAT-International/dp/0912500999

Anyways I have made my book suggestions now for my food suggestions.
Scrambled eggs- good source of protein and a complete food.
Cheese slices and crackers
Tacos-on soft flour shell of course- meat or beans with cheese or just the taco meat or beans in a bowl with the cheese on top.

Here are some suggestions from Dr.Sears
http://www.askdrsears.com/html/3/T030500.asp

Answer 6

My son was a andstill is a very picky eater. when he was 2, if it was take out ( in a box) he thought it was fun, and he would eat it. So pizza was a big one, and chicken nuggets... at this point you do what you can for thier nutritional needs, but getting them to eat is the first step. My son was almost 3 before he would toucha hotdog. He also tried new things when other kids were eating it!

Answer 7

Well he shuent be drinking a bottle any more and many toddlers are picky about what they eat. Give him differnt types and see what he likes and dosent. Good Luck :)

Answer 8

A balanced toddler meal. Ask his doctor. My kids were picky eaters & I had a specialist give us advice. PPL would be surprised at what that doctor told us to do. My kids were not growing & ate very little. So their diets consisted of JUNK food. As much as they'd eat to get the calories that they needed. Now after 3 yrs, they are healthy and eating a variety of good healthy foods. Good luck!

Answer 9

Make the food fun and have him help in it's preperation. Ideas: make a face on a piece of bread using fruit, have different dips available for him to dip a grilled cheese sandwich into and make it a game to see which tastes the best. Making food fun helps in kids increasing their willingness to try new foods.

Answer 10

Make it fun...there's little smile faces fries in the frozen food section, wagon wheel pasta for macaroni and cheese, turkey based hot dogs, cut up deli meat, rice....there's so many varieties, soup, fruit variety oatmeal, yogurt, diced cheese, chocolate milk (limit this as it's loadedd with sugar) peanut butter and jelly (when he turns two), applesauce, try different varieties of bread, pancakes, waffles, scrambled eggs (or try them different ways), mushy Rice Krispies cereal, spaghetti with just sauce and small shell noodles, bite size corn, carrots, beans, apples, strawberries, kiwi fruit. Cut grapes into coins. Flavored water is OK such as Aqua Fina or Propel. Cheese or meat filled ravioli in bite size peices.