Snacks for Toddlers

Recipes for Toddlers

Snacks for toddlers, toddler snacks need to be healthy and be offered mid morning and mid afternoon. Toddlers can get very grumpy if they do not have something to eat regularly. If your toddler is a picky eater try to use snack time to balance out your toddlers nutritional needs. Try some of these snacks and see which your toddler likes.

Your toddler should always sit down when eating and there should be an adult supervising their eating. The reason for this is that toddlers can easily choke by putting too much food in their mouths, or by running around with food in their mouths.

Cereal Mix

• Dry Cheerios or Kix cereal mixed with chopped raisins served in a bowl.

Roll Ups

• A rolled up piece of ham or turkey lunch meat with some cream cheese spread on it goes down well.

Cheese on toast

• 1 Slice of Bread
• 2 tbsp Cheddar Cheese, grated

• Preheat the broiler.
• Sprinkle cheese on piece of bread.
• Place the cheese toast on a baking sheet and place under the broiler for 1-2 minutes until cheese is bubbling.
• Cool then Serve.

1/2 piece of this will be enough for a toddler snack.

Fruity snack

• Sliced grapes (don't give them whole because of the chocking hazard),
• peeled and chopped satsuma segments, strawberries, sliced bananas
• Place these into a little bowl.
• Offer a small amount of yoghurt for the fruit to be dipped into.

Avocado on toast

• Simply toast a slice of bread.
• Mash 1/4 ripe avocado with a fork
• Spread onto 1/2 slice toast.
• Cut into fingers for your toddler to enjoy.
• You could top this with a chopped up strawberry or other fruit if you like

Pea and broccoli snack

• Try steaming these and serving
• Your toddler may enjoy this cold maybe leftovers from last nights meal.
• Try some grated cheese on top.

Sweet potato and chick pea dip.

• Cook sweet potato and chick peas. Blitz in your blender
• This makes a lovely dip for steamed carrot sticks, steamed green beans or crackers.

Fruit kabob

• You will need a straw.
• Cut up cantaloupe, honeydew, pineapple, strawberries, and banana or any other soft ripe fruits
• Thread these onto a straw and serve with yoghurt to dip

Hard boiled eggs

• Boil eggs until hard boiled then run under cold water so it does not continue cooking inside.
• Peel shell from egg.
• Slice into circles for your toddler to enjoy

Vegemite on toast

• Toast bread then add Vegemite if your toddler likes it.
• You could spread a little cream cheese on the toast first.

Mini sandwiches.

• Make up a sandwich with a filling your toddler likes
• For example cream cheese, peanut butter and jelly.
• Use cookie cutters to make sandwich shapes.
• Cut into fingers or quarters.

Use snacks for toddlers to balance out meals nutritionally. For example give veggies and fruit if your toddler does not tend to eat these during a main meal. Give protein snacks in the form of eggs or cheese if your toddler does not eat properly at meals. As you can see you can use snack time effectively to support meal times. Finger foods for toddlers make great snacks. The most important thing is to remember not to get into fights around food. Offer what you want your toddler to eat. Only have healthy food in the house so you are not tempted to give high fat and high sugar foods.

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