Toddlers can be fussy eaters at the best of times! I found it helpful to deviate from the standard food times and stereotypes (eg sandwiches for lunch). This is what worked with my children.
For lunch:
- Cut up apple, sultanas,crackers and cheese
- Pasta with frozen peas and corn
- Zucchini Slice
- Cold Potato cut into cubes
For Snacks
- Cold pasta (shells or spirals)
- Grapes cut in half
- Cauliflower cut into very small florets and Philadelphia Cream Cheese
- Pikelets cut into quarters
- Peas in the Pod
For Dinner
- Try and feed them something healthy at about 4pm like yogurt, shaved carrot or cheese
- Feed them bits of veges while you are cooking. For some reason they taste better to toddlers when they are not on the plate. And they feel like they are cooking with you.
- Get them to sit at the table for dinner with everyone, but don’t worry if they don’t eat much.
Think outside the box and see what you come up with.
