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Foods Worth Trying with Toddlers
Foods Worth Trying with Toddlers
Yogourt: plain or mixed with fruit
Cheese: bits, grated, cottage cheese, ricotta cheese
Pasta: Any kind, any shape! Try spaghetti with a tomato and meat sauce, manicotti stuffed with cheese and spinach, or just moisten pasta with a bit of butter or margarine and sprinkle with cheese.
Chili: Spices are okay, especially for children without reflux.
Goulashes and stews: Finely chop meats if necessary.
Fish: Canned salmon and tuna are great.
Shepherd's pie
Baked beans
Tofu
Eggs: scrambled, quiches, hard boiled (No egg whites until after age one year!)
Split pea soup or any lentil soup or cassroles
Cabbage rolls
Softer meats like liver and poultry are popular; other meat, such as beef and pork may need to be more finely chopped or grounded.
Grains like rice or barley work great to round out a meal.
Try a quick casserole. Start with rice or barley, add a little tuna or salmon, and add some cooked frozen vegetables like peas.
Stewed prunes or apricots
Fresh or frozen vegetables: Cook, mash coarsely, or use as finger foods.
Fresh or canned fruits: Coarsely mash at first, then move on to chunks. If skins are tough, remove them.
Sweet potato, regular potatoes: Mashed or baked, sprinkled with cheese, or add some chopped meat or fish.
Perogies, dumplings
Pancakes, or French toast.
Some popular foods should not be used every day. High fat, high sodium meats, such as ham, fish sticks, chicken nuggets, luncheon meats, and weiners/hot dogs should be not be given daily. Take extra precaution with weiners/hot dogs due to the fact that they can cause choking. To avoid this, always slice them in quarters along the length of the weiner.
Sweet desserts should only be offered once in a while as well. You will find that milk-based desserts such as ice cream, frozen yogourts, puddings, and custard will be a great hit. Fruit-based desserts such as fruit crisps or crumbles, juice jello, and baked apples are worth a try as well.
Cereals such as regular, low-sugared breakfast cereals are okay as snacks, but it is recommended that you continue to use baby cereals or toddlers cereal for breakfast well into the second year. These are an important source of a highly available form of iron, a nutrient that is commonly low in diets of toddlers.
Written by: MommaSmurf, Shannon
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