Toddlers, depending on how many teeth they have and how fussy they are, can sometimes be a little tricky to feed. Thinking up new, interesting, easy and manageable foods for toddlers to eat can also be hard, so here I've compiled a list of some suggestions for feeding your Toddler (or, anyone really) :)
See the bottom for a free Printable of these ideas for the fridge.
Toddler Breakfast Ideas
- Weet-Bix with milk, banana & strawberry
- Fruit Salad
- Toast with Vegemite
- Porridge
- Warm Pikelets with berries
- Pancakes with fruit or berries and cream
- Cereal (low sugar) with milk/yoghurt and fruit
- Yoghurt with fruit eg banana, strawberry, berries, mango etc
- Soft Boiled Egg with toast soldiers
- Scrambled Egg with multi-grain toast
- English Muffin with peanut butter (depending on allergies)
- Crumpet with butter or jam or berries
Toddler Lunch Ideas
- Zucchini Slice
- Baked Beans with multi-grain toast
- Cheesymite Rolls
- Pizza Rolls
- Pita bread pockets with hummus, grated carrot and alfalfa sprouts
- Homemade pizza slices with veggies and ham
- Mini pizzas on English muffins, Turkish bread or pita bread
- Pizza Scrolls (dough or pastry rolled flat with tomato paste, cheese, fillings etc rolled into log, cut in slices and baked)
- Rice crackers, carrot sticks (steamed until older), cucumber sticks and capsicum sticks with tzatziki dip
- Tinned spaghetti and cheese jaffles (cooled)
- Chicken or veggie nuggets with mild sweet chilli dipping sauce and cucumber sticks
- Omelette with cheese, ham, tomato, spinach, mushrooms, peas, corn etc
- Veggie Burger
- Potato and veggie fritters (grated potato, carrot, zucchini etc combined with an egg, milk and a little flour then pan fried)
- Cocktail frankfurts (skin removed) and veggie sticks (I'd have as a "sometimes" food)
- Savoury Muffin eg ham and cheese
- Pita bread with cream cheese and sultanas, or peanut butter and jam, rolled up
- Pieces of cooked pasta that are easy to hold, with cubed cheese and cooked peas and carrots
- Mini meatballs with veggie sticks
- Left over roast chicken pieces with cubed cheese and cucumber
- Pasta salad with cooked veggies (eg. peas, corn, grated carrot, broccoli, capsicum), ham and cheese, mixed with mayo, lemon and pepper
- Mini quiches made with bread flattened and pressed into muffin tins. Filled with omelette mix and baked
- Cooled hard-boiled eggs cut in pieces or egg roll (egg whisked and fried like a pancake) with steamed veggies
- Toasted sandwich (cooled) with cheese, ham, tomato etc
- Rice or Corn thins with sandwich fillings (see below suggestions)
- Multigrain or high fibre bread sandwiches. {cut in soldiers, in shapes with cookie cutters, cubed, open, closed, pinwheel/sushi (flatten bread, spread/fill then roll up)}
- Sandwich Filling Suggestions:
- Cheese and gherkin spread
- Cream cheese and beetroot relish
- Cheese and vegemite
- Peanut butter and banana
- Cheesymite (cream cheese vegemite)
- Turkey, cranberry sauce and thinly sliced cucumber
- Tuna, mayo and lettuce mix
- Cream cheese, deli/shredded chicken and alfalfa sprouts
- Cheese and beetroot
- Tzatziki dip, cheese and lettuce
- Avocado and cheese
- Avocado and sweet chilli sauce
- Cheese and mango chutney
- Mashed egg and mayo mix with shredded lettuce (optional dash of curry powder or paprika in the egg mix)
- Mashed roasted sweet potato/pumpkin/eggplant
- Vegemite and avocado
Toddler Snack Ideas
- Fresh Fruit (strawberries, banana, watermelon, rockmelon, grapes (halved), grated apple, orange, mango, kiwi fruit, etc) served alone or with yoghurt
- Veggie Sticks (hard vegetables like carrots should be steamed first depending on child) with home-made or bought dips (eg, tzatziki, hummus, beetroot, french onion etc)
- Rice crackers
- Muffin (blueberry, banana etc)
- Raisins/Sultanas
- Wholegrain Fruit Bar
- Muesli bar
- Cheese stick
- Fruit cup
- Toast with butter and cinnamon sugar
- Apple tea cake
- Home-made sultana slice
- Blueberry pikelets
- Home-made ice blocks from smoothies (fruit, milk, yoghurt)
- Wholemeal banana bread
- Fruit crisps
- Yoghurt
- Jelly (made with fruit juice)
- Pudding cup
- Custard (vanilla, banana, chocolate)
- Biscuits (eg marie, scotch finger, homemade choc-chip, oat and raisin, apple)
- Dried fruit (can be soaked in water to soften) eg. prunes, apricots, apple rings, mango
- Canned fruit, eg peaches, apricots
- Cold or warm pancakes rolled with mashed banana or cottage cheese/honey (nutella for a treat!)
- Air popped pop-corn
* This is a list of suggestions for you to pick, choose and change as you like. Please use your own parental knowledge and judgement (or the advice of a paediatrician) when choosing what and how to feed your child. :)
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Tell Us. What does your Toddler love to eat?
Happy eating,
Debs :)
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