Healthy Snacks for Toddlers

My son's favorite snack is a tortilla (we use whole wheat) with some peanut butter spread on it and few raisins or cut up dried apricots sprinkled on the peanut butter. Roll it up and it's ready to eat.

I found this idea from Baby Talk Magazine. Slice bananas and roll them in rice crispies.

What about quesadillas? Friut salad with cool wip is always fun!

Hi! We did some fun snacks last year that went with what we were studying. For example, when we read, "If you give a pig a pancake" we used those frozen pancakes and warmed them up and each kid put peanut butter (for the paste), banana slices and raisins on them to make a pig's face. When we were studying pumpkins in the fall we hade a taste test day where they sampled three different things made from pumpkin so we could graph which one they liked the best. When we studied farm we made homemade butter and they put it on bread slices. I know these aren't any long term solutions to the snack issue but they might spice it up for a day or two!

When my son got tired of the same old grind of cheese and crackers and the fruit snacks I started changing things up a little for him. He has yet to get tired of apple sauce with teddy bear grahams in it (got the idea from Dennys), toast with peanut butter, I also make him cheesey toast when the crackers are a not an option, just melt a piece of cheese between two slices of toast and cut them into individual squares. I have learned that yes he enjoys something different so I try to rotate those into a weekly thing for him so he never gets the same thing twice in one week unless he specifically asks for it. The big one which has entirely surprised me is celery if I give him celery and some of the cheesey salsa sauce both disappear within minutes make sure it's the mild sauce but it seems to work with my son. :) Good Luck.

Hey Janelle,
Depending on allergies, my kids like celery or crackers with peanut butter, or cream cheese. Also vegetables and ranch dip, frozen whole fruit pops, or string cheese. Good Luck!

My kids like dried papaya, pineapple, apples, and mangoes that we get from Sprouts in the bulk bins. They also enjoy yogurt covered pretzels and raisins. We sometimes make grilled cheese sandwiches in the waffle maker (we have a square waffle iron with space for 4 waffles, so we put buttered bread and cheese topped with more buttered bread and then close the lid)...we call them "grilled cheese waffles" and we usually have tomato soup with it. We also make small sandwiches and have tea parties. I let my older daughter help make cookies while my younger one is napping. We use whole wheat flour and fructose.

Well I have a 2 year old and he love fruit pizza it is really fast and easy to make and it is good well let mer know if you want the respie

How about all types of mini muffins? Cornbread with butter and honey. Let them make fruit kabobs or a fruit pizza. Homemade frozen yogurt pops. Carrots with ranch (use canned carrot slices for young kids who don't like the crispy ones). Quickbreads (banana, zucchini, pumpkin, lemon poppyseed, etc). Turkey & cheese pinwheels (tortilla, mayo, turkey, cheese, roll up and slice into wheels). Mini pita pocket sandwiches. Cold pasta, cheese, and meat with italian dressing. Apples & p.b. Pigs in a blanket. Pretzels and yogurt dip. Granola & yogurt. Tuna salad on crackers. Fruit sandwich with quickbread. Bean dip or hummus with pita chips or veggies. Waffle sandwiches.

Check FamilyFun.com. They have a lot of great ideas. I subscribe to their magazine and love it! They make foods fun to eat and also have ideas on how the kids can help.

J.

cottage cheese, yogurt, apples, granola bars, any fresh fruit

Hi..

I have a wonderful snack that my kids, plus my husband love to eat. Cheerios mixed with yogurt, my kids love the honey nut, and myself and Brian love the oat clusters cheerios mixed. I think that it is good for you, and also fun for the kids to mix it up.

Good luck and have fun mixing!!!

It looks like you already have some great ideas, but to add to the list... English muffins w/ cheese melted on them, cut into triangles, apples & peanut butter, goldfish, teddy grahams, pickle pinwheels (dry a pickle off, spread w/ cream cheese, wrap a slice of ham around it, cut into coins), sweet potato chips. Just be creative and remember that with kids that aren't too picky, you can do lots of different snacks that will help them make wise choices as adults!

Take so lunch meat and a pretzel roll up the lunch meat cut into bite size pieces and then stab a pretzel through the rolls and you have a yummy snack (plus they can help you make it) you can add cheese or instead of the pretzel to hold it together you could you tortilla. Tortillas can also be heated in the microwave (not hot just warm) then spread a little butter on it then sprinkle cinnamon and sugar roll and cut into bit size pieces. Those are just two quick ideas that the kids can also help with.
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Whole Wheat pretzels
Protein bars
Boiled eggs
All fruit Shake
Fruit salad
Veggie tray (& dip)
Yogurt
Rice cakes
String cheese
Granola bars
Whole wheat bagel/toast with PB
Wheat thins, triscuits, rice crackers
Tuna & crackers
Deli ham rolled up with cream cheese & green onions in the middle, then sliced and put on whole wheat crackers/tortilla
Sliced veggies or fruit w/ cottage cheese
Chex mix
Juice
Applesauce
Celery w/ PB & raisins
Homemade rice pudding