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Toddler Approved Food & Nutrition
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items For parents who need help getting their toddlers to eat healthy foods that taste good. Eating shouldn’t be yet another source of stress. These are foods and supplements that my daughter loves. I hope your child enjoys them too!
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Vitamins and Supplements
Snacks
Drinks
Quick Meals
Frozen Sweet Treats
Vitamins and Supplements
Vitamins can be a great way to help fill in any nutritional needs that your child is not getting from food the same as true for adult adults. Talk to your doctor before you add any new vitamin into your diet or your child’s diet.
My pediatrician re...
My 3-year-old loves these gummies! She looks forward to taking her multi vitamin
OLLY Kids Multi Gummy Worms, Overall Wellness
My pediatrician recommended adding in a multivitamin to make sure my daughter is getting adequate nutrients. Toddler parents everywhere know the struggle. It’s like they gravitate towards the least amount of nutrients possible sometimes! These gummie...
Complete Vitamin Gummies
If you are open to trying melatonin with your toddler, consider giving these a try after talking with your pediatrician. They only have .5 mg of melatonin instead of a whole milligram like the drops have. They also contain chamomile, lemon balm, and ...
OLLY Kids Sleep Gummies
If you need some help getting your kid to sleep from time to time, give these a try after talking to your doctor. They taste great and can help on those nights when kids just don’t want to go to sleep and you’re at your wits end.
Kids Melatonin Free Sleep
Snacks
If you’ve spent any time around, you know that snacks win over meals most of the time for them not sure why here are some of my favorite snack snacks to keep on hand at home in the car and in my diaper bag to make sure that my daughter is well fed.
Whoever invented pouches for kids like this is a genius. I love how this is a convenient way to help my daughter get in an extra serving of fruit and veggies. I’ve seen some with added probiotics and protein as well. This is a brand that my toddler r...
Once Upon a Farm
My daughter’s go-to snack, even though she is technically too big for them. The bag easily seals shut and it’s easy to open and reopen without spilling. I almost always carry these with me when we’re out and about.
Very Berry Blend Fruit & Veggie Melts®
Apparently, these are somewhat controversial on the Internet. I don’t care my daughter loves them. We give these to her still, even though she’s definitely old enough to have other snacks she remembers eating them from when she was a baby at whatever...
Mild Cheddar & Veggie Dip Lil' Crunchies®
Ok not the healthiest snack ever, but at least they have some vitamins and get kids to make a positive association with fruits. They also make a great treat!
Welch's Fruit Snacks
Good way to get my daughter to get in extra protein. Getting her to eat meat besides pepperoni and chicken nuggets can sometimes be tricky.
Oikos Triple Zero High Protein Nonfat Greek Yogurt
While my daughter loves bananas and strawberries, I like to encourage her to try a wider variety of fruits. This can be really tricky sometimes at times even getting her to have something like fresh apples or blueberries can be hard. I’m not sure why...
good and gather dried fruit
My daughter loves peanut butter. She usually just eats it off a spoon. I’ve tried putting it on toast. For some reason she doesn’t like that sometimes I’ll put it with a banana. Sometimes All makes a little bit in with her vanilla yogurt and she’ll e...
Jif® Peanut Butter
My daughter does like fresh strawberries, most toddlers do however she does like these as well. I like these for when we’re in the car when we’re at the park on the go and I just didn’t have time for whatever reason to pack fresh strawberries these a...
Good & Gather Freeze Dried Strawberry Slices 2oz Set of 2
Love these snacks so much! Full disclosure my daughter does prefer cheese, flavored puffs, but she does like these as well. I also think they’re a great snack. I have been told by some of my friends that their pediatrician suggested these as a way to...
Osem Bamba Peanut Butter Puffs Baby Snacks - 12oz
Drinks
Water and milk are best sometimes it’s nice to have something else. These are our other drinks that I will give my daughter sometimes usually with juice I try to follow it up with some water right after my dentist recommends that my mother-in-law is ...
Love these are our favorite juice boxes! They are very commonly given out at fast food restaurants which is how I found out about them. I’m a real mom with a real toddler. Yes I do end up going to get fast food kids meals from time to time it’s not i...
Honest Kids Appley Ever After Organic Juice
This is our favorite brand of orange juice. I usually serve it to my daughter in a cup that is mostly full of ice. I fill that cup up with about 2/3 of juice and then I top the other third off with water and give it a good shake. This helps lower the...
Simply Orange Juice Varieties | Pulp-Free & More
Quick Meals
Sometimes you do not want to cook and at the same time you don’t wanna go through another fast food drive-through here are some quick meals that you can throw together in just a few minutes.
Not a big fan of instant Mac and cheese. This is easy to make up and everyone in the family enjoys it as a side.
Bob Evans Macaroni & Cheese
Not a perfect meal this list is not about being perfect about finding things that your kid will actually eat all those nights when you just need them to eat something so these pizzas are easy. You can microwave them. They taste reasonably good health...
RED BARON® Singles Pepperoni Deep Dish Pizza
Frozen Sweet Treats
When my daughter wants a sweet treat like ice cream I try to offer her these first she loves bananas. She loves chocolate so naturally she likes these frozen chocolate bananas, not always available because they are seasonal but when they are around, ...
Gone Bananas!
No sugar added means no table sugar was added. The naturally occurring sugar in the fruit is what you see in the total sugar content. The Popsicles are still perfectly sweet enough thanks to the natural fruit flavor and we even called them ice cream.
Outshine No Sugar Added Fruit Bars & Mini Pops