The best snacks for your growing Toddler are the most nutritious snacks that you can get them to eat!
Toddlers like to graze throughout the day, so when it comes to eating a meal, you will be lucky to get them to eat a bite.
Instead, your toddler is probably going to snack all day. In order to keep your kids eating a well-balanced diet, it’s important to give them healthy snacks.
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Here are the best snacks for your growing toddler:
Toast Fingers and Cheese Sticks
Toddlers need dairy in their diet, but they also need something from the bread group as well.
Combine cheese sticks and toast fingers for a fun snack kids can eat on the go.
Whether heading out to the backyard or to the park, toast fingers and cheese sticks are a snack that can be taken along for a healthy snack.
Apple Slices and Peanut Butter
Peanut butter always adds a little more flavor to any snack.
It’s fun to dip apples into as well.
If you want a healthy snack for your toddler rich in nutrients, apples give your toddler needed fruits while peanut butter provides essential protein and iron.
Celery and Peanut Butter
It can be tough to get kids to eat their fiber-rich greens.
When you add a little peanut butter to the mix, toddlers seem to forget they are eating healthy veggies.
Make this snack, even more, fun with raisins.
You can call it “Ants on a Log.”
The celery gives your toddler needed fiber and the peanut butter gives them extra iron and protein.
Yogurt and Fruit
Your toddler may like fruit, but may not be too fond of that white stuff you’re giving them.
Instead of making it a stressful endeavor, offer yogurt topped with brightly colored fruit like strawberries, blueberries, or bananas.
Walnuts and Raisins
Nuts are natural powerhouses filled with vitamins, protein and healthy fibers.
For young toddlers, it’s best to chop or grind nuts and add them to other foods.
Walnuts are a softer nut packed with Omega 3, which is needed for healthy brain development.
Once your child is old enough to eat nuts by themselves, walnuts make delicious ways to get the nutrients they need to grow healthy.
Add a few raisins to their snack bag as a sweet addition.
When you begin giving whole nuts to your child just make sure you supervise them while eating.
The best snack for your kids?
When it comes to a well-balanced diet, many toddlers are lacking in vital nutrition for their growing bodies and brains.
Instead of trying to force feed them all the healthy foods they are missing in their diet, make the best snacks fun with healthy favorites.
What are the best snacks for your growing toddler that they truly love?
Please share your thoughts in our comments section.
My son is much older than a toddler now, when he was that age his favorite food was blueberries and it’s delicious. He loves most fruits and vegetables and I think it’s because we fed him a lot of the stuff when he was a baby.
Awww sounds like you know what you are talking about. While I don’t have kids, I can see these are a great selection of snack ideas for a toddler!
What a great list of snacks! And not just for toddlers! I would love these snacks, as would my teenager!
We like to freeze blueberries and grapes for snack time, of course my kids are old enough now that we don’t have to worry about them being a choking hazard anymore!
These are great snack ideas for a young toddler! My kids used to love apple slices and avocado! Avocado was their fave food when they were toddlers.
These are some really good ones. My kids always liked celery with peanut butter. It’s easy to make!
Such great snack ideas that are good for older children as well as toddlers! I truly feel that you can’t go wrong with peanut butter. It has protein and tastes delicious. What could be better than that? 🙂
My kids loved apple slices with peanut butter when they were little. Actually, they liked just about everything that involved peanut butter.
My teen daughter still loves to snack on peanut butter and apples. Well just about everything you listed my kids love to snack on. Guess they never grow out of good eating.
apple slices and peanut butter have always been a fave when my kiddos were toddlers. so easy and quick, they loved it! great ideas!
My kids live off of these snacks! I always have crackers or cut up veggies with me, it makes life much easier.
I have a toddler and he loves these type of snacks as well. Great giveaway. Thanks for sharing.
My one tip is to always have something prepared.
I love these snack ideas! We liked to try different things when our littles were small. I wish they had a drink like this though.
Best tip when feeding kids? Use a dropcloth. It will save your sanity a million times over.
These are all great snack ideas for toddlers. Gerber products are indeed awesome products for little ones. This is indeed an awesome giveaway and I will have to share with my sister along with my niece. Thanks for sharing the giveaway and snack ideas.
These are yummy and healthy ideas for the little ones. The twins love to munch on cut up veggies.
YUM! I would enjoy most of these for a snack as an adult! 🙂 My sister loves to give her toddler veggies and Gerber snacks.
Yummy.. Great snack options. Thanks for sharing
My kids love fresh fruits, yogurt, dried fruits and nuts. They could eat them all day.
Great list of snacks for a young toddler!! These are yummy and healthy!
I love apple slices and peanut butter. I will definitely feed this these snacks to my kiddos when I have them.