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Nutritious Snacks Your Toddler Will Eat Up

by Mary Silva, M.S., R.D.
reviewed by Robert Needlman, M.D., F.A.A.P.
Between-meal snacks are tailor-made for a toddler's diet: These small food servings, given throughout the day, are perfectly sized for such tiny stomachs and usually don't require the skilled use of a spoon or a fork. However, since they supplement half-eaten meals, it's important that snacks be nutritious. And there's the rub: Offer a young child an afternoon nibble, and she's likely to reach for that box of cookies or bag of potato chips you've got stashed in the cupboard. If you, like most parents, are eager to hear suggestions for healthy snacks that not only are good for your child but tasty, too, consider the following:

  • graham crackers spread with just a little peanut butter or cream cheese

  • mini bagel and cream cheese

  • hard-boiled egg

  • 1/2 English muffin, topped with pizza sauce and a sprinkle of melted cheese

  • small pancake with applesauce

  • 1/2 waffle with a spoonful of cottage cheese

  • sliced deli meat with fruit

  • potato pancake

  • cooked vegetable with cheese sauce

  • tuna fish and wheat crackers

  • canned salmon and wheat crackers

  • mashed beans and a small flour tortilla

  • a couple slices avocado

  • ripe fruit and cubed cheese

  • cottage cheese and canned fruit

  • 1/2 grilled-cheese sandwich

  • mini blueberry or banana muffin

  • 1/2 banana

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