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Healthy toddler snacks

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PeppaPigStinks · 21/04/2013 11:04

Hi
This has probably been done before but can you recommend some healthy snacks for my 2 year old. She is a grazer and I have given up with meals! Obviously I will persevere but after a four am feast this morning I need to get her eating more in the day.

She loves fruit. Raisins, dried apricots, goodies bars

Thanks

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looseleaf · 21/04/2013 19:09

DS has a slice of fresh mango
Chunks of melon
Apple slices or grapes
Tiny jam sandwiches
Cucumber sticks (though he can't chew them very well so chews some and spits chunks out!)
Biscuits
A boiled egg
Cold potato with mayonnaise (he loooves mayonnaise)

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mamij · 21/04/2013 19:28

DDs have:
Avocado
Breadsticks with hummus
Bananas
Grapes
Pears
Satsumas
Yoghurt
Oats and raisin biscuits
Banana and oat muffins
Ham sandwich
Cheese
Yoghurt coated raisins

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Drladybird · 21/04/2013 19:43

Rice cakes with tahini or peanut butter
Babybel type cheese (my 2 year old loves to peel them)
breadsticks with hummous
Homemade biscuits (shop bought ones seem so expensive if you try to avoid refined sugar) such as Coconut and oat bites

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nextphase · 21/04/2013 19:48

banana muffins - I only use half the recommended sugar
peanut butter spread on pitta / ricecakes / thinly sliced apple (yes)
fruit - all and any
cucumber / carrot / pepper strips with humus to dip into
boiled eggs
If you can be bothered to cook:
scones
drop scones
sweetcorn fritters
eggy bread
muffin pizzas - split an english muffin, spread with tomato puree, cover in cheese and any other pizza toppings you fancy, and grill til cheese is melted

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SweepTheHalls · 21/04/2013 19:49

I would split up what I had planned to go
I've as the meal into small potions and call it a snack! He even fell for a mini portion of shepherds pie as a snack!

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PeppaPigStinks · 21/04/2013 22:12

Thank you very much. She used to like hummous but I get "don't like it" now Angry
Will try boiled eggs thank you.
Also love the idea of meals as 'snacks'!

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TheSurgeonsMate · 21/04/2013 22:28

Odd salad combo designed by me and dd: apple, cheese, raisins and raw mushrooms. She'll mow through a large bowlful of that watching telly. Some people mix up dry goods in a bowl, like different breakfast cereals and dried fruit.

Popcorn. Freshly popped you don't need to add butter sugar or salt, just eat it.

I've been buying dutch pancakes called ApracaDebra from the supermarket. I get the savoury ones so I can make main courses with them. DD likes one heated gently, spread with jam and folded over.

Quesadillas, grated cheese in a tortilla heated in a frying pan.

Dd will eat sugar snap peas out the packet. (It's the rustling packet that makes it a temptation, I think!) Could also try frozen peas in a bowl?

Grated apple and oats in yogurt or proper bircher muesli, I think Jamie Oliver has a recipe for that.

Cold chicken.

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FacebookWanker · 21/04/2013 22:35

Love the sound if those oat bites ladybird I'll definitely be making those.

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Drladybird · 22/04/2013 15:45

Glad you like them Facebook
I agree, serving small meals as snacks is inspired!

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FacebookWanker · 27/04/2013 08:58

Thanks for sharing this recipe Drladybird. DD and I made these yesterday and she absolutely loves them.

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