Please can someone give a snack option that ISNT carrot and pepper sticks

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I feel like whenever people talk about toddler diets, I see 'I offer carrot and pepper sticks' every few comments rather than their toddler eating (gasp!) fruit.

What are some other healthy snack options? Realistic ones. Not fruit based because apparently fruit is toddler crack.

Heartbreaktuna · Today 23:11
@MrsSkylerWhite because it's one of the biggest causes of choking. I was on a children's first aid course this year where they demonstrated that not only is it the exact size of a child's wind pipe, but it also sticks when wet so very difficult to “

Well I didn’t know that! Every day’s a school day, thanks!
Our children/grandchildren never had any problems but I certainly wouldn’t argue with statistics.

Wotsits. Quavers & skips always go down well

Keep offering the raw veg. My 6 year old ate a bit of cucumber last year for the first time (and now he loves it) . I'd been putting one slice on his plate for years! Otherwise I fed him boiled eggs, 100% peanut butter on cream crackers, oat pancakes, egg muffins, cheese cubes and incredible amounts of fruit as snacks. Now at 6 he eats crap (and cucumber)

There’s not much healthy in that lot! It’s all processed shite except cheese.

Both UPF. Why do it? Give your kids food.

They are the kids that get given that to eat. Simple.

When you’ve seen a child eat a dried goats skin off the wall of a mud hit you realise vegetables are a blessing. Give your head a wobble.

Eh, fruit is fine. A banana or an orange is our go-to out of the house snack; both helpfully come in their own case whereas veg sticks you have to dig around the Tupperware drawer, cursing.

DD likes a boiled egg, white only similar to pp. Oat cakes – for some reason only the rough ones will do, not fine. She’ll eat any vegetable if you arrange it on a plate in a vaguely flowery formation and call it a platter, particularly when garnished with a couple of cheesy mini crackers. Water biscuits and cream cheese. Cheese. Anything she’s baked. She likes a vine leaf but they’re messy. Homemade no-sugar pancake slices. Peanut butter toast/crumpet/bagel/etc.

But mostly it’s bananas that keep her going, they appear to be the snack that packs the most punch. Even if she’d prefer a fruit roll-up.

Oh! Someone upthread mentioned pickled onions. We’ll also do a little bowl of cornichons, olives and cheese cubes. I call it cocktail hour!

Oh this made me actually laugh out loud 🤣.
I was just clicking off the thread (as I'd come to post "maltesers" but having read the OP and replies decided it wasn't appropriate) and half read this and had to come back to properly read it.

My son eats stuff he likes. Just like me!

Choc chip brioche, rice crispy treats, home made cherry scones and home made banana bread always went down a treat. My DD loved those lentil puffs and purple wafer things you can buy in the baby food section too. She was also a huge fan of cucumber. Cold pasta and pesto was always a good on the go snack for her too

Ooh @AliasGrape do you happen to have a link to those Calypo-style lolly moulds? Sounds like a genius idea!

Cherry tomatoes with hummus
Avocado chunks
Homemade mini muffins (sweet and savory)
Homemade energy balls (made w/ dried fruit but also nuts, flax, chia, etc.)
Yogurt bark
Homemade cheese biscuits
Homemade pouches
Store bought stuff: crackers, cheerios, bamba, crunchy peas, cereal bars

Sushi was and is still.my DC favourite snack. So easy to make if you use Japanese rice and sheets of nori. Just layer rice on the nori sheet and then a thin layer of anything such as avocado, tinned tuna or mackerel in mayo, cucumber and soya sauce then roll up tightly and have jumbo rolls for teenagers or sliced up into smaller rolls for toddlers. If you dunk the knife into cold water before slicing it is easier and doesn't stick.

My 17 year old makes his own for his friends these days and they have always been super popular even with faddy eaters 😀

Avocado on toast / muffin / bagel

These are the ones we have https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0963DK1MC?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

solid starts have a really good ethos that snacks are just "mini meals" therefore you do not need something to be a specific snack type food, just a small portion of any kind of food!!

saying that, some non fruit snacks my almost 2 year old enjoys are, babybells, popcorn, peanut butter on toast, yoghurt, mini malt loaf bars

Mine knocked back porridge 🤣🤣🤣 and fruit, mainly bananas. I always pop the oats (and raisins) in the pan the night before. Heat through the next day for breakfast, then he likes to just dip in (to what I'd put in a bowl for him) throughout the day. As a toddler he largely lived on porridge as a snack, and bananas. Lots of them! I remember having to do emergency banana shops. He enjoyed (and still does) nuts and dried fruit - dates, raisins and apricots. Oh the mumsnet horror - allowing my child to graze and eat dried fruit. I really don't see what the issue with fruit is. How many people actually get morbidly obese on fruit or end up with tooth decay on a diet containing lots of fruit 🤪? I've also always had a plate of fruit out for DS (mainly Apple, pear, grapes and orange) which he grazed on throughout the afternoon, now after school. He's 6 now and will help himself to whatever is in the fruit bowl when he's hungry. I'm super chuffed with that! I also eat large amounts of fruit. My BMI is 21. No idea what DS weighs, but you can see his ribs through his back, he's got knobbly knees and is full of energy 🤷‍♀️ Clearly the fruit isn't harming either of us. I never went for the toddler type snacks (breadsticks, rice cakes and the like), I always just gave him what I snacked on (apart from the porridge!).

Fruits fine but its best eaten with a meal and other food so it doesn't wreck their teeth. Of course there are plenty of worse sugar laden snacks so fruit is better than them for teeth but that's where a lot of the veg stuff stems from. DS used to have anything that could be pre prepared and/or easily carried around in my bag- some people do go snack crazy though and have a vast array of things just in case.

DS' favourite was mini breadsticks with soft cheese dip, I just used the small snack boxes and sometimes added cucumber and stuff.

Following this thread

Off the wall suggestion, but maybe just don't give them snacks (do they actually need them?) Just give three sit down meals a day and milk between?

Cheese
crackers
fruit - cut up small
cucumber
spring onion
bread sticks
toast
cold boiled new potatoes
olives
poppadoms
bread and butter
meatballs - make small ones about the size of a walnut
sausage - cook cool and slice, keep in Tupper ware in the fridge
hard boiled egg sliced up

www.firststepsnutrition.org/eating-well-early-years

Really good evidence based resource for food/snacks for toddlers.

I am not being sanctimonious or saying this as someone who's toddler munches happily through their veg sticks, but even if they don't eat it, keep offering it alongside other things. Exposure is just as important for toddlers. Mine has gone from leaving it, to chewing it and spitting it out everywhere, progress! 😂