20 Healthy Snack Ideas for Babies and Toddlers
Here’s some suggestions for quick and simple, healthy snacks for babies and toddlers.
1. Banana - what baby doesn’t love the sweetness of bananas
2. Apples, pears, peaches and apricots - leave a little of the skin on at one end so that your baby can get a grip and its not so slippery
3. Grapes – cut in half and seeds removed
4. Vegetable sticks – lightly steamed vegetable sticks or fingers – such as zucchini, carrot, sweet potato, pumpkin, green beans, asparagus, baby corn
5. Vegetable florets – lightly steamed broccoli and cauliflower
6. Corn kernels and peas – my little 1 yr old loved to pick up single corn kernels and peas with his finger and thumb. You can use lightly steamed fresh or frozen corn and peas
7. Roasted vegetable sticks – cut pumpkin, potato, sweet potato, parsnip, beetroot into sticks or fingers, spray lightly with oil spray and roast at 180C until tender. Can use them as dippers into guacamole, hummous or tzatziki
8. Cooked pasta – shells, spirals or penne are suitable for babies and toddlers to grip. Store cooked pasta in a covered container in the fridge for up to 2 days. Can be eaten hot or cold or grilled with a little cheese on top.
9. Kids wheat breakfast biscuit (eg. Weetbix) – these are lower in sodium than regular. Break into small pieces.
10. Cheese – cut into cubes, fingers or little wedges. Look for cheeses with <600mg sodium/100g.
11. Cream cheese – small spoonfuls or spread over a rice cake
12. Yoghurt – no need to spend money on small tubs of flavoured, sweetened yogurt. Simply add a little apple puree to natural, full fat yoghurt, preferably one which has acidophilus & bifidus cultures added. Look for the ABC culture logo. Or try Greek yoghurt.
13. Toast fingers – lightly toasted wholemeal bread
14. Bread sticks – look for plain varieties without salt
15. Rice cakes – natural, plain
16. Rice crackers – plain and not flavoured with salt, flavours and flavor enhancers.
17. Pita bread triangles – fresh or lightly toasted
18. Naan bread – cut into fingers
19. Egg quarters – hard boil eggs and cut into quarters for a quick protein snack
20. Puffed corn or kamut – available in health section of supermarkets they are steamed puffed. Suitable for older infants
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