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6 Comments to “What Kind Of Healthy, Inexpensive Foods Can I Feed My Toddler, Besides The Jarred Baby Food?”

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   eli_star2009/12/23 at 9:30 pm

   He can essentially eat what you are eating. For babies and younger toddlers, buy a food mill ($12 at amazon.com). I stopped buying jarred baby food as soon as my son moved into the “2nd stage” stuff (yuck! and not very healthy).
   With the exception of really spicy foods, our son ate the same meals we do at an early age – I just cut small bites. As a result, he loves all kinds of foods, eats most veggies, and will try almost anything.
   Some of his less-usual favorites starting out were:
   Mushrooms
   Edamame (soy beans)
   Tofu
   Imitation crab meat
   Try making “homemade” soup. Use chicken or beef broth (check the label to buy low sodium with no MSG). Chop up a good variety of veggies and simmer. You can add bits of cooked meat and al dente pasta or rice. This can even be dinner if you go light on the broth so it’s really chunky.
   For a healthy treat, try defrosting frozen strawberries in the microwave and sprinkling a little brown sugar on them. No, they’re not quite as nutritious as fresh, but are very juicy (almost like soup) and my son still thinks it’s an amazing treat. When we have pancakes I sometimes use this instead of syrup to control the sugar a bit.
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   Anonymous2009/12/24 at 3:37 am

   My kids like:
   melon smiles (thin slices of melon)
   yogurt, especially Dora The Explorer yogurt cups
   apples or pears
   broccoli–cook and allow baby to bite the soft part off
   any kind of pasta
   rice pilaf
   peas
   corn–it’s in season in Ohio now!
   dried cherries or cranberries
   canned pineapple or mandarin oranges
   shredded chicken or meat
   ribs–weird, but they like ribs
   barley with brown sugar
   shred zucchini into spaghetti sauce, tuna salad or mac and cheese
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   lostinfl2009/12/24 at 5:07 am

   If you have a toddler…bananas, soft breads, canned fruit cockktail as the fruits are usually sort of soft, yogurt, pudding for a snack, grits, eggs…all sorts of thing!
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   polkyj772009/12/24 at 9:43 am

   MY KIDS LOVED THE SMALL CANS OF VEGGIES AND FRUITS JUST ENOUGH FOR THEM I BUY THEM AT ANY GROCERY STORE
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   EC Expert2009/12/24 at 3:15 pm

   You can feed a toddler anything that you eat if it isn’t too spicy or a choking hazard. Avoid grapes unless you have the patience to cut them in half. Melted mozzarella is a problem so forget lasagna, Peanuts and popcorn are also a hazard. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches cut in small squares are OK but not without the jelly. Other than that, cut adult food in small pieces, steam hard raw veggies like carrots until he can bite them, and offer him a varied diet of healthy food with an occasional treat thrown in.
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   CowboysF2009/12/24 at 6:08 pm

   Bananas. Cheerios. Graham crackers. Yoghurt. Sliced bits of roasted turkey breast.

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