Foods For Your Picky Toddler

By Jasmine Pachnanda

Is your child a picky toddler and you want to make your kid healthy by giving him best diet? For picky toddlers, protein-rich diet is heavily recommended by health experts because such diet plays a vital role in their mental as well as physical growth. It is a fact that kids hate eating fruits and vegetables as they are quite fond of chips, chocolates and cookies. It is therefore very essential for the parent of such picky toddlers to teach them the importance of proper nutrition by putting forth some examples.

As a parent, it is your sole responsibility to make them understand the pros and cons of a nutritious diet as compared to snacks and foods that are high in sugar, fat and sodium. Children are lured by television advertisements.

You can try not to take your toddler to a grocery store or to vegetable vendors to expose them to the benefits of milk and dairy products, fruits and vegetables. Further, you can try some tasty vegetable meals prepared at home and present beautifully. Try not to always stuff their Tiffin with boring healthy food recipes. You must have a different menu on weekly or fortnightly basis or why not to pamper your child with yummy delicacies during weekends?

Foods For Your Picky Toddler

You must be wondering what healthy food to give to your toddlers at this growing stage? Check for some of the best recipe ideas for your toddlers.

Foods to choose for picky toddlers:
Fried Fish: If your kid loves fish then you must prefer fried fish. While frying up the fish, marinate them with egg. Do season the pan and bake the fish at 450-degrees in an oven. To make it protein-rich yet attractive, you may include wedges of rusted potato on the baking sheet.

Nutrient Rich Natural Cauliflower: For a fussy child, nutrient rich natural cauliflower is a perfect diet, which on prolonged cooking offers a strong sulfury taste. Natural cauliflower dishes are the best replacement of cheese based food items such as baked pasta dishes. Natural cauliflower is a cruciferous vegetable that offers a delicious subtle flavour when it is in-taken with peas and pasta shells.

The Fully Customizable Soup: Fully customizable soup is another dinner item for picky toddler which is extremely healthy for them. The soup is blessed with sharp flavours and textures that will make everyone happy with its creamy, crunchy tart. This will further encourage your kid to have the vegetable soup even if he/ she is not too fond of it.

Eggs: Eggs are the best protein supplement for picky kids and contains around 97 percent of digestible proteins. In fact, eggs are easily digestible than cow's milk, and never causes any side effects to a toddler's health.

Orange Ruffy: Orange ruffy is a healthy protein rich hit fish for the toddler which is somehow mild in flavour, and is different from normal fishy taste. Orange ruffy is mostly recommended by a nutritionist because of its firmness and low odour. Orange ruffy is extremely rich in protein content and its one serving is sufficient to fulfill all the nutrients especially amount of proteins needed in a day by your child's body.

These are the best foods for picky toddlers which are highly rich in protein supplement, and fulfill the demand of proteins at the same time. If such nutritious diets are given to a picky toddler regularly, then definitely they will develop the taste and will also be blessed with a healthy body physique.
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Story first published: Friday, October 4, 2013, 18:42 [IST]
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