Healthy Foods For Sick Toddlers

By Vinutha S

Toddlers must be fed healthy food in order to grow well and stay healthy. They fall sick only when there is a change in their food diet. You always need to make sure to feed nourishment rich foods. If you want your toddler to be active, smart, growing and happy, feed them healthy foods. Since toddlers' stomach is too small, you should feed them less amount of food and at different interval of time. They should be fed often to obtain the required amount of energy to be active.

To start with, breakfast is the most essential meal for a toddler as it helps them to grow stronger and healthier. You need to provide your toddler with six meals a day, spilt this up into three main meals and three snacks. Make sure that every meal you serve your toddlers consists of essential proteins, vitamins and carbohydrates. Make your toddlers food friendly. They should love to eat and not resist and rebel. To achieve this you need to provide them with tasty food and healthy too.

Here is a list of best foods sick toddlers must be fed:

Cereals and Biscuits

Cereals and Biscuits

Cereals and biscuits are the breakfast foods that sick toddlers must be fed. They are well known as breakfast diet foods. These are easily digestible and healthy too.

Eggs

Eggs

Eggs are very nutritive and healthy foods to be included in toddlers diet. You can make a variety of dishes with eggs. Toddlers would get bored with the routine boiled eggs, so feed them with different varieties and they would love to eat well.

Snacks

Snacks

Fresh and homemade snacks are the healthy food toddlers must be fed. Never opt for packed snacks, they are unhealthy and indigestible. Is it always advisable to prepare healthy snacks which helps in the growth of sick toddlers.

Fruit Salad

Fruit Salad

Fruit salad is yet other healthy food toddlers must be fed. Fruits will contain vitamins, minerals and iron content which helps in the growth of toddlers. It makes them stronger and healthier. It's the best food sick toddlers must be fed.

Milk

Milk

Milk is by far considered to be the most important food for the growth of sick toddlers. You can feed them different food items made with milk. A combination of milk and fruits gives them more energy.

Spicy food

Spicy food

Since toddlers are little bratty and look for some thing new, it is always advisable to provide variety in their food. Do no repeat the same recipe in breakfast and lunch. Keep the lunch a little different and tasty.

Boiled Food

Boiled Food

Boiled vegetables are the foods sick toddlers must be given. You can smash the boiled vegetable along with rice to enhance the taste. You must make you toddlers love the vegetables which makes them yearn for more of it.

Cookies with milk

Cookies with milk

Dinner must be light because it's the time for them to sleep. If you feed them with heavy dinner it might not digest as they do not get enough time between dinner and sleep. So feed them with cookies and milk.

Protein rich food

Protein rich food

Protein is most important in the growth of a toddler. You can feed them cheese and yogurt which are rich in protein. You can chop the cheese into small pieces and add it into the meals. Also provide them pudding and ice-cream which are rich in calcium.

Meat

Meat

If you are a non vegetarian you can feed your toddler with fish, beef and chicken. Always provide them baked and broiled meat, avoid the fried ones. Cut the meat into small pieces for easy digestion.

Story first published: Friday, November 8, 2013, 18:48 [IST]
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