can you tell me whata typical eating schedule is for a 2 1/2 year old.

Times and what they eat. TIA

Re: can you tell me whata typical eating schedule is for a 2 1/2 year old.

My DD will be 2 on Sunday - here's here typical day:

8 am - 8oz milk, fruit & then either an egg or a waffle/french toast.

11:30 - water and crackers or pretzels

1:00 - water and either yogurt or american or cream cheese on wheat bread.

3:30 - sometimes a cereal bar or applesauce or apples/other fruit

5:00 - whatever veggies we're having for dinner & maybe rice or a sweet potato or macaroni

7:00 - water and either a lorna dune type cookie

8:00 - 8oz milk

Re: can you tell me whata typical eating schedule is for a 2 1/2 year old.

DD just turned 2.5 She doesn't really eat that well. I just stopped giving her milk because she has been having very messy poops going on a month now. I thought it was from teething her 2 year molars, but now I'm wondering if it's dairy. I plan on taking her to the dr. about this next week. so, here is a typical day since i stopped the milk:

Breakfast at around 7:30-8 am: OJ mixed with water, a banana, and usually a Kashi TLC fruit bar.

snack on the go during the morning: a bag of Annie's bunny cookies

lunch around 12: peanut butter & jelly sandwich and water

snack around 3ish: bowl of strawberries

dinner around 6: pasta with tomato sauce or Dr. Prager's fishies and water

She also gets a multivitamin (when I remember to give it to her)

Re: can you tell me whata typical eating schedule is for a 2 1/2 year old.

My DD is about 33 months...

Breakfast around 9 am will consist of fruit and
Pancakes or
Waffles or
Eggs or
Oatmeal or
Toast or
Bagel

Lunch is usually light and between 12-1
Typical things for lunch
Fruit,cheese, crackers
Leftovers from dinner the night before
Chicken
pizza
Mac & cheese

Snack at about 2:30 and 4:30 which is a fruit or a bag of pretzels/veggies chips/fruit snack/graham crackers

Dinner 6-6:30 and whatever we are having.

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My DD is 2 1/2 and her routine is to not eat! I'm seriously wondering how she grows. A typical day will include one meal flanked by milk and water. She just doesn't eat a lot, but shes growing, so I'm not worried.

I give her meals and if she doesn't eat them I don't stress over it.

Re: can you tell me whata typical eating schedule is for a 2 1/2 year old.

josh just turned 2. he has feeding issues and drinks pediasure for extra cal.'s abd vitamins. he eats a decent variety of food but very small portions.

9am -breakfast w/ water
a fruit and yogurt with either a :
1/2 pancake, 3 mini waffles ,cherrios, cereal bar

11:30am- 4oz. milk if wanted

1pm- lunch w/ water
either a:
sandwich (turkey, ham, roast beef, chream cheese, pb&j) , mac and cheese with carrots, egg salad

5pm- snack
a few bites of either: dry cereal, cheese stick, cookie & 8 oz. pediasure

7pm- dinner w/ water
a chicken, fish, or meat with a veggie or tofu, and potato, pasta or rice & dessert: pudding, fruit, cake, cin. bread, or mini muffins

9pm- 8oz. pediasure

10pm- bed

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Re: can you tell me whata typical eating schedule is for a 2 1/2 year old.

DD is 2 1/2 and it varies from day to day- some days she is a super good eater. Other days, she survives on pretzel rods.

Normally she'll eat:
breakfast:
cup of milk
either a PB&J on whole wheat bread, 2 scrambled eggs, or a bowl of mini wheats or cheerios.

Snack:
pretzel rod dipped in peanut butter
sliced orange
cheese stick

Lunch:
cambell's low salt soup for kids- with some frozen veg added in - she can eat the whole can now.
hotdog with veg
cheeseburger
meatballs
japanese food (miso soup, edamame and cucumber roll)

Dinner:
really anything we eat- but she's a true carnivore and loves steak. Last night she had baked beans, grilled steak and sliced cukes.

edited to add: with all meals & snacks she has either skim milk or juice (which is basically 8 oz water, 2 oz juice)

sometimes when we go out, she has 7-up as a treat... but never at home.

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Re: can you tell me whata typical eating schedule is for a 2 1/2 year old.

Re: can you tell me whata typical eating schedule is for a 2 1/2 year old.

Typical days menu:

breakfast 7:30-8am:
sippy of milk
oatmeal & granny smith no sugar applesauce (made with milk)
dry multigrain cheerios

NAP

lunch 2pm:
sippy of water or milk
HUGE plate of fresh watermelon and honeydew and more cheerios or gerber crunchies
or a turkey & cheese or pb&j sandwich

dinner 6-6:30:
sippy of milk
penne with meat sauce
1/2 piece garlic bread

dessert:
sweet potato puffs

Sleep 7:30

Re: can you tell me whata typical eating schedule is for a 2 1/2 year old.

Breakfast-

8am-Milk and either pancakes, a cereal bar, cheerios and milk or yogurt or rye toast with a little butter

Lunch is always chicken nuggets (DH's responsibility )

Dinner-Grilled cheese, mac and cheese, veggie burger with a slice of cheese, smile fries, soup, ravioli, pasta (with tomato sauce or parm and butter)

Snacks-cheese stick, cheez its, EB smile things, EB elmo crackers, apple slices, banana (he gets hives, but they don't bother him and he LOVES bananas) orange slices, pretty much any fruit we have, he also likes jello cups and rice pudding cups.

He drinks milk or watered down juice during hte day.

Message edited 5/14/2009 6:40:54 PM.

Re: can you tell me whata typical eating schedule is for a 2 1/2 year old.

Well we like to mix up all 10 things DS will eat

Breakfast:
oatmeal
scrambled eggs
french toast sticks
pancakes
mini waffles


Lunch and dinner we mix up:
jelly sandwich
grilled cheese w/pickles
chicken nuggets & fries
chicken cutlet cut up
spaghetti or pasta w/sauce
macaroni and cheese
yogurt w/nutri-grain bar
try to give him fruit with lunch (depends on his mood if he eats it)


If he could eat white powdered donuts all day he would be happy

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Re: can you tell me whata typical eating schedule is for a 2 1/2 year old.

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Re: can you tell me whata typical eating schedule is for a 2 1/2 year old.

Another non-eater here. Most meals start with me begging her to eat it.

Breakfast (8:30ish)
- sippy cup of milk (this is a guarantee for her everything else is a possiblity)
Either a waffle, pancake, dry cereal or oatmeal (almost never finishes any of these)

Lunch (noonish)
- watered down juice
either sandwich with pretzels, egg salad or chicken salad occasionally fruit (apples or grapes) with the meal

Snack (3pm)
-fruit or fruit bar or more pretzels

Dinner (5:30)
-whatever we're eating with some more watered down juice

Evening snack (7:30)
Milk and cookies but only if she's eaten a decent portion of dinner

Re: can you tell me whata typical eating schedule is for a 2 1/2 year old.

9 AM...milk with ovaltine

9:30 gluten free waffle with strawberries
or puffins with banana

1-really good lunch eater
usually gluten free brown rice pasta, sauce, carrots, peas

lentil soup

yogurt and applesauce if we are out

4-milk with ovaltine
fruit or brown rice bar

7-dinner....tonight english muffin pizza with a side of peas and carrots

last night hot dog and beans

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Lately....DS is not a good eater. If it let him he would just live on watermelon and strawberries.

7am - milk with ovaltine and friut
-for breakfast the few things he eats are:
-french toast waffle (softer than regular waffle)
-3 mini pancakes
- dry corn pops
- sometimes a yogurt or oatmeal

12-1 - lunch is with water
-again, mix up the few things he will eat
- cream cheese and jelly
- PBand jelly
- pizza
- chicken nuggets
- mac and cheese

5:30ish - more water. I try to give him whatever we are eating but he usually refuses to eat it. by the end of dinner he will be begging for something, like mac and cheese or chicken. he will eat macaroni sometimes, and some kinds of chicken but no veggies!! the only way i get veggies in him are to sneak them into mac and cheese or muffins.

snacks - depending on our day he'll snack a little bit, but he's not a huge "snacker"
-fruit
- cereal bar
- pudding
- his new obsession is munchkins
- graham crackers
- jello
- ice cream/italian ice/sherbert