Re: food - daily intake for a toddler

Karin - Dex won't eat any noodles either. Lu actually didn't eat noodles for a long time too, but now she loves them. I'm sure Jack's taste will change.


I'll give yesterday as an example:
7:30am - milk (around 8ozs)
8:30am - banana and muti-grain cheerios
10:30am - cereal bar and grapes
**NAP 11-2**
2:30pm - cheese stick, applesauce, 2 graham crackers
5pm - 4 chicken nuggets, kiwi
6pm - milk (around 8ozs)
**BED@7**

My kids won't eat veggies so throughout the day I give them sippy's with 1/4 veggie juice 3/4 water. It's the best I can do for now.

Message edited 9/13/2011 2:25:29 PM.

Re: food - daily intake for a toddler

It varies day to day. I never force them to eat more. I figure they do eat when they are hungry, and they are not underweight at all. They're not overweight either. They are always around 50%ile. My only rule at night is that they have to at least try their dinner before any sort of snack they request (like pudding, a cookie, etc.) They also generally eat more in the morning and sometimes nothing at night. My little one asks for milk all the time and I have to watch that. Ok, 1 more rule--they never get a second cup of juice. (and all juice is 1/4 juice, 3/4 water) If they ask for more juice, I say they can have more water

Here's the usual routine/goal:

Daycare days--
greek yogurt and berries
sometimes also some dry cereal. they usually eat it all

morning snack--whatever daycare provides. usually cereal, a small muffin, pancakes...they usually eat it all

lunch..again- daycare provided. sometimes a small sandwich, pasta w meatballs, pizza. they usually eat it all

snack--goldfish, or cheese and crackers, and fruit. they usually eat it all

dinner- whatever i make--usually some type of chicken dish with brown rice and veggies. sometimes salmon. sometimes a meat dish. they like taco night. homemade pizza or pizzeria pizza. whole wheat pasta and veggies. really can be anything. they just have a little.

dessert--usually fruit. sometimes pudding. sometimes frozen yogurt. sometimes a cookie or cupcake.

weekend-

scrambled eggs w veggies, or pancakes, or waffles, or french toast, or oatmeal.

lunch-small sandwich and fruit or chicken nuggets (whole grain/white meat), mixed veggies, or left overs.

dinner---like above--whatever i make.

i don't really have organized snacks on the weekends, but they will usually munch on something late afternoon while I am cooking.

Re: food - daily intake for a toddler

Emmy is 20 months and breakfast is the meal she will always eat...the rest are hit and miss
This is yesterday

Breakfast- cut up fruit: pinapple, grapes, bluberries, strawberries/yogurt/homemade zuchinni bread

Lunch- Pasty w/gravy, and cuccumber in thin think strips

Snack- Gerber cereal bar, and some cheese puffs

Dinner- Spaghetti w/garlic knots

She ate ALL of it and that is a REALLY good day, but I cheated and made all her favs

Re: food - daily intake for a toddler

Re: food - daily intake for a toddler

Well today for example:

Breakfast Hard boiled egg and blueberries and banana and milk

snack - cheerios

Lunch - chicken, sliced cantaloupe, slices of pear milk

snack at preschool - teddy grahams and lemonade

snack - apple

Dinner - (haven't made yet) chicken chili with tortilla chips, raw green beans (or as DD calls them green bean fries...LOL), milk and 1/2 of a white peach

Re: food - daily intake for a toddler

Posted by DRMom

Posted by MaMaTeenie

This is a pretty good link too. More towards what they actually need and what serving sizes should be like



LINK

Thanks for posting. I was thinking my kids were starving and really, they are eating just fine

Re: food - daily intake for a toddler

DS is 23 months...this was what he had today

7am - bottle of milk (i know, i know bottles are bad blah blah lol)
8am - breakfast - bowl of apple cinnamon cheerios
1030 - banana

then naps 11-2

2pm - lunch - mac n cheese
530pm - dinner - pasta w meat sauce and some chicken nuggets
dessert was 2 slices of watermelon

throughout the day he snacks on animal crackers or goldfish or ritz crackers.

Re: food - daily intake for a toddler

DD is 19 months

she gets up and has 6 oz milk

Breakfast:
oatmeal, cereal, pancakes, waffles, french toast, always with a fruit-most of the time 1/2 a banana

lunch: can be either grilled cheese, pasta, mac and cheese, chicken nuggets, cream cheese and jelly on bread, yogurt- always with a fruit and a veggie

Dinner: fishsticks, nuggets, pizza, grilled chicken, meatballs, pork chop, hamburger, turkey, pasta(with sauce or butter). Also always with a fruit and veggie

snacks: crackers, cheese, yogurt, goldfish, pretzels, cheerios, cereal bar

8oz milk before bed

*she is not a big breakfast eater so tends to eat the least at that meal

Message edited 9/13/2011 8:01:41 PM.

Re: food - daily intake for a toddler

DD is 26 months and so so picky! she barely eats! It drives me crazy.
Anyway here is a typical day for her:

breakfast- one waffle or pancake and blueberries and milk

snack- 1/2 banana and/or cheerios

lunch- yogurt (every single day!) and MAYBE a half turkey and cheese or peanut butter sandwich.

snack- orange or apple or granola bar

dinner- pretty much nothing. she will drink milk again though.

she would eat snacks and bread all day if I let her but I try to limit them and/or just give her fruit which she will eat.

Re: food - daily intake for a toddler

first thing when she wakes : milk

breakfast 2 1/2 hrs later: french toast or an egg omelette or pancakes, or oatmeal, or a toaster breakfast bar.

lunch: mac n cheese, or spaghetti, or rice and chicken, along those lines with a fruit.

snack: yogurt with some whole grain crackers or a cereal bar, or applesauce. And a cup of milk.

dinner: anything from pasta with sauce, rice and beans, pizza, etc. and a cut up fruit.

She also has a wheat grass drink during the day when she's thirsty. and sometimes she wants some Annie's Bunnies crackers or graham crackers after dinner.

She is 15 months old and a good eater!!

Re: food - daily intake for a toddler

Milk when she gets up

Bkfast: waffle, yogurt with fruit, pancakes, muffin with banana, oatmeal, cereal, eggs and sometimes a bagel.

Lunch: greek yogurt, grilled cheese, crackers with laughing cow cheese (her favorite) with fruit, leftover dinner, pastina, omelet or some pasta with meatballs..I usually make and freeze and will defrost two in the morning.

Dinner..she eats whatever I cook. Usually Chicken, steak, or fish with a veggie.

During the day she snacks on goldfish, fruit, crackers, mini muffins, cheese, animal crackers, or applesauce.

Message edited 9/16/2011 8:52:11 AM.