feeding two year old

[gabbysmom04]

What do you feed your two year old? I need new ideas to try with DD. She eats about five things!

 

[ChristusG]

LOL, my DD is just like yours. She just turned two on Saturday....and she has never been a great eater. She would not even touch solid foods till about 16 months old. My daughter will consistently eat vienna sausages, mac-n-cheese, rolls, yogurt, and the occasional banana. Just recently has she started liking the pizza flavored goldfish too. I wish she would eat more fruit and veggies!

 

[Littlemotherhaywood]

graham crackers - come in sticks as well
grapes - might want to cut these in half to reduce choking risk
raisins
bread - my son is a carb fanatic
cheese - shredded is fun or I cube it
hard boiled eggs sliced in circles - just makes it more fun
animal crackers
easy to chew fruit snacks - preferably sweetened with fruit juice, not sugar
pretzel rods
fun shaped noodles plain or topped with a sauce they enjoy
waffles and pancakes, french toast
green beans, peas, corn - my son even likes frozen corn he's so strange


I don't really think about it. I offer my son whatever we're having and he usually eats a little bit. Maybe only a couple of bites. I make him a breakfast shake with milk, carnation breakfast mix, a banana, and peanut butter (usually it's enough for him and my dd) and he loves it. I've learned a lot of different ways to disguise what I want him to eat. He still really loves easy to eat finger foods. HTH

 

[hannah's dad]

Our 15 month old daughter eats what we eat at meal time. She is a carnavore, as she enjoys pieces of steak and chicken. She also really enjoys rice and other grains, and bread. Lately, she's been eating strawberries and grapes, and we;ve just started giving her apples (entire, whole apples - with the skin peeled) and she often will eat most of it.

 

[MrsBanks]

My DD (almost 3) will eat almost anything I give her as long as she dips it in ketchup (I think it's gross but she likes it) - my DS (4 y/o) will eat anything that has grated parmesan cheese on it, he had a hamburger (no bun) last night with grated cheese on it - my kids are strange, but I'm sure one day they'll grow out of it - keep trying different things, one day they don't like something and the next they can't get enough of it

 

[eve11ne]

when my ds was about 18m he started to be a picky eater, we fed him with dessert during mealtime (1 spoon meal, 1 spoon dessert take turn) It works!
Both (meal and dessert) were eaten completely
well, this might be a good method but if it works then why not

 

[Mom to Jordan]

If all five things that she eat are nutricious, I would not worry. Her variety will widen. If she is eating less healthy food, then i would try to introduce one or two new foods at a time while cutting back on the less healthy one. Most toddlers love fruit, and whole grain crackers and cheese. Two year olds are a prime age risk for choking so be very careful to cut into tiny pieces.

 

[Zoesmama03]

I have been blessed with a child that eats well. She loves everything or did then anyway. She has gotten slightly more picky lately. She doesn't really like meats except chicken or potatoes(except french fries which she doesn't get that often) or some breads she is really picky about bread.


At 2 she was eating most anything. I mostly still gave cooked frozen veggies and fruit(canned in juice not syrup) and then got in some beans and bread products like cereal(usually cherrios)for breakfast with diced fruit or OJ or soy milk. For lunch she had/has veggies, milk and beans or some meat usually chicken the only meat she really likes a lot. Dinner was what we had but I was sure to serve veggies. She snacked on things like cherrios, fruit, toast, applesauce(a fav), crackers or goldfish.

Make it fun. Try to make faces out of food and stuff like that. Mini bagel or english muffin pizzas were a fav of mine as a kid and dd likes them too.

But I have an oddball child that will pass up cookies for brocolli. NO LIE!!

 

[mrstomrice]

Try meatballs...our nearly 2 year old loves them. he also loves strawberries, yogurt, bananas, peas and carrots (the frozen kind) corn, chicken nuggets, hot dogs, pb& j, crackers, cheese, pizza, cucumbers, tomatoes, scrambled eggs, pasta, mac and cheese, aplpesauce..too many to mention I guess. He is a pretty good eater. i have found that he eats when he is hungry and that there may be an occasional meal that he barely eats...usually dinner, but then he is fine the next day. good luck!

 

[disneymom225]

What do you feed your two year old? I need new ideas to try with DD. She eats about five things!

Wow! I WISH my 2 year old would eat 5 things!
I think it's the age (that's what people keep telling me anyway!). She is a very picky eater-- mostly only fruits and veggies-- she'll eat lettuce plain, brussel sprouts, and an entire watermelon if we let her-but meat? protein? We have to sneak it in!
I think you just have to keep offering different foods- It takes something like 10 times to try something before you develop a taste for it-so I'd just keep putting stuff on the plate or offering bites along with the few things your DD likes. Remember- toddlers love consistency so those 5 foods are comforting to her.
Good luck!

 

[belle&beast]

My DS2 can be picky at times, but he is starting to expand his horizons. We give both him and DD4 what we eat and thay each have to try everything. Right now it is working out well that he has to take 2 bites of everything (because he is 2) and DD has to take 4 bites. If they genuinely do not like what is being offered after the bites, we will give them something else. Usually, they end up eating whatever is offered. He is really beginning to understand the concept of one, two and one more and I think it is related to mealtime! What a bonus!

 

[lovethattink]

My son who ate anything I put on the plate has just become a picky eater. There's no rhyme or reason for the pickiness. One day he won't eat anything I put on the plate the next day he'll eat only 1 item I put on his plate, and another day, he'll eat everything. Right now, he's on a water melon kick. All he wants to eat is water melon. I was desparate the other day and gave him, water melon, crackers, yogurt and cheese. He ate the water melon and said he was done. I turned on a show for him and it took him an almost an hour, but he ended up eating the crackers, yogurt and cheese too. I think for him, it's just the terrible 2's