How to Make Breakfast for a Toddler
Toddlers can enjoy a diet as varied as an adult's, but toddlers have different nutritional needs from their parents. The rapid growth toddlers experience combined with their erratic food intake means they need foods with a high nutrient density. Breakfast should provide at least a quarter of a toddler's calories and nutrients for the day, so give them a healthy start.
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Things You'll Need
- Cookie cutter
- Fruits
- Vegetables
- Whole milk
- Eggs
- Fortified breakfast cereals
- Bread
Instructions
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Increase a toddler's interest with fun shapes. Use a cookie cutter to cut hearts, stars or animal shapes out of whole-wheat toast or pancakes.
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Serve any type of nutritious food for breakfast, before your toddler has a preconceived notion of what breakfast foods should consist of. If your toddler loves cold pizza or deli turkey sandwiches, serve these with a glass of orange juice.
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Add fruits and vegetables to the breakfast menu to increase your toddler's vitamin A and vitamin C intake. Create a layered yogurt parfait with blueberries and cinnamon applesauce. Shred carrots and zucchini into muffins.
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Make a fruit smoothie for reluctant milk-drinkers. Your toddler won't know a cup of milk is hiding in your breakfast drink made of strawberries, bananas, pineapple and crushed ice prepared in the blender.
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Prepare a toddler's hot and cold cereals with whole milk. Toddlers can enjoy foods with a higher fat content than adults can as it provides them with a concentrated energy source, so save the skim milk for your cereal.
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Include a serving of an iron-rich food at breakfast, as toddlers are at risk for iron deficiency anemia. Eggs, fortified breakfast cereals and bread are top iron-rich breakfast foods.
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