May 19th, 2011

Every parent wants to ensure that their preschooler is healthy. You can do this by making sure that they eat from each food group each day. 

For a balanced diet, your toddler should eat from the following 4 groups:

1. STARCHY FOOD: this includes bread, pasta, rice , cereal, sweet potato, potato.
2. FRUIT AND VEGETABLES: Any of these including frozen or canned-five times a day!
3. PROTEIN: meat, fish, egg, tofu, lentils, pulses, nuts and nut pastes (*like peanut butter).
4. DAIRY: cheese, yoghurt, Fromage Frais, milk.

Let her eat as much or as little as she likes at mealtimes-as long as any in between snacks are healthy too.

Snack ideas

• wholemeal bread and butter
• banana or other fruit
• carrot and cucumber sticks
• milk (unflavoured as flavoured contains too much sugar)

Toddlers have small stomachs, so they need to eat little and often. So don’t cause them and yourself unnecessary stress by forcing them to eat large portions for lunch and your evening meal.

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