snacks/lunches for toddlers

LaBellaVida

Ladies, I'm preparing a weekly meal plan, including lunches and snacks since O And I are at home daily. I feel like our lunches and snacks are getting old with the same thing day in, and day out.
I really love eating salads for lunch, but O is getting bored with his daily snacks and meals I feel like.

He really loves cheese, fruit, and crackers for snacks. I will keep that. .. But I'd love to try new things for his snack times, since it's 2, sometimes 3 times a day.

Lunches. ... it's seriously whatever I muster up making. Our go to is pb sandwiches.

I know this has been discussed over and over, but I'm mobile and can't search!

What are toddler approved lunches and snacks in your household?

cynthia2007

snacks: nilla wafers, wheat ritz crackers and cheese, apples, cantaloupe, watermelon, grapes (cut up) veggie stick chips, goldfish, pita & hummus are our go-to's 

lunch: whatever they give at daycare which varies but on weekends we do grilled cheese, grilled chicken, meatballs, chicken nachos, sweet potato fries, mac n cheese 

LaBellaVida

Yes! ! Guacamole from whole foods is the best! I get mine with Kale in it. YUMMO!

THANKS girls. I've got some ideas.

musicalsilver

I feel like we've hit a similar rut - so I've been really making an effort the last week or so to find new recipes.  

Some ladies on here talked about cream cheese sandwiches, which were totally new to me - but LO got cream cheese and avocado sandwiches at lunch today (and they didn't come back, so I can only assume he ate them).  Tonight I made some Apple Sausage Stuffing Bites that LO seemed decently into (well, the bread and meat portions of them), and they'd be super easy to pack into a lunch or grab for a quick snack.

LO's also surprisingly into an asian slaw that DH makes - red cabbage, carrots, bell pepper and red onion in a soy sauce/rice wine vinegar/sesame oil dressing (the veg sliced up thin sitting in the dressing get soft enough for LO to manage).

Beyond that - I'll definitely be following this thread.

LaBellaVida

I found a recipe for Animal cracker critter crunch. You can modify it pretty easy. I'll omit the raisins since I don't think he'd be able to handle them right now. But maybe replace them with dried fruit he'd be able to handle.
https://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/768/Critter-Crunch125522.shtml

GraceInCA

musicalsilver said:

I feel like we've hit a similar rut - so I've been really making an effort the last week or so to find new recipes.  

Some ladies on here talked about cream cheese sandwiches, which were totally new to me - but LO got cream cheese and avocado sandwiches at lunch today (and they didn't come back, so I can only assume he ate them).  Tonight I made some Apple Sausage Stuffing Bites that LO seemed decently into (well, the bread and meat portions of them), and they'd be super easy to pack into a lunch or grab for a quick snack.

LO's also surprisingly into an asian slaw that DH makes - red cabbage, carrots, bell pepper and red onion in a soy sauce/rice wine vinegar/sesame oil dressing (the veg sliced up thin sitting in the dressing get soft enough for LO to manage).

Beyond that - I'll definitely be following this thread.

I make cucumber salad with the same Asian dressing you use in your slaw.

GalLaura

Great thread! I always need new ideas too!

He eata a lot of grilled cheese, Vegemite sandwiches, left overs from dinner for lunch. Snacks are yogurt, banana, strawberries, cruskits, milk arrowroot cookie and cheese. He would eat cheese all day and night if I let him.

ASmallWonder

Lunches - PB&J, chicken/cheese/bean quesadilla, mac & cheese, veggie burgers, grilled cheese, lunch meat & cheese, pasta, hot dogs, leftovers

Snacks - he's not a big snacker but....cottage cheese, yogurt, crackers, cheese, fruit, goldfish, pouches, grape tomatoes

momofcatan

There are never too many food threads.

Lunch include a variety of the following: PB sandwitch, cream cheese sandwitch, yogurt, zucchini tots (she will only eat at DC not at home), chick peas (I buy canned), sweet potato, peas, corn (also canned), tomato, rice cakes, pita pizza.

Snack: knockoff goldfish, cucumber sticks, cheerios, pouches, rasins, crasins, grapes, pepper slices

GraceInCA

My kids will eat a spare tire if I wrap it in something.  Usually tortilla, pita, or lavash bread. Lunch for both of them today is whole wheat tortilla filled with thinly sliced steak (leftovers from Monday night dinner), hummus, spinach, and shredded carrot. My son gets a wrap in his lunch about 3 days a week, and I can pull it off with my daughter for at least 2.  It's also an easy way to use up leftovers. Last week my son got meatloaf and mac & cheese in his (he loved it).

BC&LM

For lunch we usually do sandwiches:
-hummus/cheese/turkey
-mustard/cheese/turkey
-PB&J
-PB & banana
-cream cheese and strawberries
-grilled cheese

(It's usually 1/2 sandwich and fruit.)


For snacks:
-Fresh fruit, cut up
-Cheese
-Animal crackers
-Ella's Kitchen nibbly bars or biscuits
-Applesauce

BC&LM

WorkinIt said:

34blondie said:

We eat lunch on the go 3-4 x/week so I picked up some bento boxes to force me to put together a varied meal. Stuff I've been putting in:

Raisins, grapes, blueberries, apple sticks, goldfish, graham crackers, Annie's bunny grahams, chex mix, dry cereal, applesauce pouches, cold chicken, corn and peas because likes them cold, pancakes or waffles.

@WorkinIt‌ I'm dying for guacamole now

I get the stuff from whole foods made in the store! It's SO GOOD!!!

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Just got that last week--it was fabulous!