15 Healthy Finger Foods for Toddlers (that they will love!)
These 15 Healthy Finger Foods for Toddlers will make feeding your active toddler a snap! Delicious and easy to make, these recipes will help you feed your toddler nutritious meals and snacks all day long.
Feeding toddlers can be pretty tricky!
Typically at this age, toddlers only want to feed themselves, ‘mmeeeee do it’ is still a very popular phrase in our house:). So while their gumption is there, they still might not be ready to eat full sizes of kids and grown up foods yet. That can make it hard for you to come up with foods that are small enough for them to eat yet are still packed with all the essential vitamins and minerals that their growing bodies need. In fact, one of the questions I always get from my readers is, ‘what the heck do I feed my 1-2 year old’?
While I want to tell you to just feed your toddler the exact same meals that you are eating, because that is the motto that I live by now that my girls are bigger, depending on how old your toddler is that isn’t always possible. Sometimes you just want to snack on a crunchy Kind Bar or a have a spicy lentil soup for dinner that you don’t want to tame down for your toddler. I get you!
Below you will find some of my kiddos favorite meals and snacks that they devoured when they were toddlers.
In the pictures you might see that some of the foods might look too big for what age your toddler is, but just know that you can just cut up or scale down anything in these recipes to accommodate your toddlers food size range.
Rainbow Peppers + Feta Quiche for Toddler
Peach Summer Fruit Salad for Toddlers with Mint + Honey Dressing
Spiced Blender Pancakes for Baby + Toddler
Butternut Squash ‘Mac and Cheese’ for Toddler
Spring-Fling Finger Salad for Toddlers
3 Fall Blender Muffins for Baby + Toddler (Gluten and Refined-Sugar Free)
Mini Chicken + Carrot Meatballs for Baby + Toddlers
Roasted Root Vegetables for Baby + Toddler
Sweet Potato Waffles for Baby & Toddler
Want even MORE finger food inspiration, then check out my books Little Foodie and Whole Food Baby!
Tomato + Mozzarella + Olives + Basil Toddler Snack
Toddler Breakfast Oat Cups – 4 Tasty Ways (Gluten and Refined-Sugar Free)
Blackberry + Cucumber + Melon Toddler Finger Salad
Avocado + Blueberry Yummy Toddler Muffins
7 Comments on “15 Healthy Finger Foods for Toddlers (that they will love!)”
Thanks for another briliant ideas! It is great that we can give our toddlers a finger foods. My son really likes to pick up different things, mix them and check new flavours. At first I was a bit confused how to start, but I read Susan Urban guide parental-love.com/shop/baby-food and then just searched for some recipes and ideas. My favorite finger food is roasted broccoli – https://www.babyfoode.com/blog/roasted-broccoli-finger-food-for-baby-toddler, then I can make a puree from the leftovers. Ideas from this site are also greate https://www.mother.ly/child/the-best-fresh-finger-foods-for-baby. Say no to ready meals and only carrot puree 😉
Thanks for another briliant ideas! It is great that we can give our toddlers a finger foods. My son really likes to pick up different things, mix them and check new flavours. At first I was a bit confused how to start, but I read Susan Urban guide parental-love.com/shop/baby-food and then just searched for some recipes and ideas. My favorite finger food is roasted broccoli – https://www.babyfoode.com/blog/roasted-broccoli-finger-food-for-baby-toddler, then I can make a puree from the leftovers. Ideas from this site are also greate https://www.mother.ly/child/the-best-fresh-finger-foods-for-baby. Say no to ready meals and only carrot puree 😉
came for recipes and got even more 🙂 thanks Alex for great links. PS. Susan Urban’s guides are my favorite
So glad you got so much from this post!
came for recipes and got even more 🙂 thanks Alex for great links. PS. Susan Urban’s guides are my favorite
So glad you got so much from this post!
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