Try cooked pasta in fun corkscrew shapes, wagon wheels or interesting colors. Cereal makes a good meal anytime, and children love to eat it dry as a snack. Wrap anything in a tortilla and children are more likely to eat it. If your toddler loves cereal, try mixing pur ed fruits or vegetables in with it. While this may sound awful to us, it may be the only way to get your youngster to gobble up vitamin-rich vegetables.
Children love using their hands to dip crackers, vegetables, bread, pretzels, bagels and fruit.
You can make a variety of dips from cheese, pur ed fruits, vegetables, meat, peanut butter and yogurt. Snacking Even if mealtimes are tense, sooner or later fussy eaters get hungry. Think of snack time as a mini-mealtime. Keep plenty of grain foods, fruits and vegetables handy for quick snacking. Because children have high energy needs and smaller appetites, snacks are important for getting enough fuel.