Most people buy food and not carbs or iron. You need to select from the food groups. One of the main causes of iron deficiency in young children is having your diet high in dairy products. They promote anemia and can cause microscopic blood loss from the gut. A child that is five years old should have ten milligrams of elemental iron a day.
Iron pills can be very dangerous to children.
Iron poisoning remains one of the most common and deadly poisons in children. Make sure to keep all your pills out of the reach of children. Right From Birth Through Teens by Albert C. Goldberg, MD, will answer everything a parent needs to know to design an optimal diet for a healthy child. It is filled with rules of thumb such as select a cereal for breakfast that has at least three grams of fiber per serving. The sodium content of a food should equal in milligrams the calorie content per serving.