Lunch Ideas for Your Toddler

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    Lunch ideas for a toddler aren't quite as difficult to figure out as breakfast ideas, but still as parents we need help coming up with new items to put on the menu. It's doubly difficult to come up with ideas if you are trying to find healthier options! Make sure you check out this other article I wrote with breakfast ideas. 

     This first picture shows what I typically give my daughter for her lunch. 

• 1/2 slice of Van's gluten free waffle . I usually buy either blueberry or original of this brand. These waffles have such healthy ingredients and as a plus, they are gluten free. Yes Toddler P. can eat gluten, but I still like giving her a variety of foods. 
• A whole strawberry cut in pieces.
• Several grapes, cut in half. 
• 2 to 3 plum pieces.
• 2 apple slices.
• A slice of a whole wheat bagel with peanut butter. 

    This option is very similar except with a few differences. 

• 1/2 a slice of whole wheat bread cut in half and toasted. 1 slice has apple butter spread and the other slice has peanut butter.
• 2 plum pieces.
• 2 apple pieces.
• Several grapes.
• 1/2 a waffle.

    A few other ideas Toddler Picturesque loves that you could add to the menu could be:

• Tuna mixed with mayo lightly spread on half a piece of lightly toasted whole wheat bread.
• Jam spread on 1/2 piece of lightly toasted whole wheat bread. 
• Pasta.
• Rice.

    What does your toddler like to eat?  

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