Healthy Kid Food

Kid Food – 2 years and beyond

Breakfast

• Fresh fruit or melons
• Fresh juice
• A complex carbohydrate such as oatmeal or whole grain bread/cereal

Lunch

• Fresh fruit
• Fresh veggies – leaf lettuce, carrots, cucumber, cauliflower, broccoli, spinach
• May add steamed veggies
• Whole grain bread, pasta or rice

Bag lunch ideas:

• Whole grain pita pocket with fresh veggies cut up
• Celery sticks with nut butter
• Fresh fruit – an apple is the first and most authentic fast food!
• Veggie sticks
• Whole grain bread with nut butter and bananas sliced or a fruit spread
• Salad
• Cheese sticks or cheese with whole grain crackers
• Whole grain bread with veggies and natural turkey slices

Dinner

• Raw fruits or melons
• Raw veggies
• Steamed veggies
• Fish or fowl – broiled, baked or grilled
• Raw nuts or seeds

Snack ideas:

• apple and string cheese (remember to limit dairy)
• yogurt or kefir with fruit
• baby carrots & hummus
• Wasa bread & flavored hummus
• toasted Ezekiel bread dipped in extra virgin olive oil
• cottage cheese with fruit & flax seed oil
• rice cake with almond butter & raw honey drizzled over the top.
• almonds and apple or other fruit
• brown rice cakes with cream cheese and tomato