Toddler | Food

Don't limit yourselves to traditional European cuisine when there are a huge variety of tastes to be enjoyed. Explore dishes from the Orient or the Middle East as well and don't be daunted by chopsticks.
Read Spice Up Your Lives With Multi-Cultural Dishes

By Kim Galeaz, R.D. What parent hasn't racked her brains over what to serve her picky toddler, or felt guilty when her child gorged on ice cream and skipped dinner?
Read Three Days of Toddler Menus

How can I help my son drink milk or get calcium from another source?
Read How can I help my son drink milk or get calcium from another source?

My 15-month-old baby drinks a bottle of milk while he falls asleep in his cot. I have been told it's time to switch to a cup. Should I really stop the bottle? If so, how do I do that?
Read Should I stop giving my 15-month-old a bottle?

Expensive vitamin and mineral supplements are usually unnecessary and can even be dangerous. Unless your midwife tells you otherwise, your normal, healthy diet should fulfil all your nutritional needs.
Read A Healthy, Balanced Diet Serves Up The Right Nutrients

I have read a lot of articles on feeding and I understand that I should be offering my 15-month-old toddler a variety of foods. However, when she is focused on only one food, let's say macaroni cheese, do I make that for her when she refuses to eat whatever else I have offered, or does she go without and maybe have a small snack later? In all the articles I have read, no one has ever really addressed this issue.
Read Should I serve that one food, which my toddler likes, at every meal?

My 15-month-old will allow me to feed him only in front of the television. If there is no television and I give him finger foods to eat himself, he will eat one or two bites and then say, "All done". On the other hand he will eat really well in front of the television. What shall I do? Is the TV-watching just a phase that he will grow out of, or a bad habit?
Read My 15-month-old will eat only in front of the TV - what should I do?

Is too much salt a concern? Our baby is 13 months old and loves tinned soup but I noticed it has a lot of salt - 70 per cent of the recommended amount for one day. Should we remove soup from his diet?
Read Is too much salt a concern for a 13-month-old?

Help! I think we've allowed our 13-month-old to eat jars of baby food too long. Although she loves crackers and biscuits, she wants nothing to do with more substantial table foods (e.g. what we're eating) and gets quite angry at us if we try too hard. How can we get her to move beyond basic baby food?
Read How can I get my 13-month-old to eat something else besides baby food?

Toddlers are notoriously fussy and even good eaters suddenly seem to lose interest.
Read Tempting toddler tastebuds

Making a game of mealtimes can encourage faddy eaters back to eating well. Bear in mind that the odd fussy day won't do any harm and that it's what your children eat over the week as a whole that matters.
Read When Good Eaters Become Picky

I'm 1 month pregnant and am still breastfeeding my 13-month-old daughter. When is an appropriate time to wean her? She's down to two feeds a day, one in the morning and one at night.
Read When is an appropriate time to wean my 13-month-old if I'm pregnant?