Most parents are worried about their toddler’s nutrition as toddler are infamous for being erratic eaters. And one main worry is how and what to serve. Variety is the key when it comes to a toddler, so keep rotating stuff keep it interesting. At the same time, do remember your kid’s favorites of healthy food items so that you can serve them often and keep her happy.
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Here we give some healthy and wholesome vegetarian and non-vegetarian options to plan your toddler’s meals around.
If your child does not get up very early , you may start right at breakfast. This food chart for toddlers is just a sample and you must tweak it to suit your baby’s and your preference and convenience.
Early Morning
A glass of milk, 2 marie biscuits
Breakfast
Vegetarian options :
1/2 bowl of milk with cornflakes and ½ banana
1/2 cup oatmeal with ½ teaspoon of honey and half an apple
1/2 cup dalia made with milk with crushed or powdered nuts
1/2 cup suji halwa with powdered cashews and almonds
1/2Â bowl of vegetable poha
1 cheese and tomato sandwich
1 vegetable sandwich
 ½ stuffed vegetable parantha
1 idli with peanut chutney
½  cup suji upma with vegetables
1 small cheela with tomato chutney or sauce
2 pieces paneer sandwich dhokla with green chutney
Non-vegetarian options:
1 scrambled egg with buttered toast
1 Omelette with buttered toast
2 small Banana pancakes with honey
You can check out below food chart for toddlers, if you want a specific vegetarian or non-vegetarian plan.
Weekly Meal plan for 2 years old (vegetarian)
Weekly Meal plan for 2 years old (non-vegetarian)
Mid-morning Snack
You should keep this snack light as there is not much gap between this and lunch and filling up on this would not leave much room for lunch.
 1 small banana, a small apple, 1 orange, half a cup cut papaya or any other seasonal fruit
2 marie or whole-wheat biscuits
½  cup cut seasonal fruit
1/2 glass shikanji with honey
 ½ cup plain chaas
Lunch
Vegetarian options:
1 small chapatti smeared with little ghee with ¼ cup dal and ¼ cup vegetable. Keep serving different vegetables and dals.
¼ cup dal and ¼ cup seasonal vegetable with ½ cup rice. Add ½ teaspoon ghee to dal.
1 cup vegetable khichdi with ½ teaspoon ghee on top.
½ cup rice with ½ cup of sambar and 1 teaspoon peanut chutney.
1 cup vegetable pulao with ½ cup yogurt or raita.
½ cup matar paneer with ½ cup rice or 1 small parantha.
Non-vegetarian options:
Vegetable pulao with ¼ cup egg curry
1 small chapatti with ¼ cup chicken curry and salad
½ cup rice with ¼ cup fish curry and veggies on the side
Mild chicken biryani with mixed veg raita
Evening Snack
½ cup milk with 2 wholewheat crackers
1 small sandwich with mixed fruit jam and butter
1 smallpeanut butter sandwich
½ cup fresh fruit cut in to cubes and ½ cup milk
1 cup fresh fruit milkshake(banana, mango, cheeku etc)
1 cup fresh fruit smoothie
3-4 Tofu or paneer sticks
Dinner
Most kids don’t want to eat a heavy dinner as their activity levels go down in the evening, so do not insist on them eating a lot. Let the kid eat whatever and however much she wants.
½ cup Vegetable pulao with mixed raita
½ to 1 cup Vermicelli upma with vegetables
½ to 1 cup Vegetable pasta with cheese
½ to 1 cup Vegetable noodles
½ to 1 cup Khichdi with veggies
½ cup matar paneer with ½ cup rice or 1 small parantha
1 small chapatti with paneer bhurji
Non-vegetarian options:
Vegetable pulao with ¼ cup egg curry
1 small chapatti with ¼ cup chicken curry and salad
½ cup rice with ¼ cup fish curry and veggies on the side
Mild chicken biryani with mixed veg raita
Chicken and veg pasta in tomato sauce
Egg and veg noodles
I shared the daily routine/ feeding schedule of my 5 years old here.
Daily Routine/ Feeding Schedule of my 5 years old Preschooler
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We are working on it, Aisha!! Glad that they are helpful to you…
Can u plz make d diet chart for toddlers in download pdf option or Android application
Nice healthy, Diet chart for toddlers priya ,this one looks very helpful for mothers .A lot of times,kids get fed up from the regular food which they get daily ,this will help us to give them a change.
Thank you, Charu! 🙂
Hi, thanks for the sample. Could you please specify or guide how much would a cup measure? There are way too many sizes of cups. Does it have any standard measure as in baking?
You may use the same quantity as the baking cups.
Thank you for sharing such useful tips :). I’ve been using these tips and it works well with my daughter.
my child was 2 and half year old.he was underweight i was worried plz sgggest me diet plan .he dont drink milk plz suggest
Hi Sheetal, If he is otherwise healthy and active, there may not be much to be worried. This is coming from a mum to a lean child.. 🙂
However, you may include other calorie-rich foods in his diet to make up for all the activity he must be involved in. Do go through below articles. 🙂
Diet for Underweight Toddlers
Top 10 foods to help weight gain in children
this chart is very helpfulll……thank thanks a lot
Glad you liked it!!
Hi Priya
This website is very useful, thank you
I need help
I have 11 yr old who needs to loose weight, he eats more in one sitting and not frequently and not enough water intake
Can you help me setting up a plan and quantity on how much food he should takecjoices of food in your recommended chart is easy feed him
Please I request you .. looking forward to hear from you
Thank you
Priya this is Vandu again
My 11 yr old like bread a lot and western food mainly
I want him to eat more of Indian food so how can I encourage him pls give some tips
Thank you
Very nice and really helpful
Hello Priya,
my son is 8 yrs old and he weighs only 18.5 kgs. can you please prepare a vegetarian diet chart .
the chart you have done is very helpful thank you.my son is very active kid. he is very cooperative and not a picky eater.
if he dosn’t put on weight, the doctor has told that he has to do the blood test and other different tests. please help me out.
Hi Jyothi,
I can understand your concerns. I am working on food charts for older children and will share asap. Good thing is that your son is not a picky eater. Try adding extra calories to what he eats normally. Can you share his current food routine, so we can suggest based on that.
Can u tell me how many grams equals 1 cup and whether it is 1/cup of cooked r raw rice
This page has quantities of cooked food only. So, it is 1 cup of cooked rice.
Very helpful information….
Very helpful information..
My son is 8 yrs and overweight. He weighs 55 kgs and is almost 5 feet tall. Can you please suggest me an indian veg diet plan for him?
Great and detailed kids diet plan. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Hi Priya,
Thank you for being a great helper. My concern is my daughter is 2 years. She never deny any food. But dont know what is going wrong she spoils her stomach very often. Mat be time gap or the quantity. Pl help me. Say morning milk to evening dinner time gap and quantity of each meal snack and milk. Also 1 cup equals 200 or 100 ml. Thanks.
Plz can u make healthy diet chart 2years baby
Hi I have 2 kids(boys) 8.5 years(24.5 kg) and 2.5 (10 kg) years old.
Both are not so healthy. Elder one not eating whole meal and very choosy about veggies not having milk & rice daily.
Younger one only have chapati or rice without any veggie / ghee. M very much worried about his diet. Can you please suggest the diet plan and how and which foods we should include.
Now a days milk, fruits and vegetables are not pure how we can provide them nutritions to grow healthy?
Asked doctors they say once they will grow they will have whole meal, but brain develops well till 5 years and health helps for all things.
Please please suggest
Hi ,
My child is 2.5 years but he does not eat properly specially dal & Veggie only chapaati he have which also depend on his mood that is the reason he is getting too week .
pls suggest some option to give proper diet to him .
Hello,
I am mother of 2.5 yrs of a baby girl.
She is a fussy eater so the result is she is suffering from constipation.
Besides this she is very stubborn and very choosy about her food. She don’t like any fruit any vegetable. You can say she only have cow milk,oats or daliya or regular basis sometimes chapaati or pronthi.
Please help me with the great disaster.
Thank you!!!!