Sample Diet Plans/Food Chart for Toddlers, Toddler Friendly Meals

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.

 

Diet plans / Food Chart for toddlers

 

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

1/2  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

French 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

5-6 sweet potato fries

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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75+ Finger Food ideas for babies, toddlers & kids

 

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30 Replies to “Sample Diet Plans/Food Chart for Toddlers, Toddler Friendly Meals”

    1. Priya Sachan says:

      We are working on it, Aisha!! Glad that they are helpful to you…

      Reply
  1. aisha says:

    Can u plz make d diet chart for toddlers in download pdf option or Android application

    Reply
  2. charu says:

    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.

    Reply
  3. Nithya says:

    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?

    Reply
    1. Priya Sachan says:

      You may use the same quantity as the baking cups.

      Reply
      1. Nithya says:

        Thank you for sharing such useful tips :). I’ve been using these tips and it works well with my daughter.

        Reply
  4. sheetal salve says:

    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

    Reply
  5. Arpita Gaikwad says:

    this chart is very helpfulll……thank thanks a lot

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      1. Vandu says:

        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

        Reply
        1. Vandu says:

          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

          Reply
  6. Jyothi rao says:

    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.

    Reply
    1. Priya Sachan says:

      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.

      Reply
  7. Anu says:

    Can u tell me how many grams equals 1 cup and whether it is 1/cup of cooked r raw rice

    Reply
    1. Priya Sachan says:

      This page has quantities of cooked food only. So, it is 1 cup of cooked rice.

      Reply
  8. Preeti says:

    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?

    Reply
  9. Kajal says:

    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.

    Reply
  10. Suprriya Pawar says:

    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

    Reply
  11. Garima says:

    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 .

    Reply
  12. Ajit Kaur says:

    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!!!!

    Reply

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