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The Healthy Kitchen: 35 Best Foods to Stock in Your Fridge and Pantry
Skim or 1 percent milk or fortified soy milk.
Fresh fruit. Keep at least one kind of fruit washed, cut, and stored in a clear plastic container where your kids can see and grab it.
Hummus. Dip carrots in this chickpea spread.
Low-fat yogurt. Mix fresh fruit into vanilla or plain.
100 percent fruit juice. Dilute it with water or seltzer. Try pre-diluted Wadda Juice single-serve bottles or Mott's for Tots boxes for car trips.
Bagged salad. Look for darker greens like baby spinach or a mix of multicolored lettuces like mesclun or field greens.
Lunch meats like turkey and lean roast beef.
Tortillas. They're a fun alternative to bread.
Fresh veggies. Buy your own to wash and chop. Or pick up prewashed, precut veggies like broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, snow peas, and celery to serve as a snack, toss into salads, or steam.
Low-fat cheese. Stock reduced-fat block cheese such as Cracker Barrel 2 percent milk cheese, reduced-fat string cheese, Laughing Cow minis, and part-skim shredded cheese.
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I keep all these things on hand at all times.
1/3/2012 02:39:46 AM Report AbuseI agree, No Low fat foods. They are too young.
10/12/2011 10:54:43 PM Report AbuseI keep all these things on hand at all times. I help my sister a lot when she works so I sometimes have my niece and nephew as well as my 2 year old daughter. So keeping simple things like such on hand makes everything so easy/
8/31/2011 10:03:18 AM Report AbuseWhy would you serve babies or toddlers low fat anything? Their bodies and brains need fats to develop. Also low fat products are more processed and contain more additives.. Feed him or her less processed O's, goldfish, etand more heathly fats like whole milk, whole fat plain yogurt, grass fed dairy butter, olive oil and coconut oil. My 16 m.o. eats these plus lots of organic fruit and veg, pastures eggs, grass fed beef, lots fish and fermented cod liver oil.
4/27/2011 04:10:45 PM Report Abuseucbabycakes2007: our 16-month-old son changes what he'll eat every day too. Lately we've had some good luck with baked sweet potatoes mixed with rice and some small pieces of turkey thrown in. You can microwave the whole sweet potato, then mash it up.
12/7/2010 02:50:16 PM Report Abuse