Good meals for a 2-year-old are simply smaller, softer, less salty versions of healthy family food. Think eggs and toast, yogurt and fruit, pasta with vegetables, salmon with sweet potato, or chicken with rice. A toddler’s portion is roughly a quarter of an adult’s (AAP). Most families aim for three meals and two snacks a…
At 1 year old, your child can eat most of the healthy food the family eats, cut small and soft. Build each day around three meals and two snacks that mix fruit, vegetables, grains, protein (meat, fish, eggs, beans, lentils) and dairy. One-year-olds need about 1,000 calories a day, and about half of a young…
No organic baby food brand is free of heavy metals, and organic isn’t automatically lower. The American Academy of Pediatrics says organic baby foods “may have lower levels of certain pesticides”, but “often contain similar levels of heavy metals as non-organic foods” (AAP). The FDA puts it plainly: organic crops absorb heavy metals from the…
