High fat/calorie but healthy foods for toddler?

[Nelle]

Well, Feeb used my list mostly. If you google 'good fats' you might come up with something. Lots of carbs so there's heaps there for her to burn. Wholemeal/grain bread instead of white. Maybe smoothies.

I have to sympathise though - my eldest was a beanpole, people constantly asking me if he'd been ill, did he eat well. I was like...he inhales food...I would come home from social things so upset because I'd not been concerned, and all these people were, and I'd not noticed anything amiss. If all is well with the 'output' (to put it delicately), as in bub doesn't have the runs or anything, you'd assume the food's being well used, as opposed to not processed/used well, right? Pretty sure I saw someone recommend a kids probiotic to you elsewhere - I'm no dietician/naturopath, but I can't imagine that hurting, just to help with gut health.

Anyway - our saving grace in terms of the stats was that he was tall, but if he'd been short, he'd have been tiny - so if yours isn't tall, I can imagine you'd have a petite child! I'd say as the parent, you know your child best - and if you haven't noticed a problem, then probably there isn't one. But that's the great thing about this situation - you can take bub to see the doc/paed/MCHN/whoever, who can provide support and advice - and you'll either say 'yeah I didn't think there was anything wrong!' or 'well I'm glad bub has access to these people to pick up what I've missed, now we have a plan' - I've been in both those boats, being reassured about 'problems' and being convinced to look into things that turned out to be issues - either way, you are looking after your child by providing them with good care, and so I hope you don't feel bad.

[Gigi]

i was hoping to use these ideas too, for my undersized 4.5yo, but der to me, she won't eat these perfectly fine, yummy foods, so i have buckleys. CHeese and yogurt are about the only things on the lists here, that she WILL eat. I worry about her overloading on dairy (so i limit them), when she is so anti fruit/veg/protein. unbalanced diet.

[misty]

Nuts (almonds, macadamia's, etc)
Avocardo
Cheese
Yogurt
Dried fruit
olives
dense grainy bread
homade bananna iceblocks (although probably the wrong season for those).
Also anything with protien is good for building up weight healthily (if you can get them to eat it)

I also used to bake special cakes and slices that were choc full of vege, but also loaded with kjs, as a special treat - good thing is if you bake things yourself you can control what is going into them.


Also, with my DS1 (who is the skinniest little boy and always has been), we found that introducing a multivitimin really helped his situation. He no longer gets sick as often, and thus doesn't loose weight when he can least afford to. Unfortunately most multivitimins cannot be introduced until after the age of 2 - unless with doctors direction. But there are some good drink flavours on the market which contain alot of vitimins and minerals specifically designed for toddlers. We actually had to take DS1 off cows milk and put him on formula until he was old enough for a multivitimin.