Feeding your toddler

Watch the sugar content that is in juice

Tips for feeding faddy eaters

• Eat somewhere different. If eating at the table isn’t working, try a picnic on the floor.
• Give him food he likes as often as you can within reason.
• Cook something together and let him choose what you’re going to make.
• Try using chopsticks as the frustration may encourage little ones to pick up the food and just eat it.
• Have a colour theme. It gets your toddler looking at his food and might spark an interest.

Ways to be sugar savvy with your child

• Get a label-reading habit. Sugar is often hidden under other names such as sucrose, fructose and glucose.
• Don’t ban it. ‘Everything in moderation’ will build healthier attitudes to keeping a balanced diet.
• Meal then treat. Keep any sweet treats until after meals, rather than between them, reducing the amount of time teeth deal with sugar.
• Watch the juice. Stick to water and milk for drinks, encouraging drinking from a beaker and cup, rather than a bottle.
• Clean teeth last thing. At bedtime, toothpaste should be the last thing on your child’s teeth – not juice or food.