Toddler serving sizes
Use this guide to help plan your toddler’s meals and snacks. A toddler’s diet should include about three meals and one to two snacks each day. Remember that this is only a guide; meals and snacks may vary depending on your toddler’s appetite.
Fruits
Daily intake: 1 cup
Serving size: ¼ cup fruit or ½ cup 100% fruit juice
Fruit preparation: soft, peeled; mashed or chopped
Food ideas: peaches, bananas, blueberries, cantaloupe, kiwi, GRADUATES® Apple Dices, 100% orange juice
Vegetables
Daily intake: ¾ cup
Serving size: ¼ cup
Preparation: soft, peeled, and cooked; mashed or chopped
Food ideas: green beans, spinach, yellow squash, GRADUATES® Carrot Dices
Grains
Daily intake: 2 ounces of grain equivalents
Serving size: ¼ to 1 ounce of grain equivalents
Food ideas: ¼ ounce is about ¼ cup cereal or 1 GRADUATES® Fruit and Cereal Bar (any flavor); ½ ounce is about ½ slice whole-grain bread; 1 ounce is about ¼ of a 3-inch whole-wheat bagel or ¼ cup cooked bite-size pasta or whole-grain brown rice
Meat/Beans
Daily intake: 1½ ounces (about 3 tablespoons)
Serving size: 1 to 3 tablespoons
Preparation: cooked; mashed or easy-to-chew
Food ideas: chicken, cod fish, ground turkey or beef, black beans, scrambled egg, GRADUATES® LIL’ STICKS® meat or poultry sticks (3 sticks pictured equal about 1 ounce)
Dairy
Daily intake: 2 cups
Serving size: ½ to 2/3 cup
Food ideas: whole cow’s milk, yogurt, about 1 slice of hard cheese, 1 container GRADUATES® SMART SIPS™ dairy beverage
