5 grab-and-go mini meals
When you’re out and about and your baby is hungry between meals, you can give them a healthy mini meal. Here are 5 ideas to get you inspired.
When you leave home with your baby, don't forget to take with you a healthy mini-meal that you can put in your diaper bag with just a little planning.
Sources
Duyff, RL (2017). Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Complete food and nutrition guide (5th ed.). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Shelov SP & Altmann TR (Eds.). (2009). American Academy of Pediatrics. The complete and authoritative guide Caring for your baby and young child birth to age 5 (5th ed.). USA: Bantam Books.
World Health Organization. Guideline: Sugars intake for adults and children. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2015.
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