Good sandwich choices include sliced deli or rotisserie chicken, turkey, ham, lean roast beef, canned salmon or tuna, nut butter, grilled tempeh or tofu, smashed cooked beans, and reduced-fat cheese.
But what should you do when you are not hungry but need to eat? You should really be looking for foods which are rich in protein and high in calories. Lean meats, dairy, eggs, cereal and many other healthy foods will be a nice choice. Your menu is up to you, you can choose the foods that you like most of all.
Don't offer an alternative snack or meal. Just offer regular drinks of water until the next snack or mealtime. Avoid bribing your toddler with treats just so they'll eat some healthy food. This can make your toddler more interested in treats than healthy food and sends the message that eating healthy food is a chore.
A sandwich is as healthy as the topping you use to build it. While there are toppings that add valuable nutrients and health benefits, many of the common sandwich toppings aren't quite as beneficial—and they're very high in calories.
There isn't much nutritional difference between bread and wraps. Both contain similar ingredients, except the bread is leavened with yeast and a wrap is flat. The Nutrition Facts labels show similar nutritional profiles for one wrap and two slices of commercially baked bread.
Under this framework, burritos, hot dogs, gyros, wraps, and tacos would not qualify as a “sandwich,” but an open-face sandwich, closed-face sandwich, or burger would qualify as a “sandwich.” Although it may be “common sense” that a burrito is not a sandwich, one could not state that with certainty in a court of law.
Lack of hunger or not eating adequately can be due to many things, including stress, depression, trying to "make weight" for certain sports, or an eating disorder. Although eating disorders are much more common in females, they do occasionally occur in males.
In children, feelings of anxiety also frequently cause stomach upset. That can lead to a lack of appetite and a decrease in the amount of food a child eats. If, over time, low food intake leads to low body weight or failure to gain the weight a child needs for healthy growth and development, that can become dangerous.
If your child's refusal to eat is more of a phase, you may want to consider teething, not feeling well, or fatigue as possible reasons for not eating. And sometimes, if your child is chronically sick or tired, then food refusal or picky eating may become a way of life for them.
