Nutritious snacks for toddlers

I am usually pretty stressed out about making A eat nutritious food. I keep reading articles trying to figure out how to get good quality food to reach his tiny stomach. After months of research here are some things I have arrived at: Courtesy:Babycentre India
• Idli or dosai
• Cheese cubes including paneer
• Sandwiches with tomato slices or chopped cabbage
• Soup sticks, carrot and cucumber sticks with hung curd dip
• Milkshakes with banana, mango, chickoo and strawberry
• 1/2 bun or khari biscuits with a cup of milk
• Semiya or semolina (suji) upma
• Sabudana khichdi or sabudana kheer
• Potato poha (beaten rice)
• Peanut butter on toast (if there is no known family history of nut allergies)
• Khakras (mildly spiced, crisp chapattis, dhoklas (steamed besan or moong dal squares), and khandvi (thin steam cooked besan rolls)
• Boiled sweet potato mashed with cumin powder and lime juice (shakarkand chat )
• Vegetable cutlets
• Boiled potato chaat
• Steamed plantains
• Fruit (apple, orange, pear)

Examples of nutritious sweet dishes include shikran (banana slices lightly mashed into milk and sugar), fruit custard, phirni (rice pudding), badam kheer, sabudana or semiya payasam with raisins, rava kesari or suji halwa, carrot (gajar) halwa, moong dal halwa, wheat (godumai) halwa or kada parshad, shrikhand -- plain or with fruit pulp , milk sweets like rabri, basundi (condensed milk), palkhoa (sweetened reduced milk), thirattupal (sweetened curdled milk)and mishti doi (sweetened yoghurt). Sweets given in small quantities and along with meals are a better idea than bigger portions given as snacks between mealtimes.

Vocab at 18 months

Like I have mentioned earlier, A stays at home with my in laws and has a good exposure to telugu, I tend to talk to him mostly in English and Kannada alternating between the two depending on the occasion. The point is I feel his Kannada speaking skills are hardly developed, he understands what I say in Kannada but doesnt know as many Kannada words as he knows in probably English or Telugu. The other day we were in the bathroom and he used his first kannada sentence "Mama, brush madtini" pointing at his toothbrush. A has never has he done that. Ever before. So that's a great step forward. On that note, I present his vocabulary at eighteen months:
Parts of the body:
kannu ( eyes)
moobu (nose)
kaal (leg)
kibi (ears)

People around him:
geetajji - My mom
dipajja - My dad
nishamaasi - My sis
papajja - My chacha
sujajji - My chachi
tata - My FIL
nani - My MIL
papa - His papa
mama, mummy, amma - Me :)

Others
Aplane (Aeroplane)
kinda (down) paina (up) baita (outside) dinchu ( put me down)
appa ( is his codeword if he gets hurt ) Sometimes he would hit us and show his hand and say 'appa'

Sentences have also made thier way into his tiny vocab: Here are few of them:
mama...Pease gimme mammu..
ninii bantu ( I m sleepy)
brush madtini ( I will brush ...my teeth in this case)