A sample list of dishes for a child of three years old
It is best to immediately write out a menu for the babyweek. The main methods of processing food are boiling, including steaming, stewing, and baking. Fried foods can be given, but rarely and in small quantities.
A 3-year-old child's menu should include all the necessary substances for full growth. Photo: Getty You can diversify your child's diet in the following way:
- Breakfast: oatmeal, rice or buckwheat with fruit, omelette, cheesecakes, cottage cheese casserole. All this is complemented by a piece of white bread with butter or cheese. From drinks - tea, cocoa, milk.
- Dinner:vegetable salad (carrot, beetroot, pumpkin with apple and sour cream, tomatoes with cucumbers), soup - with meatballs, beetroot soup, fish, vegetable cream soup, noodles with broth. For the second - mashed potatoes or cauliflower, vegetable stew, a meat dish is a must - cutlets, beef stroganoff, zrazy. Bread - 80 g. Add compote or juice.
- Afternoon snack: yogurt, yoghurt, fermented milk, milk, jelly in combination with cookies, biscuit, bun with raisins.
- Supper: vegetable casserole or rice with dried apricots, scrambled eggs, potato zrazy with chicken, some bread. Drinks: tea, kissel, kefir, infusion of dog rose.
Combine the options at your discretion,the main thing is that the baby's diet is not monotonous - this way he will receive the substances necessary for growth in full. Make sure that dishes are not repeated at different meals: if there was buckwheat for breakfast, then there should not be any for lunch and dinner.
What can not be given to a child in 3 years
The following foods are harmful to the child and may be dangerous to his health:
- Fatty meat - goose, duck, pork.
- Smoked products.
- Sweets, drinks or snacks containing artificial colors and preservatives.
- Spicy spices, vinegar, mustard, horseradish.
- Mushrooms.
An important condition for healthy digestion isEstablishing a feeding schedule. Every day, the child should eat at the same time, then the stomach will secrete digestive juice directly before eating. A maximum deviation from the schedule of 30 minutes is allowed. At this age, children move a lot. To maintain energy, they need to receive an average of 1600 kcal per day. Do not get carried away with sweets, give preference to marmalade, marshmallow or pastille, but no more than 60 g per day.
