Nutrition for children under 2 years old and rules for cooking
Up to one and a half years, children are fed 5 times a day, and then the child eats 4 times a day. The food should be soft and easy to chew. It does not need to be chopped with a blender, it is enough to mash with a fork.
In the menu for a child from 1 year to 2 years can notinclude fried dishes Photo: Getty Ways to cook: stewed, boiled, baked, steamed. In all dishes, meat can only be added in the form of minced meat. The child should not be fried, any sausages, spicy food, canned food and soda.
Sample menu for a child for a week
This is a selection of different dishes for 7 days.To ensure that your child's food is varied every day, you should, at your discretion, choose one of the dishes from the marked list. For example, for breakfast, prepare an omelette with vegetables, compote, and bread with butter. Breakfast:
- Pudding manno-apple, omelette with vegetables, curd casserole, rice porridge, semolina, buckwheat with vegetables, oatmeal with fruit.
- Milk, cocoa, compote, yogurt, juice, tea with milk.
- Bread with butter or cheese.
Dinner:
- Salads from different vegetables and fruits.
- Milk soup noodles, borsch, soup, soup with meatballs, chicken soup, chicken soup with noodles, pickle.
- Cutlet steamed, stewed fish, zrazy potato with minced meat, meatballs with gravy, braised rabbit, goulash from chopped turkey, chicken bitos.
- For garnish: boiled: buckwheat, rice, pasta, mashed potatoes, stewed vegetables, fresh vegetables, grated on a large grater.
- Compote of dried fruits, tea, juice, cocoa, jelly.
- Bread.
Afternoon snack:
- Cookies, fruit puree, rolls, pies, a salad of vegetables and fruits, peaches, berries with milk.
- Yoghurt, bifilin, fermented baked milk, milk.
Dinner:
- Vegetable casserole, baked omelet, boiled eggs, cottage cheese with sour cream, vegetable salad, baby pasta, cottage cheese with fruit.
- Kefir.
- Bread.
For the preparation of children's soups they useraw products. Nothing is sautéed. The menu provided is designed for healthy children. If the child has allergies or chronic diseases, then the menu should be consulted with the attending physician.
Some recipes for children's dishes
For children under 2 years old, simple to prepare but filling dishes are suitable:
- Omelette for a couple. Whisk 1 egg and 50 ml of milk with a whisk. Salt on request. Cook in the steamer for 15 minutes.
- Cottage cheese casserole. Mix: 125 g of cottage cheese, 1 tbsp of semolina, 1 egg, 50 ml of milk, 2 tsp of sugar. Bake in the oven for about 40 minutes at 200 °C.
It is advisable to cook for the child directlybefore meals. Then the food will be fresh and tasty. And the volume of prepared food should be enough for no more than 1-2 meals. You should not cook for a child for several days in advance.
