Carbohydrates, proteins and vitamins
A growing child's body needs a lotcarbohydrates. Feed your baby with porridge. Kashi is an excellent source of energy for a little restlessness. Some babies do not like them very much. Be creative: add to the porridge pieces of fruit, dried fruits, vegetables or meat. You can cook from casserole casseroles, croissants or cutlets. Protein and vitamins in combination with carbohydrates are well absorbed. Bread, liver and pasta also contain a lot of carbohydrates. Gradually introduce the diet of dumplings, pancakes, pancakes and fritters. But macaroni and flour products should not get carried away, since they have to excess weight. The daily norm of bread (black or white) for a child is not more than 100 g. If in a year the dishes from legumes were not yet available, at the age of 2 they can be periodically prepared for a child. In the baby's menu of the age of two years, dairy and sour-milk products must be included. A skim milk or kefir is not suitable for a child. Leave them for your diet. And although fats are of secondary importance, without them, the brain and nervous system will not develop normally. As you know, dairy products contain a lot of calcium, therefore, are simply necessary for the formation and growth of the baby's bones. Include in the diet curd products. For two-year-old baby cottage cheese is in second place after milk and meat. Surely the baby will like curd-cereal, meat and vegetable casseroles. Seasoned with low-fat sour cream, they like even the most notorious capricious. The source of proteins are lean beef, lamb, liver, eggs, fish. Dishes from these products must necessarily be included in the baby's menu at the age of two. At least once a week, prepare the baby for sea fish. It is rich in iodine and proteins. Fish can be boiled, stewed or steamed. Meat is not necessarily given in the form of minced meat. Boiled or stewed, with sauce or gravy, the meat perfectly fits any garnish. Milk sausages, boiled low-fat sausages should appear in the baby's menu extremely rarely. Dietitians assign a special place in the diet of the child to soups and other first courses. They should be on the menu daily. Borscht on meat broth is the most useful. Limit the use of laurel leaves, tomato paste and other condiments in soups and borsch. As for salads, vinaigrette, seasonal vegetables and fruits (radish, cucumbers, tomatoes, zucchini, squash, etc.), they can be given without restrictions (if the child does not have allergies). As a dressing, use vegetable oil or low-fat sour cream. Do not give a two-year-old child a salad dressed with mayonnaise. Salted tomatoes and cucumbers can be given in winter in limited quantities, as they lose fresh vegetables due to their nutritional value. Sauerkraut is rich in vitamin C. It can be given periodically to the baby, but remember that often it is the cause of flatulence and intestinal spasms. At the age of 2 years the child can be introduced to cocoa, tea with milk and unnatural coffee. Still give him milk, compotes, jelly. But with sweets such as candy and chocolate it is better to wait. For a mid-morning snack, you can offer unsweetened crackers or biscuits, as well as pastilles, marshmallows or marmalade. 
What foods should not be given
Do not rush to give the baby carbonated sweetbeverages, chips and similar products, smoked sausages, bouillon cubes, canned food. Their nutritional value is highly questionable, since such products usually contain preservatives, food additives and colorants. Their processing is a big challenge for the child's body. Goose meat and ducks are also poorly digested, so at the age of two they should not be cooked for the baby. Any diet, as well as vegetarianism, will only bring harm to children's health. If the baby does not have food allergies, no special diet should be introduced.
Sample menu for a 2-year-old baby
We bring to your attention a weekly menu for children at the age of two. Monday Breakfast
- Cutlets from rice with prunes.
- Drinking yoghurt.
- Fruit. They can be given as a second breakfast.
Dinner
- Pumpkin and carrot salad.
- Borscht on meat broth.
- Lazy cabbage rolls.
- Cottage cheese, rubbed with sugar.
- Dried fruits compote.
- Marshmallow, bread.
Afternoon snack
- Cheesecakes.
- Kefir.
- Berries or fruit.
Dinner
- Cauliflower stewed in sour cream.
- Milk or kefir.
- Bread with jam or honey.
Tuesday Breakfast
- Fish with vegetables and rice, baked.
- Cocoa.
- Sandwich with butter and cheese.
Dinner
- Carrot and apple salad.
- Soup with meatballs.
- Pasta or vermicelli with boiled meat.
- Compote or jelly.
Afternoon snack
- Milk.
- Biscuit.
- Fruit.
Dinner
- Lazy vareniki with sour cream.
- Apple juice.
Wednesday Breakfast
- Cottage cheese casserole.
- Sandwich with butter.
- Apricot juice.
Dinner
- Salad with beets, prunes and walnuts.
- Meat soup.
- Mashed potatoes with fish meatballs.
- Compote from a dogrose.
- Marshmallow.
Afternoon snack
- Pear dessert.
- Kefir or milk.
Dinner
- Macaroni with sausages.
- Tea with milk.
- Fruit.
Thursday Breakfast
- Semolina.
- Carrot juice.
- An Apple.
Dinner
- Vegetable salad.
- Soup of fish meatballs.
- Cheesecakes with sour cream.
- Fruit and berry compote.
- Bread.
Afternoon snack
- Biscuit.
- Cocoa with milk.
- Fruit.
Dinner
- Pilaf with fruit.
- Milk.
Friday Breakfast
- Oatmeal.
- Cottage cheese with sugar.
- Cocoa.
- Fruit.
Dinner
- Vitamin salad.
- Milk soup with vegetables and rice.
- Roll with cauliflower.
- Cherry juice.
- Paste.
- Bread.
Afternoon snack
- Corn flakes with milk.
- Salad of carrots and raisins.
Dinner
- Omelet.
- Stuffed zucchini.
- Milk.
Saturday Breakfast
- Vegetable soufflé with chicken.
- Cocoa.
- Sandwich with butter and cheese.
Dinner
- Apple-beetroot salad.
- Pea soup.
- Fish cutlets.
- Boiled potatoes.
- Compote.
- Bread.
Afternoon snack
- Banana pudding.
- Kefir.
Dinner
- Vareniki with cottage cheese.
- Milk.
Sunday Breakfast
- Casserole with buckwheat and liver.
- Plum juice.
- Crackers with vanilla.
Dinner
- Salad with cucumber and cabbage.
- Vegetable soup.
- Cutlet with vegetables in sour cream sauce.
- Cottage cheese with sugar.
- Fruit jelly.
- Bread.
Afternoon snack
- Bun.
- Milk.
Dinner
- Fruit salad dressed with yoghurt.
- Pancakes with beef liver.
- Tea with milk.
If the kid is naughty for eating
Many mothers do not face whims duringfood. You can deal with them, you just have to be patient. Time and place of food intake should be the same. Develop a ritual, which the child will soon get used to. Buy beautiful children's dishes. Let your baby have a plate, at the bottom of which will be depicted fairy-tale characters. While he eats, you can tell him a fairy tale, the ending of which will be depicted on a plate. If the child is eating at a common table, instill a culture of eating, show how to use napkins and cutlery. Do not put all the dishes on the table. Serve first salad, then the first, the second with a side dish and only then drinks. The child will not have a choice, so he will eat everything in the right sequence. Do not force the baby to eat by force. The child's organism itself knows the limits of saturation. In addition, overeating is harmful and from the next meal the child simply refuses.
