Breakfast for preschoolers is a must, because having breakfast is the prevention of overweight in children and adolescents. And the acquired habit of having breakfast will save you from obesity in adulthood. Lack of appetite in a child in the morning is an indicator of lack of sleep.

Will your baby have breakfast at home or in kindergarten - it does not matter. The main thing is that he ate! If you get to the kindergarten for a long time, or your mom cooks better, you can eat at home. When the garden is close, and the baby is unpretentious in food - let him have breakfast in the garden. But if the baby is prone to fullness, it will be optimal to avoid double feeding (home + garden).

The daily caloric intake of preschool children is approximately 1800-2000 kcal per day (of which about 25% should be accounted for breakfast). In this case, you need to make sure that protein food in the diet becomes smaller compared to an early age, but the proportion of carbohydrates increased. It is carbohydrates and fats that become the main sources of energy for a child of 3-6 years old, which means that a preschooler should receive more vegetables, fruits and flour products. If the baby attends kindergarten, be calm: the nutrition there is balanced and calculated taking into account age norms for food components, microelements and vitamins.

Cooking methods for preparing breakfast for babies are best to choose sparing (boiling, baking, stewing). Do not experiment with exotic dishes and spices.

Breakfast cereals (cereals, cereals, balls and stars - with milk or yogurt) can also be offered to the baby, but not more than twice a week: as a rule, they contain a lot of sugar and may also contain dyes. The best morning drink is cocoa or tea (you can use milk).

So, here is a detailed breakfast plan for your preschooler for a week:

Monday: milk porridge

Oatmeal is optimal, but only many kids do not really like it. Do not worry, rice, buckwheat or millet porridge is perfect for breakfast. To attract a little fuss to the table, diversify the porridge with fresh or frozen berries (strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, currants) or slices of pre-steamed dried fruits. For flavor, add a pinch of vanilla or cinnamon and garnish the dish with drops of sweet syrup (such as strawberry or chocolate). Do not get carried away with fairly allergenic nuts and honey.

WHAT TO COOK:

Buckwheat milk porridge with apple

• Buckwheat - 1/2 cup
• Water - 1 cup
• Milk - 1 cup
• Salt - 1 pinch
• Sugar - 1 tbsp. l
• Apple - 1 pc.
• Butter - 20 g

Cooking method:

Rinse groats, pour water, bring to a boil. Cook for 10-15 minutes. Add milk and stir. Boil. Add salt, sugar. Cook another 10 minutes. Wash the apple, peel and seed. Grate. Add the apple to the porridge. When serving buckwheat porridge with apples, season with butter.

Milk porridge from a mixture of cereals with carrots

• Rice - ½ cup
• Buckwheat - ½ cup
• Barley - ½ cup
• Raisins - 2 tbsp.
• Carrots - 4pcs.
• Milk - 1 cup
• Butter - 2 l
• Water - 2 cups
• Salt to taste
• Sugar - to taste

Cooking method:

Sort the cereals, rinse and soak in cold water for 1-2 hours (or put soaked overnight)
  Sort raisins and rinse. Peel and chop carrots with straws.
  In boiling salt water, put the soaked cereal (along with water), carrots and bring to a boil, then cook for 5-6 minutes. Add sugar, raisins, milk and again bring to a boil and cook porridge over very low heat for 20-25 minutes. Serve milk porridge with butter.

Tuesday: scrambled eggs or scrambled eggs

With carrots and peas, with ham and sweet pepper, with zucchini and cheese, and even sweet apple - no child will refuse an omelet for breakfast, all the more so unusual! Cook omelet from quail eggs - they have more useful trace elements than chicken, and they are also less allergenic. Keep in mind that the most airy and magnificent omelet is obtained in the oven.

WHAT TO COOK:

Broccoli Omelet

• Broccoli - 100 g
• Carrots - 1 pc.
• Chicken Egg - 3 pcs.
• Milk - 3 tbsp. l
• Salt to taste

Cooking:

Wash the carrots, then peel and cut into cubes. Wash broccoli, divide into inflorescences. Cook broccoli and carrots in a double boiler - 15 minutes (to speed up the process, you can use a double boiler for microwave). Beat the eggs. Add milk and salt, mix. Add vegetables to the egg-milk mixture and mix. Lubricate the baking dish (or the double boiler) with oil or put the foil in the container for the double boiler. Pour omelet with broccoli into the mold and place in a double boiler or oven. Cook for 30 minutes.

Boiled omelet

• Chicken Egg - 3 pcs.
• Milk - 2/3 cup
• Salt to taste

Cooking:

Beat the mixer with eggs and salt until foam. Add milk and whisk again. We take 2 packages for baking, pour the egg mass into them. We tie packages, but leaving a little free space. Dip in boiling water and, without covering, cook over medium heat for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, we take out the omelet, turn it out of the bag onto a plate.

Omelet with cottage cheese

• Eggs - 2pcs.
• Cottage cheese - 100 gr.
• Baby milk - ½ cup
• Salt to taste

Cooking:

Beat the eggs and add salt there. Take the cottage cheese and add it to the egg mixture, then mash it with a fork there. After, beat everything again. Pour in half a glass of baby milk and mix until smooth.
  Put a teaspoon of butter in a heated frying pan and pour the omelet. When it begins to boil, stir with a wooden spatula. After 3 minutes, reduce heat and cover. Leave on for another 5 minutes.

Wednesday: pasta (pasta) or milk soup with vermicelli

Yes, and pasta too. After all, we remember that carbohydrates for breakfast are the main source of energy for a preschooler.
  Almost all children love pasta. In order for them to be of benefit, and not harm, choose pasta from durum wheat and do not boil them - the right pasta should remain firm. Buckwheat or rice noodles can be a great substitute for classic pasta.
  Pasta for breakfast is good because every week you can cook it in completely different ways. It is combined with cheese, with eggs, vegetables. In the absence of time, you can simply boil the pasta and sprinkle them on top with grated cheese. From time to time on a “pasta” day, you can make a child milk soup with vermicelli.

WHAT TO COOK:

Milk vermicelli

• Small vermicelli (cobweb) - 1 tablespoon
• Milk - 200 ml.
• Butter - 5 gr.
• Sugar - to taste

Cooking:

Pour the vermicelli into boiling water, and cook until half cooked, about 3 minutes.
Throw the pasta into a colander (do all the actions clearly and quickly so that they do not have time to stick together). Let the milk boil and add the boiled vermicelli to it. At the end of cooking, add sugar to taste and a slice of butter.

Baked pasta in cheese sauce

(for 4 servings)

• Pasta - 300 g.
• Cheddar Cheese - 150 g
• Milk - 600 ml.
• Butter - 1 tbsp.
• Flour - 2 tbsp.
• Nutmeg - ½ tsp
• Wheat bread crumbs
• Dried spices

Cooking:

Preparing the sauce: Heat the milk in a saucepan and melt the butter in it. Then stirring vigorously with a whisk, slowly add the flour, stir until the sauce boils. Next, make the fire smaller and continue stirring for another 4-5 minutes until the sauce becomes homogeneous. Then add the finely grated cheese, season with pepper, salt, nutmeg and continue to mix until the cheese is melted and the sauce becomes completely homogeneous, about 5 minutes.
  Meanwhile, boil the paste to All Dente, drain the water. Put the pasta in deep plates, pour generously over the sauce, season with dried spices and sprinkle with crackers. Bake in a preheated oven to 180 degrees for 10 minutes. Be sure to serve hot pasta to the table.

Thursday: casserole

It can be not only cottage cheese, but also meat, vegetable or cheese. The secret of its preparation is simple: just chop the desired ingredients, pour the sauce (beaten eggs or regular sour cream will do), sprinkle with grated cheese and bake in the oven. If your child is a fan of the traditional cottage cheese option, add raisins, dates, pieces of dried fruit or marmalade to the casserole.

WHAT TO COOK:

Curd casserole with pumpkin in a slow cooker

• Cottage cheese - 500 g.
• Pumpkin - 400 g
• Eggs - 3 pcs.
• Semolina - 1/2 cup
• Sugar - 1/2 cup
• Sour cream - 200 g.
• Baking powder - 1 tsp
• Vanilla sugar - 1 tsp
• Butter

Cooking:

Grate the pumpkin. Can be cut into pieces. Add sugar to eggs and beat in foam. Just beat a little, until thick you do not need. Add cottage cheese to the beaten eggs and mix. Add semolina and mix. Add pumpkin, baking powder and vanillin and mix.
  Grease a bowl of multicookers with butter and sprinkle with semolina. Pour the curd into the coated bowl. Set the “baking” mode for 1 hour. But immediately after the end of the program do not get it. It is necessary to leave the casserole in the "heating" mode for another 50 minutes. And only after that the children's cottage cheese casserole with pumpkin in the slow cooker will be ready.

Rice Casserole with Raisins

• Rice - ½ cup
• Sugar - 1/4 cup
• Chicken Egg - 1 pc.
• Raisins and dried apricots - 1 glass
• Sour cream - 1 tablespoon for the "test" and 2 tbsp. spoons for sweet sauce
• Honey - 1 tbsp. l for sauce
• Butter - for lubricating the mold

Cooking:

In cold water, wash the rice several times and boil it until half cooked. To do this, pour a lot of water into the pan, boil rice for 10-15 minutes, then drain excess water through a colander. Rinse dried apricots and raisins and pour boiling water over it for several minutes. Grind dried apricots. Pieces of dried apricots should be made about the same size as raisins. Mix the egg and sugar in the container in which you will beat them. Beat the sugar with the egg with a mixer or whisk until smooth. Now you need to thoroughly mix all the ingredients: semi-boiled rice, prepared dried fruits, beaten eggs and sour cream. With butter, you need to grease the form in which you will bake. Then put the future casserole in it. We chose silicone molds with children's characters.
  Bake a sweet rice casserole with dried fruits in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 30-40 minutes. Make sure that the casserole does not overheat, otherwise burnt rice will crunch on your teeth. You can pour the casserole with jam, or you can make a sweet and satisfying sauce. To do this, beat sour cream and a spoonful of honey. The sauce is ready, pour the casserole over them and serve.

Buckwheat casserole with cottage cheese

• Buckwheat -4 tbsp
• Cottage cheese - 100 g.
• Chicken eggs - 2 pcs.
• Sour cream - 2 tablespoons
• Sugar - 2 tsp
• Breadcrumbs - for sprinkling molds
• Butter - for lubrication of the mold

Cooking:

Boil the loose, buckwheat porridge in the water. Without adding salt or sugar to it. Wipe the cottage cheese through a sieve to make it even.
  In a separate bowl, mix the chicken eggs with sour cream and sugar. Divide it into two parts. In one part, leave 2/3, in the second 1/3 part.
  Add to the buckwheat porridge mashed cottage cheese and sweet sour cream and egg sauce (2/3 parts from the last step) and mix. Grease a baking dish with butter and sprinkle breadcrumbs on top. If there are no ready-made ones, then they can be quickly made from a piece of dried bread by rubbing on a fine grater. Or you can sprinkle with semolina.
  Put the buckwheat-curd mixture into the mold. Top with the remaining sour cream and egg gravy (1/3 part).
  Bake in the oven for 20 minutes, at 180 degrees. Allow the buckwheat casserole to cool slightly, and then cut into portions.
Buckwheat casserole with cottage cheese can be served with jam, sour cream or just like that, depending on the preferences of the child. And you can drink it with a sweet compote of dried fruits or jelly from jam.

Friday: sandwich

Yes, it’s a sandwich! Prepare it correctly - then you will not have to doubt the benefits. Take a slice of cereal-rich carbohydrate bread or a whole-grain bun, put a plastic of cheese, a slice of lean ham or cooked sausage (ideally boiled meat) and add this set of lettuce, a circle of tomato or cucumber to choose from.

WHAT TO COOK:

Pizza Sandwiches

• Long loaf - 1 pcs.
• Sausages - 5 pcs.
• Tomato - 2 pcs.
• Hard cheese - 100 g.
• Garlic - 1 clove
• Greenery
• Mayonnaise

Cooking:

Cut sausages or sausage into small cubes. Dice tomatoes too.
  Grind greens. Grate cheese on a coarse grater, garlic (through a crush) and add mayonnaise. Mix everything. No salt needed. Cut the loaf into slices and spread with this mixture. Put on a baking sheet. You do not need to grease a baking sheet. Bake in the oven at a temperature of 180 - 200 degrees 15 minutes.

Cottage cheese sandwiches

• Baton
• Cottage cheese (any) - 100 g.
• Hard cheese - 100 g.
• Chicken Egg - 1 pc.
• Garlic - 2 cloves
• Sausage - 100 g
• Greens (chopped)

Cooking:

We wipe the cottage cheese through a sieve (or take a ready-made fine-grained one), add the egg and mix well. Three cheese on a coarse grater. And send to the curd mass. Add salt to taste, herbs, crushed garlic and mix thoroughly. Three sausages on a fine grater. Spread the resulting mass on slices of loaf. Put the sandwiches on a baking sheet. And we send in the oven preheated to 200 degrees, for 7 minutes.

Saturday: dumplings, lazy dumplings

Most children will not refuse to enjoy this dish in the morning. Homemade dumplings with fruit or curd filling can be done in advance and stored in the freezer, using as needed. And lazy dumplings are easy to make right in the morning.

WHAT TO COOK:

Lazy Dumplings

(3 servings)

• Cottage cheese - 200 g.
• Egg - 1 pc.
• Wheat flour - 4 tbsp.
• Brown sugar - 1 tbsp.
• Salt to taste

Cooking:

Put the cottage cheese in a spacious cup and add sugar to it. Add one chicken egg and mix the mixture. Grind the curd mixture in a blender. This is necessary so that the protein contained in the curd is better absorbed and digested. When heated during cooking, the protein in the curd is compacted. And at the same time, the consistency of the mass is significantly improved, the cottage cheese becomes airy and homogeneous. Add the wheat flour to the resulting mass and knead the dough for lazy dumplings. If you are limited in time, you can roll the dough into a sausage and cut it into identical pieces. Press the center of each piece with your finger. This action can be trusted with a little helper.
  Place a pot of water on a large fire. When the water boils, be sure to salt it. You do not need to overdo it so that the dumplings do not boil. After the water boils, carefully lower the dumplings into it.
  When dumplings appear on the surface of the water - this means that they are almost ready. After that, let them boil for about 5 minutes, no more. Otherwise they can boil. Carefully so that the dumplings do not fall apart, using a slotted spoon, remove them from the water in a bowl. Let them cool a little. Add a little butter or sour cream to the dumplings. To decorate the dish, you can put a berry in the center of each dumpling.

Dumplings with Cherry

• Wheat flour - 400-500 g.
• Chicken Egg - 1 pc.
• Kefir - 1 cup
• Soda - a pinch
• Cherry - 350-400 g.
• Sugar

Cooking:

To make dumplings with cherries, you need to break an egg in a bowl, beat it. Add kefir, soda to the egg and mix. Pour flour into a bowl and pour the liquid into the recess. Gently stir with a fork, then knead with your hands. The dough should be soft and not stick to your hands. Sprinkle the table with flour, roll out the dough with a rolling pin. Cut out dough circles with a cup. Wash cherries. In each circle put 2-3 cherries and half a teaspoon of sugar. (If the cherries are frozen, then do not defrost them). Blind the edges of the dumplings. Boil dumplings with cherries in boiling water 5 minutes after surfacing or cook in a double boiler for 15 minutes. If you get too many dumplings, you can freeze them portionwise for the next time. You can also cook dumplings with strawberries, dumplings with cottage cheese or dumplings with liver.

Sunday: fruit salad

Fruits are ideal for breakfast. Use any fresh berries and fruits that you find in the refrigerator: oranges, kiwi, apples, pears, strawberries. Season the salad with low-fat sour cream or yogurt without additives, and use healthy dried fruits to add a special flavor.

WHAT TO COOK:

Fruit salad with cottage cheese

• mandarin - 1 pc.
• banana - ½ pcs.
• apple - ½ pcs.
• lemon juice - 1 tsp
• crumbly curd - 50 g.
• berries of red currant and raspberry

Cooking:

First, take a banana, peel it and cut off half of the fruit. Then we cut it lengthwise into two parts and then cut it into semicircles, with a thickness of not more than five millimeters. Then we take tangerine, peel it from the crust and divide into slices.
  Next, we prepare the third ingredient of our salad - this is an apple. Cut it in half, peel it, cut the seed box with seeds, and cut the rest into small cubes and sprinkle with fresh lemon juice so that the apple does not darken.
  We spread the prepared fruits in a portioned vase. This can be done in layers or mixed. After that, carefully spread the cottage cheese on the surface of the fruit salad. At the end, we decorate the dessert with red currant berries and raspberries, after which it can be served. For lovers of sweet desserts, instead of the usual cottage cheese, you can serve a sweet cottage cheese. Before eating, a fruit salad for children can be mixed and combined with cottage cheese or eat in separate fragments, enjoying a change of tastes.

Fruit Salad with Yogurt

• Apple - 1 pc.
• Tangerines - 2 pcs.
• Banana - 1 pc.
• Yogurt - 1 cup

Cooking:

Cut each fruit or divide into small pieces. You can add a little steamed raisins. The size of the pieces of fruit is determined based on the age of the child: small crumbs need to cut all the fruits as small as possible, it is useful for older children to give pieces of medium size in order to develop chewing muscle.
  Then pour fruit over yogurt. You can replace yogurt with an equal amount of sour cream - it will also be very healthy and tasty! Mix fruit salad thoroughly. Sugar can not be added - it is not so useful for the child's body. The sweetness of the salad will give the presence of banana and raisins.

Video: Children's menu. Tasty and healthy breakfast for a child

Eastern wisdom advises eating the whole breakfast, giving half of the dinner to a friend, and not eating at all in the evening. One of the secrets of a proper children's breakfast is the right one ... dinner the day before. It should be light so that the body rests at night, rather than digest food, and in the morning the baby feels hunger. What should be a children's breakfast?

Breakfast is the most important meal that should be tasty, healthy and satisfying.

The basic principles of a proper breakfast for a child

Morning meal provides a boost of energy for activity before lunch. Breakfast should be hot, satisfying, but easily digestible. Products are boiled, baked, stewed. An ideal morning menu includes foods containing protein (egg, meat), carbohydrates (cereals), fats (vegetable and butter), fiber and vitamins (vegetables, fruits).

Are popular cereals, rings, asterisks acceptable in baby food? Sometimes they can be given to a child older than 3 years old for breakfast with milk, yogurt, juice, however, it should be borne in mind that they contain a lot of sugar and artificial additives.

The best step-by-step recipes for a children's breakfast

In the morning, as a rule, there is not enough time for anything. To make fast food tasty and healthy, get “helpers”. A slow cooker with the function of a double boiler and electric oven will make cooking easier - you will cook cereals, casseroles, omelets, doing other morning things and not afraid that the food will burn or run away. Try not to use the microwave to prepare and heat food for children: cooks consider such food “dead”.

We offer some simple recipes for children from a year and older. Taking them as a basis, diversify the children's menu, applying imagination.

Porridge

The best morning meal is porridge, but it can be difficult to feed a child with it. From 3 years old, add berries, pieces of fresh or steamed dried fruits, nuts, grated chocolate, vegetables. You can pour milk porridge with syrup.

Soak the cereal overnight - the cooking time will be halved. If porridge is cooked on water, put the products in the multicooker in the evening, turning on the timer. Then the porridge will be ready to rise.

Prefabricated porridge with carrots

Prepare healthy porridge in milk from different cereals with carrots.

Ingredients:

• 1/4 Art. rice;
• 1/4 Art. buckwheat;
• 1/4 Art. pearl barley;
• 2 carrots
• 1 tbsp. water
• 1 tbsp raisins;
• 1/2 tbsp. milk;
• sugar, salt and butter to taste.

Take cereals, rinse, fill with cold water and leave overnight. In the evening, peel the carrots, chop with straws, wrap in plastic wrap so that they do not wind, and put them in the refrigerator. Sort, rinse and dry a tablespoon of raisins.

In the morning, transfer the soaked cereal with boiling water to boiling salted water, first draining its excess (water should cover the cereal) and adding carrots. After boiling, cook for 5-6 minutes over medium heat. Then put a teaspoon of sugar, raisins, half a glass of milk and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to a minimum and cook porridge for 20-25 minutes. Put a piece of butter in a bowl before serving.

Omelets and other egg dishes

The need for proteins in the morning is easiest to satisfy by preparing scrambled eggs or scrambled eggs. The benefits will be even greater if you use quail eggs. By caloric value 1 chicken egg is equal to 10 quail eggs, and by nutritional value 2 quail eggs are equal to 1 chicken!

A good idea is scrambled eggs in bread (see also:). Cut a crumb from a slice of bread into a cookie cutter. In a preheated pan with melted butter, fry the bread on one side. In the middle, beat 1 chicken egg (or 5 quail eggs), if the child does not like fried eggs, beat him first. Salt, add herbs, fry. Cover the pan and let it simmer for about 5 minutes or turn the bread with the egg and fry on the other side.

Steamed omelet is ideal for a child from the age of one (more in the article:). If there is no double boiler, use a wide pan, colander, and silicone baking dish. Beat 2 eggs and a teaspoon of cream, pour into a mold greased with butter and place in a pan of a double boiler or colander mounted on a pan over boiling water. Put the finished omelet from the mold on a plate and sprinkle with grated cheese and herbs.

Cottage cheese dishes

Cottage cheese in the morning is good not only for its high content of animal protein, vitamins and trace elements. If it is a fresh product from a store or from a reliable seller, it can be eaten without heat treatment, mixed with pieces of fruit or with herbs.

A more complex dish is a cottage cheese casserole. Boil for 15 minutes 100 g dried apricots, a tablespoon of raisins and a zest of a quarter of an orange. Grind dried apricots to a state of mashed potatoes. Mix 230 g of cottage cheese, a tablespoon of semolina and sugar, 2 eggs, vanilla and a quarter of a teaspoon of baking powder, beat with a mixer. Add raisins, stir, put in a mold. In a oven preheated to 200 ° C, bake until golden brown for about 25 minutes. Remove from the mold, cool. Done!

Sandwiches

A sandwich for breakfast is rather the exception when it comes to children, and the younger the child, the less often a sandwich should appear on his table. Try to place healthy ingredients on a bread slice.

Cut a piece of loaf with a tight crumb or take bread for toast. If the child likes to crunch on a crust, send the bread to the toaster. Spread cream cheese or curd cheese on a ready-made base, put a leaf of lettuce or Peking cabbage, a circle of tomato, a slice of boiled beef or chicken breast. A hearty meal is ready.

Another option for a morning sandwich is sweet. Spread a slice of bread with creamy cottage cheese. Top with sliced \u200b\u200bbanana and sprinkle with grated chocolate.

  Whole grain bread sandwich

Pasta

Macaroni is one of the few foods most children love. They seem more appropriate for lunch or dinner, but will fit in the morning - for example, in the form of a casserole.

Boil 200 g of small pasta, drain the water, cool. Add 100 g of mashed cottage cheese, a quarter cup of sugar and one egg whipped with milk. Mix everything carefully. Put the resulting mass into a greased form and bake at 180 ° C until golden brown.

Hash browns and other pastries

The smell of fresh pastries will raise little Sonya better than a loud bell! Pancakes and pancakes are prepared for a maximum of half an hour, if no more than 3 people sit at the table.

Saving time for washing dishes will help cooking fritters in a bottle. Take a plastic bottle with a wide neck, pour a glass of kefir or yogurt in it, break one egg. Screw on the lid and shake the contents. Add one and a half tablespoons of sugar, half a teaspoon of salt and baking powder, shake again. Pour ¾ cup flour and mix again. Let stand for 5 to 8 minutes.

At this time, heat the pan, pour a little vegetable oil on it. Shake the dough in the bottle again, remove the lid and pour the contents into the pan in neat circles. Flip the rising pancakes so that the other side is also browned. Serve with sour cream, favorite syrup, etc.

If you think that some fritters or pancakes are not enough, prepare a healthy pancake with oatmeal and filling.

Grind 4 tablespoons of cereal in a coffee grinder, add an egg, 60 ml of milk, a pinch of salt. If you want to start a pancake with a sweet filling - put a teaspoon of sugar. Shuffle. Pour the dough into a preheated pan greased with vegetable oil, bake a pancake. After removing from heat, put in a plate. Put the filling on half the pancake - chopped boiled egg with green onions, cutlet and lettuce, cottage cheese with banana or grated apple, etc. Cover with the second half and serve.

Features of children's breakfasts by age

The child's needs for proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and other nutrients change with age. One thing remains unchanged: in the morning he should get a quarter of the daily calorie intake. Also, the main dishes of the correct breakfast remain constant: cereals, egg dishes, fresh vegetables, fruits or salads from them.

What should be breakfast at different ages?

What is good for a one-year-old peanut is not suitable for a 5-year-old preschool child, and the morning menu for a student at 7 and 10 years old will be different. Every day, the child needs a varied diet, but this does not mean that you need to “shove” meat, fish, milk, cereals, fruits and vegetables into each meal. The table below shows the daily caloric intake of children of different ages, as well as the features of the first meal.

Please note that in addition to the main course, bread and drink are included in the total breakfast volume.

What dishes should not be prepared for children?

It is not recommended to feed children fried, smoked, salty. In the morning, even adults should not give such food. Sausages and sausages are tempting by the speed of cooking, but it is better to completely abandon them or at least limit their use - they contain many artificial additives that can cause an allergy in a child. In addition, children of any age should not be given:

• fatty meat and fish;
• exotic fruits;
• pickled vegetables;
• mushrooms;
• egg whites cream cakes
• carbonated sweet drinks;
• chips, crackers industrial production.

Two-year-old children are usually transferred to 4 meals a day, but if the baby is physically weak or does not go to kindergarten and is brought up at home, it is advisable to organize two morning meals for him - one light, the second more satisfying.

With the correct regimen of the day after the first breakfast, a 2-year-old child is taken out for a walk. Thus, the time for the second breakfast comes about 2-2.5 hours after the first. By this moment, the baby will have time to build an appetite.

As the first breakfast, when the baby has recently woken up and is not yet hungry, sandwiches with delicate pastes, butter, soft cheese are ideal. The second breakfast can be milk porridge with butter, pudding, casserole, scrambled eggs, etc.

A healthy breakfast for 2 year old babies should consist of products that include:
- carbohydrates;
- proteins;
- fiber.

Carbohydrates will energize the child’s body and help to start the new day cheerfully, in a good mood. It is no accident that they say that carbohydrates in the morning are the right way to health. Proteins are a source of energy for a longer period (until the next meal). Fiber will ensure the normal functioning of the digestive system, and the baby will feel good until the evening.

Breakfast, recommended by baby food specialists, is, of course, milk porridge - semolina, hercules, rice, buckwheat, millet; cottage cheese dishes - casseroles, puddings, cottage cheese pancakes, lazy dumplings; vegetable purees; egg-based dishes - omelettes, soufflés and proper eggs in boiled and baked form. You can multiply the beneficial properties of breakfast dishes with greens, fresh fruits and berries, yogurt, jams, gravy, etc.

As a drink for breakfast for a 2-year-old baby, cocoa, jelly, juices, fruit drinks, sweet teas are ideal. Yes, there is 2- should already be on their own.

Breakfast Recipes

Omelet with carrots. Peel 1 carrot, grate on a fine grater and simmer it in a frying pan in butter. Beat 2 eggs with a little salt, add 2 tbsp. milk, mix and pour the resulting mixture of carrots. Fry the omelet over medium heat under a lid until cooked. Sprinkle with finely chopped herbs and a slice of fresh tomato before serving. By the way, the same easy and healthy omelet with carrots or apples can be fed to the child at dinner.

For a standard porridge, we need:

Oatmeal,

We take oatmeal and milk in different proportions and mix in a plate. You can take about a hundred grams of oatmeal, it all depends on the portion that you want to get. Add a spoonful of honey to the resulting mixture and mix lightly.

Next, add the fruit. Here it all depends only on your flight of fantasy. As one of the options, you can take half a banana and crush it with a fork, and then add a couple of spoons of cocoa and mix everything. You can also grate half an apple and add a couple of tablespoons of cinnamon. Everything will depend on your preferences here. Then cover your masterpiece with cling film and refrigerate. Oatmeal will absorb milk overnight and you will have ready porridge. It will be cold, if you wish, you can warm it in the microwave, or you can eat it like that.

Not sure what to feed your baby for breakfast? Learn about the top five healthy breakfasts for your children, and how to cook them.

Before breakfast

Nature is so arranged that no living creature eats immediately after awakening. After sleeping, the animal must first find food, and then eat what is obtained. This also applies to humans, however, the benefits of civilization have led to the fact that only a few steps towards the refrigerator are enough, and you have already killed the worm.

It is best to start the morning with sipping, hygienic procedures, charging, and only after that the body will give you a signal about hunger. It is important to accustom such a culture from childhood to avoid possible negative consequences from the wrong power supply.

Remember that children need good food. Proteins, fats, a sufficient amount of carbohydrates, ballast substances, vitamins and minerals should be contained in food. All this is necessary for the child for active growth and development, both physical and mental.

For children, milk and dairy products are very useful. Milk contains complete protein, as well as a number of vitamins and minerals, in particular calcium, which is necessary for healthy bones, muscles and the nervous system. Thus, further we will talk about breakfast at milkthat you can cook for your children.

1. Porridge - the best breakfast

Gastroenterologists sometimes joke, saying that if all people ate porridge for breakfast, they would have lost their jobs. As they say, in every joke there is a fraction of a joke, and everything else is true. Porridge (especially whole grains) are very healthy. Depending on what kind of porridge you are cooking, you enrich your body with a complex of various vitamins and minerals.

Porridge goes well with cottage cheese and fruit. Especially if your child is naughty, you can add different berries to the dish. So breakfast will be more nutritious and tastier.

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An example is millet porridge with cottage cheese and fruits. To do this, you need 1 cup of millet, 200 g of cottage cheese, and add milk to taste (depending on the desired consistency). Sugar and butter also add to taste. Enrich the dish with your favorite fruits, for example, you can add banana and berries.

To prepare such a breakfast, you will need 1 cup of milk, half a glass of granola, 300 g of berries (you can use frozen), 150 g of yogurt and a pinch of salt. You need to bring the milk to a boil and add muesli to it with a pinch of salt. As removed from the heat, let the dish stand under the lid for about 5-7 minutes, after which the contents of the pan can be divided into several glasses. Next, apply fruit and fill it with yogurt. Put the cups in the refrigerator and leave them there overnight. Just before serving, you can sprinkle the finished dish with dry cereal, or the same muesli. During cooking, you can add sugar or honey to taste. However, remember that honey should not be added to hot liquids. So wait until the mass cools.

For breakfast, eggs are very good. You can beat eggs with milkand cook a magnificent omelet. As a filling, you can use vegetables. We offer you a vegetable omelet according to this recipe: 2 small potatoes, half the onion and sweet pepper, 4 eggs, 50 ml of milk or sour cream, vegetable oil, pepper and salt to taste.

Finely chop the vegetables and stew in a pan. Potatoes can be pre-boiled. Beat eggs with a mixer, add milk or sour cream and continue to beat. Then pour the vegetables with beaten eggs and keep the pan on low heat until cooked.

You can add green leafy vegetables to the omelet, for example, spinach is perfect as a source of a number of important amino acids.

To prepare the cottage cheese casserole you will need: 350 g of cottage cheese, half a glass of sugar, 2-3 eggs, half a glass of cherries and 2 tablespoons of semolina.

First you need to beat eggs with sugar, then add the cottage cheese to the mixture and continue to beat further. Next, semolina is added, and the finished mixture is poured into baking tins. First you need to lay candied cherries on the bottom of the form. The dish can also be cooked in a double boiler. So the casserole will be even more useful, it will retain more useful components.

For baking pancakes, you will need to knead the dough: 1 glass of milk, a glass of flour, 2-3 eggs, 1-2 tbsp. l sunflower oil, salt and sugar to taste. You can fill each pancake at your discretion with cheese with ham and vegetables, or make a filling from the curd mass with raisins or dried apricots. Finished rolls need to be laid out on a baking sheet and baked in the oven at a temperature of 180 degrees.

Choosing the right milk

To prepare each of the proposed breakfasts, you will need milk or dairy products (yogurt, cottage cheese). The question arises: what milkselect? If you live in a city, the best option would be ultra-pasteurized milk in aseptic packaging of Tetra Pak. Ultra-pasteurized milk contains much more beneficial substances than milk that has undergone a pasteurization or sterilization process. In addition, ultra-pasteurized milk does not contain harmful microorganisms and their spores due to special processing technology (ultra-pasteurization) and product bottling in aseptic conditions (in enclosed space, without access of air and bacteria).

Also, when purchasing ultra-pasteurized milk, you can be calm about the quality of the product, since only high-quality raw materials are subjected to ultra-pasteurization.

At two years old, the baby’s diet begins to change dramatically from breast milk to ordinary food. Everyday food is becoming more diverse, with more and more new dishes and healthy products appearing in it. The child’s gastrointestinal tract at this time can fully digest solid foods, normally reacts to food with casseroles and other additives. But the diet of a child at this age continues to be very different from an adult. It is for this reason that it is so important to know about the basic rules of a child’s nutrition at the age of 2: what he can eat and what is still early. child at 2 years old?

The main rules of baby nutrition

The basis of everyday nutrition for a baby of two years of age should be liquid porridges, fresh fruits and vegetables. By two years of life, many products from these categories should be at least a little, but familiar to the child. Porridge should continue to be carefully boiled, and in the evening cook them with the addition of milk.

The daily menu for a child of 2 years should include:

• fresh vegetables - in raw and boiled form (no restrictions);
• fruits in the form of juice, compote or dessert;
• soups - cooked in broth, adding fresh herbs for taste (for example, celery);
• stew meat with vegetables or cook in the form of casseroles with potatoes;
• river and sea fish, it is best to give fillets;
• cottage cheese pancakes and raw cottage cheese should also be included in the baby's nutrition;
• low fat dairy products - kefir, milk and fermented baked milk;
• boiled eggs.

What foods should be in the diet?

• legumes (beans, lentils and soy) can be given to the child several times a week;
• confectionery products are only allowed to be given to the child after a meal; cookies and fruits can be used as snacks;
• canned foods - sauerkraut and pickles;
• soaked herring;
• butter products.

The basic rules of nutrition for a child aged 2 years is important to strictly observe so that in the future there will be no problems with the functioning of his digestive system and will not have to visit a doctor. The baby’s diet can also depend on the characteristics of his body and individual characteristics, as some children have intolerance to certain foods, leading to allergies.

What is forbidden?

The digestive system of a child at this age still does not respond well to the introduction of too fatty, spicy, salty, fried and smoked foods into the diet. If we talk about meat, then the parent should consider only low-fat varieties - rabbit meat, turkey or beef. Lamb, fatty pork and duck can adversely affect the pancreas, lead to an allergic reaction and digestive upset.

Particular attention should be paid to meat products. Sausage is considered the most harmful product for a child aged 2 years, since it contains a large amount of fat, as well as various preservatives and additives.

The only possible option for a child to use sausages is children's sausages, which experts recommend giving for lunch as a main dish after soup. Various smoked foods are categorically prohibited.

How to make the right breakfast for the baby?

What to cook for breakfast for a child at 2 years old? Breakfast should provide a young developing organism with a charge of energy, which should be enough before lunch. Breakfast should be warm, hearty, and foods digestible. Dishes can be cooked, baked or stewed.

The optimal menu in the morning are: foods with protein (meat, eggs), carbohydrates (cereals), a small amount of fat (butter or vegetable oil), the right amount of vitamins and fiber (they can be found in vegetables and fruits).

Can I give my baby cereal for breakfast? Sometimes, cereal for breakfast is acceptable along with milk and yogurt, but the child in this case must be older than 3 years of age.

Breakfast Recipes for a 2 year old child

In the morning, parents usually do not have much time left to feed their child. In order for fast food to become tasty and at the same time useful for a developing organism, special kitchen devices should be purchased that will help to significantly speed up and facilitate the cooking process.

A slow cooker with a double boiler function and an electric oven are always useful equipment in the kitchen. With the help of such a device, you can easily and quickly cook a casserole, porridge, omelet without spending too much time and not being afraid that the food will burn or run away.

Cooking porridge

Porridge is considered the best food in the morning, but it can be difficult to feed a baby with such a dish. From the age of 3 years, small pieces of fresh or steamed fruits, fresh berries, nuts, grated chocolate or vegetables should be added to the porridge. Milk porridge can be used as a syrup.

If you soak the cereal at night, then the cooking time will be reduced by half. If the porridge is cooked on water, then all the necessary products should be put in the multicooker in the evening and the timer should be turned on. In the morning porridge will be ready for use.

Prefabricated porridge with carrots

The recipe for breakfast for a child at 2 years of age will be to boil porridge in milk with the addition of carrots. To do this, you need the following ingredients:

• ¼ tablespoon of rice;
• ¼ table buckwheat;
• ¼ Art. pearl barley;
• glass of water;
• a tablespoon of raisins;
• 1/2 cup of milk;
• two fresh carrots;
• salt, butter and sugar are added as desired.

To prepare a healthy and tasty porridge, you need to take cereals, rinse under running water, pour cold water and leave for one night. In the evening, in order not to lose time in the morning, you should peel the carrots, finely chop it into strips, wrap it in a special plastic wrap so that the carrot slices do not wind, and put them in the refrigerator. Next, you need to sort out, wash and dry a tablespoon of raisins.

How to cook oatmeal in milk? In the morning, salt the boiling water and fill in the prepared cereal with water, drain its excess (water should completely cover the cereal) and add slices of carrots. After boiling, it is cooked over medium heat for 5-6 minutes. After a teaspoon of sugar, half a glass of milk and a spoonful of raisins are added to the mixture, bring to a boil. Without reducing the heat, porridge is cooked for another 20-25 minutes. Before use, add a small piece of butter to a bowl of porridge.

Dishes from eggs: omelet for a child

The body immediately after awakening really needs a protein that can be obtained from scrambled eggs or omelettes. It will be even more useful if you cook these dishes not from chicken, but quail eggs. By caloric value, a chicken egg is 10 quail eggs, but in nutritional value it is significantly inferior to it.

Breakfast recipe for a child of 2 years: fried eggs in bread. To prepare the dish you need to take a slice of bread and cut a crumb from it. In a heated frying pan with vegetable oil, only one side of the bread should be fried. 1 chicken egg (or 5 quail eggs) is poured into the middle, if the baby does not want to eat fried eggs, then the egg is thoroughly beaten. Then it is salted and fried. The frying pan is covered with a lid and remains on low heat for another 5 minutes or the egg with bread is turned over and fried on the other side.

Omelet for a child can be made at the age of 1 year. If there is no double boiler in the kitchen, then you can take a wide pan and silicone baking dishes to prepare the dish. Then beat 2 eggs and add a teaspoon of cream, pour into a mold greased with butter and place in a pan set in a pot of boiling water. The finished omelet is placed on a plate, sprinkled with dill and cheese on top.

Cooking cottage cheese casseroles

For the preparation of cottage cheese casseroles in apples, the following ingredients will be required:

• cottage cheese - 500 grams;
• 4 eggs;
• sugar - five tablespoons;
• 3-4 fresh apples;
• 2 tablespoons of sour cream;
• salt - added to taste;
• butter - they lubricate the molds.

Casserole recipe

Breakfast recipe for a 2 year old child:

1. Cottage cheese is gently kneading with a fork.
2. Separate the yolks from the proteins, add the yolks to the curd, pour sugar, salt and sour cream in the right amount on top.
3. The resulting mixture is whipped with a blender or mixer.
4. In a separate container, proteins are thoroughly beaten until a foam is formed and carefully added to the bulk.
5. Apples are washed, peeled, rubbed on a coarse grater or cut into slices and added to the main consistency, everything is thoroughly mixed.
6. Next, the oven is heated to 180 degrees, and the baking dish is greased with butter.
7. The finished consistency is moved to the mold and carefully aligned around the perimeter.
8. There may also be a cottage cheese casserole with sour cream.
9. Bake the mass in the oven for 30 minutes.
10. Casserole readiness can be checked with a simple skewer.
11. When serving, you can grease the casserole again with sour cream, butter or jam. You can eat such a dish both in a warm and chilled state.

This recipe involves cooking casseroles in the oven. But the parent can not limit himself and also use a slow cooker.

Cooking rice porridge, as in kindergarten

It should be noted the main benefit of milk rice porridge, as in kindergarten, for a child. In one plate of such a dish is a large number of vitamins (E, B 6 and B 2), useful minerals (calcium, zinc, iron, phosphorus), as well as useful acids. If we take into account the fact that during this period of time the child’s body continues to actively grow and develop, then it is easy to guess that he needs only nutritious and rich in microelements and vitamins food.

Rice porridge is a boost of energy, a source of well-being and health for any child. If you cook rice in water, then its calorie content will reach only 100 kilocalories. But many children do not want to eat such porridge, so it is best to add milk.

If the child does not eat all the food, then you should prove yourself on the creative side. The main task of the parent is to attract the attention of the baby, as well as make him want to eat the finished dish. To do this, you should equip the classic recipe with various additions in the form of unusual ingredients. You can take fresh fruits, honey and other sweet additives. Unusual figures can be built from dried fruits. Sprinkle the finished dish with grated chocolate or raisins.

How to cook?

This breakfast idea for a 2 year old child will require:

• a glass of rice;
• 500 milliliters of milk;
• 100 ml of water;
• 20 grams of sugar;
• half a spoon of salt;
• fruits at will to decorate the finished dish;
• butter 15-20 grams.

The recipe for making milk rice porridge:

• For porridge, it is best to use large varieties of rice. To begin with, the rice is washed with warm water, then it is poured into a large pan and poured with 100 milliliters of cold water. Put on medium heat until the water is completely absorbed, occasionally stir the rice.
• After that, 150 milliliters of milk are added to the pan. The mixture is brought to a boil, making sure that milk does not run out of the pan. Cook over low heat, stirring occasionally to prevent rice burning.
• After the rice has thickened, add another 350 milliliters of milk in small portions, avoiding the temperature drop in the container. Also, the mixture can be salt, add 2 tablespoons of sugar as desired. Cook porridge until the groats become soft. If desired, you can also add vanilla extract, which will make porridge more fragrant and mouth-watering for the child.
• Next, add soft butter to the pan.
• The cereal should become softer, its consistency is liquid. When cooling, the porridge becomes thicker.
• Before serving, you should decorate it with different fruits and pour jam on top.

Cocoa for the baby

For this breakfast idea for a 2 year old child you will need:

• 200 milliliters of milk;
• 2 teaspoons of cocoa powder;
• 2 teaspoons of sugar.

Sugar should be added to cocoa powder, and milk should be warmed in a stewpan. 2-3 tablespoons of warmed milk should be added to cocoa with sugar, grind the mixture thoroughly so that no lumps remain in it. The resulting consistency is poured into 200 milliliters of hot milk and continue to cook on low heat for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. It is easy and quick to prepare cocoa in milk for a child; such a recipe will not take much free time from the parent.