A full and balanced diet is the key to the vitality and excellent well-being of your growing baby. Newly made first graders are experiencing serious physical and emotional stress, and they should more than have enough energy for the whole day. Thanks to a thoughtful menu, you can daily treat your beloved baby with healthy and tasty dishes.

Breakfast for 7 years old child

So that every morning you are not tormented by the question of what to cook for your seven-year-old child for breakfast, pre-select dishes and purchase the necessary ingredients. Focus on your baby’s food preferences, but don’t forget to cook something new from the usual components. We offer some quick and interesting breakfast recipes for children 7 years old.

Curd casserole with fruits

• 100 grams of low-fat cottage cheese
• 1 tbsp decoys
• 1 egg
• Sugar
• Any fruit

Finely grate the fruit or chop it. Mix the cottage cheese in a blender, add the yolk, sugar / honey, semolina and fruit and vegetable mixture. Add the whipped protein to the fluffy foam separately. Arrange in silicone molds (fill 1/3 of the volume) and bake in the oven for 20 minutes in medium heat.

Rice pudding

• 30 g white rice
• 0.5 teaspoon icing sugar
• 200 ml of milk
• Berries / Jam

Mix rice and powder, fill with milk and put in a silicone mold. Remove from the oven after an hour, where the pudding should languish at a temperature of 150 degrees. Serve with jam or berries.

Syrniki

• 200 g low-fat cottage cheese
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp Sahara
• 1 tbsp flour
• 2 tbsp decoys

Stir the cottage cheese, egg, sugar and semolina, form cheese cakes, roll in flour and put in a preheated oven for 10 minutes.

An afternoon snack for a child of 7 years

Breakfast time has passed, it's time to think about a light snack. Try to think in advance what to cook for a child of 7 years for an afternoon snack. It is advisable to give preference to useful afternoon snacks for a seven-year-old baby, which are convenient to take with you to school, and for this, use the following recipes:

Fritters

• 1 cup milk / water
• 1 cup flour
• 2 tbsp Sahara
• 1 tsp soda
• 1 tsp vinegar
• Vegetable oil
• 1 yolk

Combine flour, milk / water, pre-whipped yolk and sugar. Beat until smooth, pour in soda, extinguished with vinegar. Spread pancakes on a preheated pan with a spoon and fry on both sides in vegetable oil.

Curd Cookies

• 250 g low-fat cottage cheese
• 250 g flour
• 100 g butter
• Sugar

Beat the cottage cheese and butter with a mixer, sift the flour and slowly pour it into the resulting mixture. Give the dough a couple of hours to rest in the refrigerator. After that pour sugar into a plate, form small round cookies from the dough and roll them in sugar on both sides. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes at 200 degrees.

Cheese pie

• 50 ml of milk
• 0.5 tbsp butter
• 0.5 tbsp decoys
• 1 egg
• 2 slices of white bread without crust
• 20 g grated cheese

Beat milk, salt and egg until smooth, put cheese and bread to them, mix again. Pour the mixture into the baking dish and place in the oven 180 degrees for 25 minutes.

Lunch for a child of 7 years

If your seven-year-old child is already returning home from school by lunch time, consider in advance what you will prepare for him. A full-fledged lunch for a 7-year-old baby should consist of a first and second course so that before dinner he can calmly go about his business and not feel hunger.
Soup recipes for a child of 7 years:

Mashed potato soup

• 100 ml of milk
• 200 ml of water
• 5 g butter
• 200 g of potatoes
• 1 small carrot

Finely chop the potatoes and carrots and cook, then separate from the broth and beat in a blender. In mashed potatoes, pour the broth, milk and boil for several minutes. Oil flavored. Other vegetables can be added as desired.

Cabbage soup

• 1,5 l of water
• 1 carrot
• 80 g of barley
• 500 g white cabbage
• 1 onion

Rinse the barley, pour boiling water and cook for 20 minutes, drain if necessary. Finely chop the cabbage and cook with the barley for 15 minutes. Finely chop the carrots and onions and stew in oil, add to the soup and cook for another 10 minutes. At will, you can add others.

Meatball Soup

• 2 potatoes
• 1 carrot
• 1 onion
• 2 tbsp buckwheat groats
• 200 g lean meat
• 2 slices of bread

Soak bread in water, squeeze. Make minced meat from meat, mix with bread and make small balls. Pour groats, chopped potatoes, carrots and celery into boiling water. Add the meatballs and cook for another half hour.
After a light soup, it's time to eat a hearty second course, suitable for children of 7 years:

Potato casserole

• 2 tbsp milk
• 200 g of potatoes
• Vegetable oil
• 70 g lean meat or poultry
• 1 quail egg or ¼ chicken

Cook the potatoes and turn into mashed potatoes, adding milk and an egg. Boil meat or poultry, cool and make minced meat. Grease the baking dish with oil, put a part of mashed potatoes in the first layer, then minced meat and mashed potatoes again. To make a delicious golden crust, grease the top of the casserole with yolk. Bake in the oven for about half an hour at a temperature of 180 degrees.

  You can plan a child’s daily menu of 1 year already taking into account the products that adult family members eat. Gradually transferring the baby to the common table, it is necessary to thoroughly think over the balanced and nutritious nutrition of the baby. The health and development of the little one directly depends on the correct diet.

Feeding Features

The digestive system at the age of 12 months is able to assimilate new food, in the mouth there are already a number of teeth ready to chew it actively. So far, not all products can be introduced into the children's diet, but gradually there is no need to grind all the ingredients. It should be remembered that children of this age are already forming their taste preferences. They learn to choose on their own which dishes they like and which ones to refuse.

If the baby is still breastfed, do not deprive him of the nutrients found in breast milk. The feeding process provides the baby with a sense of security and close contact with a loved one. An evening serving of breast milk will help the baby fall asleep faster. Weaning from the breast should be done in stages, reducing the number of sessions to morning and evening, with a gradual complete rejection of breastfeeding.

The child’s diet at 1 year is almost unchanged. You should stick to a 4–5-time meal - every 3-4 hours. During this time, the baby will have time to get hungry. Allowed and 5-6 times feeding, taking into account attachment to the chest. Depending on the baby’s appetite, the mother will decide how many times a day to give him food. It is important not to violate the established regime for the proper functioning of the digestive system. From night feeding is gradually abandoned.

Breakfast

Morning awakening is accompanied by a gradual transfer from breast milk or infant formula to a full breakfast. Porridge remains the main product in the diet. In addition to the usual oat, buckwheat and rice porridge, you can offer corn or wheat, which are no less useful.

If necessary, milk porridge is replaced with water cooked. You can also use the vegetable broth.

The serving size of a one-year-old child is between 150 and 200 ml. 5 g of butter is put in the porridge. You can add chopped fruits to the plate, and separately cooked fruit puree is also suitable. Boiled yolk will complement the morning diet. Porridge can be replaced with steamed omelettes. For a sandwich with butter, you should choose wheat bread: products from rye flour can provoke fermentation processes in the intestine.

The diet for a 1 year old child includes up to 3 eggs per week. When calculating the norm, it should be remembered that the eggs are also present in the souffle, added to cutlets and cheesecakes. Drinks include juice or tea.

Dinner

You can start dinner with salads made from fresh or boiled vegetables and leafy greens, seasoned with sour cream or sunflower oil. Soups or broths are prepared from sirloin lean meat. For dressing soups, vegetables, cereals and pasta are used. A one-year-old child can be given mashed soup made from vegetables, cabbage soup or borsch, milk soup, as well as soup with meat or fish meatballs.

What to cook for a child for the second? You can make a meat casserole. Meatballs, meatballs or zrazy are prepared as a second course using fish or meat. Vegetable puree is suitable for garnish. Calf and chicken liver dishes will help diversify the menu. These valuable products make delicious puddings and healthy pastes. You can finish the dinner with juice, jelly, compote of fresh fruits and berries or dried fruits.

High tea

After a afternoon nap, you can eat cottage cheese with sour cream or yogurt, cottage cheese, casseroles or milk souffle. To get enough phosphorus and calcium, you need 70 g of cottage cheese per day. Children will also be happy to eat mashed potatoes made from fresh fruits, or drink juice.

Dinner

The kid’s dinner consists of vegetables with the addition of cereals or some meat. It can be pumpkin or carrot puree added to porridge, vegetable stew with meat. Berries or fruits complement the dinner. From drinks - juice or tea.

Before going to bed, crumbs are useful to drink kefir or yogurt. The daily norm of a fermented milk drink is 200 ml. A baby who is still breastfed will have enough mother’s milk.

About fish and meat

When buying fish for a baby who is one year old, you should pay attention to low-fat varieties. Fillet of pollock, cod or rasp is suitable. Boil the fish pieces, carefully select all the bones and chop. From 40 to 80 g of fish dishes per week, cooked in the form of souffles or cutlets, are enough for a baby.

Meat is required to be added to the daily diet in an amount of 60–80 g. When buying, it is recommended to choose rabbit or poultry meat. Suitable veal and lean beef. Paste or puree soup is prepared from carefully cooked meat. Stuffing will go to steam meatballs, zrazy, meatballs and casseroles. It is allowed to introduce the liver of a chicken or calf into the monthly diet, as well as the tongue and heart.

About vegetables and fruits

Salads and mashed vegetables and fruits must be present on the children's menu to provide the body with vitamins and minerals and improve the functioning of the digestive system. In seasonal time, it is preferable to use fresh produce grown in your area. Vegetables with a high fiber content should be thoroughly boiled to avoid colic in the intestines and bloating in the child.

For the preparation of vegetable salads are used:

• boiled potatoes;
• green pea;
• tomatoes
• cabbage;
• boiled beets;
• boiled pumpkin;
• raw or boiled carrots;
• braised zucchini;
• cucumbers.

Fruit salad for the baby consists of chopped apples or pears. Bananas, peaches or apricots can be cut into slices. Freshly picked berries are added to cereals, salads and fruit purees.

Pay attention to a number of tips that pediatricians give to young parents.

1. Unfamiliar components are recommended to be introduced into the diet gradually, observing the body's reaction to foods.
2. Vegetables and fruits of bright colors can cause an allergic reaction, so you should offer them to the baby with caution.
3. It is recommended to give meat dishes for lunch, so that during the day they have time to be absorbed by the body.
4. Hard cheese can be added to dishes in small volumes - for example, sprinkled with casseroles or served together with pasta.
5. The nutritional value of pasta is not very high, so in the diet of a 12-month-old baby they can appear no more than 1 or 2 times a week.
6. Dishes are recommended to be slightly salted, but if possible it is better to do without salt.
7. Sugar in the daily diet should not exceed the norm of 30-40 g, preferably replaced with fructose.
8. Of the confectionery, cookies, pastille, marmalade and jam are allowed.
9. Proper drinking regimen is necessary for the health of the child. The baby can only be given pure bottled or boiled water in the volume that he wants.
10. You can only feed your baby with freshly prepared food.

Features of nutrition for young children

When compiling a child’s menu at 1 year old, certain norms must be taken into account. To feed the little one, you need 1200–1250 ml of food daily. It is necessary to alternate meals throughout the week to provide the child’s body with the right amount of protein, fat and carbohydrates. The largest number of calories is for lunch, fewer for breakfast and dinner, and the smallest for afternoon tea.

Products are distributed so that every day at lunch the child receives about 35%, at breakfast and dinner about 25%, at midday about 15% of the total daily amount of food.

Culinary processing of dishes is carried out by stewing, baking and cooking in water or steamed. From semi-liquid dishes, the child gradually switches to pureed ones, then to shredded ones, and along the way learns to chew food with a dense consistency. To develop chewing skills, it is recommended to offer slices of fruits and vegetables. For some babies, 2 or 3 months is enough to begin to cope with such products on their own. In children who are 1 year and 6 months old, due to an increase in the number of teeth, there are more opportunities for the absorption of more coarse food.

How to make a menu?

When compiling a menu for a child of 1 year, one should focus not only on the recommendations of specialists. It is necessary to take into account the preferences of the baby himself. After morning awakening, he may be offered breast milk or a mixture. Before going to bed - any dairy product or breast milk. Servings for breakfast, lunch and dinner should be calculated taking into account morning and evening feeding.

We offer you several options for a sample menu for a one-year-old baby with recipes.

Menu No. 1

How to feed a one-year-old baby: recipes

Turkey meatballs

1. Skip 300 g of turkey fillet through a meat grinder.
2. 2 tbsp. l soak the rice in water and add to the minced meat.
3. Pour the chopped onion head.
4. Lightly salt.
5. Formed balls formed from minced meat for a couple of 20 minutes.

Cottage cheese casserole

1. Beat 2 eggs with 2 tbsp. l sugar and a bag of vanillin.
2. Mix with 2 tbsp. l semolina and 500 g of cottage cheese
3. Lubricate the baking dish with butter.
4. Pour in the curd mass and bake for half an hour at 170 degrees.

Milk pudding

1. Cook semolina from 50 g of cereal, 150 ml of milk and 150 ml of water.
2. Mix with 10 g of butter and 1 tbsp. l Sahara.
3. Drive in an egg.
4. Mix all ingredients thoroughly.
5. Grease the form with butter and sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
6. Put the dough and bake for 20 minutes at 175 degrees.

Do not rush to transfer the crumbs to a common table. It is much more useful to create an individual feeding regimen. It is important to follow all dietary recommendations so that the child grows and develops in accordance with age.

A child’s menu at 1 year should include multi-component dishes, as the body is already able to digest and absorb more complex dishes. This will be promoted by the development of teeth, and by the year they have erupted on average already 8! Also, the development of the enzyme system of the digestive tract allows both children and their mothers to switch to a more adult menu. However, one should not forget about the diversity in products, as well as in the method and form of serving food. Dishes that babies eat in one year should be tasty, healthy and interesting, prompting them to show interest in new products.

You can start feeding complementary foods from 5-6 months, the child will be happy to get acquainted with new products, and by the year his food is already quite diverse. The diet of a one-year-old child differs from the adult in the method of preparation and a certain set of permitted products. How to feed a one-year-old child, and how to make a menu for a week, every day, we will talk in this article.

Optimal menu

Undoubtedly, the diet of a one-year-old child includes the same foods that he ate before 1 year. The kids' menu includes cereals, vegetables and fruits, cottage cheese and kefir, meat, as well as fish. A child’s food from 1 year will now combine the above products, in the sample menu for the day for your little one you need to include several combinations of ready-made meals - the child’s diet is now expanding significantly.

• After a year, breast milk and mixtures are also present in the baby’s diet. However, they are gradually being replaced by another complete feeding - breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack and dinner.
• Serving volumes increase by one year, and the consistency of food is gradually approaching the “adult” version.
• After a year the child is actively growing, his chewing muscles are also actively developing, and this should be promoted by preparing food of a larger consistency, ground purees should be excluded from the diet of a one-year-old child.
• After 1 year, you can safely introduce meat into the diet of a peanut: rabbit, young beef, lean pork, chicken. It is necessary to pay attention to the quality of the meat itself and its freshness, as well as to the supplier.
• For a 1-year-old baby eating mother's milk, it is very important to keep attachments to the breast, but they become much smaller, it is also necessary to offer fermented milk products - baby kefir, cottage cheese.
• Soups on the child’s menu are not fried, and the first meat broth is necessarily drained after boiling.
• The baby's diet consists mainly of boiled, baked and stewed foods, with a low sugar content and low salt content.

List of products required in 1 year

The calorie content of the daily diet of the peanut should be at least 1300 kcal. The child’s menu at the age of 1.5 remains the same. However, the mobility and activity of the child should be taken into account: for some, fewer calories are required, while other tots require supplements. Nevertheless, the following products must be present on the menu for a one-year-old child:

• milk - 400 ml. (including mom's);
• fermented milk products - up to 200 g, of which 50 g of cottage cheese and 150 g of kefir;
• cereals - 200 g;
• meat - 60 g;
• fish - 60 g;
• bread - 10 g;
• baby cookies - 15 g;
• fruits - 110 g;
• vegetables - 200 g;
• fruit juice - 100 g;
• liver - 20 g;
• egg - 20 g.

These products make up a sample baby menu. When choosing fruits and vegetables, seasonality is especially important. As the famous doctor Komarovsky says, it is better to offer your child fruits and vegetables by season. They have more vitamins and more benefits for the growing organism.

In the daily menu for a one-year-old baby, you do not need to fit all of the above products at the same time. Fish, liver, egg are given twice a week.

Menu ration

The frequency of feeding the baby 1 year -1.5 years - 6 times a day, early morning breastfeeding or a mixture is preserved, before bedtime you can already offer kefir. The main meals on the menu of a one-year-old child for every day are breakfast, lunch (lunch), lunch, afternoon tea and dinner. Do not forget about the second dinner. A well-fed child sleeps harder at night. Next, consider the menu for a 1-year-old child.

Breakfast

Depending on what time your baby wakes up and whether you put it on your chest upon awakening, breakfast is planned. Gradually, when the first breastfeeding or a bottle with the mixture is replaced by a full breakfast, it can be cereal, diluted with cow's milk, or goat. Also, for the preparation of porridge, you can use the mixture if the child has intolerance to milk protein, lactose.

We include porridge: buckwheat and rice (they have the least allergenicity), oatmeal, corn, millet. Cook porridge in a proportion of 200 g of liquid (milk, water) and 2 tbsp. l cereals. Boil for about 15 minutes. Semolina is less useful, because in addition to refined gluten, which some children have allergies to, there is very little useful in it.

We decorate the cups with pieces of fruit, or rub them on a grater for a variety of tastes.

Twice a week, you can give a 1-year-old baby an omelet from 1 egg (chicken or 2 quail) for a couple, with the addition of milk. You can try adding fresh dill to the omelet for the beauty and good work of the tummy. It should be noted that adding fresh greens to food, we increase the vitamin content of food, and also have a beneficial effect on the digestion process.

For porridge, you can offer a weak tea or compote of fruits, dried fruits. Breadcrumbs should also be offered at breakfast. We only take into account the freshness and quality of bread. Rye and refined white should not be given. One and the second will cause bloating and gas in the baby. Let it be yesterday’s bread, not a loaf, but plain white bread.

Second breakfast (lunch)

The second feeding after breakfast cannot be neglected! Your active child will ask you to eat, and at this meal it is very good to give yogurt with fruits, or fruit puree. It is fruits that stimulate the digestive tract for eating at lunch, increase the content of gastric juice and simply increase the appetite, which many children have problems with.

In this case, a baked apple is very useful. Only you need to monitor the allergic reaction to red apples, but it is better to buy yellow and green.

You can add cookies to your lunch. But not crackers, but diet cookies like Mary. Or any children's, inedible low-fat cookies.

Often the second breakfast falls on a walk. There are two solutions: either take a jar of food with you, which is not always convenient, or use purchased fruit and yogurt-fruit purees, specially packaged in airtight packaging, which is especially important on any trips. With this option, both hands are clean and the child is interested in trying a new way of feeding. And besides, it’s so fun and tasty to eat outside!

Dinner

The time came when you returned from a walk, and it was time for lunch. You can feed a one-year-old baby in the afternoon with both soup and a combination of the first and second courses.

According to the experience of many mothers, there are recommendations for making a thicker and more substantial soup for lunch. The soup recipe will be based on your imagination and good tolerance of all colored vegetables by the child. But if we cook soup on meat broth, then naturally the first broth is drained, and the second is seasoned with meat and vegetables, cut into small cubes, which are cooked together until cooked.

When cooking vegetable soup, at the end of cooking you need to add a tablespoon of vegetable oil - it can be, like olive oil, and good quality sunflower oil. However, it should be noted that the broth on the bones of a child in 1 year can not be cooked. This leads to increased secretory production of the stomach and pancreas.

Unsweetened cereals without milk and vegetable purees, in relation to meat or fish dishes, serve as the second dish, do not forget about the liver (beef, chicken). Undoubtedly, the children's menu lacks roasts, spices and a large amount of salt.

In the summer, it is allowed to give the child a vegetable salad for lunch. If you serve it, beautifully decorating it in the form of a children's character, then such salads will not only improve the digestion of the child, but also its mood for feeding. Just try to introduce a new dish you need slowly, adding one new vegetable to the diet of a one-year-old baby and watching the body react to a new product during the day.

High tea

In one year, the baby’s snack gradually replaces feeding with breast milk or a mixture to other dairy products - milk porridge, cottage cheese with fruits, cottage cheese pancakes or cottage cheese casserole. You can also offer your child kompotik, cookies with milk.

Whole cow's milk is introduced into the diet very carefully. The reaction of children to it is individual, and if everything is normal with tolerance, then the milk is first diluted with water, in its pure form it can cause colic in the tummy.

Dinner

Arriving from the evening walk, (after 5 hours after lunch), dinner is planned. Observing the feeding and wakefulness of the child at 1 year, it should be borne in mind that dinner is not too late. A sample menu for a child for dinner most often coincides with a second lunch dish.

For dinner for the baby, you can cook vegetable stew, porridge (without milk) with meatballs or already pieces of meat or fish. Do not forget to add a drop of vegetable oil to the vegetable stew, if this stew has been cooked. So we will relieve the child of constipation, and his intestines will work like clockwork!

Second dinner

When breastfeeding before going to bed, you need to offer your mother's milk. With artificial - it will be a mixture, and even better a sour-milk mixture or a simple baby kefir. For a sick child, the number of meals can be increased by 1. Eating at bedtime should be easy, but familiar.

If your child often wakes you up at night, asks for food, then it’s time to wean him from nightly feeding, offering him either milk or vodka from a bottle, since the digestive system grows and changes to an “adult way”, which will become a guarantee of success in the future his work and the health of your baby.

Daily menu - table

The diet of a 1-year-old child is already quite diverse. Below is a table with an approximate menu of a one-year-old baby for a week, the recipes of which are quite simple to prepare. With the help of our recommendations, you can make a convenient option for your baby.

Having written what to cook for a child in 1 year, you can buy the necessary products in advance, saving yourself the time that you will be happy to devote to your baby.

• It is very important to observe a diet. Subject to this simple rule, the child will be happy to eat your food, as the body itself will demand it at a certain time.
• For a one-year-old child, a ritual of eating is very important. Let the devices, napkins, bread be beautifully laid out on the table. Let the baby help you with these items. Sit down to eat with him, if he can already eat at least something himself.
• Put the toys next to your baby and they will also take part in the meal.
• Do not exclude the product that you don’t like from food, just quietly mix it into other dishes, so you will not deprive it of the nutrients it needs.
• Your baby in 1 year can show you that he is not hungry, refusing food. Do not panic, you can either shift the feeding regimen when the baby is really hungry. Or reduce the serving size for the child. Or remove one of the feedings.
• It is worth considering that when feeding, for example, lunch, you need to serve meals one by one, so that at the end of the first dish, the little one sees the second, but not earlier, otherwise it is impossible to avoid brute force.
• Snacks with bread and cookies - they promise nothing good. Lost appetite and diet are a real headache for parents. Therefore, do not let anyone close to feed the baby between feedings.

Most importantly, keep your drinking regimen affordable. The importance of this item is emphasized by Dr. Komarovsky in his interviews. Children may not even say that they want to drink, simply forgetting to play, and then get drunk before eating, skipping lunch. Offer water continuously between feedings. But even with food, you can give your child a little drink of water or kompotika.

Within a year, a growing child already becomes a full-fledged participant in a parental meal, and a child’s nutrition after 1 year should not scare mothers with different menus, recipes and products. After all, this time is so fleeting, and our help for a baby who is preparing to step into adulthood is priceless.

Take care of your children! Feed them tasty, healthy and varied foods. And soon you will remember with special trepidation this transitional period of growing up of your child!

A few days later, the child is a year old. By the first year of life, breast milk alone is not enough for the baby. To restore the energy expended, proper metabolic processes, as well as normal growth and development, he needs to receive a sufficient amount of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, mineral salts and vitamins daily. All this is contained in various foods of plant and animal origin.

For the baby to eat with pleasure, and this is very important for the normal assimilation of food, the prepared dishes should be not only healthy, but tasty. And those that mom cooked for dinner should also be easy for digestion.

Therefore, the question often arises, what to cook for a child for dinner at 1 year old? This is what our today's conversation will be on the site “Popular about health”. We will talk about the general basics of baby food at this age and consider recipes for preparing certain dishes suitable for an evening meal.

One-year-old baby diet basics

As we have already said, for the full development, growth of the baby, maintaining good health, he needs a full, balanced diet. By the age of his life, he had already become acquainted with some “adult” foods, although dairy is still the basis of the diet.

The baby still loves to kiss his mother’s breast. However, I have already tried porridge with cow's milk, yogurt, sour cream, cottage cheese, kefir and cheese. Increasingly, they give him mashed potatoes made of vegetables, fruits, lean meat, light soups and other dishes.

The main meal is for breakfast and lunch. Snack is usually a light snack. Dinner should be light, but at the same time, hearty. In this evening meal should be no later than 1 hour before bedtime.

A few words about salt

If the norm for an adult is 5 g of salt per day, 1 g is enough for a baby. Therefore, when preparing dishes, only slightly add them.

Bad sweets

In general, sugar in children's diets is absolutely not healthy. You should not accustom him to sweets from such an early age. Compotes, juices, jelly are better to cook without this product at all.

But, if you think differently, the permissible sugar norm for a child at 1 year is 30 g. Well, in general, many experts recommend replacing harmful refined fruit with fructose.

What to cook in 1 year for dinner?

For dinner, it is better to cook dishes from cereals, vegetables and lean meat (beef, chicken, rabbit). It is best to combine these products, for example: oatmeal with pumpkin pulp, stewed vegetables with mashed meat, zucchini souffle with chicken, etc.

After the main course, a serving of fruit puree or juice follows. Just remember that for a day, the baby should receive no more than 100 g of mashed potatoes and 100 ml of juice.

Recipes:

Mashed Potato with Chicken

For cooking you will need: 100 g chicken breast, 2 potatoes, a quarter cup of milk, salt.

Cooking:

Cook the meat until cooked. It should be very soft. Remove from pan, and when cool, add some hot milk and grind with a blender.

Cook the potatoes in salted water, drain the broth. Add hot boiled milk and cook not thick mashed potatoes. Add the chicken, mix well.

Souffle from vegetables

We will need: 1 potato, 100 g of pumpkin pulp, the same amount of zucchini, half a carrot, a raw egg. Still need: a little sour cream, a sprig of dill, salt.

Cooking:

Wash the vegetables thoroughly, peel, cut into small cubes. Boil potatoes, carrots until half cooked. Add chopped pumpkin and zucchini, cook over very low heat until tender, about 15 minutes. Remove from the stove.

When the vegetables have cooled, remove the slotted spoon, put in a blender bowl. Add the egg, finely chopped dill, salt and chop.
Arrange the mixture in oiled tins, for example, for muffins.

Bake at 180C until cooked (about 20 minutes). Grease finished products with sour cream.

Chicken fillet

For the recipe you need products: 50 g of fresh fillet, a slice of a white loaf, a third of a glass of milk, raw yolk of a chicken egg, salt.

Cooking:

Roll the fillet through a meat grinder along with a slice of loaf. Put in a bowl. Add milk, yolk, salt, knead well. Form cutlets, steam them. Cooking time is approximately 45 minutes. Grind with a fork, serve with vegetable puree, for example, from zucchini.

Zucchini puree

We need: 50 g of peeled young zucchini, half a glass of milk, salt.

Cooking:

Boil zucchini until soft. When cool, grind with a blender. Add boiled hot milk, add salt, whisk with a mixer.

Before bedtime

If the baby is still receiving breast milk, you can again breast-feed him before bedtime. If he is an artificer, or already weaned from the chest, it is useful to give him a portion of baby kefir.

In conclusion, it must be recalled that the volume of consumed products at this age is 1000 - 1200 g per day, excluding the liquid consumed.

A child from a year to a year and a half should receive food from 4 to 5 times a day. Required intervals between feedings, which are 3-4 hours.
If you follow these rules, the baby develops a conditioned reflex and he will eat with hunting and appetite.

A three-year-old child has almost completely switched to adult food, but there are still some restrictions in his diet. Let's look at how to feed babies at this age, how to cook food and how to build an optimal diet that covers all the needs of the child.

The principles of good nutrition

The opinion that it is only necessary to follow the child’s nutrition until the age of 3, and then the baby can be allowed to eat anything, is erroneous. Good nutrition is important for children who have crossed the three-year milestone, no less than for children 1-2 years old. It provides for such nuances:

• All foods for a child of three years can be divided into consumed daily and consumed occasionally. The foods that crumbs need every day include fruits, butter, bread, meat, vegetables, sugar and milk. It is not necessary to give cottage cheese, fish, cheese and eggs daily - dishes from these products are prepared 1-3 times a week, while spending the entire weekly rate of the product.
• The distribution of calories during the day for a three-year-old child will be as follows: 25% for breakfast, 35-40% for lunch, 10-15% for afternoon tea and 25% for dinner.
• In relation to macronutrients, special attention should be paid to the intake of animal proteins (they should be at least 2/3 of the total amount of proteins in the diet) and vegetable fats (they should be at least 15% of the total amount of fat).
• As for carbohydrates, the diet of a 3-year-old child should have at least 3% fiber and pectin substances that the baby receives from fruits and vegetables.
• Seasonings and spices in dishes for a three-year-old child are added in small quantities. Acceptable is the rare use of canned and dried foods.

   If a child goes to kindergarten, consider the menu when developing a diet

3 year old baby needs

Three-year-old children move a lot, grow actively and need high-quality sources of both energy and plastic material. After 3 years, a child needs about 1500-1800 kcal per day. The amount of protein and fat in the daily diet of a three-year-old baby should be approximately the same, and carbohydrates should be 4 times more than any of these nutrients.

For specific products, the needs of a three-year-old are as follows:

• A variety of vegetables a child should consume up to 500 g per day, and potatoes should be no more than 1/2 of this amount.
• Fresh fruit is recommended to consume 150-200 g per day.
• Vegetable or fruit juice should be drunk in a volume of 150-200 ml per day.
• Cereals, pasta and legumes give a three-year-old child up to 50 g per day. Cereal begins to cook not viscous, but friable.
• The maximum amount of sugar and confectionery that contains it (marmalade, marshmallows, marshmallows, jam) in the diet of a 3-year-old baby is 50-60 g. At 3 years of age, it is already permissible to start giving chocolate.
• The child should eat bread of different grades in an amount of 150-170 g per day (at least 50-60 g are recommended for rye bread).
• The child can eat meat up to 90 g per day, fish - up to 50 g.
• A three-year-old child uses eggs every other day for 1 piece or daily for 1/2.
• Dairy products (among them - milk, kefir, yogurt, fermented baked milk and others) should be received per day up to 500 g.
• On the child’s menu, there can be mild hard cheese (it can also be processed) in an amount of up to 15 g per day.
• Cottage cheese is limited to 50 g per day.
• Vegetable oil is added to various dishes for the child in the amount of 6 g per day.
• Animal fats in a children's diet can be represented by butter (it is advised to use up to 17 g per day, adding to porridge and bread) and sour cream (add to different dishes up to 15 g daily).
• Margarine can only be used in the preparation of homemade muffins.
• Flour products are limited to 100 g per day.

   You must adhere to the principles of nutrition without fanaticism, consider the wishes of your child

What kind of drinks can I give?

Kids of this age are given fresh juice, a compote of fresh, dry and frozen fruits, special juice for children, drinking water, a rosehip broth, kissel, coffee substitute, tea. At the same time, tea for a three-year-old child is made weak and preferably with milk. Cocoa is boiled once or twice a week for children of this age.

What can not be included in the diet?

Three-year-olds are not given:

• Smoked meats.
• Products with artificial colors, preservatives and other additives.
• Fatty meats.
• Spicy dishes.
• Mushrooms.

Diet

Accustoming a child to a particular diet helps improve digestion, as his digestive tract will produce digestive juices for the next meal. Hot food should be given to the child three times a day. A total of 4 meals is provided at the age of three, and breaks between them should be about 4 hours (the maximum allowable break is 6 hours). It is recommended daily to give the baby food at the same time, deviating a maximum of 15-30 minutes. In between meals, do not let the child snack on sweets.

   The diet depends on the temperament of the baby, but at the age of 3 try to correct it and bring it to generally accepted standards

What are the best ways to cook?

Starting from the age of three, it is permissible for a child to give fried food, but preference should be given to the previously used methods of processing products - cooking, stewing, baking. Unlike cooking for adults, preschoolers cook meat longer (up to two hours), and fish less (up to 20 minutes).

Long-term processing of vegetables worsens their mineral and vitamin composition, so cook potatoes, carrots, and also cabbage no longer than 25 minutes, and beets - 1 hour.

How to make a menu for a three year old child?

• In the diet of a child of three years, the range of dishes is already quite large. Stew, stuffed and fried vegetables, various fish dishes, puddings, casserole dishes are prepared for children. Dishes from legumes and meat are given in the morning because of their long digestion.
• The volume of one meal for a 3-year-old child increases to 350-400 ml, and the total daily amount of food - up to 1500 g.
• For breakfast, the child is given a main dish (porridge, noodles, egg or cottage cheese dishes) in an amount of 250 g. A baby sandwich and a drink of 150 ml are offered to him.
• Lunch begins with an appetizer, which is most often a vegetable salad and weighs about 50 g. The first dishes give a volume of 200-250 ml. For the second offer a meat dish weighing 70-90 g (twice a week replaced with fish) and 110-130 g side dish. Also, the child’s lunch should include bread (up to 80 g) and a drink (juice, compote, jelly) 150 ml.
• For a mid-morning snack, a three-year-old child is offered kefir or yogurt in a volume of 200 ml, to which they give cookies (25 g) or homemade cakes.
• Dinner includes a main dish weighing 200 g, a drink with a volume of 150 ml and bread up to 40 g. Milk and vegetable dishes are considered optimal food for dinner, as they are easily digested.
• When compiling the menu, you need to make sure that one day the same dish is not repeated in different meals. For example, if there was cereal on the side dish for lunch, then it is better to make dinner out of vegetables.
• In the cold season, you can offer the child more cereal and bread, and in the hot season - more fruit dishes and vegetables.

   At this age, habits are formed that form taste preferences for a lifetime

Weekly Menu Example

A three-year-old child can eat something like this:

Examples of healthy recipes

Radish and Egg Salad

Wash and peel 50 g of radish, cut into thin slices. Cut half the hard-boiled eggs, combine with radish, add 10 g of sour cream and a little salt. Sprinkle dill with fresh herbs.

Meatloaf stuffed with carrots and rice

Sort and rinse 10 g of rice, boil until cooked. Peel 50 g of carrots, grate and stew together with 5 g of finely chopped onions until half cooked. Combine rice, onions, carrots and half hard-boiled and diced chicken eggs. Take 100 g of minced meat, put it on a cutting board moistened with water. Putting the rice and carrot filling inside, with wet hands, blind the roll, turn it upside down and bake in the oven for about 40 minutes. Shortly before the end of cooking, grease the roll 10 g sour cream.

Fish and Potato Soup

Stew finely chopped onions (10 g), parsley root (5 g) and carrots (10 g) in butter (5 g). Bring 250 ml of fish stock to a boil, put vegetables in it, add diced potato (100 g) and cook for 20 minutes. Serving soup on the table, put in a plate 70 g of boiled fish and sprinkle it with chopped dill.

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Vegetable stewed liver

Peel the films and cut into 100 g liver pieces. Wash and chop 20 g cabbage, 20 g carrots and 10 g onions. Put the sliced \u200b\u200bliver in the baking dish, and on top - vegetables, salt, pour milk and put in the oven for 30 minutes.

Heart beatings

Pass through a meat grinder 70 g of heart, add 5 g of semolina, 30 ml of water and mix. Make meatballs from the resulting minced meat, roll them in flour and fry a little, then bring to readiness in the oven.

Squid stewed with vegetables

Cut 100 g of white cabbage, 10 g of onions and 10 g of carrots. Sauté the vegetables over low heat under a lid for 30 minutes, add 10 g of tomato paste and 50 g of squid sliced \u200b\u200binto cubes. Stew the dish for another 10 minutes.

Cabbage Casserole

Cut 100 g of cabbage, pour 40 ml of milk and simmer until soft. Pour 10 g of semolina into the cabbage and simmer, simmer for another 10 minutes. Add one hard-boiled quail egg to the resulting cabbage mass, which must be finely chopped. After placing the mass in a greased baking dish, grease 15 g of sour cream on top. Bake until cooked, serve with sour cream.

Cottage cheese and noodle casserole

Boil and strain 50 g of noodles, combine with 50 g of cottage cheese, add a teaspoon of sugar and a raw chicken egg (half) whipped with milk (40 ml). Put cottage cheese with noodles in a baking dish, grease with sour cream on top and bake until cooked.

Cocoa

Mix 3 g of cocoa powder and 16 g of sugar, pour into a saucepan, where 100 ml of milk and 100 ml of water are combined and heated to boiling. Bring to a boil again.

Possible problems

The most common problem associated with the nutrition of a child of three years is poor appetite. It is usually caused by frequent snacking and parental indulgence of the child’s whims regarding different foods. However, a decreased appetite may also indicate a disease, for example, bowel disease, nervous stress or helminthic invasion.

   So that the child has a good appetite, play active games with him and do not indulge the kid's whims. Healthy hungry baby will eat!

If the child’s appetite is reduced, the first should be offered him a more nutritious dish (this is especially true for lunch, when eating meat and side dishes is more important than soup). To improve digestion and increase appetite, cook for crumbs in a variety of ways. You do not need to introduce many products into his diet, just expand the possible range of dishes from those products that the child does not refuse. For example, if a child eats beef cutlets, offer him soufflé, goulash, roll, casserole with vegetables. You can also increase appetite by using different sauces.

Also consider that there are situations when the child will not want to eat and will be healthy:

• Immediately after sleep.
• With negative emotions.
• At high temperature indoors.

A child who goes to kindergarten at home should be given fruits, vegetables and protein dishes from cottage cheese, meat and fish to supplement the nutrition received by the toddler in the garden.

   Include fruits and freshly squeezed juices in your baby’s diet

Consider the following nuances:

• From the age of 3, the child can begin to master the fork. Offer your baby a small fork with sharp teeth. Show your child how to prick pieces of food with this cutlery and how to pick up friable food.
• Do not sit at the table of a child who has just returned from a walk or who has played an outdoor game. Let the baby calm down a bit and only then start the meal.
• Accustom your child to hygiene, reminding you to wash your hands constantly before eating. You should also accustom the kid to the etiquette of behavior at the table. The best way to do this is to set your own example.
• Do not distract the child with food. Remember that a 3-year-old baby cannot eat and talk at the same time.
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