Chapter:
Baby food
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Dishes for children
aged 3 to 7 years

GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS:
It is difficult to overestimate the impact of nutrition on the well-being and health of children and adults - especially in modern conditions of massive use in industrially prepared food of quite toxic, and often simply harmful, prohibited dietary supplements, flavoring and coloring substances - see.

- The basis of human nutrition - meat, fish, dairy and vegetables and fruits are very different, buckwheat is needed from cereals. Vegetarianism, fasting for pregnant women, lactating women and children is unacceptable. Any canned food is not recommended. - Prepare your own food from raw ingredients purchased raw. Buy meat and fish only in pieces (but not). - When preparing children's dishes (up to 8-10 years old), hot spices are not added. - Replace sugar (an effective immunosuppressant) with fructose, glucose, sweet fruits, honey. - Eliminate (a source of toxic trans fats) using butter and vegetable oils - preferably olive and sunflower (refined and unrefined). - Do not eat surrogate industrial mayonnaise - cook only yourself.

Salads and appetizers

Carrot and raisin salad on crackers

Grate 200 g carrots and 50 g cheese. Scroll walnuts and raisins in a meat grinder. Mix everything. Top with sour cream or mayonnaise.
Spread a thick layer on crackers and place on a plate.

Cucumber, Tomato and Egg Salad

Ingredients :
2 tomatoes, 1 cucumber, 1 egg, 1/2 tbsp. tablespoons chopped green onions, salt, 1-2 tbsp. spoons of sour cream.

Cooking

Washed cucumbers and tomatoes, hard-boiled and peeled eggs cut into circles and put on a plate "scales" (alternately cucumbers, eggs and tomatoes).
Salt, pour sour cream, and sprinkle with chopped green onions on top.

Salad "Freshness"

Ingredients :
1 carrot, 1 cucumber, 1 apple, a piece of sweet pepper, 2-3 lettuce leaves, 1-2 tbsp. spoons of sour cream, 1 teaspoon of lemon juice, tarragon or mint greens.

Cooking

Cut all the ingredients into thin strips, salt, add lemon juice, tarragon and mint, season with sour cream and mix.

sauerkraut salad

Ingredients :
100 g sauerkraut, a few green onions, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of soaked lingonberries, 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil.

Cooking

Squeeze the shredded sauerkraut, and if it is too sour, then rinse with chilled boiled water, put it on a sieve and let the water drain.
Put the cabbage in a salad bowl, season with vegetable oil, sprinkle with chopped green onions and soaked lingonberries.
Cabbage salad can be served as a side dish to a meat or fish dish.

Beets with prunes

Ingredients :
1 boiled beet, 100 g prunes, yogurt or sour cream, salt to taste.

Cooking

Grate beets on a coarse grater, add pre-soaked and chopped prunes, yogurt or sour cream and mix.

Sweet Pepper and Tomato Salad

Ingredients :
1 bell pepper, 2 tomatoes, 1 small onion, 1/2 teaspoon salt solution, 1 teaspoon vegetable oil, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of grated cheese.

Cooking

Sweet pepper bake, peel and seeds, cut into small pieces. Add chopped tomatoes and onion, cut into very thin circles, pour in the salt solution and vegetable oil and mix very gently.
Sprinkle with finely chopped parsley and grated cheese.

Soups and broths

Borsch

Ingredients :
1 medium beet, 2 potatoes, 1 small carrot and a piece of swede of the same size, 1/2 sweet pepper, 1 teaspoon vegetable oil, 1/2 tomato or 1 tbsp. spoon of tomato juice, 1/2 onion, 1 teaspoon of wheat flour, 1/2 egg yolk, 400 g of water, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of sour cream, salt and sugar to taste.

Cooking

Wash all vegetables well. Wash the beets and boil them for a couple or bake. Peel potatoes and turnips, cut into cubes, pour a glass of boiling water and boil.
Chop onions, carrots and sweet peppers, simmer with oil and a little water and add to potatoes and rutabagas.
Peel the boiled beets, cut into small cubes and add to the vegetables. When the vegetables become soft, pour in another glass of hot water and season the soup with flour mixed with sour cream, pour in the salt solution and boil for another 5 minutes.
Grind the raw yolk with sour cream and pour into the finished borscht, stirring all the time.
Serve with croutons made from wheat bread.

Milk soup with rice

Ingredients :
1 st. a spoonful of rice, 1 glass of water, 1 glass of milk, a piece of butter the size of a hazelnut, a little salt, sugar if desired.

Cooking

Sort the rice, rinse several times in cold water until the water becomes clear, pour into boiling water and cook until it becomes soft.
Then pour in raw milk and salt solution and cook for another 2-3 minutes.
Put a piece of butter in a bowl of soup. Serve wheat flakes with soup.

Green bean soup

Ingredients :
40 g green beans, 1/2 onion, hazelnut-sized piece of butter, 1/2 teaspoon flour, 1 teaspoon rice, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of milk, 1/4 egg, a few leaves of parsley and mint.

Cooking

Wash the beans and onions, peeled from the stalks, finely chop and boil in hot salted water until tender. Sort the rice, rinse several times in cold water, add to the soup and cook for another 15-20 minutes.
Mix the egg, flour and milk, add to the soup and cook for another 2-3 minutes.
Put butter in a bowl of soup and sprinkle with finely chopped parsley and mint.

cabbage soup

Ingredients :
3 leaves of white cabbage, 2 potatoes, 1 small carrot and the same piece of celery, 1/2 onion, 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil, 1/2 tomato or 1 spoon of tomato juice, 400 g of water, 1/2 teaspoon of salt solution.

Cooking

Peel potatoes and celery, cut into cubes, put in a pot of boiling water.
Chopped onions and thinly sliced ​​carrots, simmer with vegetable oil and a little water and add to vegetables.
Wash the cabbage, cut into small squares, put in a saucepan with vegetables and cook until tender. Pour the salt solution into the prepared cabbage soup and bring to a boil. Put sour cream in a bowl with cabbage soup.

Shchi with apples

Ingredients :
100 g of white cabbage, 2 potatoes, 1 small carrot and the same piece of celery, 1/2 onion, a piece of turnip or swede, a few parsley leaves, 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil, 1/2 tomato or 1 tbsp. spoon of tomato juice, 1/2 apple, 400 g of water, salt to taste.

Cooking

Peel potatoes, celery, turnips or turnips, cut into cubes, put in a pot of boiling water. Sauté chopped onion and thinly sliced ​​carrots with vegetable oil and a little water, put chopped tomato or tomato juice, bring to a boil and add to vegetables.
Wash the cabbage, cut into small squares, put in a saucepan with vegetables and cook until tender.
Add raw chopped apples to the ready-made cabbage soup, pour in the salt solution and boil.
Put sour cream and finely chopped parsley in a plate with cabbage soup.

Main meat and fish dishes

Cabbage rolls with meat

Ingredients :
2-3 cabbage leaves, 60 g beef or veal, 2 teaspoons rice, 1/2 small onion, 1/2 small carrot, 1 teaspoon vegetable or melted butter, 1/4 egg, 1/2 tomato, a few parsley leaves and dill.
For the sauce: 1/2 small onion and 1/2 tomato.

Cooking

Stew finely chopped onions and grated carrots with butter and a little flour over low heat. Rinse the rice well in cold water, boil until half cooked, add to the onions and carrots and simmer all together for another 4-5 minutes. Add minced meat, finely chopped tomatoes, parsley and dill, salt and mix well.
Scald cabbage leaves with boiling water for 2-5 minutes until soft. Put a little minced meat in each sheet and wrap the cabbage rolls. Put them not very tightly in a shallow pan, pour hot water so that it completely covers the cabbage rolls, and simmer over low heat.
At the end, you can add 1 tablespoon of tomato sauce or sour cream and boil the cabbage rolls a little more with the sauce.
For tomato sauce, stew a little finely chopped onion, then add the mashed tomato and stew a little more.
You can also cook pepper stuffed with meat, taking 2-3 pods of sweet bell pepper instead of cabbage.

Boiled meat with stewed potatoes

Ingredients :
Boiled meat, potatoes, onions, 1 bay leaf, a few peppercorns, 1 teaspoon butter, 1/2 cup sour cream, 1 teaspoon flour, salt to taste.

Cooking

If there is boiled meat left from dinner, then you can cook a very tasty dish. Peel raw potatoes, cut not very finely and put in a saucepan. Sprinkle with chopped raw onions, finely chopped meat on top, then put a layer of potatoes again, then onions and meat, etc.
Pour the contents of the pan with water or broth, put oil, bay leaf, a few peppercorns and salt to taste and simmer under the lid.
When the potatoes are almost ready, add sour cream mixed with flour and simmer a little more.

Meatballs in tomato sauce

Ingredients :
100 g of beef, 1 slice of white bread, or 1 teaspoon of rice cooked until half cooked, or 1 teaspoon of semolina, 1/4 egg, 1/2 small onion, 1 teaspoon of flour, a few leaves of parsley or thyme.
For sauce: 1 teaspoon flour, hazelnut-sized piece of melted butter or 1 teaspoon vegetable oil, 1/2 small onion, 1/2 small carrot and a similar piece of celery, 1 tomato or 2 tbsp. spoons of tomato juice.

Cooking

Prepare minced meat from minced meat, bread soaked in water (you can put rice or semolina instead of bread), beaten egg and finely chopped onion and parsley. From the mixture, make meatballs the size of a walnut, dip in boiling salted water and cook until tender.
For the sauce, grated carrots, celery and finely chopped onions stew with oil and a little water over low heat until softened, add finely chopped tomato or tomato juice. Let the tomatoes boil, add a little hot water, salt and put the meatballs into the boiling sauce.
Before removing from heat, add toasted flour diluted with cold water to the sauce with meatballs.
Sprinkle the finished dish with finely chopped parsley and thyme.

Forshmak from boiled beef

Ingredients :
200 g boiled meat, 1 slice of white bread, 1/2 cup milk, 1/2 cup mashed boiled potatoes, 20 g butter, 1-2 eggs, 1/2 onion, 2 tbsp. spoons of sour cream, grated cheese, crackers for sprinkling, pepper and salt to taste.

Cooking

Pass the boiled meat through a meat grinder and fry in oil with onions. Pass white bread soaked in milk and boiled potatoes through a meat grinder, combine everything with meat.
Add ground pepper, salt, chopped greens, sour cream mixed with yolks to the resulting mass, mix and combine with whipped proteins.
Put in a greased and breaded pan, sprinkle with cheese on top, drizzle with melted butter and bake in the oven.

Meatballs from the liver

Ingredients :
700 g fresh liver, 2 slices of stale white bread, 1 coffee cup of milk, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of vegetable oil, 1 egg yolk, 1/2 small onion, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of flour

Cooking

Soak bread in warm water, add stewed onions, ground liver and egg yolks. Mix everything well.
Take the cooked minced meat with a teaspoon, form round meatballs, roll them in flour and dip them in boiling salted water.
Boil for 12-15 minutes

Chicken buns

Ingredients :
50 g butter 2/3 cup flour, 2 eggs, 50 g cheese.
For the filling: 1.5 cups of boiled chicken meat, 2 tbsp chopped walnuts, 1 onion, 5 pieces of dried apricots, 2/3 cups of mayonnaise or sour cream (or a mixture thereof), a pinch of salt and pepper.

Cooking

Pour 0.5 cups of water into the pan, add oil. Heat the mixture to a boil.
Pour all the flour into the pan through a sieve. Stir and remove from heat. You should get a dough that will well move away from the sides of the pan.
Add grated cheese, put to cool for 10-15 minutes in the refrigerator.
Gradually add eggs to the dough, mix thoroughly until a homogeneous shiny mass is obtained.
Place the dough in a pastry syringe and squeeze 20 small buns onto a greased baking sheet. You can spread the dough with a spoon.
Bake the buns for 10 minutes over high heat (220), then lower the heat and bake for another 15 minutes until they are golden and crispy.
Take out and make an incision in each.
For the filling, mix the diced chicken meat, walnuts, finely chopped and fried onions, dried apricots and sour cream. Salt, pepper.
Fill the buns with the filling using a spoon.

Dishes from cottage cheese and eggs

Curd pudding with raisins

Ingredients :
200 g cottage cheese, 1 egg, 1 tbsp. spoon of granulated sugar, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of semolina or flour, 1 tbsp. spoon of raisins, 1 teaspoon of butter, breadcrumbs, 1 teaspoon of sour cream, salt.

Cooking

Introduce the yolk, mashed with sugar, semolina or flour, salt to taste, raisins washed in warm water into the cottage cheese, and mix everything well. Then add the whites whipped into a thick foam, mix gently and put in a mold, greased with butter and sprinkled with breadcrumbs.
Brush the surface of the pudding with sour cream. Bake the pudding in the oven or boil in a water bath for 20-30 minutes.
Serve pudding with sour cream, jam or sweet sauce.

Cereal and pasta dishes

Milk porridge croutons

Ingredients :
50 g of cereals, 100 ml of milk, water, 10 g of butter, cheese, 1/2 egg, 5 g of salt solution.

Cooking

Boil thick milk porridge and cool it a little. Then mix thoroughly with raw yolk, put in a 1 cm layer on a dish or baking sheet moistened with water, and put in a cold place for 1 hour.
Cut circles or thin slices from the cooled porridge with a glass, place in a pan greased with oil, sprinkle with grated cheese, pour over with oil and bake in the oven.
Milk porridge croutons can not be sprinkled with cheese, but moistened with egg white, rolled in sifted breadcrumbs and fried in a pan with butter or cooked croutons with flour, cut into slices, roll in flour and fry.
Serve with milk.

Rice casserole with carrots

Ingredients :
20 g of rice, 30 g of carrots, 10 g of oil, salt solution, 25 g of sugar syrup, 1/3 of an egg, 50 ml of milk, apples or raisins.

Cooking

Boil the rice in salted water and drain in a colander. Put the boiled rice in a bowl, add the yolk mixed with soft butter (5 g), sugar syrup (1 tsp), and then with egg white whipped into a thick foam and stewed carrots.
Put half of the seasoned rice in a mold greased with oil, put peeled, sliced ​​apples on top and pour over the remaining sugar syrup.
Cover with the rest of the rice, smooth the surface, drizzle with oil and bake in the oven.
Instead of apples, you can put mashed apples or plums, raisins in the casserole.
Serve with fruit syrup or sour cream.

Meatballs from semolina with cottage cheese

Ingredients :
30 g semolina, 70 g cottage cheese, 1/4 egg, 10 g sugar, 5 g butter.

Cooking

Boil thick semolina porridge, cool, combine with grated cottage cheese, egg, sugar, mix thoroughly, form meatballs. Fry on both sides until golden brown

Rice in molds

Ingredients :
100 g rice, 300 ml milk, 400 ml water, 20 g oil, 2 egg yolks, 15 g salt solution, 100 g sauce or puree.

Cooking

Pour the sorted and washed rice into a pot of hot water and cook at a low boil for 10 minutes, then drain all the water, pour hot milk (250 ml) over the rice, add oil and salt solution. Cook until the rice is soft and absorbs all the milk. After that, remove the porridge from the heat, cool slightly, pour in the egg yolks, beaten with the rest of the milk, and stir.
Grease several molds with oil, fill with rice porridge and put them in a bowl of hot water so that the water reaches only half the height of the molds. Boil at a low boil of water, covering the dishes with a lid.
Put the finished rice out of the molds on a dish and serve with any sauce.
Food consumption is given for 2 servings.

Rice roll with vegetables

Ingredients :
2 tbsp. l. rice, 1/3 cup milk and water, 1/4 eggs and carrots, 1/2 cabbage leaf, 2-3 pieces of pumpkin or zucchini, 1/2 tsp. oils, 1 tsp. sour cream.

Cooking

Stew grated carrots with milk (1.5 tablespoons) for 5 minutes, add finely chopped cabbage to it, after another 5 minutes - pieces of pumpkin (zucchini). Simmer everything together for another five minutes. Add oil and cool slightly.
Boil a viscous porridge, cool, mix with part of the egg and put on wet gauze in an even layer. Put vegetables on the rice and roll it up.
Transfer to a frying pan, free from gauze, brush with egg on top and bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes.
Pour the finished roll with sour cream.

vegetable dishes

Pumpkin stewed with grits

Ingredients :
100 g of pumpkin, 20 g of cereals, a piece of butter, 50 g of milk, 60 g of water, 1 teaspoon of sugar, salt to taste.

Cooking

Rinse the pumpkin, remove the skin and seeds, cut into cubes, pour boiling water over it, add sugar and simmer in a sealed container for 1/2 hour. After that, add cereal (semolina, millet, rice or wheat), pour hot milk and continue to simmer for another 30-40 minutes.
Add butter, salt to the finished pumpkin and bring to a boil.

Dishes from fruits and berries

apples in dough

Ingredients :
200 g flour, 140 g butter, 70 g sugar, 1 egg, medium-sized apples, sour jam.

Cooking

From flour, butter, sugar, yolk and salt, knead the dough, leave it for an hour. Select the apples, wash them well, peel them, remove the core and fill with jam. Roll out the dough to a thickness of 2-3 mm and cut it into squares.
Wrap each apple in a square of dough, pinch the ends at the top. Brush with egg white, sprinkle with sugar, put on a baking sheet and put in the oven.
Bake over moderate heat until done. Serve warm.

The drinks

Kissel cranberry

Ingredients :
200 g cranberries, 6 tbsp. spoons of sugar, 4 tbsp. spoons of starch.

Cooking

Sort the cranberries, pour over with boiling water, squeeze the juice. Pour the pulp with hot water (it should be 4-5 times more than the pulp), bring to a boil, strain.
Cool part of the broth and dilute the starch in it.
Put sugar into the remaining broth, bring to a boil, pour in the diluted starch, squeezed juice and bring to a boil again, then stir and cool.

Prunes compote

Ingredients :
50 g prunes, 4 teaspoons of sugar, 1 glass of water.

Cooking

Wash the prunes well, pour warm water over them and leave for 2-3 hours in a sealed container. Then put on fire, add sugar and cook until softened.

Sauces

white sauce

Ingredients :
100 ml meat or fish broth, 5 g flour, 10 g oil, 1/4 lemon, 2 g salt solution.

Cooking

Boil a strong meat or fish broth. Cool 1/5 of the broth slightly, add the sifted wheat flour into it and stir until a homogeneous consistency.
Heat the rest of the broth to a boil, pour the diluted flour into it, stir and cook at a low boil for 15 minutes. Add salt solution, then boil the sauce.
Place small pieces of butter into the hot sauce, pour in the lemon juice and stir until the butter is completely melted.
If the sauce is not served immediately, it must be kept in a bowl of hot water.

Mushroom sauce with onions

Ingredients :
10 g of dried mushrooms or 100 g of fresh mushrooms, 30 g of onion, 3 g of flour, 20 g of tomato puree, 10 g of melted or vegetable oil, 100 ml of water, 2 g of salt solution.

Cooking

Rinse dried porcini mushrooms thoroughly, soak in cold water and after 3-4 hours boil in the same water in a sealed container. Remove the cooked mushrooms from the broth and chop finely. Finely chop the onion, fry in butter, add the tomato puree, prepared mushrooms and stir fry over low heat for 8-10 minutes. Then pour in hot mushroom broth, let it boil, add flour mixed with butter, and boil the sauce at a low boil for 10-12 minutes. Season the finished sauce with a salt solution.
You can add to the sauce 1 tbsp. l. sour cream.
If the sauce is prepared from fresh mushrooms, the mushrooms must be cleaned, washed and finely chopped with a knife. Lightly fry the finely chopped onion in a frying pan with oil, put the mushrooms and continue to fry until tender. Then add salt solution, tomato puree and boil. After that, add flour mixed with butter, and bring to a boil again.
In fresh mushroom sauce, you can also add 1 tbsp. l. sour cream. Serve with rice and potato cutlets.
This sauce can be poured over slices of boiled or fried meat, fish fillets, and then baked in the oven.

Tomato sauce with vegetables

Ingredients :
10 g of carrots, onions, parsley, oil; 15 g tomato puree, 2 g flour, 100 ml meat or water broth, 2 g sugar syrup, 1 g salt solution.

Cooking

Finely chop the peeled onions, parsley and carrots, lightly fry in a saucepan with oil, add tomato puree and continue frying, stirring, for another 10-12 minutes. Then pour in the meat broth or water and cook at a low boil, covering the pan with a lid, until the vegetables are soft.
Put butter mixed with flour into the sauce, stir, season with salt solution and sugar syrup and boil.
Serve with fried or boiled meat, cutlets, fish. This sauce can be poured over boiled pasta.

Proper nutrition is one of the most important components of a child's health. The body's resistance to diseases also depends on how competently it is organized. For kids of different ages, approaches to diet planning and food selection will differ significantly.

Important attention must be paid to the child's dinner. This meal plays a big role:

In saturating the body with a sufficient amount of useful energy (to have enough before breakfast);
In enrichment with essential minerals, vitamins and energy sources;
In preparing the child's body for sleep. The food that the child takes during dinner should not overload the body (gastrointestinal tract) during sleep. The thing is that at night, the peristalsis of the stomach and intestines slows down significantly, and the activity of enzymes that digest food also noticeably decreases. Therefore, if dinner is too rich, there is a high probability that undigested food residues will linger in the stomach and lead to disturbances in its work.

Given all the requirements, every mother should clearly understand which products are important to use for feeding the baby in the evening, and which ones should be avoided so as not to harm the health of the little person.

Babies in their second year of life: expanding the diet:

Closer to 1.5 years, the choice of dishes that can be given to a child increases significantly. As a rule, the baby eats at the common table.

This important period of development has the following features:

The ability to digest food is significantly increased, the work of the gastrointestinal tract is normalized;
The activity of enzymes involved in the digestion of various products (but not all) is enhanced;
The microflora in the intestine stabilizes, which allows you to expand the baby's menu;
The child begins to distinguish the taste and smell of foods;
Taste preferences and preferences appear;

Despite the increased activity of the digestive system, it is still weak. Therefore, when organizing a dinner for a child from 1 to 2 years old, the following rules should be followed:

Feed your baby in the evening no later than 1.5 hours before bedtime (no later than 21-00). It is necessary to give time for the processing of the food bolus so that there is no heaviness during sleep;

Important! If the child is overweight - feed him no later than 2-2.5 hours before bedtime!

Do not give energy foods, such as sweets, flour products, before bedtime. They will saturate with "fast" energy, thereby giving energy before going to bed. And this baby does not need;
Fatty, fried, smoked food for children at this age is taboo, and even more so as a dinner;
Steam or boil food for dinner. Alternatively, bake in the oven (not the microwave);
Do not give your child fatty meats (pork, beef, lamb);
For dinner, give preference to easily digestible foods that do not stay long in the gastrointestinal tract and are quickly digested (cereals, vegetables, fruits, dairy products, lean meats);
The form of the dish, which should be preferred - mashed potatoes!
Give preference to salty dishes, not sweet ones (they disturb the baby’s sleep);
Do not force your child to eat the entire portion. He himself knows how much he needs to eat;
Do not impose too large portions at dinner. Overeating is very dangerous for a child's health;
Teach yourself to eat with a spoon. This is a painstaking and lengthy process. The sooner you start, the more likely you are to succeed;
Offer your child only freshly prepared meals.

Important! At dinner, let your baby decide how much food he wants to eat. Let him eat as much as he wants.

The main rule for dinner for a baby 1-2 years old: not late and not heavy!

Children from 2 to 3 years old: age features:

The baby grows, the need for energy and nutrients increases. The main source of their entry into the body is food. At the same time, the diet must be designed in such a way that the child receives a balanced combination of all useful components. Features of this age are as follows:

The amount of digestive juice in the stomach increases, which greatly facilitates the digestion of food;
The volume of the stomach becomes larger, respectively, the child will need more food;
Noticeable growth of the intestine;
Stabilization of the intestinal microflora (compared to the previous age period);
Enzymes become more active, respectively, the stomach and intestines can digest more complex foods and the form of their preparation (pieces).

To protect the baby from problems with the gastrointestinal tract during this period, you should follow the important rules for organizing dinner:

Do not feed the baby later than 21-00;
Make sure that dinner is at least 1 hour before bedtime;
Up to 3 years, significantly limit the consumption of sweet confectionery products (chocolate, sweets, cakes), as well as flour products (as an alternative - unsweetened biscuits or crackers);
Introduce new foods into the diet gradually;
Change the technology of cooking new dishes slowly. From puree, move on to cooking in pieces. At first they should be small, then gradually increase their size;
After 2 years, actively introduce the liver into the diet in the form of a pate or liver cutlets. Closer to 3 years, you can give boiled liver pieces;
Pay special attention to dairy products. They are useful at any age. If a child has milk intolerance, then just fermented milk products are perceived much better;
Increase the amount of meat in your diet. For dinner, offer your child dietary varieties: chicken, turkey, rabbit meat;
Do not give large portions in the evening;
Don't force yourself to eat. Let the child decide for himself how much he wants to eat;
Fish is an important product in the menu of a baby from 2 to 3 years old. Dinner is a great option. Start with fish cakes, then gradually move on to fish cooked in small pieces. Be careful with the bones!
Expand your range of fruits and vegetables. Give preference to local options. During this period, in the summer (!) Introduce melon and watermelon into the diet;
As a rule, this is the period when kindergarten attendance begins. Try not to repeat with the products that the baby used during the day at the child care facility. For such children, sour-milk products (yogurts, kefir) are perfect for dinner. Pay close attention to fruits and vegetables. They, as a rule, are not enough in the diet in kindergarten;
The age from 2 to 3 years is the time of a well-formed taste in a child. Prepare those dishes that he loves and eats with pleasure;
Decorate food beautifully. This is part of aesthetic education;
Learn to use cutlery at dinner. Show everything by your own example;
Let dinner with the whole family be a ritual for you. Share your impressions of the day, tell about everything that happened to you. Let the child speak;
Offer your baby only fresh foods;
Gradually introduce sweets into the diet (choose a trusted manufacturer), but avoid eating them at night (disrupt sleep and give energy).

Products for dinner for children from 1 to 3 years:

We have already decided on the method of preparation and other issues related to the organization of the baby's dinner. It remains to figure out the list of recommended products that are useful for eating before bed.

1. Fish. Only low-fat varieties. Its protein is useful no less than meat. Unsaturated fatty acids, fish oil are the most valuable source of vitamins (A, B, D) and trace elements (iodine is very important) for a growing organism. Do not give fish and meat at the same meal. For children from 1 to 1.5 years old, it is better to do one fish day a week. Gradually increase their number to 2-3. This is quite enough for the body to be saturated with useful substances.

3. Vegetables. It is the leader among products for preparing dinner for the child and the whole family. Subjected to various types of processing and preparation technology, they are low in calories, easily absorbed by the body, pleasant in taste and extremely healthy. Food options are plentiful. Your imagination - and on the table at the crumbs there will be a real useful and nutritious masterpiece that you just want to eat! Choose vegetables that are in season, do not buy early and grown in greenhouse conditions (they are grown using a large amount of nitrates, growth and ripening accelerators of fruits, which are very harmful to a young organism).

4. Fruits. This is a great option for dinner. Fruit is a very important part of any child's diet. Choose only quality fruits grown in your area. Of those brought for children under 3 years old, only bananas are recommended (they are the safest, and also have a calming effect, cause a feeling of satiety). Apples (green varieties are recommended because they are rich in iron, magnesium and potassium, which is important at night) it is advisable to peel (especially for babies under 1.5 years old), as the child may choke on the skin. Older children can already be given apples with a peel (it contains useful pectins and vitamins). For children under 1 - 1.3 years old, the preferred form of fruit preparation is puree. For older people, it is preferable to consume fruits in raw form and cut into pieces. Many kids are very fond of fruit salads (various fruits cut into pieces). Mom can dream up with dishes - and the baby will be satisfied, and will also receive a large amount of vitamins and minerals. Particular attention should be paid to the availability of fruit for dinner for children who attend preschool (since there is a very limited supply, and sometimes completely absent). Combine fruits with fermented milk products (yogurt, kefir, fermented baked milk) in the evening meal. So you get a complete and healthy dinner. Also a great option is baked apples or pears with cottage cheese, honey or in its pure form.

5. Dairy products. This is a great dinner option, especially when paired with the fruits mentioned above. Avoid giving milk at night (contrary to popular belief that you need to drink a glass of milk at night) and milk porridges with sugar (this is a great option for breakfast or afternoon snack). Of the fermented milk products, the most preferred are:
Cottage cheese;
Kefir;
Yogurt (preferably homemade natural);
Ryazhenka.
Combine them with other products or give them pure. Focus on your child's preferences. These products are also very important for babies who go to kindergarten. There, as a rule, there is a shortage of just such food (there is just enough milk there).

6. Kashi. This is a good option for dinner. You just need to choose the right kind. At night, this cereal is best suited:
Buckwheat;
Rice
Oatmeal;
Special baby cereals (powdered).
To prepare such cereals, use the minimum amount of salt. If the baby, nevertheless, wants sweet porridge, then replace sugar with fruits and honey. Other types of cereals are not recommended for dinner.

7. Eggs. They are used for dinner as part of various dishes. In addition, they can be given to the baby for dinner if they were absent in the diet during the day. This is an excellent protein that is fairly easy to digest. A favorite dish for children over 2 years old is an omelet. It can be supplemented with vegetables or dairy products (cheese, cottage cheese).

8. The drinks. Of the drinks before bed, the following are preferred:
Weak tea (can be sweetened with honey);
Special children's tea (sold in pharmacies);
Compote;
Freshly squeezed juices (diluted 1:1);
Sour-milk drinks (they were discussed above).
When choosing products, give preference only to fresh, bought the day before cooking. Don't skimp on quality. Do not abuse the amount of salt (it is better not to add salt). If you are preparing one dish for the whole family, then before adding salt and seasonings, set aside a certain amount for the baby.

Let the child's nutrition be balanced and healthy!

“I cook, I try, I stand at the stove, and he shouts “Fe!” and pushes the plate away. And what to feed this child?” My friend complains. Familiar situation? Dear mothers, as I understand you. Feeding a child is sometimes a daunting task. And it’s not even a pity for the products themselves, but for the efforts and time that we spend in the kitchen. Children's meals should be fresh, tasty, interesting. But how to realize all this for a busy mother?

After talking with friends and conducting a small opinion poll, we managed to collect some simple and tasty dishes that our children love. But, most importantly, their preparation does not take much time.

1. Chicken in sweet sauce

Ingredients: chicken, honey, turmeric, coriander, salt, pepper, garlic, orange.
Preparation: The amount of ingredients depends on the size of the chicken. In a deep bowl, mix 2-3 tbsp. spoons of honey, 1-2 tsp. turmeric, a pinch of ground coriander, pepper, salt, squeeze 1-2 cloves of garlic. Add the juice of one small orange. Marinate the chicken for half an hour. You can leave it overnight if you wish. Place in preheated oven for about an hour. Garnish can be mashed potatoes, pasta or cereal. The taste of the chicken will be spicy-sweet, and it looks interesting! And you can use the baking time for yourself.

2. Shells with cheese

Ingredients: large shell pasta, seasoned cheese, tomatoes, onion, boiled chicken breast, salt, pepper.
Preparation: Boil pasta, but less than 2-3 minutes less than it is written in the instructions. Let the pasta cool.

During the time when the shells are boiled, cut the onion into cubes and fry in olive oil, add salt, pepper, if desired, you can add aromatic herbs. Cut the boiled chicken breast and tomatoes into small cubes. Mix onions, tomatoes and meat. Grate the cheese on a fine grater.
Fill the shell with tomato and minced meat, top with cheese. Put the shells in a deep frying pan or baking dish, pre-greased with oil. You can put on fire or put in a hot oven for 3-4 minutes to melt the cheese.

You can serve with any salad. Cooking time takes approximately 15-20 minutes.

3. Potatoes with cheese

This tender potato inside is covered with a delicious crispy crust. Believe me, does not leave anyone indifferent. Minimum ingredients, minimum time, maximum enjoyment!

Ingredients: potatoes, butter, cheese, salt.
Preparation: Choose small potatoes. Cut a peeled or well-washed potato in half. Put on a baking sheet, greased with oil, salt, put a piece of butter. Send to preheated oven for 20 minutes. Then put a piece of cheese on each potato. Cook for a few more minutes until the cheese melts and browns a little. You can serve with any salad.

4. Chicken liver with sour cream sauce

Not all children love the liver, although it is very useful. But this recipe is a godsend. The liver becomes tender, fragrant, and will simply melt in your mouth.

Ingredients: chicken liver, onion, carrot, salt, pepper, aromatic herbs, sour cream, sunflower oil.
Preparation: fry the chicken liver on both sides until the color changes in sunflower oil in a heated frying pan. Add diced onion, salt, pepper, optionally add aromatic herbs. After a few minutes, add the grated carrots on a medium grater. Simmer for a few minutes under the lid. Add low fat sour cream. Add fresh herbs if desired. Simmer for a few more minutes.

Serve with pasta, potatoes or porridge. With this cookie, children will sweep away everything. It takes about 15-20 minutes to prepare, and the taste is simply amazing!

5. Soup with meatballs

The first courses are very useful and simply necessary in the children's menu. But is it easy for you to feed your child with soup? I think the answer is "no".
Everyone loves my signature soup with meatballs because of its beauty, and, of course, its taste. And it takes 15 minutes to prepare.

Ingredients: minced chicken, potatoes, carrots, onions, green peas, turmeric, small star pasta, olive oil, salt, pepper, bay leaf, herbs.
Preparation: If you have minced chicken lying around in your refrigerator, this is just a godsend. Well, if not, then cook it yourself by chopping the meat, adding a small onion, a clove of garlic and salt to taste.

Cut potatoes, carrots and onions into cubes, make meatballs from minced meat. We put potatoes and carrots on the fire, wait until it boils and boil for several minutes, add onion, salt, pepper, bay leaf, pasta and turmeric. We cook for a few minutes. Add meatballs and a spoonful of olive oil. A minute before readiness, add greens. If you have canned peas, add them at the end. If fresh - along with potatoes.

This soup looks very beautiful, turmeric makes it golden and appetizing, and the ingredients of different colors and shapes will definitely interest children.

6. Fish cakes

Everyone knows that fish is a very useful product. But it just so happened that many children do not like fish. These cutlets are delicious, look beautiful and can be disguised as ordinary cutlets. And they are also useful because they are not fried, but baked.

Ingredients: fish fillet 500 gr, 2-3 slices of white bread without crust, onion, hard cheese, one egg, vegetable oil, dill, salt.
Preparation: pass the fish fillet through a meat grinder along with the onion, add an egg, squeezed bread in water, or in milk. Add finely chopped dill, salt, a spoonful of vegetable oil. With wet hands, form patties. For beauty, you can give them the shape of stars, fish, hearts. Spread on a baking sheet and put in a preheated oven for 15-17 minutes. After this time, sprinkle with grated cheese and send to the oven for another 5 minutes. Kittens are ready!

7. Carrot cutlets

We adults know that vegetables are healthy. Children are not interested at all. But these carrot cutlets should attract the attention of children. There are many variations of this dish, but these two, savory and sweet, are the simplest and most delicious.

Sweet meatballs
Ingredients: 5-6 medium-sized carrots, half a cup of semolina, 2-3 tsp. sugar, one egg, a pinch of salt, vegetable oil.
Preparation: boil carrots, when cool, grate, add semolina, egg, sugar, salt. Form cutlets, roll in semolina and fry in vegetable oil. You can serve with jam or jam.

salted cutlets
Ingredients: carrot, small onion, garlic clove, salt, egg, semolina, dill.
Preparation: Grate boiled chilled carrots, add chopped onion, garlic, finely chopped dill, egg, salt, semolina, knead, form cutlets, fry on both sides.

8. Omelet with sausage and vegetables

Eggs are undoubtedly a very useful product. As always, not all children love scrambled eggs. But I think this lush, soft and fragrant omelette should be of interest to kids. And if you dream up a little more and add interesting components to it, the children will definitely want to try it.

Ingredients: 8 eggs, 1 cup milk, 1-2 tbsp. tablespoons of flour, a whisper of salt, a few children's sausages, 1-2 tbsp. spoons of canned peas, 1 boiled carrot, 1-2 boiled potatoes, greens.
Preparation: Break eggs into a deep bowl, add milk, salt, flour and beat well. Cut the sausage into rings, carrots and potatoes into cubes, finely chop the greens, rinse the peas with water. Add all the ingredients to the eggs, mix, pour into a greased baking sheet and send to the preheated oven. Such an omelette can be served with fresh vegetables or sauces.

9. Mannik

Mannik is a flight for my mother's fantasy, and the components can be easily found in any refrigerator.

Ingredients: 1 cup of semolina, 1 cup of sour cream (can be replaced with kefir or taken in half), half a cup of sugar, three eggs, half a teaspoon of soda, vanilla sugar can be added.
Preparation: Mix all ingredients, let stand for a while. Can be prepared in the evening and left in the refrigerator overnight.
Pour into a greased mold and put in the oven for 30 minutes. You can put dried fruits, berries in mannik, or just pour over your favorite jam or syrup.

10. Cottage cheese casserole

Cottage cheese is almost the most useful dairy product. But my baby categorically refuses to eat it, but the cottage cheese casserole goes with a bang. Over several years of preparation, she has become my best friend and savior when it is difficult to feed a child with something. I love to cook it and because in the process you can fantasize and experiment, and it is almost impossible to spoil it.

Ingredients: 1 kg of cottage cheese, 3 eggs, half a cup of semolina, half a cup of milk, vanillin, 1 cup of sugar (to taste, a little less), zest of one lemon, juice of half a lemon, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of starch.
Preparation: pass the cottage cheese through a meat grinder or chop in a blender. The softer the cottage cheese, the tastier the casserole will be.

While you are doing this, pour the semolina with milk. Stir the eggs with the sugar, beating until foamy is not necessary. Mix cottage cheese, eggs, semolina, add vanillin, pour in the juice of half a lemon, grate the lemon zest on a fine grater, add a spoonful of starch. Mix well. You can add dried apricots, raisins to the casserole, after soaking them with water, or berries, fruits. Pour the cottage cheese into a greased form and put in a preheated oven for 40 minutes until golden brown on top. It is prepared quickly, and in 40 free minutes you can do a lot of useful things.

The organization of proper and balanced nutrition of children is entirely the merit of parents. Doctors say that eating habits, as well as the health of the digestive tract, are laid down in childhood. Therefore, it depends on the consciousness of the parents what their baby will eat in adulthood. Let's talk and consider what to cook a child for dinner at 4 years old?

Doctors say that dinner should be light and healthy. It is ideal for preschool children to cook:

Various dishes from cottage cheese or simply give cottage cheese with honey or fruits;
- vegetable omelette, boiled eggs, just an omelet;
- various vegetable salads;
- various vegetable mixtures and vegetable purees, stewed vegetables and vegetable casseroles, vegetable cutlets and zrazy, vegetables can also be raw. From cereals, vegetable dishes are perfectly complemented by rice or buckwheat;
- baked fruits;
- fish - boiled, steamed, etc.;
- bananas or apples (especially green);
- all kinds of dairy products.

fish soufflé

To prepare a tasty and healthy dinner, it is worth preparing one hundred grams of sea fish, one chicken egg, about a tablespoon of oatmeal and a quarter cup of milk. Also use a little butter and salt.

First, boil the fish until tender or, if possible, steam it. Then remove all the bones from the piece and send it to the blender bowl.

Separate the yolk from the protein, add the yolk to the fish. Pour in the oatmeal. Add salt to the mixture and puree it with a blender so that you get a soft, tender and homogeneous mass. Divide it into silicone molds. Whisk the egg white until foamy and add to the molds. Then send them to a double boiler or oven preheated to one hundred and eighty degrees. Cook no more than ten minutes.

Omelet with vegetables

To prepare such a simple dish, you will need some boiled corn, cauliflower and broccoli. Also use three fairly large eggs and a third of a glass of milk.

Prepare vegetables. They should all be boiled until cooked and disassembled, corn - into grains, broccoli and cauliflower - into inflorescences.
In a convenient bowl, beat three eggs, mix them. Add milk to them, mix again. Salt a little. Take a roasting sleeve, fix one edge more securely, put vegetables inside, distributing them evenly. Pour the egg mixture over the mixture and secure the other end of the sleeve securely.
Then dip the bag into a pot of water and cook for fifteen to twenty minutes after boiling.

grated potatoes

To prepare such an interesting dish, prepare half a kilogram of potatoes, a couple of chicken eggs, a little salt and one hundred and fifty grams of hard cheese. Also use a bunch of greens - parsley and green onions, and a little vegetable oil. Use salt depending on your taste preferences.

Peel the potatoes and grate it on a fairly large grater. After that, put all the resulting mass into a convenient saucepan, without draining the juice, add salt and beat chicken eggs into it. Wash and shake the parsley well, chop it up and add to the potatoes. Stir.

Take a baking dish, grease it with vegetable oil and put the potato mass into it. Finely chop the onion and place on top of the potatoes.

Sprinkle the contents of the pan with grated cheese and put in the oven, preheated to one hundred and eighty degrees. Cook for forty minutes, then serve with sour cream or kefir.

Buckwheat casserole

To prepare such a dish, boil three to four tablespoons of buckwheat without sugar and salt. Rub one hundred grams of cottage cheese through a sieve. In a separate container, combine a couple of chicken eggs with a couple of tablespoons of sour cream and a couple of teaspoons of sugar. Mix and divide into two unequal parts. Combine buckwheat porridge with grated cottage cheese and sweet sauce (mostly), mix. Put in a baking dish, greased with oil and sprinkled with semolina, pour over the rest of the gravy. Cook for twenty minutes at one hundred and eighty degrees.