Dinner baby food

243.3 g

9000 93.6 g

002 30 g

1987.6 kcal

193.4 g

66. 2 g

30.1 g

1374.7 kcal

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847.5 kcal

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646.5 kcal

106 g

111.3 g

28.2 g

1548.3 kcal

62.2 g

42.3 g

133.9 g

1178.5 kcal

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40.9 g

65 g

915.3 kcal

378. 6 g

76.4 g

31.3 g

2340.1 kcal

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According to science, dinner should be 20% of the daily diet. But children, especially small children, reshape the daily routine in their own way. Their life is filled with events: educational toys, games, learning “in an adult way” in kindergartens and development schools, and just the buzzing world around. A TV (and who was put to a computer from the cradle), fantasies bursting with a fragile, but already overdeveloped brain, observations, accumulated emotions . .. Increasingly, a child cannot be calmed down in the evenings. More and more children do not sleep well at night. The most accessible way for a child to get quick positive sensations is food. Babies “hang” on their chests, older children wake up at night: either kefir or some water ... and mothers again puzzle over: what to feed more satisfying in the evening so that they sleep better? ..

Dinner should be light. This fact does not depend on the age of the child, but it depends on the individual routine and the amount of food that has entered the body during the day. If the child goes to bed late (after 22-23.00), he should have dinner at 19.30-20.00 - and a second dinner in the form of a glass of milk or kefir at night is desirable. Children who receive breast milk or formula do not count, everything is fine with evening and night food, it is correct and easily digestible. In general, dinner at 20.00 is considered ideal for any person. If the child goes to bed at 21. 00 - dinner is shifted to 19.00 (plus or minus half an hour). And at night he can also drink kefir, bifidok or milk, this ritual prolongs the feeling of satiety, soothes.

Night hunger: do you need a hearty dinner?

Many parents worry when their child wakes up several times during the night and asks for food. Scientists have long found out that the feeling of hunger, which illogically (given sufficient nutrition) torments us during the day and even at night, is actually a feeling of thirst. A person wants to drink, not eat. Our body gives signals: we need water. To dissolve and expel street toxins, tone yourself up. Even an adult confuses thirst with hunger and intercepts another piece instead of a glass of water. The child may also want to drink at night, for most children this is normal and is not associated with any abnormalities. But some children unconsciously twist the desire to "drink" into "eat." Parents are people too, they want to rest at night, so you have to fight with constant night jumps and demands. But many children really need to drink water or kefir at night, this simple action is better to do than to deal with the consequences of weaning. Repeated requests (2-4 times a night) signal that the reason is not food or drink at all.

Everyone is familiar with the old grandmother's remedy: in order for the child to sleep better, he needs to be fed more satisfyingly at night. In this case, the parents will receive peace of mind, but not the child. His body will not rest, it will be engaged in the digestion of food. Often such excesses - semolina or meat dishes at night - lead to gastrointestinal diseases. Drowsiness after eating is natural, but severe drowsiness caused by "cementing" the stomach is not good for anyone. Yogis call this state "tamasic" - some food causes a state of "tamas": lethargy, laziness, pollution with toxins. There are dozens of reasons why a child often wakes up at night, and hunger is just one of many. Without removing the main reason, it is pointless to feed meat at night - one link will pull the other, the chain of problems will close sooner or later. Restless sleep is associated with a lack of attention (gaining attention from parents whom the child has not seen for most of the day), unconscious fear (something happened during the day, hooked, does not give rest), disturbed microclimate (dry air, heat, stuffiness), impaired breathing (minor nasal congestion). In all these cases, the child is free to wake up and demand to drink and eat, in fact, wanting to eliminate the true problem, not being able to formulate, understand, and calculate it on his own.

What is a dense and light supper? "Density" criterion

If you look closely at the recipes for breakfast, afternoon tea and dinner, you can see that they are similar in many ways. Variations of products, combinations of cottage cheese, fruits and cereals, light soups and casseroles - all this is equally suitable for breakfast, afternoon tea and dinner.

Children's dinner includes food that the child "did not get" during the day. If there was a lack of cottage cheese and fruits, we give cottage cheese and fruits. If the food, in principle, was stupid, then we need vegetables, salads, cereals. Kindergarten children lack “live” fermented milk products, egg dishes, almost all kindergarten food is thermally processed, so in the evening you can unload the stomach without offering it anything boiled or baked (eggs, raw vegetables, salads, yogurts, cottage cheese). Well, if there was no dinner in the kindergarten, then we are having dinner at home like an adult.

People often ask: is it not harmful to feed porridge for dinner, is it not too heavy a meal. Look at the child! The child will always give a signal which food is preferable for him. If the sleep is restless, the child cannot fall asleep for a long time - try experimenting with dinner. Porridge is a normal living food, it is better than sandwiches, convenience foods, cereals, cookies, and so on. Porridge can be harmful if it is not absorbed by a particular child for some reason. In other cases, porridge may not be harmful. We found something to worry about - thousands of parents do not know how to push anything into the child, while others worry about porridge - heavy, not heavy ... normal! But if there are still doubts about the need for evening porridge, make it easier. Do not give millet, semolina, barley porridge for dinner, if possible, do not use milk and sugar, replacing them with fruit puree, dried fruits, a spoonful of honey - or add milk mixture. "Light" porridge for the night is buckwheat, oatmeal and any "children's" (powder). Semolina, in addition to other stupefying properties, interferes with the absorption of vitamins and microelements accumulated during the day.

Even among pundits there is no agreement about food at night: what it should be, whether it is necessary, whether it is harmful. Some venerable nutritionists are of the following opinion: our body spends energy during the day, and accumulates at night, food is the fuel for accumulation, which means that eating at night is not forbidden. That is, the child can eat before going to bed - not at dinner, but right before going to bed. It happens. Some kids need it. It's OK. Children live by different laws than adults. When you find yourself in this situation (when the child has dinner before bedtime), do not remember all the horrors of the world written by hardworking journalists about junk food at night. Everything needs an individual approach. The child sleeps well, he has no health problems, is overweight and excitable - which means that a plate of light porridge or scrambled eggs is not a problem that is worth attention and loss of nerve cells on both sides.

Also ideal dishes for dinner are:

• Cottage cheese, cottage cheese dishes (casseroles, syrniki), cottage cheese with fruits.
• Omelet, vegetables in an omelet, boiled eggs.
• Mixed vegetables, mashed potatoes, stews, casseroles, vegetable cutlets and zrazy, vegetables with rice, buckwheat. Raw vegetables.
• Salads.
• Fruits - bananas and green apples. Banana calms, increases the feeling of satiety, and green apples are rich in "night" elements - calcium and iron, magnesium, potassium.
• Baked fruits: apples, pears.
• Any fermented milk products - kefir, yogurt, bifidok, acidophilus. Cheese.

Wrong dinner

Wrong dinner is obtained by indulging the grasping reflexes of a child who does not know where to put his energy and excitability after a busy day. This is especially true for "kindergarten" children, we talked about their dinner and the reasons for "nervous hunger" here:

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In the evening, an active child just as actively gets the attention of adults, as if afraid of not being in time. He replaces the requests “stay with me” or “calm me down” with a demand for food that is more accessible to children's understanding. He ate the first, third, tenth, begged for a candy, the second, and still wants to eat, more ... Make sure that the child does not stuff everything into himself, especially incompatible foods. Want to eat a lot? – please, but only through breaks. Ate a plate of stew - revered. I drank yogurt, ate a banana - we played. So we streamline the evening "zhor" and help the child to correctly understand his feelings.

One simple truth is able to learn any child, if you do not belittle his mental abilities in advance, do not think “yes, mine is never!” It is necessary to constantly inspire the baby that a hungry person will eat everything that is offered to him. Do you want to eat? So, eat what they give you. A child requesting food often has a very specific cookie or hidden candy in mind. As if checking parental resilience. The sooner you teach children the right attitude to food, to their own feelings, the sooner they will form their own food culture. Does not obey, runs away, throws a tantrum, cries? - anyway, repeat from time to time that a hungry person will eat what is offered, and sweet desserts and all sorts of sausages are not food for the hungry, but pampering for the well-fed. Of course, all this is not uttered in the boring voice of an admirer of Leo Tolstoy, lifting his finger over the swirling head of a baby. In a positive, confident tone, carry your thought through the days and weeks - it will definitely be postponed.

Let's not focus on the "harmfulness", each family has its own traditions on this matter, its own problems, its own worldview. You should not give buns with chocolate, sweets, ice cream, hot sandwiches for dinner. Children are children, we love to pamper them, and no one has the right to condemn parents for this. But still - for the sake of strengthening immunity, for the sake of resistance to viruses and bacteria, for the sake of a healthy nervous system, one should gradually change the quality of food, especially in the evening, in small things. In the evening and at night, the body gratefully accepts and digests clean food. At night, it merges with the cosmos, and it would be nice not to spoil the feeling of flight and relaxation with food that spoils the metabolism, point-wise killing the “bricks” of health (vitamins, trace elements) that came with the daytime food. Choose simpler sweets, cancel fried foods, cholesterol explosions in the form of melted cheese on bread, pasta and casseroles. In the evening, the child is not given meat dishes - the meat is digested for 4-6 hours, it does not bring any benefit. The exception is steam fish, as well as canned meat for baby food, they are added in some quantities to dinner at any age. And, of course, it is extremely harmful to give a child sausages, sausages and other messes of chemicals and salts for dinner. Charlottes, pancakes and pancakes also can not be called the right dish for dinner, but for a change - you can do it in small quantities.

Most importantly, do not try to feed a hungry child in the evening, if he is hungry only in your imagination. He doesn’t want to eat, he doesn’t want to be seated at the table - make jelly, fruit drink or compote, drink a healthy drink and calm down yourself.

Dinner Recipes (ages 1.5-6) ​​

Zest Risotto

200 g cauliflower, 2 carrots, 1 cup rice, 4 tbsp. pitted prunes, 2 tbsp raisins, 2 tbsp. butter.

Grate carrots, sauté in oil, add a little water, simmer for 10 minutes. Scald the cauliflower and separate into florets. Pour rice with 2 cups of hot water, salt and add prunes and raisins soaked in water beforehand. Add vegetables and simmer the risotto for 40 minutes over low heat. Sprinkle with finely chopped parsley before serving.

Carrot and apple soufflé

,350 g carrots, 60 g sour cream or milk, 30 g semolina, 1 apple, ½ egg, ½ tbsp. sugar, 2 tsp butter, salt (to taste).

Grate peeled apple and carrot. Grind the egg yolk with sugar, beat the protein into a fluffy foam. Combine the apple and carrots, add sour cream or milk, yolk with sugar, semolina, salt, gently add whipped protein, mix. Put the mass in a greased form, bake in the oven or steam for 30-35 minutes.

Africa omelet

600 g carrots, 400 g milk, 4 eggs, 4 tbsp. grated hard cheese, 2 tbsp. butter, 2 tbsp. flour, 2 tbsp. orange juice, salt.

Boil and puree carrots. Beat eggs, adding milk and flour, cheese and juice, salt, combine with carrot puree. Pour the mass into the pan and fry the omelet until cooked - or bake.

Broccoli soup with yogurt

125 g plain yoghurt, 1 cup broccoli, 2 potatoes, 1 carrot, 1 tbsp. grated hard cheese, 1 tsp olive oil.

Pour boiling water over broccoli so that the water barely covers them, cook for 5 minutes over low heat. Grate potatoes and carrots, sauté in olive oil with constant stirring. Add sautéing to the soup, cook it for another 10 minutes, cool slightly. Pour yogurt into soup, stirring constantly. You can add cheese.

Millet curd porridge

2/3 cup milk or water, ½ cup cottage cheese, 1/3 cup millet, 2 tbsp. yogurt or sour cream, 1 tbsp. sugar, 1 tbsp. butter, salt.

Scald and pour boiling milk over millet. Add sugar, salt and cook porridge, cool. Add cottage cheese, butter, yogurt to the finished porridge, mix.

Buckwheat porridge with prunes and dried apricots

250 g buckwheat, 100 g pitted prunes, 100 g dried apricots, salt (to taste), 600 g water.

Soak prunes and dried apricots for swelling, then boil them separately, finely chop some. Combine cereals and dried fruits, pour boiling water, salt and cook until half cooked, stirring constantly. In the oven, bring the porridge to readiness.

Before serving, add melted butter to the porridge and decorate it with the remaining prunes and dried apricots.

Apricot baby puree with rice

Dried apricots - 100g, water - 375g, baby rice porridge powder - 2 tbsp. breast milk or warmed milk formula - 80 ml.

Combine dried apricots and water in a small saucepan, cook until soft for 20 minutes. We make mashed apricots by adding water. Mix breast milk or formula with rice powder. Serve with 1 tbsp. apricot puree. You can store up to 2 days in the refrigerator. Also, mashed potatoes can be frozen in cubes.

Curd pancakes

Wheat flour - 160 g, cottage cheese - 100 g, egg - 1 pc., sugar - 10 g, soda - 1/4 tsp.

Vegetable oil - 20 ml.

Beat the egg, grind with cottage cheese, add flour, sugar and soda. Mix everything thoroughly. Grease a hot frying pan with oil and bake pancakes on it.

Quail egg scrambled eggs with vegetables

2 quail eggs, 1 carrot, 0.5 stalks of celery, 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil.

Cut the carrot into small cubes, lightly fry it in oil. Add the celery cut into small pieces to the carrots. Add water to the vegetables so that it covers the vegetables a little and simmer until tender over low heat. Beat the eggs, add them to the vegetables, mix. Cover with a lid and hold for 2 minutes.

Coral Reef Baby Salad

200g cauliflower, 1 tomato, 1 apple, 1.5 cucumbers, 2 lettuce leaves, 2 tbsp. sour cream, salt.

We sort cabbage into inflorescences, boil it in salted water, cool it. We cut into small cubes a tomato, an apple and 1 cucumber, combine them with chopped lettuce leaves. Salt the prepared salad, season it with sour cream, mix and lay the cauliflower on top. We cut out a crab figurine from half of the cucumber, and decorate our salad with it.

Curd-fish meatballs

Cod (fillet) - 60 g, cottage cheese - 30 g, milk - 160 ml, egg - 0.5 pcs., sour cream 10% - 2 tbsp. l., white bread - 30 g, vegetable oil - 15 ml, herbs, salt.

Soak bread in milk. Grind the fish fillet in a meat grinder, mix with cottage cheese and finely chopped onions. Mix the bread with the minced meat and scroll through the meat grinder again. Beat in the egg, mix. Form meatballs, put them in a pre-oiled mold and bake for 25-30 minutes. Then pour over the sour cream and cook for another 3 minutes. Sprinkle with herbs.

(Recipe source: http://ovkuse.ru/)

Fish with vegetables and rice

90 g of any red fish stewed in lemon juice with fresh parsley, 100 g of stewed mixed vegetables with carrots and onions. Garnish: 40 g of boiled rice.

Frozen vegetables in batter

Frozen vegetables: cauliflower or broccoli, green beans alone or in a mixture - whatever the child loves. We make batter (egg, sour cream, a spoonful of flour, salt), pour vegetables over them - or dip them in individual inflorescences, if it is cabbage. A little breadcrumbs on top - and in the oven until blush.

Vegetable hedgehogs with a surprise

Boil various vegetables until half cooked: potatoes, carrots, cauliflower, beets. Cool, grate on a coarse grater. Add an egg, salt, a little semolina or corn (buckwheat) flour, make small balls.

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