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What to feed a one year old baby for dinner


What to feed a one year old: 55 meal ideas

Feeding a one year old is tricky. They are way past purees and baby food, but they aren’t quite ready to chow down on the meals you make for yourself.

Then of course, there’s the fact that toddlers are very unpredictable when it comes to food. One day they’ll love bananas, and the next they’ll look at you like you’re crazy for offering them such a horrific item to consume.  

Despite your child’s erratic behavior towards food, there’s loads and loads of research as to why you should continue to press on, offering your child a balanced diet with variety.

For me personally, my daughter’s pickiness with food pushed me to get in a rut when it came to introducing new foods to her diet, and it wasn’t until I did some research and pulled together a master meal list for toddlers, that I started to see her palette expand.

So if you’re struggling with what to feed a one year old, this post is for you!

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55+ meal ideas for a 1 year old

Breakfast meal ideas for a one year old
  • Banana pancakes (mix 1 egg and 1 mashed banana together), yogurt
  • Cottage cheese, blackberries, plain organic granola
  • Scrambled eggs, strawberries, toast
  • Whole wheat waffles, nut butter, grapes
  • Hard boiled egg, toast with peanut butter + orange slices
  • Oatmeal, toast, raspberries
  • Avocado toast, strawberries, yogurt
  • Overnight oats
  • Mashed sweet potato over toast, berries

If you are looking for even more breakfast ideas for a one year old, plus tips on what brands are healthy at the grocery store you can read more about that by clicking on the link.

Snack ideas for a one year old
  • Yogurt with bits of banana and strawberries
  • Hummus and whole wheat crackers
  • Avocados and cheese
  • Applesauce
  • banana slices
  • carrot slices and hummus
  • Cottage cheese and orange slices
  • Nut butter on toast
  • Smoothies
  • Browse my big list of healthy costco snacks for kids for more ideas

On-the-go snack ideas for a one year old
  • Cheese and whole wheat crackers
  • Bananas and nut butter/peanut butter
  • Yogurt pouches
  • Hard boiled egg and hummus
  • Orange slices and cottage cheese
  • Applesauce pouches and raisins
  • Single serve guacamole packets and whole wheat crackers

I wrote an entire post on on the go snacks for toddlers, plus what brands of packaged foods are healthiest, if you need more ideas!

Does your 1 year old have trouble sleeping or napping during the day? If you’d like a free sleep evaluation and plan for your baby, please email [email protected] I’m currently studying to become a certified sleep consultant and am in the practicum part of my study. All sleep plans and evaluations will be reviewed by my mentor.

Lunch meal ideas for a one year old
  • Hard boiled egg, steamed broccoli, toast with peanut butter
  • Cheese, bean, chopped veggies and chicken quesadillas, orange slices
  • Salmon puree with olive oil spread on toast, strawberries
  • Zucchini bread, grapes, cheese cubes
  • Steamed tilapia, corn bread, sweet potato
  • Quiche with ham and veggies, cooked apples
  • Spaghetti with meat sauce, steamed (very soft) cauliflower
  • Toast with hummus, tomato soup, raspberries
  • Veggie burger, potato, grapes
  • Omelette with spinach, red bell peppers, feta cheese

Related: 25+ easy meal ideas for toddlers

Dinner meal ideas for a one year old
  • Scrambled eggs in a whole wheat pita, berries, butternut squash
  • Grilled cheese on whole wheat bread, yogurt with berries, steamed broccoli
  • Meatballs, noodles, peas
  • Salmon, brown rice, black beans, cucumbers
  • Rice and beans, salsa, guac
  • Spinach and cheese tortellini, grapes, steamed carrots
  • Roasted chicken, sweet potatoes, green beans
  • Turkey burger, corn, pears
  • Baked potato with cheese, applesauce, avocado
  • Hard boiled egg, hummus, whole wheat pasta, peaches

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Tips for bringing a one year old’s lunch to daycare

Coming up with a lunch idea to bring to daycare that doesn’t need reheating can be challenging. I found these kids’ bento boxes and packing lunch is so easy now, plus I’m not running around in the morning trying to find a million little containers.

I’m also a big fan of these lunch boxes too, and actually just purchased one this year and have been loving it so far.

A few times, in a time crunch, I loaded up my toddler’s lunch box with foods she hadn’t tried before. I guess you live and learn, because that was a huge mistake.

Now I only put foods in her lunch box that she really loves. For whatever reason, I find her to be less adventurous with food items at daycare.

Keep in mind that their appetite will fluctuate, so don’t get stressed out if they don’t eat everything you bring. I always ask for a report on what she ate so I can prepare for how hungry she might be for dinner.

Here’s some of my go to toddler lunches for daycare:
  • Hard boiled egg, whole wheat crackers, sliced strawberries, cucumbers
  • PBJ (peanut butter spread thinly and pureed strawberries/raspberries), hummus, steamed carrots
  • Turkey and cheese sandwich in a whole wheat pita, raspberries,
  • Applesauce muffins, avocado, cheese
  • Veggie rotini, orange slices, egg salad, grapes
  • Hummus on toast, strawberries, cherry tomatoes, grated carrots

Related: The best educational toys for your one year old

Plate, flatware and sippee cups to feed a one year old

Not only do these plates wash well but they also have a suction feature so your little tot can’t just flip the plate over, mid-meal!

On-the go snacking is going to happen and these containers work really well! 

You’ll save a ton of money when you buy larger quantities of applesauce and yogurt and use these reusable pouches. These also work well for smoothies, too.

These sippee cups are awesome! If your tot is having a hard time learning how to drink out of a sippee cup, I highly recommend these!

Also, this is an investment, but after constant buying sippy cups that were $10 each and would last only three months…I finally bit the bullet and invested in these long lasting cups.

How often should a one year old eat?

When my little one turned one, it was like overnight her pickiness doubled and her appetite seemed to drop off a cliff.

I thought something was wrong until I did a bunch of research and read that because growth slows down considerably around the time babies reach their first birthday, it’s totally normal to witness a sharp drop in appetite. (source)

A typical one year old needs about 1,000 calories to grow and thrive. And because of their decreased rate of growth, it’s best to stick with three smaller meals and two snacks each day.

Creating a balanced diet for your one year old baby
  • Protein: meat, chicken, fish, eggs
  • Healthy fats: avocado, chia seeds, fish (salmon, sardines), egg yolks
  • Milk: yogurt, cheese, whole milk, cottage cheese
  • Grains: whole wheat bread, pasta, crackers
  • Fruits and veggies: banana, apple, berries, green beans, peas, carrots, etc.

If you’re in a rut with feeding your toddler, here’s 55 sample menu ideas to inspire your child’s breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack times.

How much milk should a one year old drink each day?

Up until your baby’s first birthday, breastmilk or formula was where they got the vast majority of their calories from. But as they enter into toddlerhood and begin to eat more real food, the recommended amount of milk they need to thrive is different.

The AAP recommends that at age 1 your child get 2 cups (16 oz) of whole milk per day. This is a pretty big difference from what your baby was likely getting prior to their first birthday, and you certainly don’t need to half their milk intake overnight, but it is recommended that you start tapering it off.

Two cups of whole milk is advised because a recent study found that anymore than that has been shown to decrease iron stores in toddlers. Essentially, you want to watch their milk intake so that they aren’t filling up on milk and getting too full that they don’t want actual food.

How much water should a one year old drink each day?

Your one year old should be drinking about 44 ounces of water each day. (Source)

When I read this it seemed like a whole lot of water, since before my baby turned one she was getting the vast majority of her water requirements from a combination of breastmilk and formula each day.

Keep in mind that toddlers do typically get 20% of their water from fruits and veggies, too.

Foods associated with choking risks
  • Grapes should be cut in half lengthwise and quartered
  • Hotdogs should be cut in half lengthwise and then cut into smaller pieces
  • Nuts and seeds should really be avoided as toddlers don’t have the ability to grind food
  • Vegetables should be soft and easy to manipulate
  • Peanut butter should only be spread thinly on toast or fruit, as gobs of peanut butter are unsafe
  • Meats and cheeses should be cut in very small pieces  

If you’re at the end of this list and feeling like your toddler won’t eat half of this, don’t worry. Mine wouldn’t either until I decided I wasn’t going to allow her to only eat carbs her entire childhood. After working with an understanding pediatrician, here’s some tips I wrote on how to get your toddler to eat veggies.

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1 Year Old Meal Ideas - 30 Toddler Meals

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A list of 30 simple, easy, and fun 1 year old meals for toddlers including breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

I’m a mom of two toddlers and am sharing some of my 1 year olds favorite meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. These 1 year old meal ideas are simple and nutritious and are made by a busy mom of two (i.e., they don’t take a long time and no special chef skills are required.)

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Toddler Meal Supplies

While no special meal supplies are required for your toddler to eat, they can make the whole experience a whole lot easier (and cleaner!). Here are some of our favorites:

Pillowfort Toddler Plates: almost all of my kid’s meals are served on these pillowfort toddler plates. They are affordable, durable, come in cute colors, and have held up through multiple years of use.

Silicone Bibs: our favorite silicone bibs are from Happy Healthy Parent. We have tried other brands but these are the thickest silicone and actually lay flat instead of getting bent or kinked. The scoop is also bigger than other brands we have tried so it catches more food and means less mess!

Toddler Forks: my favorite set for my 1 year old is this Munchkin fork and spoon set. They are affordable and have held up well for multiple years. I like that the fork is more of a ‘spork’ so it’s a little easier for young toddlers to use. If your toddler is just learning how to use silverware, the EZTOTs set is my favorite for beginners!

1 Year Old Breakfasts

Toddler Meal #1: Yogurt Pouch
Yogurt pouch, dry cereal, mandarin oranges

Yogurt pouch: For young toddlers look for whole milk yogurt for extra healthy fat and calories. Served with dry cereal and mandarin oranges.

Toddler Meal #2: Strawberry Banana French Toast
Strawberry Banana French Toast

Strawberry Banana French Toast: like regular French toast, but with smushed or pureed fruit added to the egg batter. This French toast is naturally sweetened and great for babies and toddlers. Get the recipe here: Easy Strawberry Banana French Toast Sticks

Toddler Meal Idea #3: Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal
Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal

Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal: plain oats cooked with water and then stirred with whole milk, shredded apples, cinnamon, chia seeds, and a dash of honey. For more easy oatmeal recipes check out this post: 8 Easy Toddler Oatmeal Recipes

1 Year Old Meal #4: Broccoli & Cheese Scrambled Eggs
Broccoli & Cheese Scrambled Eggs

Broccoli & Cheese Scrambled Eggs: eggs are such an easy place to throw in some added veggies. Make scrambled eggs like normal but stir in some chopped broccoli, peas, or carrots right before they are done cooking. Side of of grapes and strawberries.

Toddler Meal Idea #5: Yogurt Breakfast Bowl
Yogurt Breakfast Bowl

Yogurt Breakfast Bowl: whole milk yogurt topped with all your toddler’s favorites. Try plain or vanilla yogurt with strawberries, bananas, peanut butter drizzle and chia seeds. For more breakfast bowl ideas check out this post: Toddler Breakfast Bowls: Fun Toddler Breakfast Idea

Toddler Meal #6: Cinnamon Roll Bunny
Cinnamon Roll Bunny

Cinnamon Roll Bunny: make a regular canned cinnamon roll (or if you have a favorite homemade recipe that works too) and skip the icing. Instead top with two small dollops of whipped cream, diced fruit for the ‘eyes’, and bananas as the ears. We had this on Easter, but it would be a great fun breakfast for any day of the year too!

1 Year Old Meal #7: Peanut Butter Smoothie Bowl
Peanut Butter Smoothie Bowl

Peanut Butter Smoothie Bowl: blend up your toddler’s favorite smoothie and make it a little thicker than normal. We love banana, frozen raspberries, yogurt and milk. Top with peanut butter, banana, and chia seeds.

1 Year Old Lunches

Toddler Meal #8: Dr. Praeger’s Broccoli Littles
Dr. Praeger’s Broccoli Littles

Dr. Praeger’s Broccoli Littles: if you’ve been here before, you know that we love the kids line from Dr. Praeger’s Brand, particularly the Broccoli Littles. They are cute shapes, tasty, and packed full of veggies. Side of cooked carrots and cucumbers with hummus, and strawberries.

Toddler Meal Idea #9: Turkey Roll Ups
Turkey Roll Ups

Turkey Roll Ups: for young toddlers I like to roll up lunch mean and then cut into smaller pieces so they are both appealing and easier to eat. Side of thinly sliced applies, cucumbers with hummus, and grapes.

1 Year Old Meal Idea #10: Pumpkin Mac & Cheese
Pumpkin Mac & Cheese

Pumpkin Mac & Cheese: my boys do enjoy regular mac & cheese sometimes, but I recently discovered this Annie’s vegan pumpkin mac & cheese and we are in love. The pasta is made with red lentils and the sauce is made with sweet potato and pumpkin. Eat it by itself or stir in hot dogs, chicken, broccoli, peas, or carrots.

Toddler Meal #11: Cauliflower Tots
Cauliflower Tots

Cauliflower Tots: we buy these frozen and cook them in the air fryer and it makes the perfect texture for young toddlers. Served with sides of turkey, cooked carrots, grapes, plantain chips, and ketchup for dipping. (This cool plate is from EZPZ: get it here!)

Toddler Meal Idea #12: Avocado Tuna Salad
Avocado Tuna Salad

Avocado Tuna Salad: mix tuna (we like lemon pepper flavor) with avocado and season with a little salt and pepper. I like to serve with crackers and pretzel chips for dipping and a side of mandarin orange. You can also use shredded chicken if your toddler doesn’t like tuna.

1 Year Old Meal #13: Baked Beans
Baked Beans

Baked Beans: baked beans are one of my toddlers’ favorite foods and I always forget about them! They are quick, easy, and a great source of protein. Side of Dr. Praeger’s Kale Littles and mandarin oranges.

Toddler Meal #14: Cheese Crisp
Cheese Crips

Cheese Crisp: cheese crisp or quesadilla with sour cream for dipping and sides of avocado with seal salt, banana, and diced tomatoes.

Toddler Meal Idea #15: Turkey & Cheese Pinwheels
Turkey & Cheese Pinwheels

Turkey & Cheese Pinwheels: lay out a tortilla and spread with shredded cheese, cook on the stove top or microwave oven until cheese is melted, add turkey, roll up tightly and cut into strips or pinwheels. Side of avocado, strawberries, and grapes.

1 Year Old Meal #16: Pulled Rotisserie Chicken
Rotisserie Chicken

Pulled Rotisserie Chicken: I grab a rotisserie chicken most days when I grocery shop and its perfect for quick and easy lunches for the whole family! For my toddlers I shred the chicken and serve with ketchup for dipping. Side of black beans, thin sliced carrots with ranch, and grapes.

Toddler Meal #17: Corn DogCorn Dog

Corn Dog: for my 1 year old I like to cut corn dogs into strips or bite-sized pieces. Side of ketchup for dipping, avocado, gooseberries and grapes.

Toddler Meal Idea #18: Avocado Toast
Avocado Toast

Avocado Toast: lunch doesn’t have to be difficult, avocado toast is one of my boys’ favorite meals and its super easy and nutritions. Side of extra avocado and grapes.

1 Year Old Meal Idea #19: Ham & Cheese Snack Plate
Ham & Cheese Snack Plate

Ham & Cheese Snack Plate: snack plates are one of my favorite lunches because you can basically use whatever you have left in the fridge and toddlers love them! We had ham, cheese, cucumber with hummus, tomatoes, grapes, and olives. (This cool plate is from EZPZ: get it here!)

1 Year Old Dinners

Most of the time my toddlers eat what we eat for dinner so these meals are also family-friendly! Below is how I modify them for my toddlers.

Toddler Meal Idea #20: Avocado Quesadilla
Avocado Quesadilla

Avocado Quesadilla: like a cheese quesadilla, but made with avocado inside instead. This is a great option if you are trying to avoid dairy or just want to mix it up from the normal cheese quesadilla. Side of black beans and corn and gooseberries.

1 Year Old Meal #21: Chicken Strips
Chicken Strips

Chicken Strips: I love making chicken strips in the air fryer so they are nice and crispy but don’t take forever to make! For my 1 year old I cut them up into smaller pieces so they are easier for him to eat. Side of ketchup for dipping, roasted broccoli, and sweet potato fries.

Toddler Meal #22: Deconstructed Fajitas

Deconstructed Fajitas: when the family has fajitas I make a deconstructed version for my 1 year old. Mini cheese crisp, bell peppers, shredded chicken, black beans, and guacamole.

1 Year Old Meal Idea #22: Orange Chicken Rice Bowl
Orange Chicken Rice Bowl

Orange Chicken Rice Bowl: when the family has orange chicken, I make it toddler friendly by adding extra veggies and skipping the soy sauce (we use coconut aminos instead). Orange chicken, broccoli, carrots, edamame, and sticky rice with coconut aminos.

Toddler Meal Idea #23: Sheet Pan Chicken & Veggies
Sheet Pan Chicken & Veggies

Sheet Pan Chicken & Veggies: cook chicken breast and your family’s favorite veggies and starches on a sheet pan for a quick and easy dinner idea. We had chicken, golden potatoes, carrots, and red bell pepper.

Toddler Meal Idea #24: Grilled Cheese & SoupGrilled Cheese & Soup

Grilled Cheese & Soup: grilled cheese cut into strips for easy dipping, broccoli cheese soup and a side of tomatoes.

1 Year Old Meal Idea #25: KidFresh Pizza
KidFresh Pizza

KidFresh Pizza: on one of those nights where we have a different meal than my toddlers, my go to is KidFresh Pizza (they are made just for kids and are made with veggies!). Side of cooked carrots and avocado.

Toddler Meal #26: Deconstructed Cobb Salad
Deconstructed Cobb Salad

Deconstructed Cobb Salad: like a big cobb salad, but without the lettuce. Turkey, avocado, bacon, boiled eggs, tomato, mozzarella, cucumber, and ranch dressing.

1 Year Old Meal #27: Deconstructed HamburgerDeconstructed Hamburger

Deconstructed Hamburger: if your toddler won’t eat a hamburger with a bun, try a deconstructed version. Hamburger patty or broken up hamburger, shredded or sliced cheese, avocado, and tomato.

Toddler Meal Idea #28: Pesto Fish
Pesto Fish

Pesto Fish: white fish cooked with pesto on top (or if your toddler doesn’t like pesto, try their favorite sauce or seasoning). Side of mashed cauliflower and cheese and broccoli.

Toddler Meal #29: Sheet Pan Chicken Sausage
Sheet Pan Chicken Sausage

Sheet Pan Chicken Sausage: chicken sausage cooked on a sheet pan along with potatoes and your favorite veggies (orange and yellow carrots + broccoli).

Toddler Meal Idea #30: Meatballs
Meatballs

Meatballs: most meat can be a little tough for toddlers, but meatballs are a great way to add extra iron into your toddler’s diet. We serve with healthy sides like broccoli, carrots, bell pepper, and sweet potato fries.

Which one of these meal ideas would your 1 year olds love? Let me know in the comments below!

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What to feed a child for dinner? Food for peace and sound sleep

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 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 instill in children the right attitude to food, to their own feelings, the sooner they will form their own food culture. Disobeys, 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, saute 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 and yogurt soup

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, 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 Children's Salad

200g cauliflower, 1 tomato, 1 apple, 1.5 cucumber, 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. Hide a quail egg in the middle of each ball. You can roll "hedgehogs" in breadcrumbs. Bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes until the vegetables are ready.

Potato cutlets with cheese

Boil 4 medium potatoes in their skins, peel and grate. 2 handfuls of spinach finely chopped, mix with potatoes. Add 1 egg, cheese, green onion, parsley, salt to taste to the mixture. Form cutlets, roll them in breadcrumbs and fry or bake in the oven.

On the photos: Max (mother Emma), Egor (mother Panda™ ), Nastya (mother Jusi ), Kostya (mother Rebeline ), Anya (mother Dreamy little mermaid ).

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What to feed a child for dinner a year

Contents:

  • 1 Night hunger: is a hearty dinner necessary?
  • 2 What is a heavy and light supper? "Density" criterion
  • 3 Wrong dinner
  • 4 Recipes for dinner (age: 1.5-6 years)
  • 5 Diet
  • 6 Nutritional norms for a 1 year old baby
  • 7 Drama menu for a 1 year old baby per day
  • 9 Changes in the diet
  • 10 What to feed a baby at 1 year old
  • 11 Is it necessary to give up breastfeeding
  • 12 Caloric content of food
  • 13 Fruits and vegetables in the baby's diet
  • 14 Menu for the week
  • 15 Recommendations for cooking

Babies “hang” on their chests, older children wake up at night: either kefir or some water ... and mothers again puzzle: what to feed more satisfying in the evening so that they sleep better .

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 are again racking their brains: 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 soundly, 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 heavy and light supper? The "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 bad to eat 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 fruit.
  • 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 causes of "nervous hunger" here:

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 ... Be sure to make sure that the child does not stuff everything into himself, especially incompatible products. 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 instill in children the right attitude to food, to their own feelings, the sooner they will form their own food culture. Disobeys, 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 "harmful things", 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 (age: 1.5-6 years)

Raisin Risotto 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-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 omelette

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 and yogurt soup

125 g plain yogurt, 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 millet and pour boiling milk over it. 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 to swell, 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 garnish 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.

Cottage cheese 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, rub it with cottage cheese, add flour, sugar and soda. Mix everything thoroughly. Grease a hot frying pan with oil and bake pancakes on it.

Quail eggs with vegetables

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

Cut the carrots into small cubes, lightly fry them 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 Children's Salad

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

We disassemble the cabbage into inflorescences, boil it in salted water, cool. 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.

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 mixed - 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. Hide a quail egg in the middle of each ball. You can roll "hedgehogs" in breadcrumbs. Bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes until the vegetables are ready.

Potato cutlets with cheese

Boil 4 medium potatoes in their skins, peel and grate. 2 handfuls of spinach finely chopped, mix with potatoes. Add 1 egg, cheese, green onion, parsley, salt to taste to the mixture. Form cutlets, roll them in breadcrumbs and fry or bake in the oven.

On the photos: Max (mother Emma ), Egor (mother Panda™ ), Nastya (mother Jusi ), Kostya (mother Rebeline ), Anya (mother Dreamy Mermaid ).

The menu of a baby who has reached the age of one is significantly different from that to which the baby is accustomed. If earlier his mother had to cook according to all the rules - cook vegetables, cereals and soups in a separate bowl with no salt, then from 1 year old the picture changes. Many parents try to make life easier for themselves and transfer the child to the family diet. According to Yevgeny Komarovsky, this is the right strategy, however, it is important not to forget that the baby's nutrition should still be slightly different from adult meals. So, let's take a closer look at what should be the nutrition of children over 1 year old.

Diet

It is advisable to feed a baby after a year strictly by the hour. This is necessary in order for the child to form a conditioned reflex, and the food is assimilated as fully as possible. Permissible deviations in the hours of eating in the region of 15-20 minutes. The number of feedings per day should be at least 4, maximum - 5. If you plan to visit a kindergarten, it is desirable to form the correct regimen, as close as possible to kindergarten. Breakfast is served there around 8-30, lunch - at 12-12.30. Approximate baby feeding schedule:

  • Breakfast - 8-30. It is desirable that by this time the child has time to brush his teeth, wash, do gymnastics.
  • Lunch - 12.30. In order for the baby to spend energy and want to eat, before dinner you need to arrange a walk for him. It's great if mom goes with him to the playground, where a son or daughter can communicate with other kids.
  • Afternoon snack - 16.30. This time after sleep, as a rule, the baby is not yet hungry, but he needs to hold out until dinner. For an afternoon snack, you can offer crumbs of cottage cheese or a casserole.
  • Dinner - 19-00. This may be the last meal, after which the offspring performs nightly procedures - washing, brushing his teeth, playing a little and going to bed. However, for some babies, it is not enough to eat two hours before bedtime. At night, the child can drink milk or formula.

One-year-old baby needs to give milk formula 1-2 times a day.

Experts note that breast milk or formula is an important product for a one-year-old baby. However, it should be understood that breastfeeding is equivalent to eating, in this regard, it is not advisable to breastfeed the crumbs between main meals. It is best to feed him milk early in the morning or at night to ease the process of going to bed.

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