Dinner dishes for children 2. Curd breakfast. Syrniki. Rice porridge with apple “Charlotte”

Curious dialogues, growing dexterity of movements and a thirst to learn new things - we go through all this with our children who have passed their second anniversary. We just have to master children's menu for grown-up heirs, who at the age of 2 can already remember what their mother’s recipes tasted like. So let's make the nutrition of our beloved little ones as tastier and healthier as possible, while not forgetting about the characteristics of a growing person.

Caution when creating children's menus

Let's start with warnings about choosing products in a children's menu for 2 years.

Of course, for a 2-year-old child, a wide path is open to many dishes from an adult table. Every mother knows well the culinary personality of her favorite eater. What foods he was allergic to, which ones weakened or strengthened the stool, which delicacies he loved, and which ones he flatly refused.

But when we once again expand the children's menu, it is important to take a closer look at those products about which there are not good statistics.

So, what makes sense to be careful with, even if the baby is completely healthy.

Highly allergenic and difficult to digest foods: honey, chocolate, cocoa, citrus fruits, tomatoes, bell pepper, eggplants, strawberries, crabs, mussels, rare varieties of fish, beef, meat broths, mushrooms, peanuts, millet, unsoaked legumes and peas;

Products with excess gluten: oats, wheat, rye and everything made from them;

Foods with excess oxalates: cocoa, coffee, black tea, beets, green leafy vegetables, buckwheat and some others;

ALL dairy products in excess.

The list does not mean at all that we should abandon the listed items. However, trying not to overload the children's table with recipes from these products, we can find our golden mean for delicious meals and a contented smile for a healthy baby.

Children's menu for 2 and 3 years old: planning

When planning and creating a menu for a child, you should be guided by the following rules.

Small meals - 4 times a day:

Breakfast - 25% of the daily diet, complex carbohydrates with added proteins.
Lunch – 35%, proteins and carbohydrates, with enough fiber and vitamins. Start lunch with salad or soup.
Afternoon snack – 15%, light snack, for example, fruit.
Dinner – 25%, mostly proteins.

If a child has problems with gallbladder and intestines, it is advisable to feed the baby 5 times, almost equalizing the amount of food, and leaving lunch as the largest meal. Then a second breakfast appears, and portions are reduced, which has a beneficial effect on digestion.

Selection of vegetables and fruits:

70% of the plant diet comes from plants in the habitation zone.

The consistency of dishes should increasingly require chewing.

Following the lead of a baby who is accustomed to homogeneous food, we deprive him of the natural preparation of the speech apparatus for complex sounds and fluent speech. But every meal can be an excellent exercise for the facial muscles!

Thermal processing of food:

We prefer stewing and steaming.

Here are examples of recipes for children's menus for 2 and 3 year olds.

Breakfast: porridge based on Indian pilaf

We prepare porridge from buckwheat, round polished rice and corn grits.

Pour dry cereal into a cauldron with vegetable oil heated at the bottom. Average amount of oil 1-2 tbsp. per glass of cereal. Over low heat, heat the cereal in oil for 3-4 minutes, stirring constantly.
Pour boiling water 2 fingers above the level of the cereal and cook over medium or low heat under the lid until cooked. During the cooking process, you can stir and add boiling water.
It turns out to be crumbly porridge seasoned with vegetable oil.
Salt at the end of cooking, reducing the usual amount of salt by 1.5-2 times.

If you salt dishes at the very end of cooking, the usual amounts of salt can be reduced by up to 2 times, with almost no loss of taste. This way we will reduce sodium intake and avoid exposing the child to excessively salty foods.

You can add root vegetables to the porridge - at the stage of pouring water. And soft types - after 5 minutes of boiling the cereal. In winter, carrots and celery are good choices. In summer - zucchini and cauliflower.

For vegetables, you should introduce dicing, for example, using a “naiser-dicer”.

* Cook's Advice
Freezing vegetables in portions for many days in advance will help save time. Slice a large number of carrots, celery, cauliflower, mix, put in small bags and put in the freezer.

Lunch: vegetable cream soup

Ingredients

Half a medium carrot;
500 g broccoli;
300 g cauliflower;
1 small celery root;
1.5 liters of water.

How to cook

Lightly sauté the onions and carrots over medium heat. After 3 minutes, add other vegetables and keep covered over medium heat for another 4 minutes.
Boil water and add vegetables to it, add salt, pepper, dill and leave on low heat for 10 minutes.
Blend in a blender until pureed, which is then rubbed through a sieve.

You can add small cubes of hard cheese to the finished soup.

Ingredients

Boiled beans – 0.5-1 cup;
100 grams of turkey meat (breast);
1 medium carrot;
0.5 medium onion;
0.5 medium zucchini.

For the recipe, you can use other seasonal vegetables - so that the number of vegetable ingredients is no more than 5.

Can be used more often interesting views cabbage (cauliflower and broccoli, Brussels sprouts, Beijing sprouts), occasionally in small quantities - fresh green peas and green beans.

Step-by-step preparation

Cutting food: brisket - small cubes, carrots - coarsely grated or small cubes, onions - finely chopped, zucchini and cabbage - small cubes, boiled beans - cut large grains in half crosswise.
Place the turkey meat in a deep frying pan with heated sunflower oil and add a little boiling water. Simmer under the lid for 5 minutes.
Consistently, every 3-5 minutes, add onions and carrots - cauliflower - zucchini - beans to the meat.

Stew the stew for 20 minutes until the vegetables are as soft as desired.

How to make beans without the “gassing” effect

Fill the beans with 3 times the volume of cold water.
Place on the fire and bring to a boil.
Boil for 5-7 minutes, turn off the heat and leave covered for 8 hours. It is convenient to do this at night.
In the morning, drain all the water and cook, as usual, in fresh water.

Cooking beans in a slow cooker

You can cook beans in a slow cooker using the “Baking” mode for 50 to 70 minutes.

The resulting soft grains are suitable for adding to children's menus for 2 years, because... most of the irritants remained in the drained water.

Freeze portions

You can freeze boiled beans in portions. Having defrosted the required portion by steaming it in a slow cooker or using boiling water and a colander, we can quickly add it to dishes.

Dinner: steamed omelette with cauliflower

Ingredients: Quail eggs – 4 pcs. If the baby is not allergic to chicken protein, we use chicken eggs. Cauliflower inflorescence. A sprig of dill. Salt is on the tip of the knife.
Blend all ingredients in a blender.
Place in a small frying pan, lightly greased with vegetable oil.

Cook, covered, over low heat until the omelette is completely heated and rises noticeably. At the end, turn it over and leave it on the fire for another 1 minute.

Serve warm. You can add boiled vegetables to the serving - plates of beets and carrots, teaching the child to bite off vegetables in the right quantity.

It’s also convenient to cook an omelet in a slow cooker, using the “Steam” mode.

Dessert

In the everyday menu, the best dessert would be ripe fruit, natural yoghurt sweetened with fructose, or a small amount of low-fat cookies with dried fruit compote.

Many nutritionists and pediatricians agree on an opinion that is unusual for our culture. They advise giving any dessert dishes for a 2-year-old child as a separate meal and to do this rarely.

Offer fruits to your baby more often, but with reservations - either 20 minutes before meals, or separately (in this case, the fruit can be accompanied by a fresh fermented milk drink). In the nutrition mode there are 2 intermediate meals - the second breakfast and afternoon snack. A fruit snack would fit perfectly here.

Even if the child really loves fruit purees, we stubbornly switch to the solid form. What was previously offered homogeneous, we now give whole for biting or cut into thin slices: apple, pear, banana, apricot.

* Cook's Advice
Bananas are imported from countries where amoebic dysentery is common. Fruits should be washed with soap and rinsed well. And do not give unwashed bananas on the street, as sometimes happens immediately after purchase. The pathogen that gets from the skin to the hands can be transferred to the pulp.

The only sweet dish we will offer today:

Homemade lollipops

This is a delicious treat for a 2-year-old child’s menu and an excellent recipe for discreet speech gymnastics.

Ingredients

Apple juice – 3 tbsp;
Sugar – 5 tbsp;
Vegetable oil – 1 tbsp.

Preparation

In a small saucepan, combine the juice and sugar and cook over low heat until thickened.
Pour the mixture into silicone mold for ice, greased with oil.
When the mixture begins to harden, take out the lollipops and place them on a base - a bamboo skewer or half a medical spatula (sold at any pharmacy)

Every housewife has a couple of signature desserts that can be adjusted to the children's menu. Soberly evaluate their composition when offering a treat to a 2-year-old child. And if the recipes require modification, simplification or replacement of ingredients, we wish a fair wind to the flight of your conscious imagination!

According to science, dinner should make up 20% of the daily diet. But children, especially small children, change their daily routine in their own way.

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 enters the body during the day. If a 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 warm milk or kefir at night, before bed, is advisable. Children receiving 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 fullness and calms him down.

Night hunger: do you need a hearty dinner?

Many parents are worried when a child wakes up several times a night and asks for food. Scientists have long found that the feeling of hunger, which illogically (provided there is 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. Even an adult confuses thirst with hunger and grabs another piece instead of a glass of water. A 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 transform the desire to “drink” into “eat.” Parents are people too, they want to rest at night, so they 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 thoroughly at night. In this case, the parents will get peace of mind, but not the child. His body will not rest; it will be busy digesting food. Often such excesses - semolina porridge or meat dishes at night - lead to gastrointestinal diseases. Drowsiness after eating is natural, but severe drowsiness caused by stomach “cementation” is not good for anyone. Yogis call this state “tamasic” - some food causes a state of “tamas”: lethargy, laziness, contamination 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 cause, feeding meat at night is pointless - one link will pull another, and the chain of problems will sooner or later close. Restless sleep is associated with a lack of attention (getting attention from parents whom the child has not seen most of the day), unconscious fear (something happened during the day, it caught your attention, haunts you), disturbed microclimate (dry air, heat, stuffiness), impaired breathing (slight nasal congestion). In all these cases, the child is free to wake up and demand something to drink and eat, in fact wanting to eliminate the real problem, without being able to formulate it, understand it, or calculate it on his own.

They often ask: is it harmful to feed porridge for dinner, is it too heavy food. Look at the child! The child will always give a signal which food is preferable for him. If 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, processed foods, cereals, cookies, and so on. Porridge can be harmful if a particular child does not digest it for some reason. In other cases, porridge may not be harmful. We found something to worry about - thousands of parents don’t know how to push anything into their child, while others are worried about the porridge - heavy, not heavy... normal! But if you still have doubts about the need for evening porridge, make it easier. Do not serve millet, semolina, or pearl barley porridge for dinner; if possible, do not use milk and sugar, replacing them with fruit puree, dried fruit, a spoonful of honey - or add milk mixture. “Light” porridge for the night is buckwheat, oatmeal and any “children’s” (powdered). Semolina porridge, among 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 energy at night, food is fuel for accumulation, which means that eating at night is not forbidden. That is, the child can eat before bedtime - 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. If you find yourself in such a situation (when a child has dinner before bed), do not remember all the horrors of the world written by hardworking journalists about junk food at night. Everything requires an individual approach. The child sleeps well, he has no health problems, excess weight and excitability - this means that a plate of light porridge or omelet is not a problem that is worth attention and loss of nerve cells on both sides.

Also considered ideal dishes for dinner are:

Cottage cheese, cottage cheese dishes (casseroles, cheesecakes), cottage cheese with fruit.
Omelet, vegetables in an omelette, boiled eggs.
Vegetable mixtures, purees, stews, casseroles, cutlets and zrazy from vegetables, vegetables with rice, buckwheat. Raw vegetables.
Salads.
Fruits – bananas and green apples. Banana soothes, increases the feeling of satiety, and green apples are rich in “night” elements - calcium and iron, magnesium, potassium.
Baked fruits: apples, pears.
Any dairy products– kefir, yogurt, bifidoc, acidophilus. Cheese.

Any child can learn one simple truth, if you don’t belittle his mental abilities in advance and don’t think “Oh my, never!” It is necessary to constantly convince the child that a hungry person will eat everything that is offered to him. Do you want to eat? - that means eat what they give you. A child demanding food often has a very specific cookie or hidden candy in mind. It kind of tests parental fortitude. The sooner you instill in your children right attitude to food, to their own feelings, the sooner they will form their own food culture. Doesn't 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 kinds of sausages are not food for the hungry, but pampering for the well-fed. Of course, all this is not pronounced in the boring voice of an admirer of Leo Tolstoy, raising a finger over the curly 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 “harmful things”; each family has its own traditions on this matter, its own problems, its own worldview. You should not give chocolate rolls, sweets, ice cream, or hot sandwiches for dinner. Children are children, we love to pamper them, and no one has the right to blame parents for this. But still - for the sake of strengthening the immune system, for the sake of resistance to viruses and bacteria, for the sake of healthy nervous system you should gradually and in small ways change the quality of food, especially in the evening. In the evening and at night, the body gratefully accepts and digests clean food. At night it merges with space, and it would be nice not to spoil the feeling of flight and relaxation with food that spoils metabolism and specifically kills the “building blocks” of health (vitamins, microelements) received with daily food. Choose simpler sweets, avoid 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 takes 4-6 hours to digest, and it does not bring any benefit. The exception is steamed 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 mixtures of chemicals and salts for dinner. Charlottes, pancakes and pancakes also cannot be called the right dish for dinner, but for variety they can be eaten in small quantities.

The most important thing is do not try to feed a hungry child in the evening if he is hungry only in your imagination. If he doesn’t want to eat, he can’t sit him down at the table - make jelly, fruit juice or compote, give him a healthy drink and calm down yourself.

Dinner recipes (ages: 1.5-6 years)

Risotto “Highlight”
200 g cauliflower, 2 carrots, 1 cup rice, 4 tbsp. pitted prunes, 2 tbsp. raisins, 2 tbsp. butter.
Grate the carrots, sauté in oil, add a little water, simmer for 10 minutes. Scald the cauliflower and separate into florets. Pour 2 cups of rice hot water, salt and add prunes and raisins previously soaked in water. Add vegetables and simmer risotto for 40 minutes over low heat. Before serving, sprinkle with finely chopped herbs.

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 the peeled apple and carrots. Grind the egg yolk with sugar, beat the white into a fluffy foam. Combine the apple and carrots, add sour cream or milk, yolk with sugar, semolina, salt, carefully add the beaten egg white, mix. Place the mixture in a greased baking dish, bake in the oven or steam for 30-35 minutes.

Omelette "Africa"
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 grate the carrots. Beat eggs, add milk and flour, cheese and juice, add salt and combine with carrot puree. Pour the mixture into a frying pan and fry the omelette 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 the broccoli so that the water barely covers them, cook for 5 minutes over low heat. Grate the potatoes and carrots, sauté in olive oil with constant stirring. Add the sauté to the soup, cook for another 10 minutes, cool slightly. Pour yogurt into the 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 the millet and pour boiling milk over it. Add sugar, salt and cook the porridge, cool. Add cottage cheese, butter, yogurt to the prepared 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, chop some finely. Combine cereals and dried fruits, pour boiling water, add salt and cook until half cooked, stirring constantly. Bring the porridge to readiness in the oven.
Before serving, add melted butter to the porridge and decorate it with the remaining prunes and dried apricots.

Baby apricot puree with rice
Dried apricots – 100g, water – 375g, baby rice porridge powder – 2 tbsp. breast milk or warmed formula – 80 ml.
Combine dried apricots and water in a small saucepan and cook until soft for 20 minutes. Make apricot puree by adding water. Breast milk or mix the mixture with rice powder. Serve with 1 tbsp. apricot puree. Can be stored for up to 2 days in the refrigerator. Also, the puree can be frozen into 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 in it.

Scrambled eggs with vegetables “Quail egg”
2 quail eggs, 1 carrot, 0.5 stalk of celery, 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil.
Cut the carrots into small cubes and lightly fry them in oil. Add celery cut into small pieces to the carrots. Add water to the vegetables so that it slightly covers the vegetables and simmer until tender over low heat. Beat the eggs, add them to the vegetables, mix. Cover with a lid and leave for 2 minutes.

Children's salad "Coral Reef"
200g cauliflower, 1 tomato, 1 apple, one and a half cucumbers, 2 leaves of green lettuce, 2 tbsp. sour cream, salt.
We disassemble the cabbage into inflorescences, boil it in salted water, and cool. Cut a tomato, an apple and 1 cucumber into small cubes, combine them with chopped lettuce leaves. Salt the prepared salad, season it with sour cream, mix and place cauliflower on top. We cut out a crab figurine from half a cucumber and decorate our salad with it.

Curd and 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 the bread in milk. Grind the fish fillet in a meat grinder, mix with cottage cheese and finely chopped onion. Mix the bread with the resulting minced meat and grind it through the meat grinder again. Beat in the egg and mix. Form the meatballs, place them in a pre-greased pan and bake for 25-30 minutes. Then pour in 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 vegetable mixture with carrots and onions. Garnish: 40 g boiled rice.

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

Vegetable hedgehogs with a surprise
Boil various vegetables until half cooked: potatoes, carrots, cauliflower, maybe beets. Cool, grate on a coarse grater. Add egg, salt, a little semolina or corn (buckwheat) flour, form small balls. Hide in the middle of each ball quail egg. You can roll the 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 jackets, peel and grate. Finely chop 2 handfuls of spinach and mix with potatoes. Add 1 egg, cheese, green onions, parsley, and salt to taste to the mixture. Form cutlets, roll them in breadcrumbs and fry or bake in the oven.

Millet porridge with prunes

Millet cereal - 150 g, water - 450 g, sugar - 15 g, prunes - 120 g, butter - 30 g.

Rinse the prunes and cook in a small amount of water until they become soft, set aside the berries. Add water and sugar to the broth and bring to a boil. Pour the cereal into the boiling broth and cook the porridge over low heat until cooked. At the end of cooking, add butter to the porridge and garnish with boiled prunes before serving.

Milk soup with semolina dumplings

Semolina - 30 g, milk - 200 g, water - 200 g, butter - 10 g, 1/2 egg, sugar, salt to taste

Boil milk with 1/2 cup hot water, add sugar and salt. Place small dumplings by the teaspoon into the boiling liquid. Cook the dumplings at low simmer for 5-7 minutes. When the dumplings float, stop cooking. Place a piece of butter in a bowl of soup.

Cooking dumplings. Boil 1/2 cup of water with a piece of butter (5 g) and a salt solution, add semolina and, stirring, cook the porridge over low heat for 10 minutes. Add 1/2 raw egg or 1 yolk to the slightly cooled porridge, then mix thoroughly.

Milk soup with rice

Rice - 20 g, milk - 200 g, water - 200 g, butter - 10 g, salt.

Sort the rice, rinse several times cold water, add to boiling water and cook until it becomes soft. Then pour in raw milk, let it boil, add salt, sugar and butter.

Egg dishes for children over 2 years old

Scrambled eggs with bread

Egg - 1 pc., wheat bread - 25 g, milk - 1/4 cup, butter - 2 teaspoons, salt.

Cut stale bread into small cubes, soak in milk and add salt. Beat the egg well, mix with bread cubes, pour into a hot frying pan with oil, and fry.

Omelette

Egg - 1 pc., milk - 1 tbsp. spoon, butter -1 tsp. spoon, salt.

Pour the raw egg into a bowl, add cold milk, salt solution and beat with a fork until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Pour the egg mixture into a frying pan with heated oil and fry, stirring. When the fried egg thickens evenly and is slightly fried on the bottom side, lift it from one edge with a knife and fold it in half.

Omelette with zucchini

Eggs - 2 pcs., milk - 1/2 cup, zucchini - 60 g, butter - 2 teaspoons.

Peel the zucchini, chop coarsely, place in a saucepan, add half the oil and simmer over low heat under a closed lid until tender. Then place in a greased frying pan, pour in eggs mixed with milk and bring to readiness.

Apple omelette

Eggs - 1 pc., flour - 1 tbsp. spoon, cereals- 3 tbsp. spoons, milk - 4 tbsp. spoons, 1 apple, butter -1 teaspoon, powdered sugar -1 teaspoon, salt to taste.

Combine flour, oatmeal, milk, salt and mix. Separate the egg white from the yolk. Beat the egg white well and add to the resulting mixture.

Peel the apple, cut into 4 parts, remove the core and cut the quarters into thin slices.

Melt the butter in a frying pan and place the prepared mixture into it. Place apple slices evenly on top and bake the omelette over low heat until golden brown on the bottom, then carefully turn over and fry the other side. Serve sprinkled with powdered sugar. You can use a banana instead of apples.

Omelet with flour

Eggs - 2 pcs., wheat flour - 2 teaspoons, milk - 1/4 cup, butter - 1 teaspoon. spoon, salt to taste.

Sift the wheat flour, dilute with cold milk, add salt solution, sugar syrup, egg yolks and mix everything well. Beat the whites until foamy, combine with the resulting mixture, pour into a hot frying pan with oil and fry over low heat. When one side of the omelette is fried, turn it over to the other, adding a little oil to the pan, and fry until done.

Omelet with cheese

Eggs - 2 pcs., milk - 1/2 cup, butter - 1 teaspoon, grated cheese - 2 teaspoons.

Mix eggs with milk and grated cheese, pour into a hot frying pan with heated oil, fry until tender, covered, stirring occasionally with a spoon.

Egg soufflé

Eggs - 2 pcs., butter - 1 tsp. spoon, vanilla crackers - 2 teaspoons, milk - 1 glass, sugar 1 teaspoon, salt.

Mix the yolks with sugar and crushed breadcrumbs. Beat the whites into a strong foam and carefully mix with the yolks. Pour the mixture into a deep frying pan, greased with oil and sprinkled with sifted breadcrumbs. Cut the soufflé crosswise to 2/3 of its depth so that the heat penetrates inside better. Place in a slightly preheated oven for 10-15 minutes. To prevent the soufflé from burning on top, you can cover it with clean paper. Serve the finished soufflé immediately after baking. Serve the milk separately with the soufflé.

Dishes with cottage cheese for children over 2 years old

Curd and carrot casserole

Carrots - 80 g, bun - 20 g, egg - 1/2, cottage cheese - 50 g, sour cream - 1 teaspoon, sugar - 1 teaspoon, salt to taste.

Boil the carrots and grate them on a fine grater. Add the soaked bread, egg, cottage cheese, sour cream and sugar, and a little salt. Mix everything, transfer to a greased mold, grease the top with oil and bake for 25-30 minutes. in the oven. Serve the finished casserole with sour cream.

Green cottage cheese

Cottage cheese - 200 g, softened butter - 1 tbsp. spoon, salt on the tip of a knife, sugar -1 teaspoon, herbs (dill, green onions, parsley) - 3 tbsp. spoons, 1 tomato.

Grind the cottage cheese with butter. Add finely chopped herbs, sugar, salt. Place the curd mixture on a plate and garnish with tomato slices.

Serve with boiled potatoes and carrots.

Pink curd

TVorog - 200 g, sour cream - 2 tbsp. spoons, jam (strawberry or raspberry) - 2-3 tbsp. spoons, raisins - 1/2 cup, a pinch of vanilla sugar.

Rinse the raisins with hot water and dry on a clean towel. Grind cottage cheese with sour cream, add jam, raisins and vanilla sugar. Mix everything thoroughly.

Cottage cheese with corn sticks

Cottage cheese - 200 g, milk - 6 tbsp. spoon, a pinch of salt, sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons, corn sticks - 1 cup.

Grind the cottage cheese, add sugar, milk, salt and stir thoroughly. Add corn sticks and stir.

Vegetable dishes for children over 2 years old

Cucumber salad

Cucumber - 1 piece, sour cream - 1 tbsp. spoon, egg - ¼ piece, salt, pinch of dill.

Wash the fresh cucumber (cucumber with rough skin, peel). Cut the cucumber into thin slices, put in a salad bowl, add salt and stir. Boil the egg, grind the yolk thoroughly and mix with sour cream, season the salad, sprinkle with finely chopped dill.

The vinaigrette

Potatoes - 1 pc., sauerkraut - 1 tbsp. spoon, beets - 1/8 pcs., pickled cucumber - 1/8 pcs., carrots - ¼ pcs., apple - ¼ pcs., vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. spoon, salt solution - ¼ teaspoon.

Wash and boil beets, potatoes and carrots. Peel boiled vegetables and cut into small pieces. Wash, peel, and pour over cucumbers, apples and onions boiled water, cut into small pieces. Add sauerkraut (if it is too sour, rinse first). Season with vegetable oil and salt.

Summer vinaigrette

Potatoes - 1 pc., tomato - 1/4 pcs., cucumber - 1/4 pcs., beets - 1/8 pcs., carrots - 1/4 pcs., turnip piece, apple - 1/4 pcs., oil vegetable - 1 tbsp. spoon, salt...

Wash the beets and potatoes, boil them, then peel and cut into thin small slices. Wash carrots and turnips, peel, cut into slices, put in a bowl, add 2-3 teaspoons of water, vegetable oil and simmer, covering the bowl with a lid, then cool. Wash fresh cucumbers, tomatoes and apples, pour boiling water over them and cut into slices. Mix the prepared vegetables, add salt, season with lemon juice and sour cream.

Salad "Summer"

New potatoes, tomatoes, fresh or lightly salted cucumber - 1/4 each, radishes - 1 pc., a small piece of turnip, sour cream or vegetable oil - 2 teaspoons.

Boil potatoes, cut into small pieces. Add tomato and cucumber, cut into small pieces, grate radishes and turnips, combine everything, salt, season with sour cream or butter.

Carrot salad with honey and nuts

Carrots - ½ piece, honey - 1 teaspoon, walnuts- 3-4 pcs.

Grate the carrots on a fine grater, add finely chopped nuts and honey. Mix everything.

Cauliflower salad

Cauliflower - 3 - 4 inflorescences, 1/4 hard-boiled egg, sour cream (kefir or sunflower oil) -1 teaspoon.

Boil cabbage and egg, chop finely, mix, season with sour cream (kefir or sunflower oil).

Raw vegetable salad

Tomatoes - ½ piece, cucumbers - ¼ piece, carrots - ¼ piece, apple - ¼ piece, green salad - 3-4 leaves, green onion - 1 feather, sour cream - 1 tbsp. spoon, salt.

Wash and clean everything thoroughly. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater, finely chop the apple and cucumber into strips, finely chop the onion. Mix everything, season with sour cream and salt.

Potatoes with carrots

Potatoes - 1.5 pcs., carrots - ½ pcs., onion - ½ pcs. butter - 2 teaspoons, salt.

Peel the potatoes, wash them, cut them into large cubes (approx. 1.5-2 cm), add a small amount of water, add salt and cook until tender. Wash the carrots and onions, peel them, cut them into small cubes, put them in a small saucepan with melted butter, add 1-2 tbsp. spoons of water, close the lid and, stirring, simmer until done. Place the finished hot carrots and potatoes in one bowl, stir, and simmer for another 2-3 minutes.

Potatoes in milk sauce

Potatoes - 2.5 pcs., butter - 2 teaspoons, wheat flour - 1/2 teaspoon, milk - 3/4 cups, salt.

Boil the potatoes in salted water “in their jackets”, peel them, cut them into cubes (approx. 2 cm), put them in a saucepan, pour hot milk, add salt, bring to a boil. Move the flour from butter; put this mixture into hot potatoes in small pieces, stirring. Bring to a boil, remove from heat. When serving, sprinkle with parsley and dill.

Potatoes in sour cream sauce

Potatoes - 2 pcs., sour cream - 2 tbsp. spoons, salt, a pinch of herbs.

Boil the potatoes in salted water “in their skins”, peel them, cut them into cubes, put them in a saucepan with heated sour cream, add salt, mix gently and boil. Before serving, sprinkle with finely chopped parsley or dill.

Potato casserole

Potatoes - 2 pcs., ground crackers - 2 teaspoons, butter - 2 teaspoons, sour cream - 2 tbsp. spoons, egg - 1 pc., salt.

Boil the potatoes in their jackets, peel them, rub them hot through a sieve, add salt, mix well with melted butter and beaten egg (1/2 pcs). Place the potato mixture in a frying pan, greased with oil and sprinkled with breadcrumbs, brush the top with the remaining egg mixed with 1 teaspoon of sour cream, and bake in the oven for 15 minutes. Serve with sour cream, sour cream or tomato sauce.

Pumpkin baked in sour cream

Pumpkin - 1 kg, vegetable oil - 2-3 tbsp. spoons, salt, sugar to taste, wheat crackers - 2 tbsp. spoons, sour cream - 4 tbsp. spoons, dill and parsley.

Peel the pumpkin from the skin and seeds, cut into thin slices, fry in vegetable oil, place in a frying pan or mold, season with salt, sugar, sprinkle with grated breadcrumbs, pour in sour cream, bake in the oven. Serve sprinkled with herbs.

Pumpkin stewed with apples

Pumpkin - 1 kg, apples - 500g, sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons, butter - 1-2 tbsp. spoons, water or apple juice -0.5 cups, cinnamon, salt to taste.

Peel the pumpkin and apples from the skin and seeds, cut into small cubes, put in a saucepan, add water or juice, season with salt, sugar and butter, cover with a lid and simmer until tender.

Potato cutlets

Potatoes - 2 pcs., wheat flour - ½ tsp, vegetable oil - 1.5 tsp, egg - ¼ pcs., salt, sauce - 2 tbsp. spoons.

Boil the potatoes in salted water in their skins, peel them, rub hot through a sieve or mash well. Add egg, salt, mix well. Divide the potato mixture into cutlets and fry in a frying pan on both sides. Serve with sour cream or milk sauce.

Cabbage cutlets

Cabbage - 500 g, milk - 100 g, eggs - 2 pcs., flour (or semolina) - 2 tbsp. spoons, salt to taste, breadcrumbs, vegetable or vegetable oil for frying.

Finely chop the cabbage, place in an enamel pan, add milk and simmer over low heat until tender. Beat 2 eggs into the hot mixture, stir quickly, add flour or semolina, stir quickly again, and add salt to taste. Cool the mixture, shape into cutlets, roll in grated breadcrumbs and fry in vegetable or butter.

Carrot cutlets

Carrots - 500 g, semolina - 1 tbsp. spoon, sugar - 2 teaspoons, egg - 1 pc., salt on the tip of a knife, breadcrumbs, butter for frying.

Grate the carrots on a fine grater, squeeze out the juice, add semolina, sugar, salt, egg and mix thoroughly. Form cutlets from the resulting mass, roll in breadcrumbs or flour and fry in butter.

You can make pumpkin cutlets in the same way.

Potato dumplings

Potatoes - 2 pcs., butter - 2 teaspoons, milk - 2 tbsp. spoons, sour cream - 1 tbsp. spoon, egg - ½ piece, salt.

Wash the potatoes, boil them in their skins, peel and mash. Add egg yolk, hot milk, salt, melted butter and then whipped white to the potato mixture. Take the mass with a teaspoon (soaked in water so that the mass does not stick) and lower it into boiling salted water (you get dumplings) and cook at low boil for 5-6 minutes. Place the floating dumplings in a colander, let the water drain, transfer to a bowl, add oil.

Serve hot with sour cream.

Meat dishes for children over 2 years old

Potato zrazy stuffed with meat

Potatoes - 2 pcs., beef - 50 g, onions - 1/8 pcs., butter - 2 teaspoons, sour cream - 1 tbsp. spoon, egg - 1/4 pcs., salt.

Wash the potatoes, boil them in their skins, peel them, and mash well. Add the egg, salt, mix well and cut into round thin cakes.

Separately, prepare the minced meat: cut the raw meat into small pieces, add salt, add a little water and simmer until done in a sealed container. Pass the finished meat through a meat grinder, add a little broth in which the meat was stewed (the broth should be taken in such a quantity that the minced meat is juicy, but not too wet).

Place minced meat in the middle of the potato cake, join the edges and give the zrazas an oval flattened shape (like a pie). Place the zrazy in a greased frying pan, fry on both sides or bake in the oven. Serve with sour cream.

Meat (fish) pudding

Meat (fish fillet) - 50 g, bun - 15 g, milk - . 50 g, 1/2 egg

Pass the meat (fish fillet) together with the bread soaked in milk through a meat grinder twice, add salt, dilute with milk to a mushy consistency, add 1/2 the yolk, mix, add 1/2 of the beaten egg white. Transfer the mixture into a greased mold and steam for 40-45 minutes.

Meat croquettes with a side dish of vegetables

Meat - 100 g, water - 100 g, carrots - 40 g, onions - 5 g, roots - 10 g, bun - 20 g, rutabaga - 20 g, cauliflower - 50 g, green peas - 15 g, potatoes - 50 g, oil - 4 g, salt to taste.

Wash the vegetables, peel them, cut them into cubes, add water, add salt, and simmer covered. Grind the meat through a meat grinder along with the bread soaked in cold water and squeezed out. Add butter, a little salt to the minced meat, mix well, cut into 2 round croquettes. Dip the croquettes into the broth with vegetables for 20 minutes. Before serving, cook until done.

Meat cutlets with vegetables

Minced meat - 250 g, 1 small carrot, 1 small zucchini, potatoes - 1 pc., 1/2 small onion, tomato sauce - 1 tbsp. spoon, 1 egg, olive oil for frying.

Peel, wash, grate carrots, zucchini, potatoes, onions, combine with minced meat and tomato sauce, mix well, form small cutlets.

Heat the oil in a frying pan and fry the cutlets on all sides until cooked. Serve with vermicelli or rice.

Chicken soufflé

Chicken fillet - 300 g, egg whites - 3 pcs., butter - 30 g, milk - 100 g, salt, herbs - to taste, butter for greasing the mold, breadcrumbs for sprinkling the mold.

Pass the chicken through a meat grinder, rub the minced meat through a sieve, add softened butter, milk, and mix. Cool the mixture in the refrigerator and beat well. Beat the chilled whites into a thick foam, combine with the minced meat, add salt, very finely chopped herbs, and mix carefully.

What to feed a 2 year old baby? You won’t satisfy him with pureed unsalted soup. He already has teeth, he is happy to train them if you give him a chicken leg. He sees what adults eat and is drawn to new foods. Is it possible to give him what mom and dad eat? When organizing the nutrition of a two-year-old baby, it is necessary to take into account the needs of the growing body for nutrients. At the same time, we must not forget that the delicate digestive system, liver and kidneys cannot cope with rough or spicy foods. Much of what adults eat is still harmful to him.

Right now he needs to be taught to chew food. The main thing is to make sure he doesn't choke.
It is necessary to get used to solid food, otherwise it will be more difficult to get used to meat and fruits later. The baby will be picky about food.
A 2-year-old child's diet should include thick porridge, well-cooked meat and fish, stewed vegetables in pieces - foods that require chewing.
If until now he ate 5-6 times a day with semi-liquid, pureed food, now he is able to eat more densely, and 4 meals a day is quite enough.
The most high-calorie food should be eaten during lunch. If your baby overeats at dinner, he will sleep worse. Besides, he won’t want to have breakfast in the morning.

Products necessary for a 2 year old baby

The range of products that a child should eat is expanding significantly.

Milk and dairy products

It is necessary to consume milk with a fat content of at least 3.2% and fermented milk products daily. You can give up to 500 ml of these products per day. The diet must include up to 50 g of cottage cheese with at least 5% fat content.

You should add a teaspoon of cream or sour cream to your dishes, and give a small piece of cheese daily. It is sometimes recommended to make cheese pancakes or dumplings from cottage cheese and cheese. Although raw cottage cheese is healthier.

Meat

Until now, it was recommended to give the baby only mashed potatoes or steamed beef and chicken cutlets. Now the range is expanding. You can add dishes from lean pork and rabbit to the menu. The meat of ducks and geese contains difficult-to-digest fats, so feed them to such small child not worth it. But low-fat turkey meat is good for him.

Animal food contains vitamin A, without which normal physical development of a child and his growth are impossible. The content of this vitamin and valuable proteins is especially high in the liver, so it is useful to prepare pate or cutlets from it. Moreover, the liver more tender than meat, dishes made from offal (liver, heart, tongue) are easier to digest and assimilate in the child’s body.

The child is given up to 100 g of any meat per day. Occasionally it can be replaced by sausages (milk sausages or low-fat boiled diet sausage).

Advice: It is better to give sausages marked “for children”, as they contain a minimum of harmful food additives, their composition is controlled more strictly.

Fish

The fats contained in fish are easily digestible and contain special amino acids necessary for the formation of the vascular system and nutrition of the brain. Regular consumption of fish is necessary for the development of speech, memory and other mental abilities. A child needs to be given about 30-40 g of fish per day. It is recommended to give sea or river fish of low-fat varieties (cod, hake, carp).

Fish is fried or boiled, cutlets or fish soups are prepared. You should not give smoked or canned fish, as well as caviar (it is a high-calorie product that can cause allergies). You can give your child soaked low-fat herring. The fish must be thoroughly cleaned of bones.

Vegetables and greens

Plant foods are the main source of vitamins. At 2 years old, a child’s diet should include not only vegetable purees, but also stewed vegetables cut into pieces, as well as vegetable salads. Spinach dishes are very healthy. In vegetable dishes, be sure to add fresh parsley, green onions, and a little garlic. This helps shape the taste sensations. Fiber contained in plant products, is necessary for the normal functioning of the intestines and the prevention of constipation.

Fruits and berries

A two-year-old child needs to eat 100-150 g of fruits and berries every day. They must be cleared of skin and seeds so that the child does not choke. The baby chews a piece of apple or pear perfectly with his teeth. Children love bananas and plums. Citrus fruits are very useful, but they must be given with great caution, since children are often allergic to them. This also applies to strawberries and raspberries.

Please note: Some fruits and berries (pear, blackcurrant, blueberry) strengthen the intestines. If a child often has constipation, then it is better to offer him kiwi, cherries, plums, and apricots.

Children under 1.5 years old are usually given clarified juices. From 2 years old, you can give natural juices with pulp (up to 150 ml per day). This will help stimulate bowel movements.

Porridge and pasta

For normal intestinal function, the baby needs to eat buckwheat, oatmeal, rice and other cereals, as they are rich in protein and contain the necessary micro- and macroelements and vitamins. Pasta is prepared as a side dish or added to soups (up to 50 g per day).

Sugar and sweets

It is not recommended to spoil your child with sweets. He may develop an addiction to sweetened foods. This has a bad effect on appetite and metabolism. There should be no more than 40 g of sugar in the daily diet (taking into account the fact that it is contained in sweet juices and jam). Sometimes you can treat your baby to marmalade or marshmallows. Chocolate often causes an allergic reaction in a child. In addition, it stimulates the nervous system.

Video: Healthy and harmful foods

Sample menu for a week for a 2 year old child

Day	Breakfast	Dinner	Afternoon snack	Dinner
1	Buckwheat porridge with milk - 200 g White bread with jam - 1 slice Cocoa - 100 ml	Tomato and cucumber salad with sour cream - 40 g Pumpkin soup with potatoes and meat - 150 g Rice porridge - 80 g Bread Apple juice - 0.5 cups	Yogurt - 150 ml Banana - 0.5 pieces Cookies - 1 piece	Stewed vegetables with fish - 200 g Bread Kefir - 0.5 cups
2	Cottage cheese casserole with fruits and nuts - 200 g Cocoa - 150 ml Bread, butter	Apple and carrot salad with vegetable oil - 40 g Soup with egg and dumplings - 150 g Boiled meat - 50 g Berry jelly - 100 ml Rye bread	Milk - 150 ml Cookies - 2-3 pieces	Omelet - 50 g Pancake with jam Kefir - 150 ml
3	Hercules porridge - 150 g Bread and butter Cocoa - 100 ml	Fish soup with potatoes and rice -150 g Spinach casserole with egg - 80 g Juice - 100 ml Rye bread	Kissel - 150 ml Cookies - 3 pieces Banana - 0.5 pieces	Milk pudding - 150 g Cookies - 2 pieces Sweet tea - 100 ml
4	Pumpkin porridge with rice - 100 g Cocoa - 100 ml Cheesecake - 1 piece	Beet and apple salad Rice soup with meat Dumplings with cottage cheese - 2 pieces Tea with sugar	Omelet - 100 g White bread with butter Tea or compote - 150 ml	Kefir - 150 ml Crackers - 50 g
5	Millet porridge with milk, with butter - 150 g Cocoa - 100 ml Cookies - 1 piece	Fish rice soup - 150 g Pasta with sour cream - 50 g Bread Compote - 150 ml Fruits - 100 g	Cottage cheese with cream - 50 g Cookies - 3 pieces Rosehip tea with sugar - 150 ml	Yogurt - 150 ml Cookies - 2 pieces
6	Buckwheat porridge with butter - 100 g Pancake with cottage cheese - 1 piece Sweet tea	Apple and carrot salad - 50 g Milk soup with vermicelli - 150 g Meat cutlet - 1 piece Tea with sugar - 100 ml Rye bread	Pancake with jam Pumpkin and carrot porridge - 80 g Tea with milk	Kefir - 150 ml Cheesecake - 1 piece
7	Baked apple - 1 piece Hercules porridge - 100 g cookies - 1 piece Cocoa - 100 ml	Apple, banana and kiwi salad - 50 g Rice soup with chicken - 150 g Pasta with minced meat - 80 g Tea with milk	Vegetable stew with meat - 100 g Bread Dried fruit compote - 150 ml	Kefir - 150 ml Cookies - 3 pieces

Video: Weekly menu for a child aged 2 years

Despite the fact that the nutrition of a child at the age of 2 years is already approaching that of an adult, he needs to be prepared separately. Do not put pepper, vinegar, or tomato paste into children's borscht, stew or stew (it contains food additives).

It is recommended to prepare food for the child one time at a time. When dishes are heated, food components lose their beneficial features. It is advisable to feed the baby at certain time, you cannot force him to eat if he refuses any product. It may be enough to remove one of the components of the dish or change the consistency. Between feedings, the baby should be given water to drink. Juices or other drinks spoil your appetite.

A menu for a 2-year-old child can become a headache for a mother if the baby is not accustomed to a common table. At this age, the child is approaching an adult diet. In order for the baby to be able to eat well with other family members, it may be worth reconsidering the general principles of nutrition and family gastronomic culture.

What to feed a 2 year old child? Of course, you need to take into account his taste preferences. At this age they already become more obvious and defined. But you can’t feed your baby only his favorite oatmeal or steamed cutlets. How can we help him expand his gourmet tastes, teach him to taste dishes and enjoy food? The kitchen includes both family and national traditions. The menu depends on the skills and imagination of mom (sometimes dad), and even more - on the availability of free time. It is better to make simple but varied dishes. And you can pamper the whole family with something delicious on the weekend. It is important to choose healthy cooking methods: stewing, baking, boiling, steaming. You should avoid smoked, fatty, spicy, highly sour and salty foods. Sometimes you can serve lightly fried dishes, for example, cheesecakes, pancakes, pancakes. Food should always be freshly prepared, homemade, without processed foods from the supermarket.

General principles of nutrition for a two-year-old child

What foods should be included in a child’s diet and in what quantities?

Transition from liquid to semi-liquid and solid foods. At the age of 2, a child already has 20 baby teeth. He can chew fully and eat rough, solid food. The transition to dense foods should be gradual. First, a 2-year-old child’s diet should include boiled porridge, casseroles, stewed vegetables, and cured meat. Over time, the baby will learn to bite and chew meat, hard vegetables and fruits well.
Number of meals. At two years old, the baby is transferred to four meals a day: breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner. At the same time, on average 50% nutritional value distributed for breakfast, dinner, afternoon snack, and 50% is lunch.
Requirements for proteins, fats, carbohydrates. Daily norm protein - up to 60 g, of which 70% are proteins of animal origin. Carbohydrates should be no more than 220 g. The fat content in the daily diet is 50–60 g, of which 10% belongs to vegetable fats. The daily intake of proteins at this age is extremely important; they cannot be replaced with fats or carbohydrates.
Dairy products. Included in the menu daily. Recommended dairy products: kefir, yogurt, cottage cheese, butter, sour cream, whole milk (if there are no allergies). It is advisable to take these products from the dairy kitchen. They should be fresh and not too greasy. The daily intake of cottage cheese is 30 g (from 0 to 11% fat content), milk and kefir - 500–600 ml (from 3.2 to 4% fat content). This also includes milk, which is used to prepare porridge. You can make casseroles and cheesecakes from cottage cheese. Hard unsalted and mild cheese is allowed (up to 10 g per day), sour cream and cream - for dressings in soups and salads. Gradually, in small quantities, you can accustom your baby to homemade dairy products, but you need to be sure of the quality and sanitary safety of these products.
Meat dishes . The need for animal proteins is increasing. At 2 years old, a baby can receive 120 g of meat daily. Can be used low-fat varieties veal, beef liver, tongue, heart. Pork is not recommended at this age; you may be allergic to chicken. Hypoallergenic varieties include turkey and rabbit meat. It is preferable to boil meat or cook steamed cutlets, or add minced meat to vegetable stews. You can give high quality milk sausage and pacifiers, but rarely, as an exception - to enrich the taste perception.
Carbohydrates . These include cereals, pasta, bread, and baked goods. Carbohydrates are important for the development of the nervous system, liver, kidneys, and are the main supplier of energy. However, excess carbohydrates in the diet can lead to weight gain. It is necessary to diversify the daily menu with porridges from different cereals.
Fish . A valuable product, and if there are no contraindications, fish and seafood should be included in a child’s menu at 2 years of age. Up to 40 g of fish per day is allowed. Fatty varieties (halibut, sturgeon, salmon, salmon, caviar) are contraindicated. You can prepare fish cutlets, meatballs, or serve boiled fish, carefully choosing the bones. Prohibited canned fish, with the exception of those that offer specialized food for children.
Eggs . Another important protein supplier. You can give 1 egg every other day. Children at this age love omelettes. Boiled eggs may be avoided. Eggs that are used in casseroles, cheesecakes, and cutlets are also taken into account.
Vegetables and greens. Saturated useful vitamins and microelements, promote better enzyme secretion and food absorption, and increase appetite. The daily intake of potatoes is 100 g, other vegetables - 200 g. The first and second courses are prepared from vegetables. Vegetable stews and fresh salads are good for children. If a one-year-old child needed to serve everything in the form of purees, then at two years old the salad can be finely chopped, and boiled vegetables can be cut into small pieces. Legumes are gradually introduced: peas, beans, beans. You can also give some radishes, turnips, onions and garlic. Parsley, spinach, dill, green onions should already be in the baby’s diet.
Fruits and berries . The daily intake of fruits is up to 200 g, berries - up to 20 g. Kids at this age enjoy eating the following fruits and berries: apples, pears, cherries, cherries, plums, watermelons, gooseberries. You can safely give bananas as an exotic fruit, but citrus fruits can cause allergies.
Vegetable and fruit juices. They can already be given with pulp. The daily norm is 150 ml. But first you should give small portions of juice to make sure there are no allergies.
Sweets . There should be, but to a limited extent. Of course, at this age it is better not to feed your baby chocolates, cakes or pastries with rich butter cream or dyes. You can offer marshmallows, marshmallows, cookies, jam.

What's on the daily menu

The daily menu for a 2-year-old child must include fresh fruits and vegetables, fermented milk products, and cereals. Meat can be given every other day, replacing meat dishes with fish. One has only to look into cookbook or chat with moms on the playground, and new culinary ideas immediately appear. When another nutritious eater is added to the family, mothers have to work harder in the kitchen to make meals nutritious and healthy.

Table - Example of a daily menu for a little gourmet

Breakfast	Volume	Dinner	Volume	Afternoon snack	Volume	Dinner	Volume
Steamed omelette	60 g	Vegetable soup	100 ml	Milk	150 ml	Vegetable stew	70 g
Milk rice porridge	150 g	Navy pasta	50–70 g	Bun	50 g	Steamed fish cutlets	60 g
Fruit juice	100–150 ml	Fresh (seasonal) vegetable salad	50 g	Fruits	100 g	Mashed potatoes	100 g
		Dried fruits compote	100 ml			Kefir	150 ml

Menu selection for the week

Creating a menu for the week will not only diversify the baby’s diet, but will also help the mother. She won’t have to rack her brains over the question: what to cook tomorrow.

Table - Sample menu for a week

Day of the week	Breakfast	Dinner	Afternoon snack	Dinner
Monday	Oatmeal with dried fruits; white bread with butter; cottage cheese; tea	Bean soup; cucumber and tomato salad; mashed potatoes; steamed veal cutlet; Rye bread; dried fruits compote	Kefir; biscuits; fruits	Risotto with cauliflower, carrots and raisins; fruit puree; yogurt
Tuesday	Rice milk porridge; Omelet with cheese; fresh berry juice	Pumpkin and turkey soup; buckwheat With butter; Rye bread; the vinaigrette; fruit juice	Yogurt; oat cookies; fruits	Rice porridge with prunes and dried apricots; zucchini fritters; kefir
Wednesday	Millet porridge with butter; syrniki; tea with milk	Chicken noodle soup; beet salad with vegetable oil; boiled chicken with stewed cabbage; rosehip decoction	Milk; bun; fruits	Fishballs with mashed potatoes; fresh carrot and cabbage salad; yogurt
Thursday	Corn milk porridge; cheese; white bread with butter; berry juice	Lentil soup; veal goulash; pasta; the vinaigrette; green tea	Cottage cheese; kefir; fruits	Potato zrazy with minced veal; fresh cucumber salad; yogurt
Friday	Cottage cheese casserole with raisins; cookie; green tea	Pea soup with rabbit broth; lazy cabbage rolls; fresh carrot salad with vegetable oil; mashed potatoes; fruit juice	Bun with jam; milk	Millet porridge; cottage cheese; pumpkin pancakes; kefir
Saturday	Oatmeal with banana; biscuits; fruit juice	Veal liver with stewed vegetables; Pasta with cheese; fresh cabbage and carrot salad; berry jelly	Kefir; bun; fruits	Pancakes with curd; milk vermicelli; yogurt
Sunday	Omelet with vegetables; tea with milk; bun	Light vegetarian borscht; sauerkraut with vegetable oil; turkey cutlets; mashed potatoes; berry juice	Carrot-apple puree; cookie	Cauliflower in batter; fish balls; Rye bread; kefir

Delicious and healthy breakfast

The best dish for breakfast is porridge. It contains mineral salts, dietary fiber, proteins, vitamins, fiber, and starch. The carbohydrates in the porridge are easily digestible, slowly absorbed, and maintain the required level of glucose in the body. The baby remains full until lunchtime, and he has enough energy for active games. The most popular porridges at this age are buckwheat, rice, semolina, and oatmeal. However, you can expand the menu and offer millet, wheat, pearl barley, lentils, corn, and pumpkin. Porridge can be prepared with water and milk, with the addition of butter, vegetable oil, and cream. Porridge can be salty and sweet. You can add jam, fresh and frozen berries, fruits, dried fruits, and candied fruits to the sweet one. Minced meat, fish, and stewed vegetables are added to the salty porridge. It’s convenient and quick to cook porridge in a slow cooker. Cheese pancakes, cottage cheese and vegetable casseroles, and omelettes are also good for breakfast.

What can you offer for lunch?

Usually, a variety of soups and broths are prepared for young children as a first course. Less often, the menu includes borscht, rassolnik or cabbage soup; these dishes should not be too sour. The basis for the first course can be chicken, rabbit, or turkey broth. Fatty decoctions are poorly absorbed. You can also cook vegetarian vegetable soups, if the baby receives a sufficient amount of animal proteins and fats in other types of dishes. What kind of soup can you make for lunch? Chicken with homemade noodles, peas, beans, lentils, buckwheat, rice, cheese, pumpkin with meat or vegetables, with meatballs, cauliflower, sorrel, dumplings.

Popular recipes for a 2-year-old child include puree soup and cream soup. This is a hearty meal that is something between a first and second course. Butter and fresh chopped herbs are usually added to puree soups. They can be vegetarian, with the addition of healthy roots of parsley, parsnip, and celery. They also add minced meat, chopped boiled meat, and fish. Salads made from fresh and boiled vegetables can be served with second courses for lunch.

What to eat

Why do you need an afternoon snack? To get slightly hungry and wait until dinner. Children should not overeat, but prolonged fasting does not benefit them when blood glucose levels drop. An afternoon snack can be made into a treat. If you give your child a fresh bun with butter for an afternoon snack, spread with jam on top, it will be both healthy and tasty. The baby will immediately receive dessert. You can offer a glass of milk, kefir, yogurt, compote with cookies. Most children willingly eat sweet cottage cheese, casserole, cheesecakes, fruit, fruit and vegetable puree, and fruit.

What to cook for dinner

For dinner it is necessary to provide light and nutritious food. What dishes can you prepare? Vegetable stew with meat, steamed fish cutlets, zrazy, meatballs, liver with vegetables, pancakes with various fillings, dumplings, vegetable pancakes, mixed vegetables, scrambled eggs with vegetables, omelet with cheese. There is an opinion that it is better not to serve meat dishes in the evening, since they take a long time to digest. In this situation, it is better to focus on the child’s daily routine and appetite. Pasta, porridge, and mashed potatoes can be served as a side dish. Dairy products, noodles, porridge with milk are also good for dinner, and baked fruits as a dessert. From fresh fruits, bananas and green apples are well digested in the evening. If your baby has dinner early, you can give him a glass of kefir before bed.

How to create a menu for dinner? Usually, at this meal, the baby should get everything that he did not receive during the day. For example, if there was no dairy, then for dinner you can give cottage cheese with kefir, cheese or milk porridge. If there were no fresh salads during the day, then they should be included in dinner. However, you should not overfeed at night. Many mothers note that their babies’ appetite often increases in the evening. At night it is better not to give sandwiches, rolls, sausages, salty and sweet foods.

Nutrition for allergies

Only at first glance, the diet of a child with allergies may seem meager. Of course, cooking for an allergy sufferer requires more time and mother’s imagination. Most often, there are allergies to the following types of foods: citrus fruits, chocolate, honey, red and orange vegetables and fruits, fish, seafood, eggs, nuts (especially peanuts). But there are cases of allergies to gluten, a protein of some cereal plants. Then the child should not be given wheat, oatmeal, barley, semolina porridge, pasta, bread, rolls, or cookies. At 2 years of age there may also be a milk allergy, which usually resolves by 5 years of age when the enzyme system is more mature. If you are allergic to whole milk, you should replace it with soy, rice, oat milk, which is rich in protein and minerals.

Nutrition for constipation

What should you pay attention to if your baby has frequent constipation?

If you have constipation, your body needs to get enough fiber and fluid.
If your baby has a tendency to constipation, these may be signs of dysbiosis.
It is imperative to include high-quality fermented milk products in your diet to normalize microflora.
For breakfast, you can offer cereals rich in fiber: barley, buckwheat, millet, oatmeal.
You can add dried fruits to porridge: prunes, dried apricots, raisins.
It is preferable to cook porridge with water.
A decoction of prunes and a compote of dried fruits with the addition of prunes are good for constipation.
Pears, blueberries, and black currants have a fixative property, so they should be given in limited quantities.
The daily diet should include fresh and boiled vegetables: cucumbers, zucchini, tomatoes, cabbage, carrots, peppers, beets.
Preferable fruits include apples, plums, apricots, and berries.
Before going to bed, offer fresh kefir or yogurt.
You can add a little oat bran to fermented milk products, which is sold at the pharmacy.

Menu enrichment is not only beneficial for healthy physical development body, but also to expand gastronomic tastes and “food” culture. After all, the world is known, among other things, through taste and smell. It is necessary to remember some rules when introducing new products into the diet: offer small portions (a few teaspoons); feed in the morning; Do not give several new dishes at once. If your baby has an allergic reaction to the product, the dish should be canceled for now.

A little about gastronomic culture

Gastronomic education of a child begins from an early age. A 2-year-old child needs to be taught not only the rules of table etiquette, but also healthy eating habits. How to create this without greatly oppressing the baby’s tastes? How to make him eat everything without coercion or bribery?

Delicious names. It’s one thing to tell a child that this is noodle soup, and another thing to call it some kind of magical delicacy. Unusual names attract the child's attention. And when he gets older, he can come up with the names of dishes himself.
Setting the table and dishes. It’s good if the baby has baby dishes and napkins. It’s nice when there is a beautiful tablecloth and a vase of flowers on the table. Children are also more willing to eat “fun”, brightly served dishes in the form of smiling faces, animals, etc. Your child should not associate eating with play, but such tricks help feed picky gourmets.
Example of other children. If there are older children in the house, a two-year-old child will be much more interested in chewing in their company. He can learn his table manners from them. If the elders eat with gusto and praise the vinaigrette, the child will do like everyone else.
Don't bite. A 2-year-old child's diet should be designed so that he can get hungry before lunch or dinner. If the baby had a tasty and satisfying afternoon snack, then dinner is usually postponed until later. After the afternoon snack, you don’t need to give your child anything (except maybe an apple or a banana). Then he will eat whatever is offered to him at dinner.
Don't use food as a teaching tool. You cannot teach your baby to eat for comfort or fun, to bribe or switch attention, a spoon for mom, a spoon for dad, etc.
No rush. The baby needs to be taught to eat slowly, not to swallow pieces, and to chew food thoroughly. Eating should become a pleasant ritual for him.
Possibility of tasting. You need to put on the table such dishes that a two-year-old child could try, and so that there are as few prohibitions as possible. The French say: “Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are.” The development of taste is the development of personality. Perhaps this sounds too French for Russian people, but the taste of life is also learned through gastronomic culture.
Sit down at the table together. The food tastes better at a communal table. It tastes even better if the whole family gathers together for dinner. If it is not possible to do this every day, then family dinners on weekends should be traditional.
Sufficient portion. Often two-year-old children are given only first courses for lunch. If you still include the second dish with a side dish, then you need to give half a serving of soup. If a child has eaten a lot at lunch, he may sleep poorly and refuse an afternoon snack.

More about the formation of a “food” culture and rules healthy eating read the book by Karen Le Billon “French children eat everything. And yours can.”

The nutrition of a 2-year-old child does not contain any special culinary techniques or gourmet delights. Food should be healthy, fresh and of high quality, the diet should be balanced and varied, with sufficient amounts of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, microelements and vitamins. And a child’s taste whims can always be corrected by resorting to little pedagogical tricks.