What should a 2 year old child do for dinner? Curd breakfast. Syrniki. Milk soup with rice

Irina: | February 22nd, 2019 | 2:44 pm

Please tell me, is it possible for a two-year-old child to eat meat for dinner? I read somewhere that children should be given meat for dinner after three.
Answer: Irina, the menu was drawn up by a doctor. But you, as a mother, may not feed your child meat if you think it is wrong. Replace it with a vegetable or dairy dish.

Ekaterina: | February 9th, 2019 | 7:16 am

Oh Chen liked the menu thank you.
Answer: Ekaterina, please!

Elena: | January 2nd, 2019 | 9:16 am

Hello! I really like your site! Could you create a menu for the week for children who are prone to constipation? Now, in my opinion, this is a very common problem... We would be very grateful!!!
Answer: Elena, thanks for the comment! No, we didn’t plan such a menu.

OLGA: | July 28th, 2018 | 8:48 pm

my grandson eats a mixture in the morning and then whatever he likes, he can eat a pie with onions and eggs or fried potatoes with pickles, but this is only for fun, and mostly he likes liquid food, jelly, fruit drinks, compotes and fermented milk, he also eats cookies, but they turn away from sweets he doesn't like it
Answer: Olga, thanks for the comment!

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Olga: | November 6th, 2017 | 3:27 pm

Thanks for the interesting menu. But why are dishes repeated? Does this need to be cooked for 2 days?
Answer: Olga, the menu was compiled according to the menu of the week method. Yes, for two days. It’s easier and more convenient, especially if you have a large family. On one day, soup and salad are prepared for two days (salads except fresh vegetables), on the second day the second day and baked goods are prepared. And so it alternates. Thus, it turns out that every day there is soup, main course, salad, pastries or dessert;) But if you are not satisfied with this method, then you can prepare new dishes every day.

Marina: | June 26th, 2017 | 2:20 pm

thanks for interesting recipes! I just wanted to cook something!
Answer: Marina, bon appetit!

Valeria: | May 7th, 2017 | 1:38 pm

My son doesn’t want to eat at all, just semolina porridge, no matter how hard I tried to ask and arrange it in an interesting way. He cries and that’s it. Just porridge! I went to the doctor and he said to give me omega 3 and that’s it. Afterwards the omega can eat 1 spoon and that’s it.
Answer: Valeria, if your child has any problems with nutrition, choosing foods or dishes, “picking” + your goal is to learn to eat properly and balancedly, then I advise you to choose training on child nutrition

Rose: | April 17th, 2017 | 6:48 pm

And when is milk? Child 1.7 loves milk and dairy products very much
Answer: Rose, if the child loves milk and tolerates it well, then you can offer a glass of milk or other fermented milk drink for breakfast, afternoon snack or second dinner. This is just an example of the menu, you can always change it to suit your baby's tastes.

Fedor: | March 18th, 2017 | 9:53 pm

This is all good, yes, everything is fine, but he doesn’t eat even half of these foods. Author, tell me how you can feed such products?
Answer: Fedor, come to our training “How to teach a child to eat healthy in 2 weeks” :) I’ll tell you :)

Rachkova Elena grandmother:| June 9th, 2016 | 10:49 pm

Everything is very great! I am a technologist by profession. My grandson is two years old and I try very hard to feed him correctly. But, unfortunately, we do not have the high-quality products that children need. The zucchini is chemical, the meat is also stuffed, the cottage cheese is not real. It even becomes scary what we feed ?

Maria: | May 12th, 2016 | 8:03 am

Thank you for the menu with recipes and doctor's advice. But I’m a little scared of recipes with frying (ratatouille soup, for example). Can babies eat fried food?
Answer: Maria, of course, for small children soups are prepared without frying, otherwise you follow the recipe.

Julia: | April 4th, 2016 | 3:43 pm

Normal children's menu just like in the good old days. And now many mothers are very lazy, they consider a separate menu for a child after a year to be superfluous, they are transferred to a common table, they give meat in pieces, poorly fried, dried ham and other products that are not for children. This is wrong and not healthy for the baby.
Answer: Julia, thanks for the comment! Of course, it is possible to transfer to a common table after a year, but, of course, you are right - this needs to be done correctly. So that this contributes to the development of interest in food in the child and does not harm his health. The main thing is that this common table is useful and adequate for the baby. In addition, such “children's” food will be generally beneficial for all family members.

Victoria: | January 31st, 2016 | 1:10 pm

I also really liked the recipes, otherwise I was already tired of inventing them myself, thank you!
Answer: Victoria, bon appetit baby!

Svetlana: | December 11th, 2015 | 5:11 pm

please tell me how to teach a child to eat a spoon? And we can’t eat soup from the menu... and everything else that can only be done with a spoon: (he is now 2 years old... but since he was 1.5 years old, the spoon has been like some kind of enemy:((
Answer: Svetlana, you can offer soup... drink it :) Like a cocktail through a wide straw. To do this, you need to beat the soup in a blender, as in this recipe. And you can also invite several kids who confidently use a spoon to visit “for soup.” Eating with company is always more fun :) Well, don’t forget that you can already give the child a fork - maybe this device will fall into favor :)

Lyudmila: | November 12th, 2015 | 12:45 pm

Thanks again for the menu!

Elena: | October 9th, 2015 | 3:02 am

Thank you, I really liked everything... I have one question... why aren't cauliflower and broccoli on the menu? It's so good for children
Answer: Elena, this is sample menu just for one week. You can diversify it according to your desire.

Galina: | October 6th, 2015 | 6:47 pm

Thank you, everything is super, I have two children and they really like it, I don’t see any difficulties in cooking, my friends in the kitchen are a multicooker and a blender - everything is simple with them =)) There is still a lot of time left for the development of children =)

Anna: | September 11th, 2015 | 8:43 am

thank you very much – great menu. I printed everything out. Let's feed the baby :)

Anonymous: | December 3rd, 2014 | 10:51 pm

Thanks for the useful article

Ekaterina: | September 3rd, 2014 | 7:51 am

I liked everything very much, thank you very much!
Answer: Ekaterina, hello!

The daily routine for a child is one of essential elements education, discipline and healthy image life. The last meal should occur no later than 2-3 hours before bedtime. Let's try to figure out what to cook for dinner for a 2-year-old child, because food should be nutritious, tasty and easily digestible.

Products that should not be taken for children's dinner:

Fat meat.
Smoked products.
Fried foods.

A healthy and tasty dinner for children can consist of:

Baked fish.
Chicken breast with steamed vegetables.
Cottage cheese casserole.
Vegetable stew.

In any case, dinner should evoke positive emotions in the child, so it is best to prepare it from the foods that the child loves most.

By the age of 2, the child has already formed an understanding of which dishes and products he likes and which he does not. Try to please your little gourmand and find a compromise between “tasty” and “healthy”.

Wonderful quick dinner for children - yogurts homemade. They are rich in calcium and vitamins, easy to prepare and digest, and most children adore them.

Dinner recipes for a 2 year old child

Recipes for delicious and healthy dinners for children can be found on the Internet today. There are quite a lot of them, there are dishes for every taste, here are some of them:

Buckwheat with chicken. Cook buckwheat. Pour the washed cereal into the pan and add water so that there is 2 fingers more water. Place on high heat. When the porridge boils, add salt to taste, reduce heat and cook for another 15-20 minutes, until the liquid boils away. Boil the chicken (thigh, breast or leg without skin) until tender or steam it.
Fish fillet with rice. Cook the rice. Pour the cereal into a saucepan, add water and cook until full readiness, after which we wash the rice. Cooking fish. It is best to bake fish fillets in the oven. To do this, add a little salt and pepper to the washed and peeled pieces, add other spices to taste, wrap in foil and bake in the oven.
Meatballs with vegetables. From minced chicken We form meatballs, put them in a mold and bake them in the oven, covering them with foil - so that the juice does not evaporate and the meat does not burn on top. Vegetables are cut coarsely and slowly stewed in a small amount olive oil in a heavy-walled frying pan for about 20-30 minutes, until soft.

A situation often occurs when a child who has already had dinner asks to eat again before going to bed. In this case, give him a glass of milk or kefir. At night, the body does not need food, this is a psychological effect. If your baby wakes up at night and asks to eat, give him a cup of water or compote.

These are not all the dishes that can be prepared. Dinner recipes for children are very diverse and depend on the preferences of the baby and the capabilities of the parents.

Two-year-old children are gradually introduced to adult food, but it is still too early to completely switch to a common table at this age. What nutritional features of a 2-year-old child should parents remember, what foods is too early for the baby to try, and what is the best way to build a menu for a child of this age?

Diet

At the age of two, children eat four meals a day and include breakfast and lunch, as well as an afternoon snack and dinner. More frequent meals have a bad effect on appetite, and less frequent meals have a bad effect on the digestion of food and the baby’s well-being. The breaks between meals are 3.5-4 hours.

Principles of proper nutrition

The ratio of proteins and fats, as well as carbohydrates in the diet of a 2-year-old child should be 1:1:4 or 1:1:3. Proteins are the main building material for the growth of the child’s body, therefore, the children’s diet should contain sources such as dairy products, poultry, meat products, egg dishes, and fish. Carbohydrates are the main source of energy for the child's body. The child gets them from cereals, fruits, sugar, bread, and vegetables. Fats are also needed for the energy needs of the baby's body.
A two-year-old child receives an average of 1400-1500 kcal per day. In terms of calorie content, meals should be distributed as follows: 25% of calories for breakfast, 30% of calories for lunch, 15% of calories for an afternoon snack and 30% for dinner.
It is important to ensure a sufficient supply of macro- and microelements, especially those responsible for bone health. The child will receive calcium from cottage cheese, milk, cheese, peas, dried apricots, cabbage, prunes, oatmeal and other products.
Spices and salt in children's dishes should be in minimal quantities.

Needs of a 2 year old child

Dairy products The baby should consume about 600 g per day. Kefir is recommended in amounts up to 200 ml per day.
In addition to the yolk, you can start giving the white of a boiled egg. The norm is considered to be half a boiled egg per day.
Cheese It is recommended for the baby only with low fat content and in the amount of 20 g per week.
Cottage cheese 50 g per day is recommended. It can be mixed with fruit, sour cream, sugar. You can also make puddings, cheesecakes, and dumplings from cottage cheese.
Meat dishes prepared from lean veal, beef and pork. Children are also given chicken. These dishes are recommended for consumption in the first half of the day, as they take a long time to digest. A sufficient amount of meat per day for a 2-year-old child is considered to be 50-80 g. It is acceptable to include low-fat boiled sausage and lean boiled ham in the child’s diet. Also, at two years old, you can start offering your child stewed meat pieces and liver pate.
Several times a week, the child’s meat dish is replaced with fish. The fish is boiled, stewed, and cutlets and meatballs are also made from it. A two-year-old child can be given a piece of herring. A child should eat up to 175 g of fish per week.
Vegetables The baby should consume up to 250 g per day, but it is recommended to consume up to 150 g of potatoes per day. Vegetable purees can be single-component or complex. For a two year old child you can give cabbage, beets, carrots, onions, pumpkin, eggplants, tomatoes, turnips, radishes, cucumbers, Bell pepper and other vegetables.
Fruits and berries recommended in amounts of about 150-200 g per day.
The diet may contain pasta, as well as flour dishes.
Norm of bread count up to 100 g per day (wheat - about 70 g, rye - about 30 g).
The norm for confectionery products is 10 g per day, and sugar - up to 50 g per day.
In addition to cereals, a child can try cereal casseroles, as well as children's muesli. The healthiest ones are oatmeal, buckwheat and rice porrige, as well as millet and corn. Into the diet two year old child You can already introduce barley porridge.
Should be added to vegetable dishes vegetable oil in amounts up to 6 g per day.
Butter It is recommended to consume up to 16 g per day.

What liquids should I give?

A 2-year-old child needs 100 ml of water per day for every kilogram of weight. This daily amount of water includes any liquids that the child consumes (soups, compotes, milk and others). If the weather is hot, the volume of liquid should be increased. On average, a child aged two years is advised to drink 1500 ml of water per day.

A two-year-old child can be given weak tea, rosehip infusion, compote, cocoa, milk, fruit and vegetable juices. It is recommended to drink juice in amounts up to 150 ml per day.

How to create a menu?

For breakfast, the child is given a main dish in the amount of 200 g and a drink in the amount of 100-150 ml, as well as bread with butter or cheese.
For lunch, it is useful for a child to eat a salad of fresh vegetables or another snack in the amount of 40 g and a first course in the amount of 150 ml. Also for lunch the baby is given meat or a fish dish in the amount of 50-80 g and a side dish in the amount of 100 g. In addition, at lunch they give a drink, the volume of which will be 100 ml.
For an afternoon snack, the child is recommended milk or kefir in a volume of 150 ml, as well as cookies (15 g) or homemade cakes (45 g). In addition, you should give fruits or berries for an afternoon snack.
For dinner, the child, as for breakfast, is given a main dish in the amount of 200 g and a drink in the amount of 150 ml.

Sample menu for the week

A two-year-old child can eat for a week on approximately the following menu:

Day of the week

Breakfast

Dinner

Afternoon snack

Dinner

Tea with milk (100 ml)

Bread and butter (30 g/10 g)

Cabbage salad with apple (40 g)

Steamed fish cutlet (60 g)

Boiled rice (100 g)

Apple juice (100 ml)

Bread (50 g)

Kefir (150 ml)

Cookies (15 g)

Fresh apple (50 g)

Potato balls with egg (200 g)

Rosehip infusion (150 ml)

Bread (20 g)

Cheesecakes with sour cream (200 g)

Milk (150 ml)

Bread and butter (30 g/10 g)

Carrot salad (40 g)

Soup with fish balls (150 ml)

Mashed potatoes (100 g)

Dried fruit compote (100 ml)

Bread (50 g)

Yogurt (150 ml)

Milk shortbread (50 g)

Buckwheat porridge (150 g)

Liver pate (50 g)

Kissel (150 ml)

Bread (20 g)

Omelette (80 g)

Cocoa with milk (150 ml)

Bread with cheese (30 g/10 g)

Fresh vegetable salad (40 g)

Borsch (150 ml)

Vegetable puree (100 g)

Beef meatballs (60 g)

Rosehip infusion (100 ml)

Bread (50 g)

Kefir (150 ml)

Baked apples (60 g)

Cookies (15 g)

Rice casserole (200 g)

Tea with milk (150 ml)

Bread (20 g)

Oatmeal with apples (200 g)

Milk (100 ml)

Bread and butter (30 g/10 g)

Carrot and apple salad (40 g)

Pumpkin puree soup (150 ml)

Chicken meatball (60 g)

Cauliflower puree (100 g)

Tomato juice (100 ml)

Bread (50 g)

Berry smoothie made from kefir (150 ml)

Cookies (15 g)

Stewed vegetables (200 g)

Tea with honey (150 ml)

Bread (20 g)

Curd casserole (200 g)

Cocoa with milk (100 ml)

Bread and butter (30 g/10 g)

Green peas with butter (40 g)

Homemade rassolnik (150 ml)

Buckwheat porridge (100 g)

Beef Stroganoff (50 g)

Compote of apples and pears (100 ml)

Bread (50 g)

Kissel (150 ml)

Homemade cracker (15 g)

Potato cutlets with turkey (200 g)

Kefir (150 ml)

Bread (20 g)

Rice milk porridge with dried apricots (200 g)

Tea with milk (150 ml)

Bread with cheese (30 g/10 g)

Herring pate (40 g)

Beetroot soup (150 ml)

Corn porridge (100 g)

Stewed rabbit (50 g)

Carrot-apple juice (100 ml)

Bread (50 g)

Milk (150 ml)

Cookies (15 g)

Potato and vegetable casserole (200 g)

Kefir (150 ml)

Bread (20 g)

Sunday

Milk vermicelli (200 g)

Cocoa with milk (100 ml)

Bread and butter (30 g/10 g)

Beetroot salad (40 g)

Beef meatball soup (150 ml)

Potato and green pea puree (100 g)

Berry compote (100 ml)

Bread (50 g)

Kefir (150 ml)

Cookies (15 g)

Omelet (50 g)

Millet milk porridge (150 g)

Tea with milk (150 ml)

Bread (20 g)

What should not be included in the diet?

What are the best ways to cook food?

Food for a two-year-old child is boiled, baked, stewed, steamed. It’s too early for children of this age to try fried food. At the same time, food is less chopped and more often offered with a mashed fork and pieces. Vegetables can be given either processed or raw.

Examples of healthy recipes

Beetroot salad with cucumber and green peas

Take 50 g of beets and 25 g of fresh cucumber and green peas. Boil the peas and beets. Finely chop the cucumber, add cooked peas and grated beets. Season with 5 g of sunflower oil.

Apple and prune salad

Wash and peel the apple (70 g), grate on a coarse grater. Peel prunes (30 g) and soak briefly, then finely chop. Combine grated apple and chopped prunes, add a teaspoon of sugar or honey.

Soup with fish balls and potatoes

Take 300 ml fish broth, bring to a boil, add potatoes (50 g), carrots (15 g), cut into small cubes, onion(10 g) and parsley root (5 g). Cook until the vegetables are ready, then add the fish fillet meatballs to the soup. For them, take 60 g fillet, half chicken egg, 10 g white bread crumb and 20 ml milk. Wait for the meatballs to float to the top. Season the soup with fresh dill (3 g).

Steamed meatloaf with omelet

Prepare a cutlet mass from 100 g of meat, a quarter of a chicken egg, 30 ml of milk and 20 g of white bread. Mix the ingredients well and place on gauze moistened with cool water. You should end up with a layer of minced meat about 1.5 centimeters thick. Separately, prepare a steam omelette from one egg and 25 ml of milk. Place the omelette on top of the minced meat and carefully bring the edges of the gauze together to form a roll. Steam for approximately 30 minutes.

Millet porridge with pumpkin

Take 150 ml of milk or water, bring to a boil, add peeled and diced pumpkin (100 g) and leave to simmer for 7-10 minutes. At this time, rinse 30 g of millet cereal in hot water several times. Pour it into water or milk with pumpkin, add a spoonful of sugar and cook for about 1 hour over low heat. Serve with butter.

Steamed cottage cheese pudding with raisins

For two servings, take 200 g of cottage cheese, grind it through a sieve, add 20 g of washed raisins. Grind the yolk of a chicken egg with 20 ml of milk and 16 g of sugar. Combine the mashed yolk with the curd mass, add 10 g of butter (you need to melt it first) and 4 teaspoons of semolina. Add the beaten egg white last. Place the resulting mixture into greased molds. Steam for 30-40 minutes.

Possible problems

At the age of two, the child strives for independence. At this time, many children begin to experience a developmental crisis, which also affects the area of nutrition.

What to do if a child does not eat the foods he needs?

Many parents worry that their child is not eating enough, in their opinion, varied. At the age of two, babies can eat the same dish for several days, and this is the norm. There is no need to worry if your child eats at least one product from these groups: dairy products, meat, vegetables, grains and fruits. For example, if your baby’s menu includes bananas, potatoes, chicken, bread and kefir, his diet can be called varied.

If the child completely refuses food, there is no need to insist or force it. Offer your baby food certain time(according to the established diet), avoid snacking and ensure that food is of an appropriate temperature and texture. The best strategy is to provide a constant supply of food, but not to provide easy-to-digest sweets or other foods that the child can eat between meals. When the child is hungry, he will eat what you give him.

How do you understand that lack of appetite is a symptom of illness?

In most cases, poor appetite is not associated with illness, but with frequent snacking and a lack of eating routine. Another difficulty can be caused by an excessively large portion. Seeing a large number of food, a discouraged child will rush to refuse food altogether. It is best to give your child food in small quantities, and when he has eaten everything, offer more.

However, loss of appetite is indeed a sign of illness, for example, diseases of the digestive tract or any acute infections. Parents may be led to believe that poor appetite is associated with illness by the presence of other symptoms - fever, nausea, weight loss, changes in stool, and others.

Binge eating

Teach your child the basics proper nutrition important with early childhood, because obesity is a very common problem in adults. Parents should teach their baby to healthy food. There is no need to be mistaken and rejoice if a two-year-old eats large portions and has long since switched to the common table. This can undermine children's health and cause problems in the future.

Try to instill in your child healthy eating habits. It is best if the child eats at the table with other family members.

Never use food as a reward or promise your child something for an empty plate.

Try to give your child less baked goods, shortcrust pastry products, pies, cakes and similar products. They are high in calories and low in nutrients. Sweets that can be given to a two-year-old child include marshmallows, jam, honey, cookies, preserves, waffles, jam, marmalade, and marshmallows.
If you give your child cottage cheese that is not intended for baby food, it should always be cooked.
Since it is recommended to cook semi-viscous porridge for a 2-year-old child, you need to take 4 times more liquid than cereal. You can cook porridge with water, fruit or vegetable broth, and milk.
Do not allow your child to eat on the go, as this is dangerous.
If your child still drinks from a bottle, you should stop using it by the age of two. For kids who have not yet mastered a regular cup, buy a special one (training one).

Many parents give vitamins to children over 2 years old. The feasibility of this issue is discussed in another article.

You can see how mothers feed their babies at 2 years old in the following videos.

More and more adult foods appear in the diet of a two-year-old baby. However, his digestive system is too sensitive, which excludes a complete transition to the common table. How many times should a 2 year old child eat? At this age, meals are usually 4 times a day, including breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack and dinner. It is important to offer your baby food at strictly designated times, at intervals of approximately 4 hours.

The child grows and develops all the time, so it is important for parents to properly organize his diet.

Foods in the diet of a two-year-old child

The basis of the menu for two years is porridge, light cream soups, lean meat and fish, dairy products, vegetables and fruits growing in the area where the family lives. Porridges are made liquid or viscous, vegetables for stewing are finely chopped, and the meat is minced in a meat grinder. The child should learn to bite and chew solid foods, which make up a large part of the adult diet.

Basic diet

The diet of two-year-old children must include:

Dairy products. Must be on the menu every day. Yogurt, kefir, fermented baked milk, and sour cream are good for your baby. Whole milk (if you are not allergic to its proteins) can be used to prepare cereals, cocoa, or given as an independent drink. Daily norm butter for 2 years - 10 grams (including porridge, casseroles, other dishes), cottage cheese (6-9%) - 30 grams, kefir (3.2%) - 500 ml, hard unsalted cheese - 10 grams.
Cereals. Contain carbohydrates that have a positive effect on nervous system and give energy. Baby food should contain oatmeal, buckwheat, rice, millet, and barley porridge. Pearl barley is given after three years.

Instead of sugar, you can add dried fruits to the porridge, so it will be even tastier and healthier
Fish and meat. The daily norm is 120 grams of lean meat or 40 grams of fish, which covers the needs of a growing body for animal proteins. You can cook from lean veal, rabbit, turkey. Fish should be chosen low-fat varieties(preferably white, as you may be allergic to red). Despite the high nutritional value, it is better to hold off on halibut, salmon, and sturgeon. Red caviar and canned fish Nutritionists and pediatricians, including Dr. Komarovsky, do not recommend including a small child on the menu.
Pasta and bakery products. Supplier of carbohydrates, phosphorus, B vitamins. The norm for bread at two years of age is 30 grams of rye and 60 grams of wheat. Once every two days you can offer homemade baked goods in quantities of no more than 60 grams. Durum pasta should be added to soup or served as a side dish no more than twice a week.
Eggs. Important supplier of protein and amino acids. You can give your baby 1 egg every other day, add it to soups or cook steamed omelettes. Quail eggs are also allowed - a dietary product that replenishes calcium, folic acid, minerals and B vitamins. When calculating the norm, it is important to take into account eggs added to dough, minced meat and other dishes.

Juices, fruits, vegetables and sweets

Berries and seasonal fruits are required in the baby’s diet. You can eat them yourself, make compotes, jelly, and jelly. The daily intake of fruits is 200 grams, berries – 20 grams. It is important to be careful with citrus fruits and monitor the reaction (allergy is possible). It is permissible to add a slice of lemon to tea.
Vegetables and greens saturate the body with valuable microelements and improve digestion. The daily norm of vegetables is 300 grams, of which potatoes are 100 grams. They can be stewed, baked, mashed, chopped for salads. The baby can try peas, beans, cabbage, radishes, garlic, and onions. Greens - spinach, parsley, dill serve as decoration and a useful addition to dishes.
Natural sweets are needed in limited quantities. A couple of times a week you can offer marshmallows, jelly, jam. In rare cases, it is allowed to take ½ teaspoon of honey (you can sweeten cottage cheese or casserole). For an afternoon snack, you can offer homemade oatmeal or shortbread cookies. It’s better to hold off on chocolate, cakes, and sweets.
The daily intake of juice is 150 ml. Drinks made from fruits grown in the region where the baby lives are allowed. You can give juices from tetra packs intended for baby food. You should hold off on drinking drinks made from exotic fruits.

One day menu

Children's daily diet should include fermented milk products, cereals, vegetables, fruits, soups or broths. Meat should be alternated with fish and given every other day. The approximate amount of food is distributed as follows: 25%/35%/15%/25% (breakfast/lunch/afternoon snack/dinner). Daily calorie content is 1200-1400 calories, of which about 360 should be fat.

An approximate menu for one day in 2 years looks like this:

Menu for the week

It is difficult for a mother of a 2-year-old child to find time for kitchen chores. Activities with a child and maintaining a routine require a lot of effort, so kitchen assistants (processor, blender, multicooker) will help organize the day.

A well-designed menu for the week will allow you not to think about what to cook for tomorrow and stock up in advance necessary products. When compiling it, it is advisable to rely on the table:

Day of the week	Breakfast	Dinner	Afternoon snack	Dinner
Monday	Rice cutlets with prunes, drinking yoghurt (1.5%).	Cabbage and carrot salad, borscht with beef broth, lazy cabbage rolls, bread, dried fruit compote, marshmallows.	Fresh berries, cheesecakes, kefir (more details in the article:).	Cauliflower stewed with sour cream, bread with jam, unsweetened tea.
Tuesday	Oatmeal with fruit, bread with cheese, cocoa with milk.	Salad with grated carrots and apple, navy vermicelli, meatball soup, unsweetened tea.	Milk, shortbread, fruit.	Banana, chicken casserole, compote.
Wednesday	Bread and butter, cottage cheese casserole, cocoa with milk.	Cabbage soup on meat broth, vegetable salad according to the season, fish meatballs with mashed potatoes or peas, rosehip drink, marshmallows.	Pear pudding, compote.	Pasta with milk sausage, kefir, fruit.
Thursday	Semolina porridge, apple, carrot juice.	Mixed vegetable salad, fish soup with meatballs, cheesecakes with sour cream, compote, bread.	Curd cake, fruit. cranberry jelly.	Milk, low-fat pilaf with chicken.
Friday	Rice porridge with dried apricots, the kind made with milk.	Vegetable salad with greens, beetroot, cherry juice, bread, turkey roll and broccoli.	Corn flakes with milk, berry juice.	Zucchini stuffed with ground beef, milk, banana or peach.
Saturday	Cottage cheese casserole, milk, bread with butter and cheese (see also:).	Salad with beets and prunes, vegetable soup, rabbit cutlet, berry jelly, bread, pasta.	Kefir, banana pudding (we recommend reading:).	Potato dumplings, unsweetened tea.
Sunday	Buckwheat porridge casserole with liver, peach juice, vanilla croutons.	Cabbage salad with carrots and cucumber, pea soup with crackers, fish balls, vegetable stew With green peas, bread, compote.	Cheesecake, milk, fruit.	Liver pancakes, mashed potatoes, tea.

Recipes for popular breakfast dishes

A proper breakfast energizes you and stimulates activity in the first half of the day. It should be light and satisfying at the same time, contain proteins, carbohydrates and fiber.

Semolina dumplings for breakfast

Pour 100 ml into a saucepan. milk and 50 ml. water, boil, salt. Add semolina (70 g) in a thin stream and cook the thick porridge for 6-7 minutes, stirring constantly. Cool (the temperature of the dish should be 70 degrees), add a teaspoon of melted butter, fresh quail egg, mix. Form balls with a diameter of about 3 cm from the resulting mass. Separately, boil and add salt to the water, dip the finished balls into it and cook for 5 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon, cool and serve warm with butter, herbs and grated cheese.

Light fight

Drachena is a dish that simultaneously resembles an omelet and a casserole. To prepare it, beat 1 egg and 20 ml. milk, add salt. Add 1 tsp to the mixture. flour and sour cream, mix. Place on a greased baking sheet or baking sheet. Bake in the oven for about 8 minutes, sprinkle with grated cheese and herbs when serving.

Dishes for a hearty lunch

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Finding a compromise between a healthy and tasty lunch is easy. Dishes prepared for the baby can be successfully served on a common table. However, not vice versa, since baby food uses dietary products according to the season. Lunch consists of three courses that harmoniously complement each other and allow you to introduce new tastes. The child doesn't like zucchini cauliflower and other vegetables? They can be disguised in stews, cream soups, or pureed vegetables.

Vegetable soup with nuts

Soak in cold water for 2 hours a handful of white beans. Rinse and add water (300 ml) to the beans and cook until tender. Add finely chopped small potatoes. Separately fry half an onion, a carrot, in vegetable oil. bell pepper, add to soup. Boil for 5 minutes, remove from heat. Serve in a plate, sprinkled with herbs and crushed, oven-dried walnuts.

Add 50 grams of finely chopped potatoes to salted boiling water or broth (150 ml), boil until half cooked. Add sautéed vegetables (peppers, onions and carrots), cook until tender. To prepare meatballs, chop a piece boiled beef. Add pepper, salt, half the beaten egg and mix. Boil separately and add to soup before serving. Offer warm (35-40 degrees), decorated with herbs.

Fish in a pot

Take hake fillet (200 grams), black pepper, salt, onion, hard cheese, ceramic pot. Place half a teaspoon of fresh butter, half a finely chopped onion and carrot in a pot. Place washed fillet pieces coated with sour cream on a vegetable bed. Sprinkle grated cheese on top, pour in 3 tbsp. warm water. Simmer in the oven, covered, for 25 minutes.

Mustachioed meatballs

Pass 100 grams through a meat grinder lean beef. Add 15 grams of white bread soaked in milk and grind again in a meat grinder. Salt, pepper, beat lightly. Form meatballs from a thin mass and insert dry pasta into them so that the “mustaches” stick out on both sides. Place carefully in a shallow saucepan. Pour in water and simmer covered for 20-25 minutes.

Afternoon snack menu

The afternoon snack is the smallest meal in terms of volume, but its importance for a growing body is great. So that children can get the full range of nutrients, it is important to create a menu that will contain healthy dishes.

It is better to serve fresh fruits, compotes, vitamin smoothies, oatmeal cookies and other carbohydrate-rich foods. Simple and quick recipes There are a lot of photos that can easily be used to delight your little ones for an afternoon snack.

Knead the dough for pancakes (with whey, sour cream, milk, kefir). Separately, prepare fruit puree by grinding the pulp of 1-2 ripe bananas in a blender. Mix well and bake in vegetable oil. Prepare the sauce by taking 1 chopped banana, a tablespoon of sour cream, a teaspoon of honey. Mix the ingredients and pour over the pancakes before serving.

Apple pudding

Peel 2 green apples, chop, sprinkle with sugar and add water. Simmer for 6 minutes, cool, grind with a blender. Separately, grind the yolk with sugar (1 tsp), combine with applesauce, add a handful of chopped nuts and 1 tsp. ground vanilla crackers. Separately add the beaten chicken protein. Place the mixture on a prepared baking sheet, place in an oven preheated to 200 degrees and bake for 30 minutes. Serve in portions, topped with honey or syrup.

Dishes for dinner

Dinner should be light and satisfying at the same time, so the child should be offered protein dishes and, if possible, eliminate fast carbohydrates (juices, sweets). It is advisable to have dinner no later than 19-00, and take a walk outside after eating. Before going to bed, it is better to feed children 2 years old with yogurt or fruit, which will fill them up and improve digestion.

Fish is good for a child’s body, and casserole is one of the the best ways prepare this product

Cut young potatoes into slices and boil. Add fresh butter and milk, add salt and puree. Separately simmer in 100 ml. milk 150 grams of lean fish fillet. Place the fish in a fireproof dish, put a quarter of a boiled egg on top, pour over the milk left over from the stew and spread out the mashed potatoes. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes.

In the second year of life, the child begins to develop his own taste regarding food, his favorite and least favorite dishes appear. During this period, the baby’s menu already looks a little like an adult’s diet. But you shouldn’t rush to enter everything at once.

Diet of a 2 year old child

If previously the main products for a child were milk, formula, cereals, etc., now there are noticeably more options.

Let's consider the main provisions of the diet of a 2-year-old child.
As before, meals remain five times a day. Breakfast and dinner should be approximately equal; for second breakfast and afternoon snack we offer lighter dishes. The child should receive the largest amount of nutrients at lunchtime.
Now a 2-year-old child’s diet includes a full three-course menu for lunch. First liquid food, then a piece of fish or meat with a side dish, and at the end.
For a baby who is 2 years old, the children's menu should include recipes with different ingredients, but about 70% must be carbohydrates.
A child's diet at 2 years old should include meat, fish or eggs, milk and cereals with vegetables daily. Each group has its own functions, so replacing one product with another will not work.

Children's recipes from 2 years old: first courses

As before, you can offer your baby puree soups as a first course. Chicken, veal or rabbit are best for making broth.

Ingredients:

chicken meat - 0.5 kg;
carrots - 1 piece;
onion - 1 piece;
milk - 1 tbsp;
flour - 2 tbsp. ;
butter- 2 tbsp. l.;
water - 0.5 l;
sour cream - 0.5 tbsp;
greens to taste.

Preparation

Cook chicken broth. Remove the meat and cool it. While the meat is cooling, add the onion and carrots to the boiling water. Cook until the carrots become soft. Disassemble the meat and pass it through a meat grinder with carrots. Dilute the minced meat with half a glass of broth, add milk, butter, flour. Stir until smooth. Add the mixture to the broth, stirring constantly. Serve with sour cream and herbs.

Children's recipes from 2 years old: meat and vegetable dishes

For the second course you can prepare stews, puddings or stewed vegetables. Meat or fish are much healthier if they are steamed or baked in the oven.

Meat pudding

Ingredients:

veal - 50 g;
white bread - 1 piece;
milk - 50 ml;
egg - 0.5 pcs;
butter - 1 tsp;
grated crackers - 1 tsp.

Preparation

Soak the bread in milk. Boil the meat and pass through a meat grinder with bread. Add the yolk and mix. Beat the whites until foamy and gently fold into the minced meat. Grease a baking dish with butter, sprinkle with breadcrumbs and lay out the mixture. Cover with greased paper and bake for 20 minutes. Serve with mashed potatoes.

Steam cutlets

Ingredients:

meat - 60 g;
white bread - 1 piece;
butter - 1 tsp.

Preparation

Pass the meat through a meat grinder. Soak the bread in milk or water and pass it with the meat a second time. Add butter, salt. Mix the minced meat until you obtain a smooth, homogeneous mass. Place the cutlets in a pan and pour in a small amount hot water. Cover with a lid and place in the oven for half an hour. Water periodically with liquid.

Recipes for children 2 years old: dessert

Dessert should first of all be healthy and help the digestion process. But not everything healthy is what a child wants to eat. We offer some simple recipes for children 2 years old that the little one will definitely want to try.

Cream scone pudding

Ingredients:

Preparation

Cut the bun pulp into slices. Brush each slice with butter and place in the pan. Grind the egg yolk with milk. Add flour and sugar to the egg-milk mixture. Bring to a boil over low heat until thickened. Slices of bread are filled with cream. Bake in the oven for half an hour until it turns yellow.