Meals for a 2 year old child menu. Nutrition for a child from two to three years old

Two-year-old children gradually become accustomed to adult food, however, completely switch to common table It's still early at this age. About what nutritional features 2- year old child Parents should remember which products are too early for their 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 appointments 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

1. 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 children's diet there must be sources such as dairy products, poultry, meat products, egg dishes, fish. Carbohydrates are the main source of energy for 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.
2. 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.
3. 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
4. and other products.

Spices and salt in children's dishes should be in minimal quantities.

Many mothers do not stop breastfeeding their children over 2 years of age.

• 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. 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. A two-year-old child can be given 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 confectionery 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 foods are oatmeal, buckwheat and rice porridge, 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 from 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 a meat or fish dish in the amount of 50-80 g and a side dish in the amount of 100 g. In addition, for lunch they are given 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 baking(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) Fish steam 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)
	Omelet (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 of 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 cheesecloth 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 chopped meat, 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 established regime

nutrition), avoid snacking and ensure food is the right 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, e.g. digestive tract or any acute infections . Parents may be led to believe that poor appetite is associated with illness due to the presence of other symptoms - elevated temperature

, nausea, weight loss, stool changes and others.

Binge eating Teach your child the basics proper nutrition important with, 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 could 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 must always undergo heat treatment.
• 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 using 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.

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A A As you know, proper (healthy and tasty) nutrition is the key to a baby’s health. And the main role in daily diet

Of course, breakfast plays. In order for your baby to have enough energy for the whole day, in the morning you need to eat a full, healthy and, naturally, tasty meal. That is, stock up on energy until the evening. And so that the baby does not protest against “», healthy breakfasts

they should be approached creatively and lovingly.

• What are the benefits of porridge? Oatmeal. A universal dietary breakfast, rich in vitamins, useful acids , microelements, vegetable proteins
• . Oats are an ideal antioxidant, an assistant in the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, and a source of biotin (a vitamin, the deficiency of which leads to weakness, drowsiness, decreased appetite, etc.). Buckwheat. A real storehouse of vitamins. Yadritsa is a natural and tasty mini-pharmacy that relieves the body of, has a positive effect on heart function and has an antitoxic effect. The list of benefits of buckwheat is huge.
• Pearl barley. At first glance, not the most appetizing, but extremely healthy porridge. Pearl barley porridge contains a lot of vitamins, protein and starch, microelements, lysine (an antiviral amino acid).
• Rice. This porridge is good for intelligence, rich in fiber, vitamin B and protein.
• Millet. Porridge for the heart. This breakfast is rich minerals, vitamin PP, amino acids, microelements.
• Corn. Breakfast for the gastrointestinal tract. Contains vitamins (PP, C, B), carotene, lysine and tryptophan, fiber, silicon. Porridge reduces fermentation in the intestines, removes toxins, and is low in calories.

It is still too early for a child aged 1-3 years to eat pearl barley (it is difficult to digest), semolina is also not recommended, but other cereals will be very useful.

How to make porridge tasty for a child?

• Add a piece of butter (butter) during the cooking process.
• Pour a little milk into the porridge (when ready) and bring to a boil.
• Add fruits (dried fruits), nuts, jam or preserves, vegetables.
• Add baked apple or grated cheese.
• Add fruit puree, chopped or whole berries.
• Add fruit juice for color.
• Add the whipped mixture of boiled vegetables (pumpkin, carrots, cauliflower).

Use your imagination. Porridge for breakfast can become a “canvas” in a plate - with the help of fruits, candied fruits or jam, “draw” culinary landscapes, unknown animals or fantastic characters for your child. Not a single child will refuse such porridge.

Omelette

People usually protest against omelettes less often than against porridges, but such a breakfast also requires design and mother’s imagination. Omelet is useful for containing (in eggs and milk) vitamins B, E, A, D, fats and proteins, useful elements.

Adviсe:

• Egg consumption should be moderate to avoid allergies.
• Quail eggs are an ideal option (the risk of allergies is reduced to a minimum, there are no strict restrictions). Instead of 1 chicken - 3-4 quail.
• The eggs should first be washed with water.
• Cooking options: bake in a frying pan with a lid (after 2 years), bake in the oven or steam (from 1 year).
• To make the omelet tasty and attract the baby’s attention, add vegetables to the dish (carrots, broccoli, bell pepper, zucchini or potatoes), greens. We “draw” funny pugs on top using food, plant tomato ladybugs, etc.

What can you use to make an omelet for a child?

• Omelette with cheese and zucchini. The zucchini is pre-fried and then filled with the future omelet (eggs and milk, 2:1). You can sprinkle grated cheese after the omelette has risen.
• With herbs and tomatoes. Beat 3 quail eggs with milk, add chopped herbs and tomatoes, a piece of butter, put in the microwave for a couple of minutes.
• With broccoli and carrots (from 1.5 years).
• With potatoes and grated cheese (from 1 year).
• With vegetables (from 1.5 years). Zucchini, greens, carrots, bell peppers.
• With carrots and cauliflower (from 1.5 years).
• With spinach (from 2 years old).
• With fish. Pour the boiled fish into the future omelette and bake in the oven or microwave.

Curd breakfast. Syrniki

After 6 months, cottage cheese for the baby is a mandatory part of the menu. Cottage cheese is phosphorus and calcium, it is a lot of vitamins, it is an opportunity to use the product in a wide variety of variations. For example: cottage cheese with sour cream, berries or fruits, dumplings or dumplings with cottage cheese, cheesecakes, curd mass with various ingredients, cottage cheese cookies, casserole and much more.

And we have we'll talk about the most favorite curd dish among kids – cheesecakes. They are prepared quite simply, and can be served with almost any “sauce” - sour cream, jam, condensed milk, berries, fruits, etc. (according to age).

How to make cheesecakes?

• Mix the egg with sugar (1.5-2 tbsp).
• Add flour (1.5-2 tbsp) and stir.
• Add 250 g of cottage cheese, stir.
• Form cakes from the mixture and roll them in flour, fry on both sides over low heat.

• You can add berries, fruits or candied fruits, honey, cinnamon, vanilla sugar, etc. to the cheesecake mixture.
• Cottage cheese for children should be used only natural.
• Before serving, cheesecakes should be beautifully decorated - for example, in the form of mini suns with rays of jam or in the form of dandelions. Or you can pour jam on it and decorate with berries.
• Choose cottage cheese with a soft consistency for kids.
• Do not overcook the cheesecakes - cook over low heat, slightly browning. Then blot with a napkin to remove excess oil.
• You should not give fried foods to children under 1.5-2 years old.
• For children 1-3 years old, you can grind cottage cheese (50-60 g) into a paste and add porridge, fruit puree or ground berries to it.

Puddings

This dish is suitable for babies one year old and older. Such a breakfast will not only be healthy, but also tasty and beautiful. That is, any little picky person will like it. The benefits and advantages of pudding are easy digestibility, delicate consistency, improved appetite and metabolism, and a lot of beneficial elements for health.

Pudding options:

• With cottage cheese and semolina.
• With vegetables.
• With meat or fish.
• With berries.
• With rice or chocolate.

How to prepare pudding for a baby?

• Pour milk (400 ml) into a saucepan, add 2 tbsp sugar, add vanilla sugar, cook until the sugar dissolves.
• Dissolve 2 tablespoons of starch in 100 ml of milk, add beaten yolk, carefully pour into the pan ready mixture. Cook for a couple of minutes, stirring.
• Transfer the mixture to the cooled pans and refrigerate, covered with foil (for 2 hours).

You can decorate with berries, coconut, nuts, apples or cranberries, etc.

Souffle

An excellent breakfast option for babies 11 months and older. A dietary dish that is an airy culinary delight with various ingredients based on whipped egg whites.

After a year, a child’s nutrition expands significantly. New products are added to the menu, new types of dishes appear. The baby no longer needs to be given highly crushed food in the form of purees. At one year of age, children eat food of a delicate consistency with small pieces, which trains the child’s chewing skills. You can safely add meatballs, finely chopped or coarsely grated vegetables and meat, cereals and pasta in their original form to your dishes.

At the age of 1.5-2 years, the ingredients for the dish can be cut larger. Many experts recommend completely avoiding souffles, cream and puree dishes. But it is still impossible to overload digestion at this age, so sometimes you should feed your baby this kind of food. Give your baby only stewed or boiled dishes, bake or steam food. In this article we will look at a number of rules for organizing children’s meals and draw up detailed menu for a child 1-2 years old.

Nutrition rules for a child 1-2 years old

• The menu of a child aged 1-2 years should consist of five meals. The norm for one meal is 250-300 grams;
• A child’s daily diet must include vegetables and fruits, meat or fish, soup or broth;
• Prepare dishes stewed, boiled, baked or steamed. Avoid fried foods, as they are difficult to digest, increase weight and cholesterol levels, often worsen bowel movements and cause heaviness in the stomach;
• It is better to cook over low heat, this way the food retains vitamins and nutrients;
• You should not give both meat and fish on the same day. Fish dishes are given 2-3 times a week, on other days - meat dishes;
• From meat it is better to take beef, chicken, turkey and rabbit, from fish - low-fat varieties (hake, perch, pollock, pike perch, cod, etc.). Fatty varieties It is better not to give fish, pork, lamb and other types of meat to children under three years of age;
• Eliminate pickles and marinades, mushrooms, smoked and canned foods, glazed cheeses and desserts containing dyes, large amounts of sweets, carbonated drinks and fast food from your child’s diet;
• Do not give children processed foods, including store-bought dumplings, cutlets, and sausages. You can sometimes give natural boiled sausage;

• Meat and meat products are not recommended for children under three years of age. fish broths, since they are very difficult to digest and disrupt the functioning of still weak digestion. It is better to cook meat and fish separately, and then put the products in the already prepared soup;
• To season dishes, use low-fat sour cream or vegetable oil. Do not give children ketchup, mayonnaise;
• Add only a little salt to your baby’s food; if possible, it’s better to avoid salt altogether. Salt food at the end of cooking;
• When cooking, you can use sugar and black pepper in small quantities. Do not add hot spices and seasonings to your dishes;
• Enter with caution citrus fruit and berries, as they can cause food allergies. In addition to already familiar foods, a baby’s diet after one year can include small quantities of oranges, tangerines, kiwis, melons, strawberries, raspberries, strawberries;
• To vegetables you can add bell peppers, onions, tomatoes and fresh cucumbers, legumes (peas, chickpeas, beans, beans, etc.), beets and white cabbage;
• When introducing a new product or dish for the first time, wait one or two days after introduction and observe the baby’s reaction. If your bowel movements are abnormal or signs of allergy appear, consult your doctor and hold off on including this food in your diet for now;
• Do not force your child to eat and do not teach children to eat while watching TV or playing. The baby must get hungry himself! Read what to do if he doesn’t want to eat.

How to create a diet for a child 1-2 years old

For breakfast or for the first meal, porridge, a sandwich with butter, cheese, boiled eggs, and cottage cheese casserole are ideal. Lunch must include broth or soup, the norm of which for a child under two years old is 100-130 ml per day. It might be easy vegetable soup, fish, pea or meat soup. For children over one year old, you can already give classic soups with finely chopped ingredients. However, you can also give pureed soups. Milk soups are best eaten for breakfast.

For second courses, prepare rice, pasta, boiled vegetables or vegetable puree, as well as meatballs, meatballs or cutlets made from meat or fish. There should definitely be snacks between main meals. For this, fresh and baked fruits, vegetable salads, cookies, a glass of milk or fermented baked milk, yogurt, vegetable salads with vegetable oil,

For dinner, you can give your child stewed vegetables and vegetable casserole, omelet, pasta, cottage cheese. At this time, it is not recommended to eat milk porridge, meat and fish dishes. Thus, lunch should be the most nutritious and satisfying meal of the day. Breakfast and dinner should be approximately the same in calories. It is advisable to prepare fresh food each time, since during storage it loses beneficial features. Next we offer sample menu for children 1-2 years old.

Menu for the week

Day of the week	I	II	III
First meal	Buckwheat + sandwich with cheese and butter + tea	Rice porridge + sandwich with cheese and butter + tea	Mashed potatoes + boiled egg + fruit juice
Second meal	Cottage cheese with pieces fresh berries or fruit + tea	Cookies + milk	Banana + fresh apple
Third meal	Shchi with sour cream + boiled vermicelli with meatballs + salad with fresh cucumber+ compote	Vegetable soup with beef + mashed potatoes with meat cutlet + beet salad + compote	Fish soup + buckwheat + salad with cabbage and apple + bread with jam + tea
Fourth meal	Kefir + baked apple + cookies	Cottage cheese + fresh banana	Bun + compote
Fifth meal	Casserole with carrots and apples + milk	Stewed cauliflower (broccoli) + omelette + yogurt	Cottage cheese casserole + cookies + milk

Day of the week	VI	VII
First meal	Hercules or semolina porridge + sandwich with cheese and butter + tea	Millet porridge + sandwich with cheese and butter + milk
Second meal	Kefir + fresh banana	Fresh apple or pear + cookies + tea
Third meal	Pea soup + vegetable stew with meat cutlet or zrazy + carrot and apple salad + compote or fruit drink	Noodle soup with meatballs + mashed potatoes with boiled beef + vegetable salad+ compote
Fourth meal	Cottage cheese + fresh peach or apricot	Fruit mousse or yogurt + bun
Fifth meal	Omelet + cookies + juice	Cottage cheese or vegetable casserole + boiled egg + fruit juice

Dish recipes

Vegetable casserole

• Pumpkin – 200 gr;
• Milk – 100 ml;
• Carrots – 200 gr;
• Semolina – 2 tbsp. spoons;
• Chicken egg – 1 pc.;
• Sugar – 1 teaspoon.

Grate the vegetables and add to boiling milk. Cook over low heat until the milk has evaporated. Beat the egg into the resulting cooled mixture, add sugar and mix. Add semolina and mix again until smooth and without lumps. Cook the casserole in a water bath for 20-25 minutes after the water boils. You can add tomatoes to the recipe if you wish. The vegetable is first peeled and finely chopped.

Baked cauliflower with cheese

• Cauliflower – 300 gr;
• Hard cheese – 100 g;
• Onion – 1 pc.;
• Sour cream – 100 gr..

Place the half-finished cabbage in a colander and leave to cool. Chop the onion and lightly fry in vegetable oil, and grate the cheese coarsely. Place the cooled cabbage on a baking sheet, add onion, add a little salt and brush with sour cream. Mix the mixture and sprinkle with grated cheese, bake until golden brown at 180 degrees. The finished dish can be decorated with chopped fresh herbs.

Meat soufflé for children

• Chicken or turkey – 100 g;
• Rice – 1 tbsp. spoon;
• Chicken egg – 1 pc.;
• Milk – 2 tbsp. spoons;
• Butter – 20 gr..

Boil chicken or turkey until cooked, chop and put through a blender. Cook soft rice porridge from rice and milk, which you add to the resulting meat puree. Mix the ingredients and beat in a blender. Melt the butter in a frying pan and add to the mixture, add the yolk and stir. Beat the egg white separately, pour into the puree and stir. Place the mixture in molds and cook in a water bath or steam for 20-25 minutes.

This soufflé can be served with vegetable puree or buckwheat porridge at lunchtime. The dish turns out tender and soft, easily digested and easy to chew. It is optimal for feeding small children who are still learning to chew. By the way, soufflé can also be made from fish, fruits and vegetables.

Curd cheesecakes

• Cottage cheese – 200 gr;
• Wheat flour – 3 tbsp. spoons;
• Sour cream – 1 tbsp. spoon;
• Semolina – 1 tbsp. spoon;
• Chicken egg – 1 pc.;
• Sugar – 2 tablespoons.

Mix cottage cheese with semolina, sugar and egg. Leave for ten minutes, then add flour and knead the dough. If desired, you can add raisins or chopped dried apricots to the dough. Roll out the resulting mass into balls and dip in flour, then place on a baking sheet and lightly crush the pieces. Coat the top of the flatbread with sour cream and bake at 180 degrees for 20 minutes.

Cream soup with chicken and vegetables

• Chicken fillet – 300 g;
• Potatoes – 3 tubers;
• Tomatoes – 1 large fruit;
• Onion – 1 pc.;
• Carrots – 1 fruit.

Boil the chicken separately, wash and peel the vegetables. Finely chop the carrots and onions, peel the tomato and cut into pieces. Fry the vegetables in vegetable oil for two to three minutes. Cut the potatoes into cubes and throw them into boiling water. Ten minutes after cooking, add the rest of the vegetables and cook until tender.

Cut the finished, cooled meat into pieces, mix with vegetables and pass through a blender. Lightly dilute the mixture with vegetable broth and bring to a boil. Add salt if necessary. For older children, you can add bell pepper to the soup.

According to science, dinner should account for 20% of daily ration. But children, especially small children, change their daily routine in their own way. Their life is filled with events: educational toys, games, learning “like adults” in kindergartens and development schools, and just a buzzing world around them. TV (and some were put on a computer from the cradle), fantasies bursting with a fragile but no longer sufficiently developed brain, observations, accumulated emotions... More and more often it is impossible to calm a child down in the evenings. More and more children are having trouble sleeping at night. The most accessible way for a child to get quick positive sensations is food. Babies “hang” on their chests, older children wake up at night: either kefir or water... and mothers again rack their brains: what to feed them more fillingly in the evening so that they can sleep soundly?..

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 the child goes to bed late (after 22-23.00), he should have dinner at 19.30-20.00 - and a second dinner in the form of a glass of milk or kefir at night is advisable. Children receiving breast milk or formula do not count; everything is fine there 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 concerned when their child wakes up several times during the night and asks to eat. Scientists have long found out that the feeling of hunger, which illogically (provided there is sufficient nutrition) torments us throughout 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 are 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.

What is a hearty and light dinner? "Density" criterion

If you look closely at the recipes for breakfast, afternoon snack and dinner, you will notice that they are very similar in many ways. Variations of products, combinations of cottage cheese, fruits and cereal dishes, light soups and casseroles - all this is equally suitable for breakfast, afternoon snack and dinner.

Children's dinner includes products that the child did not eat during the day. If there was a shortage of cottage cheese and fruits, we give cottage cheese and fruits. If the food was basically pointless, then you need vegetables, salads, and cereals. Kindergarten children do not have enough “live” fermented milk products, egg dishes, almost all kindergarten food is thermally processed, so in the evening you can unload the stomach without offering it anything boiled or baked (eggs, raw vegetables, salads, yoghurts, cottage cheese). Well, if there was no dinner in the kindergarten, then we have dinner at home like adults.

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 normal live 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, 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 the child has dinner before bed), do not remember all the horrors of the world written by hardworking journalists about junk food for the night. Needed in everything individual approach. The child sleeps well, he has no health problems, overweight and excitability - that means a plate light porridge or omelette is not a problem that is worth the trouble and loss nerve cells at 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.

Wrong dinner

The wrong dinner results from indulging the grasping reflexes of a child who does not know what to do with his energy and excitability after a busy day. This is especially true for “kindergarten” children; we discussed their dinner and the causes of “nervous hunger” here:

In the evening active child just as actively seeks the attention of adults, as if afraid of not being able to make it in time. He replaces the requests “stay with me” or “calm me down” with a demand for food that is more accessible to children’s understanding. He ate the first, the third, the tenth, begged for candy, the second, and still wants to eat, more... Be sure to ensure that your child does not stuff everything into himself, especially incompatible foods. Want to eat a lot? - Please, but only after breaks. I ate a plate of stew and read it. I drank yogurt, ate a banana and played. This is how we organize the evening “zhor” and help the child to competently understand his feelings.

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 - 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 it 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 egg yolk with sugar, beat the egg whites into a fluffy foam. Combine apple and carrots, add sour cream or milk, yolk with sugar, semolina, salt, carefully add the whipped 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 and sauté 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 to the finished porridge, butter, yogurt, 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 powder rice porridge- 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 on top cauliflower. 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, salt to taste. Form cutlets, roll them in breadcrumbs and fry or bake in the oven.

On photos: Max (Emma's mother), Egor (Mom Panda™), Nastya (mother

Menu two year old baby gradually becomes more complex and varied. Grinded products are being replaced by cutlets, pancakes, soufflés and casseroles. A young mother has to use all her imagination to come up with new dishes for her baby. She needs to take into account not only the baby’s gastronomic preferences, but also family and national traditions. Therefore, we want to talk about what to cook for your child for dinner. The recipes collected in this article are quite simple, and you can easily bring them to life.

Stewed vegetables with meatballs

So, what should you cook for your child for dinner? 2 years is a special stage in a child’s life. At this age for active growth And wellness he needs not only milk, but also animal protein. And to improve work gastrointestinal tract A sufficient amount of fiber should be present in the baby's diet. Therefore, the dish we offer will be very healthy and the child will definitely like it. Juicy golden meatballs and bright vegetables will also be loved by the adult members of your family. So save our recipe - it will be useful to you more than once in the future.

Ingredients:

• White cabbage - 600 grams.
• Minced meat - 400 grams.
• Sour cream - 100 ml.
• Carrots - 300 grams.
• Cottage cheese - 100 grams.
• Vegetable oil - two tablespoons.
• Chicken egg.
• Bulb.
• Salt - to taste.
• Flour - one
• Black pepper - to taste.

Recipe

• Combine minced meat, egg, chopped onion and cottage cheese in a deep bowl.
• Salt and pepper the products, and then mix them well.
• Form small round meatballs from the resulting mixture.
• Simmer the preparations in vegetable oil in a saucepan, adding a little water to the bowl. Cook them on high heat first and then on medium heat. Place the finished meatballs in a clean bowl and cover with a lid to keep warm.
• Peel the carrots and cut into slices. Cut the cabbage into large cubes. Transfer the vegetables to the saucepan in which the meatballs were cooked. Simmer them for a few minutes and then pour boiling water over them (about 125 ml of water will be needed).
• Mix sour cream with salt, flour, ground pepper. Pour this sauce over the vegetables and stir them.
• Return the meatballs to the saucepan and heat the dish for some more time.

Serve the treat to the table, sprinkling it with chopped herbs and adding a slice of black bread.

with cheese and turkey

Required products:

• 150 grams of frozen green peas.
• 100 grams of hard cheese.
• 300 grams of turkey fillet.
• One kilogram of potatoes.
• Egg.
• Three tablespoons of flour.
• Two tablespoons of chopped parsley.
• Salt and black pepper.

Recipe of dish:

• Thaw the peas, then transfer them to a colander and wait until the water drains.
• Grate the cheese and peeled potatoes.
• Chop the turkey meat with a knife or pass through a meat grinder.
• Squeeze the potatoes and place them in a deep bowl. Mix it with prepared products, add a raw egg and chopped parsley.
• Knead the minced meat with a spoon and then with your hands. Form small cutlets of the same size and place them on a sheet of parchment.

Bake dinner in a well-heated oven for half an hour. If desired, the workpieces can be turned over, but this is not necessary. For a side dish, prepare a light salad.

Beef liver stewed in sour cream

And we continue to talk about what to cook for dinner for a 2-year-old child. Put out beef liver Every mother can do it without difficulty. The secret of this dish lies in the correct processing of the product and the correctly calculated time allotted for its preparation. If you violate the technology, the liver will taste bitter, change its structure or become tough. For this dish you will need:

• Beef liver - one kilogram.
• Sour cream - one glass (you can replace it with thick cream).
• Flour - four tablespoons.
• Garlic - five cloves.
• Vegetable oil.

How to prepare stewed liver:

• Defrost the liver, rinse it and remove films. Remove the bile ducts and then cut the meat into pieces.
• Quickly simmer the liver in oil in a well-heated frying pan. Transfer the workpieces into a pan with thick walls and a bottom. Add chopped garlic, sour cream and a glass of water.
• Season the dish with salt and pepper to taste. Cook the liver for a quarter of an hour under a closed lid over low heat.

Serve dinner with buckwheat porridge, not forgetting to top the dish with sour cream sauce.

Fish casserole

What can you cook for your child for dinner if he likes fish dishes? We offer you a simple recipe delicious casserole, which can be cooked not only in the oven, but also in a slow cooker.

Required products:

• Fish fillet - one kilogram (it is better to take low-fat fish varieties).
• Eggs - four pieces.
• One onion.
• Rice - half a glass.
• Heavy cream - 100 grams.
• Salt, pepper and spices - to taste.

Prepare fish and rice casserole:

• Thaw the fillet and grind it in a blender.
• Beat the eggs together with salt and seasonings.
• Combine prepared products with
• Peel the onion, chop and fry until golden brown.
• Whip the cream.
• Mix minced fish with cream and fried onions.
• Gently mix all the ingredients and place them in the multicooker bowl.

Cook the dish in the “Baking” mode for 45 minutes. When the time is up, let the casserole sit for another quarter of an hour. After this, it can be served immediately.

Potato casserole with cheese

What delicious food should you prepare for your children for dinner? This delicate potato and cheese casserole will appeal to kids and adults. Creamy taste and aromatic spices complement each other perfectly, turning your dinner into a real holiday.

Ingredients:

• Potatoes - 1000 grams.
• Garlic - two cloves.
• Hard cheese - 60 grams.
• Sour cream - 200 grams.
• Milk - 100 ml.
• Spices and salt - to taste.

The casserole recipe is very simple:

• First wash the potatoes and then cut them into thin slices. To get the best result, use a special knife or grater.
• Grease a baking dish with oil, and then place potatoes, spices, sour cream and grated cheese one by one.
• When you run out of ingredients, pour the dish with milk, sprinkle it with cheese, chopped garlic and spices.

Place the casserole in the oven and cook for about 50 minutes. You can serve it as a main course or as a side dish for meat or fish.

What to cook for dinner for a 2 year old child? Turkey soufflé

Dietary poultry is excellent for feeding children early age. Fillet contains a lot of protein and minimal amount fat In addition, we suggest steaming this dish to preserve all the beneficial properties of the meat.

Ingredients:

• Turkey breast - 50 grams.
• Carrots - 30 grams.
• Milk - 25 ml.
• Quail egg.
• Semolina - half a tablespoon.
• Butter - half a teaspoon.
• Salt - to taste.

Read the recipe for a delicious dietary dish below:

• Cut the meat into small pieces and place it in a blender bowl.
• Place boiled peeled carrots, egg and butter there.
• Whisk all ingredients and add salt to taste.

Transfer the resulting mass to silicone mold and place it in a steamer. Cook the soufflé for 25 minutes, and then serve it with vegetable stew or a salad of fresh vegetables.

What can you cook for kids quickly for dinner? Meatballs in a slow cooker

What to do if you have a lot of household chores and you can’t afford to stand at the stove for two hours? In this case, a multi-cooker assistant will help you out! For our dish you will need:

• Minced chicken - 500 grams.
• Boiled rice - 200 grams.
• Egg.
• Wheat flour - two spoons.
• Tomato paste - three tablespoons.
• Sour cream - two tablespoons.
• Water - one glass.
• Any spices.

• Prepare minced chicken using a blender. After that, mix it with spices.
• To make the meatballs tender, beat the resulting mass with a blender again.
• Place the workpiece in the bowl of the device and simmer in a small amount of water.
• Prepare a sauce from flour, tomato paste, water and spices. Pour it into the meatballs and set the “Stew” mode.

Bring the dish to readiness and serve it with any side dish.

Veal goulash

What to cook for dinner for a 2-year-old child if he loves meat dishes? Beef or veal goulash is a great option. The recipe for its preparation is very simple, and the set necessary products can be found in the refrigerator of any thrifty mother.

Ingredients:

• Meat - 500 grams.
• Bulb.
• Tomato paste - teaspoon.
• Flour - a tablespoon.
• Bay leaf.
• Black pepper - a pinch.
• Vegetable oil - two or three tablespoons.

How to cook goulash:

• Select a piece of lean meat and cut it into cubes.
• Peel the onion and cut into half rings. After this, heat it in a frying pan, and at the end add the veal.
• When the meat is browned, pour a glass of water into it and simmer the dish over low heat until cooked.
• Prepare a sauce from 100 ml of water, tomato paste and flour. Pour it into the pan, then add salt and spices to taste. Don't forget to add bay leaf for flavor.

Cook the goulash for a few more minutes. When the sauce thickens, the dish can be removed from the heat and served.

Conclusion

As you may have noticed, all the children's dishes we describe on this page are also suitable for the adult menu. The task of the mother of a two-year-old baby is to transfer the baby to the common family table as quickly as possible. In this case, she will not rack her brains over the question of what to cook for dinner for a 2-year-old child. There will always be several in mind different recipes to please the baby. The young woman will have free time that she can spend on games and activities with her son or daughter. Therefore, choose your favorite recipes and delight your kids with new delicious dishes.