The right diet for a child in 2 years. What can and cannot be fed to children under three years old are the mistakes of parents that cost children their health. Acceptable dietary products, the use of which should be controlled

Have you ever wondered why someone likes sour and salty, someone likes sweet or bitter? We sense taste through taste buds. There are about 10,000 of them in the mouth of an adult. Young children have more taste buds. Therefore, babies perceive tastes sharper and often more picky in food than parents.

Are you sure you are eating the food you choose? Modern research prove that genes determine our choices. And everyone's taste buds are different. Today, scientists are seriously studying the genetically determined food preferences of people: someone will like fried potatoes all their lives, and someone likes to enjoy only mashed potatoes.

Speaking about the nutrition of a child at 2 years old, we must not forget the above facts. We are all different, and we must respect the characteristics of each. By this age, the baby can do a lot on his own, he develops a character and understanding of the world around him. Eating habits and habits continue to form.

If parents care about the development and upbringing of the baby, then the issues of proper nutrition of the child do not go unnoticed. The famous doctor Komarovsky writes: “Feeding a baby with high-quality varied food is a prerequisite for the moral well-being of parents ...”.

In the second year of life, the transition of the child to the general diet adopted in the family continues. But there is no need to go to extremes. Mom, preparing a dish for everyone, can shift food for the baby into a separate saucepan and only after that add salt and spices. This is especially true if, for example, dad loves spicy and peppery foods - such culinary delights can harm a growing body.

Deciding whether to feed your baby canned baby food or meals home cooking. There are supporters and opponents of canned food. Some prefer the ease of use of industrial baby food, while others insist on the need to include only fresh products in the child's diet.

Food should not be crushed too much. However, do not forget that the size of the food pieces should be increased little by little. The principle of gradualness should also be observed when introducing new products: first we give a small piece a try, we monitor the reaction and, if it is positive, turn it on after a while New Product on the menu.

For children of the second year of life are unacceptable fried foods. You can boil, stew, bake, but not fry. Gastrointestinal tract cannot cope with the digestion of heavy food on its own.

Equally important is that you are shaping your child's eating habits. If you don't see anything wrong with fried foods, then your child will borrow your food preferences. We educate a two-year-old man not with words, but with our own example. Therefore, try not to eat with the child what you do not give him.

BJU balance

BJU is proteins, fats, carbohydrates. Their ratio in the second year of life is the same as in the first: 4 g of carbohydrates account for 1 g of protein and 1 g of fat. Subject to this proportion (4:1:1), the child's nutrition is considered optimal.

carbohydrates - cereals, vegetables, fruits, bread;
proteins - meat, fish, dairy products;
fats - vegetable and butter oils, fats contained in products mainly of animal origin.

What carbohydrates to include in the diet

Vegetables and cereals are foods with high nutritional value. Dishes based on them must be included in the family diet. Then you will not have any problems with preparing food especially for the child.

You can safely offer your child a variety of vegetables and fruits, if there is no allergic reaction. Give preference to fruits from your climate zone.

There is an opinion that children under three years old should not be given peas, beans, etc. Dry and canned legumes should be excluded from the diet of a two-year-old child. But from fresh, young legumes, it is allowed to cook puree soup to facilitate digestion.

Unfortunately, in many families the tradition of daily cooking of cereals and vegetable dishes has been lost. Depriving ourselves and children of this simple food, we leave the body without a large number useful substances. And we are preparing the ground for problems with digestion and excretion of waste products of the body.

If the child's diet is dominated by protein and fatty foods, and there is not enough vegetable fiber, the baby will suffer from constipation. Another cause of constipation can be fluid deficiency. Children should be taught to drink from an early age. clean water without any additives. Lemonade is a forbidden drink not only for children 2 years old, but also older.

What kind of meat to give a child

Non-greasy. It can be beef, rabbit, chicken or turkey. Do not rush to give pork. Try not to season the meat with sauces. Strive to keep natural taste products.

Do not give your child pure meat broth, use it as a base for soups. But first remove the fat. Of all the soups, borscht is considered the healthiest.

No one disputes the inclusion of fish in the diet of a 2-year-old child. It is digested faster than meat, it contains many useful trace elements, and the load on the pancreas is less.

Fish can be both river and sea. Don't give your child seafood. At an early age, it is a strong allergen. When including fish in the diet of a 2-year-old baby, make sure that there is no allergic reaction to it. Do not rush to offer fidget caviar and gourmet fish.

If the child knows how to chew well, cut the meat and fish into pieces, but without bones.

Controversy about milk

Dairy products must be included in the diet. It is better if it is, kefir or.

In the menu of a two-year-old, cheese and cottage cheese should appear at least 3 times a week. Daily rate cottage cheese - no more than 50 g. It is safer if you make lazy dumplings, cheesecakes or casseroles. It is useful to cook such dishes for a couple or in a slow cooker without adding oil. Raw cottage cheese must be fresh and purchased from a trusted seller. Remember that store-bought cottage cheese from jars and boxes is nothing more than a dessert.

Experts talk about the dangers of whole milk for children under 3 years old. Balanced milk formulas can replace it. But not all parents follow this recommendation, and this is their right.

Vegetable and animal fats

Vegetable and butter are sources of fats that should also be present in. Butter can be added to cereals, mashed potatoes, vegetable dishes, and vegetable oil can be added to salads, such as vinaigrette. Do not use margarine and spreads in baby food.

Harmful sweets

It is a source of fast carbohydrates. Often parents, having heard about the dangers of sugar, try to exclude sweets from the child's diet.

Of course, the later children learn the taste of store-bought sweets, the better. Marshmallows, homemade cookies are allowed.

Let sweets be for your baby not a daily, but only a festive treat. The ban includes lollipops, cakes, chocolate, cakes, etc.

Diet

From two years old, you can enter 4 meals a day: breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner. Experts say that the baby should eat at least 4 and no more than 5 times a day.

Try to follow the recommendations of professionals, but without fanaticism. After all, at the age of two, the child enters the first crisis of childhood. The kid has realized himself as a person and is testing the limits of his abilities. “No!”, “I don’t want to!”, “I won’t!”. Refusal of food that was loved before, categorical demands for sweets, stamping of a foot, even tantrums - the child's struggle for his territory. Distract and switch the attention of the fidget, hug him or, on the contrary, step aside, speak in a whisper to surprise him. Just do not humiliate and do not use violence.

By the age of two, the child develops his food addictions, favorite and unloved dishes appear. Adults eat what they want, when they want. So why do we deny this right to the baby? Fantasize and play, do not get angry, do not get annoyed. Do not break the personality, but help to grow up.

Bad and good appetite

You can often hear the complaints of mothers and, especially, grandmothers about the poor appetite of the child. Most of the time, these fears are unfounded. Remember how many times between meals you gave your baby an apple, cookies, juice, yogurt, because he had a bad breakfast? Why doesn't the baby eat at lunch? Children eat when they are hungry, often ignoring the routine. Give up snacking, do not consider every moment as an opportunity to feed your beloved child, and everything will be back to normal.

Everything today more people are obese. Nutritional education begins in early childhood. Now it depends on the parents whether your child will suffer from peer ridicule due to being overweight. A good appetite when a 2-year-old eats adult food without restriction is not a reason to rejoice. Too early transition to heavy adult food undermines the health of the baby. Only healthy food, not fried, not flavored with mayonnaise and ketchup, strengthens the body.

Have you ever watched dad, mom, a two-year-old baby and a tablet with a cartoon on the screen having lunch in a cafe? The child automatically opens his mouth, swallows food, chews badly, does not feel the taste of food. His brain does not receive a satiety signal because it is busy with other activities. Mom is happy: the baby eats without whims and a lot. So, having made life easier for ourselves for half an hour, we develop the skills of the wrong eating behavior at their children. Try to feed your child next time without cartoons on the screen. Will it work? Hardly.

If the reluctance to eat is observed regularly, the baby eats less than the age norm and gains weight poorly, it's time to think about solving the problem with help. But not on your own! Preliminary medical consultation is required!

A two-year-old child owes nothing to anyone. He is still small, although he has learned to stomp his foot angrily. A 2-year-old baby really needs your care and wisdom. And if you can help him eat right, do so. Don't fight, don't be dramatic. Love and agree!

More and more adult foods appear in the diet of a two-year-old baby. However, his digestive system is too sensitive, which precludes a complete transition to the common table. How many times should a child eat at 2 years old? At this age, meals are usually 4 times a day, including breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner. It is important to offer the baby food at a strictly allotted time, at intervals of about 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 in two years is cereals, light cream soups, lean meat and fish, dairy products, vegetables and fruits grown in the area where the family lives. Porridges are made liquid or viscous, vegetables for stewing are finely chopped, meat is scrolled in a meat grinder. The child should learn to bite and chew solid foods, which make up a significant part of the adult diet.

The basis of the diet

In the diet of two-year-old children, there must be:

Juices, fruits, vegetables and sweets

Vegetables are very healthy for a child, but not all children like to eat them. Therefore, unloved foods can be masked in mashed potatoes or cutlets.

Berries and fruits in season are required in the baby's diet. You can eat them on your own, make compotes, jelly, jelly. The daily norm of fruits is 200 grams, berries - 20 grams. It is important to be careful with citrus fruits, to observe the reaction (allergy is possible). It is permissible to add a slice of lemon to tea.
Vegetables and greens saturate the body with valuable trace elements 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 kid can try peas, beans, cabbage, radishes, garlic, onions. Greens - spinach, parsley, dill serve as a decoration and a useful addition to dishes.
Natural sweets are needed in a limited amount. A couple of times a week you can offer marshmallow, jelly, jam. In rare cases, ½ teaspoon of honey is allowed (you can sweeten the cottage cheese or casserole). For an afternoon snack, you can offer home-made oatmeal or shortbread cookies. It is better to wait a little with chocolate, cakes, sweets.
The daily norm of juice is 150 ml. Drinks made from fruits grown in the region where the baby lives are allowed. You can give juices from tetrapacks intended for baby food. Drinks from exotic fruits should be postponed.

It is better not to buy sweets in the store, but to cook them yourself, for example, cookies. It will be much better for the baby.

One day menu

Dairy products, cereals, vegetables, fruits, soups or broths should be present in the daily diet of children. 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 tea / dinner). The daily calorie content is 1200-1400 calories, of which about 360 should come from fats.

A sample menu for one day in 2 years looks like this:

Menu for the week

It is difficult for the mother of a 2-year-old baby to find time for kitchen chores. Classes with a child and adherence to the regime require a lot of effort, so kitchen assistants (combine, blender, slow cooker) will help organize the day.

Two-year-old babies love to watch their mother cook dinner in the kitchen, so they can already be attached to this process.

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

Day of the week	Breakfast	Dinner	afternoon tea	Dinner
Monday	Rice cutlets with prunes, drinking yogurt (1.5%).	Cabbage and carrot salad, beef broth borscht, lazy cabbage rolls, bread, dried fruit compote, marshmallows.	Fresh berries, cheesecakes, kefir (more in the article:).	Cauliflower stewed with sour cream, bread with marmalade, unsweetened tea.
Tuesday	Oatmeal with fruit, bread with cheese, cocoa in milk.	Salad with grated carrots and apples, navy vermicelli, soup with meatballs, unsweetened tea.	Milk, shortbread, fruit.	Banana, chicken casserole, compote.
Wednesday	Bread with butter, cottage cheese casserole, cocoa in milk.	Shchi in meat broth, seasonal vegetable salad, 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.	Combined vegetable salad, fish soup with meatballs, syrniki with sour cream, compote, bread.	Cottage cheese cake, fruits. cranberry jelly.	Milk, low-fat pilaf with chicken.
Friday	Rice porridge with dried apricots, which is in 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 croutons, fish meatballs, stewed vegetables with green peas, bread, compote.	Cheesecake, milk, fruit.	Liver pancakes, mashed potatoes, tea.

Popular Breakfast Recipes

A proper breakfast energizes and stimulates activity in the morning. It should be light and at the same time satisfying, contain proteins, carbohydrates and fiber.

Semolina dumplings for breakfast

Pour 100 ml into a saucepan. milk and 50 ml. water, boil, salt. Pour semolina (70 gr) in a thin stream and cook 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. From the resulting mass, form balls with a diameter of about 3 cm. Boil and salt water separately, 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 drachen

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

Meals for a hearty lunch

Lunch for a two-year-old should be balanced and contain the required amount nutrients but not lead to overeating.

It is easy to find a compromise between healthy and tasty lunch. Dishes prepared for the baby can be successfully served on a common table. However, not vice versa, since baby food uses diet foods by season. Lunch consists of three courses that harmoniously complement each other and allow you to introduce new tastes. Does the child not like zucchini, cauliflower and other vegetables? They can be disguised in stews, cream soups, or mashed vegetables.

Vegetable soup with nuts

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

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

Meatballs can be purchased ready-made, but for the children's menu it is better to cook them yourself

Fish in a pot

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

Meatballs "whiskered"

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

Menu for afternoon tea

An afternoon snack is the smallest meal in terms of volume, but its importance for a growing organism is great. In order for children to get the full range of nutrients, it is important to create a menu that will include healthy dishes.

It is better to serve fresh fruits, compotes, vitamin smoothies, oatmeal cookies and other carbohydrate-rich foods. Simple and quick recipes with photos that are easy to please the crumbs for an afternoon snack, a lot.

Banana pancakes are very tasty, your kids will definitely like them.

Knead the dough for fritters (whey, sour cream, milk, kefir). Separately, prepare fruit puree by chopping 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. Stir ingredients and pour over pancakes before serving.

apple pudding

Peel 2 green apples, cut, sprinkle with sugar and pour water. Simmer for 6 minutes, cool, chop 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. Add beaten egg white separately. Put the mass in a prepared baking sheet, place in an oven preheated to 200 degrees and bake for 30 minutes. Serve in portions, watering with honey or syrup.

Dishes for dinner

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

Fish is good for the child's body, and the casserole is one of better ways cook this product

Cut new potatoes into slices, boil. Add fresh butter and milk, salt and beat until smooth. Separately stew in 100 ml. milk 150 grams of low-fat fish fillet. Transfer the fish to a fireproof dish, put a quarter of a boiled egg on top, pour over the milk left over from the stew and spread the mashed potatoes. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes.

Content:

By the age of two, the child erupts up to 20 milk teeth. This means that he can already eat solid and coarser food. It is useful not only for the development of chewing muscles, but also for intestinal motility, which begins to better digest food.

Meanwhile, the nutrition of a child at 2 years old is still different from the diet of an adult. Despite the fact that the digestive system is more perfect, the children's body cannot perceive some dishes.

Carbohydrates, proteins and vitamins

Growing children need a lot of carbohydrates. Feed your baby porridge. Kashi is an excellent source of energy for a little fidget. Some kids don't like them very much. Show your imagination: add pieces of fruit, dried fruits, vegetables or meat to the porridge. You can cook casseroles, meatballs or cutlets from cereals.

Protein and vitamins in combination with carbohydrates are perfectly absorbed. Bread, liver and pasta also contain a lot of carbohydrates. Gradually introduce dumplings, potato pancakes, pancakes and pancakes into the diet. But you should not get carried away with pasta and flour products, as they are conducive to excess weight. The daily norm of bread (black or white) for a child is no more than 100 g.

If in a year legume dishes were not yet available, then at the age of 2 they can be periodically prepared for a child.

In the menu of a baby of the age of two years, dairy and sour-milk products must be included. Skimmed milk or kefir is not suitable for a child. Leave them for your diet. And although fats are in the background in their importance, without them the brain and nervous system will not develop normally.

As you know, dairy products contain a lot of calcium, therefore, they are simply necessary for the formation and growth of a child's bones.

Include cottage cheese products in your diet. For a two-year-old baby, cottage cheese is in second place after milk and meat.

Surely the baby will like cottage cheese and cereal, meat and vegetable casseroles. Seasoned with low-fat sour cream, they will please even the most notorious capricious.

The source of proteins are lean beef, lamb, liver, eggs, fish. Dishes from these products must be included in the menu of a baby at the age of two. At least once a week, cook sea fish for your child. It is rich in iodine and proteins. Fish can be boiled, stewed or steamed. Meat does not have to be given in the form of minced meat. Boiled or stewed, with sauce or gravy, the meat is perfect for any side dish.

Milk sausages, boiled fat-free sausages should appear on the baby's menu extremely rarely.

Nutritionists assign a special place in the diet of a child to soups and other first courses. They should be on the menu every day. Borscht in meat broth is the most useful. Limit the use of bay leaves in soups and borscht, tomato paste and other condiments.

As for salads, vinaigrettes, seasonal vegetables and fruits (radishes, cucumbers, tomatoes, zucchini, squash, etc.), they can be given without restrictions (if the child is not allergic to them). As a dressing, use vegetable oil or low-fat sour cream. Do not give a two-year-old child salads dressed with mayonnaise.

Salted tomatoes and cucumbers can be given in limited quantities in winter, as they lose in nutritional value to fresh vegetables. Sauerkraut rich in vitamin C. It can be given to the baby periodically, but remember that it is often the cause of flatulence and intestinal spasms.

At the age of 2 years, the child can be introduced to cocoa, tea with milk and unnatural coffee. Still give him milk, compotes, jelly. But with sweets like sweets and chocolate, it's better to wait. For an afternoon snack, you can offer your baby unsweetened crackers or biscuits, as well as marshmallows, marshmallows or marmalade.

What foods should not be given

Do not rush to give your child carbonated sweet drinks, chips and similar foods, smoked sausages, bouillon cubes, canned food. Their the nutritional value is highly questionable as such products tend to contain preservatives, food additives and colorants. Their processing is a great difficulty for the child's body.

Goose and duck meat are also poorly digested, so at the age of two years they should not be cooked for a child.

Any diet, as well as vegetarianism, will only harm children's health. If the baby does not have a food allergy, no special diet should be introduced.

Sample menu for a 2 year old

We bring to your attention a weekly menu for children at the age of two years.

Monday

Rice cutlets with prunes.
Drinkable yogurt.
Fruit. They can be given as a second breakfast.

Salad of pumpkin and carrots.
Borscht in meat broth.
Lazy pigeons.
Cottage cheese mashed with sugar.
Dried fruits compote.
Zephyr, bread.

Syrniki.
Kefir.
Berries or fruits.

Cauliflower stewed in sour cream.
Milk or kefir.
Bread with jam or honey.

Tuesday

Fish with vegetables and rice, baked.
Cocoa.
Sandwich with butter and cheese.

Carrot and apple salad.
Soup with meatballs.
Pasta or vermicelli with boiled meat.
Compote or jelly.

Milk.
Cookies.
Fruit.

Lazy dumplings with sour cream.
Apple juice.

Wednesday

Cottage cheese casserole.
Sandwich with butter.
Apricot juice.

Salad with beets, prunes and walnuts.
Meat soup.
Mashed potatoes with fish meatballs.
Rosehip compote.
Zephyr.

Pear dessert.
Kefir or milk.

Macaroni with sausages.
Tea with milk.
Fruit.

Thursday

Semolina.
Carrot juice.
Apple.

Vegetable salad.
Fish meatball soup.
Cheesecakes with sour cream.
Fruit and berry compote.
Bread.

Cookies.
Cocoa with milk.
Fruit.

Pilaf with fruits.
Milk.

Friday

Oatmeal.
Curd with sugar.
Cocoa.
Fruit.

Vitamin salad.
Milk soup with vegetables and rice.
Roll with cauliflower.
Cherry juice.
Paste.
Bread.

Corn flakes with milk.
Salad of carrots and raisins.

Omelette.
Stuffed zucchini.
Milk.

Saturday

Vegetable soufflé with chicken.
Cocoa.
Sandwich with butter and cheese.

Apple-beetroot salad.
Pea soup.
Fish cutlets.
Boiled potatoes.
Compote.
Bread.

Banana pudding.
Kefir.

Vareniki with cottage cheese.
Milk.

Sunday

Buckwheat casserole with liver.
Plum juice.
Vanilla crackers.

Salad with cucumbers and white cabbage.
Vegetable soup.
Cutlet with vegetables in sour cream sauce.
Curd with sugar.
Kissel fruit.
Bread.

Bun.
Milk.

Fruit salad dressed with yogurt.
Beef liver fritters.
Tea with milk.

If the baby is naughty at food

Many mothers do not face whims while eating. They can be dealt with, you just need to be patient.

The time and place of eating should be the same. Develop a ritual that the child will soon get used to.

Buy beautiful children's tableware. Let your baby have a plate, at the bottom of which fairy-tale characters will be depicted. While he is eating, you can tell him a fairy tale, the end of which will be depicted on the plate.

If the child eats at a common table, instill in him a culture of eating, show him how to use napkins and cutlery.

Do not put all the dishes on the table. Serve the salad first, then the first, the second with a side dish, and only after that drinks. The child will not have a choice, so he will eat everything in the right order.

Don't force your baby to eat. The child's body itself knows the limits of saturation. In addition, overeating is harmful and the child will simply refuse the next meal.

The diet of a child at 2 years old is increasingly reminiscent of the nutrition of an adult. The list of products allowed for babies of this age is quite wide, and it is very easy to create a balanced menu. But it is important to consider the basic rule - to teach the child to chew.

How to make a menu for a child of 2 years?

Physiological features of development, namely the presence of 16 teeth (on average), imposes features on nutrition. Teeth provide a normal process of chewing food, during which the production of digestive juices is enhanced. The development of the jaw apparatus and the enzymatic system dictates new rules of nutrition. All food should be denser, for example, boiled cereals, various casseroles, stewed or steamed vegetables, boiled meat.
The optimal load on the child's jaws will ensure their normal growth, and this will be the best prevention of bite pathologies. Moreover, if you do not teach your baby to eat solid food now, problems may arise in the future.
V proper nutrition a child of 2 years old, there are no medical contraindications, so you can make a menu without fear. You can give fish different varieties and breeds, but exclude red and oily. Approximately twice a week they offer no more than 30-40 g. Smoked meats and canned food are still prohibited, if they are not adapted specifically for young children.
The amount of meat also increases, at least 120 g is needed per day. For a variety of menus, let the baby try children's sausages(only high-quality) - doctor's sausage, milk sausages, it is better to refuse smoked meats, etc. Offal has a more delicate structure - a rich source of protein, fat-soluble vitamins, minerals, etc.
The main attention is paid to vegetables and fruits, you can offer radishes, radishes, legumes. In the preparation of dishes, garden greens are used: parsley, spinach, green onions, the addition of garlic is acceptable, but in limited quantities. All vegetable purees can be replaced with finely chopped salads, stewed vegetables.
Berries will be a rich source of vitamins, organic acids, the baby can be given local berries, in a small amount- no more than 10 - 20 g.
It is impossible to exclude various cereals from the menu. The most useful will be: oatmeal, buckwheat, millet, pearl barley, etc. It is acceptable to use pasta - side dishes, as part of soups, but their amount must be limited due to the high content of carbohydrates.
In the question of how to feed a child at 2 years old, one should not forget about dairy and sour-milk products, eggs, vegetable oils and bakery products. In general, there are practically no restrictions.

How much should a 2 year old eat?

Babies have already established taste preferences, respectively, parents are faced with the first food refusals. Sometimes, such babies are said to be "little ones" and parents begin to worry that the baby is hungry. At a pediatrician's appointment, mothers often ask only one question: how much should a child eat at 2 years old?
To cover all the energy needs of the child, and this is 1400 - 1500 kcal, 4 meals a day are needed. At lunchtime, the baby should receive 40 - 50% of the total calories, the rest falls on breakfast, afternoon tea and dinner.
Balanced, you can only call the diet in which the proportions between proteins, fats and carbohydrates are observed - 1:1:4. For a two-year-old child, 50 - 60 g of proteins are needed, of which 75% of animal and 25% of plant origin. Of the total fat, 10 g should be vegetable. A child needs 220 g of carbohydrates.
Particular attention should be paid to dairy and sour-milk products, which are rich sources of calcium. It can be cottage cheese, cheese, sour cream, cream, yogurt. Fermented milk products can be used as dressings or ingredients for cooking.

The main thing in the nutrition of a child is to keep it balanced and varied. It is with nutrition that the baby receives all the necessary substances for full growth and development. It is important to take into account the principles of preparation, because the baby's digestive system is still incomplete.

Here is the sample menu for a week for a child 2.5 -3 years old. We are just 2 and 8. This is a set of foods and dishes that we usually eat.

Of course, this is a slightly idealized version. In the sense that such a variety every day is a plus and great. But in life, of course, it doesn’t work out that way, to eat every day different dishes))). Usually the soup, if cooked, is for the whole family (the baby has already grown up and eats with us) and for several days, so as not to mess up. So both the soup and the second are eaten for 2-2.5 days.

However, from the point of view - “what would you cook today”, when, for example, there is not much time for fantasy or something else ..., then it is very convenient to have such a menu in front of your eyes as a basis. Any mother, of course, has a bunch of her delicious recipes. I bring mine. It can also be changed and modified by me))

Monday

Breakfast

Millet porridge with apple

Sandwich with curd cheese

Tea with milk

Dinner

. chicken noodle soup

Cod with puree and fresh tomato

Apple juice

afternoon tea

Barney with a glass of milk

after 30 minutes - an apple

Dinner

Oatmeal porridge with persimmon

Curd Agusha classic

Kefir Agusha

Tuesday

Breakfast

Semolina porridge with pear

Sandwich with cheese

Cocoa

Dinner

Pickle with sour cream

Meatball with stewed zucchini

Apple pear juice

afternoon tea

Bun with apple

Mint tea

."flower" of fruits

(I make the core and wheel of a banana, the petals are tangerine slices, the stem is from an apple)

Dinner

Oatmeal with banana

Curd Agusha

Kefir

Wednesday

Breakfast

Omelet with tomatoes

Sandwich with caviar

Tea with milk

Dinner

Egg soup

Naval pasta with fresh salad

Compote

afternoon tea

Pancakes with honey

herbal tea

Grape

Dinner

Semolina porridge with milk

Curd Agusha

Kefir

Thursday

Breakfast

Milk rice porridge

Tea with milk

Dinner

fish soup

stuffed pepper

Kissel Frutonyanya

afternoon tea

Carrot salad with apple

Chamomile tea

Dinner

Buckwheat porridge

with milk

Curd Agusha

Kefir

Friday

Breakfast

Oatmeal with banana

Sandwich with curd cheese

Cocoa

Dinner

Mushroom soup with sour cream (give without mushrooms!)

Braised cabbage with sausage

cherry juice

afternoon tea

Beet salad with sour cream

Tea with milk

barney

Dinner

Oatmeal porridge with prunes

with milk

Curd Agusha

Kefir

Saturday

Breakfast

Oatmeal with berries

Doctor sausage sandwich

Tea with milk

Dinner

Borsch with sour cream

Trout with cauliflower and broccoli

Compote

afternoon tea

The vinaigrette

Kissel

Half a banana

Dinner

Buckwheat porridge

with milk

Curd Agusha

Kefir

Sunday

Breakfast

Rice porridge with raisins

Sandwich with cheese

Cocoa

Dinner

Bean/pea soup

Boiled chicken with mashed potatoes and cucumber

Rosehip juice

afternoon tea

Chocolate balls with milk

Apple + kiwi + orange (beat)

Dinner

Millet porridge

with milk

Curd Agusha

Kefir

In addition, you can

Just stew any meat with carrots and onions

As a side dish, rice can be mixed with a green pot

I didn’t include the liver here (we don’t like it, but nevertheless it’s useful to eat it, you can make liver pancakes or just chicken, for example, stew with onions and carrots)

You can also make chicken breast cutlets (there is a very tasty recipe ;-))

Again, as a side dish, you can stew carrots with sour cream

I also make green salad - cucumbers, boiled egg, green onion and with sour cream

All health and bon appetit!)