Today we invite you to talk about what the diet of a one-year-old baby is. For a growing body, it is very important to eat right, get the necessary vitamins and minerals. It is now that the tastes of the crumbs are being formed, you need to try to add as much variety as possible to the diet.
Let's start by explaining what a diet is. Multiple definitions say that this concept is understood not only as a quantitative and qualitative component, but also as a person's behavior during meals. It is necessary to approach the preparation of the menu very responsibly, to distribute the caloric content and chemical composition. Now we propose to talk about what small children can eat, give an approximate diet, tell new and delicious recipes for crumbs.
What can I feed my baby for a year?
The diet of the year should be reviewed. The baby now needs a balanced and complete diet. Pay attention to the composition and quality of the dishes prepared for the little gourmet, growth and development depend on this. Now his diet can be significantly expanded, especially considering that the baby already knows the taste of "adult" foods and has several teeth in his arsenal.
What to give:
- porridge (buckwheat, rice, oatmeal, corn, wheat);
- dairy and sour-milk products (kefir, yogurt, cottage cheese, cheese, butter);
- baked goods (white bread);
- pasta;
- broth and soup;
- vegetables and fruits (carrots, pumpkin, beets, beans, cabbage, apples, apricots, kiwi, peaches, strawberries, cherries and so on);
- juice, tea, compote;
- lean meat;
- chicken liver;
- fish;
- chicken eggs;
- clean water.
Please note that cereals and dairy products are the basis of a baby's diet. Now porridge can not be crushed into a puree state, it will be enough to boil the cereal well.
Foods that should not be included in the baby's diet:
- sausage purchased products;
- carbonated water;
- citrus;
- mushrooms;
- chocolate;
- nuts;
- semi-finished products;
- canned food.
Meal table
The recommended amount of food for a one-year-old baby is about 1.2 liters per day. In addition, the following recommendations for the distribution of the daily allowance (as a percentage) should be taken into account:
| Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner | Snack |
| 25 | 35 | 15 | 25 |
Baby just needs to get the right amount of calories for development. For one kilogram you need about 100 kcal. Next, we will give an approximate diet for a child per year for a week.
| Day of the week | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
| Breakfast | Milk vermicelli with hard cheese, scrambled eggs, bread. | Liver pate and potatoes, milk, bread. | Oatmeal, milk tea, bread. | Semolina porridge, scrambled eggs, tea, bread. | Rice pudding, tea, bread. | Pear pudding, tea, bread. | Herring pate, potatoes, tea, bread. |
| Lunch | Broccoli soup, fish meatball, green pea puree, juice, bread. | Pea soup, rabbit soufflé, vegetable puree, juice, bread. | Soup, salad, mashed potatoes, juice, bread. | Soup puree, lazy cabbage rolls, pancakes, tea, bread. | Chi, meatloaf, mashed potatoes, tomato juice, bread. | Chicken soup, cutlet, pumpkin puree, bread. | Cheese soup, cutlet, squash fritters, kissel, bread. |
| Dinner | Cauliflower puree, cottage cheese, milk tea, bread. | Baked apples with dried apricots and raisins, mashed potatoes, tea, bread. | Cottage cheese, carrot puree, milk. | Banana pudding, tea, cookies. | Cottage cheese, beet and apple puree, bread | Cottage cheese, potatoes, jelly, bread. |
Semolina porridge, scrambled eggs, milk, bread. |
| Snack | Milk pudding, tea, cookies. | Milk, cheese. | Kefir, applesauce, cookies. | Soured milk, cookies. | Kefir, cookies, apple. | Milk, bun, fruit. | Kefir with apple, croutons. |
| For the night | Milk. | Kefir. | Milk. | Kefir. | Milk. | Kefir. | Milk. |
Menu
So, what is the diet? How to make a menu, and at what time should you eat? Pay attention to the fact that the child moves a lot, receives a lot of new information, develops. He is no longer enough mother's milk alone. An approximate diet and menu should look like this:
| Breakfast (8:00) | Lunch (12:00) | Snack (16:00) | Dinner (20:00) | Second dinner |
| Milk or porridge, egg, fruit puree, tea, bread. | Meatball soup, vegetable puree, compote and bread. | Dairy or sour-milk products (milk, kefir, yogurt, etc.), cottage cheese, fruits and cookies. | Vegetables with meat, kissel, bread. | Kefir, milk, milk porridge or breastfeeding. |
Feeding scheme
The diet of a child's day of the year is very important to observe. Breaks of about 4 hours between feedings help work up an appetite. In addition, it is worth transferring the baby to 4-5 meals a day, abandon night feedings. This will benefit the baby and prepare for kindergarten, where the regime is observed extremely strictly. The ideal feeding pattern looks like this:
- 8am - Breakfast;
- 12 days - lunch;
- 4 pm - afternoon tea;
- 7pm - Dinner;
- 10 pm - Second dinner (before bedtime).
Meat
We have already de alt with the question of what a diet is, we have given an approximate menu. You have already noticed the presence of a meat component. The choice of meat should be approached very responsibly. The ideal option is homemade meat (chicken, turkey, rabbit, beef or veal). It is best to choose without fat (chicken or turkey breast, etc.).
Recipes for new dishes
The first recipe is buckwheat and minced meatballs. They arePairs very well with vegetable broth. Boil buckwheat, drain water and mix porridge with minced meat. Dip the formed meatballs into the boiling broth.
Soup-puree from the liver. It is extremely easy to prepare. Soak the pulp of bread in milk, pass the liver through a meat grinder. Mix ingredients and season with a little s alt. Add some broth or water and let the soup simmer a little.
Steam fish cakes. Pass the fish fillet and onion through a meat grinder. Add grated carrots and flour to minced meat. Steam the formed cutlets for about 20 minutes.
