The nutrition of the baby after 1.5 years is significantly expanded. New dishes and new products appear on the menu. You no longer need to grind food, as in the first year of life. The ingredients can be cut into small pieces, and not grind in a meat grinder or blender. The nutrition of a child at this age is five times a day, three of which are the main meals, and two are snacks. One serving of food for a child older than a year is 250-300 grams.

The diet includes light soups, vegetable and fruit purees, meat and fish, meatballs, cutlets and meatballs, milk porridge. For dressing dishes, use sour cream or vegetable oil. You can add a little salt and pepper, herbs. When introducing a new product, each time monitor the reaction of the baby for two days so that there is no allergy or eating disorder.

From heavy and unhealthy food should be abandoned. Do not feed your baby fried foods, mushrooms, smoked and canned foods, marinades and pickles, sauces and seafood. For detailed information on which foods are not recommended for children under 3 years old, see. And in this article we will learn recipes for a child 1.5-2 years old.

Salads and omelettes

Salads and omelettes are great for breakfast, dinner or a snack. By the way, for an omelette and other dishes, you can take quail eggs, not chicken eggs, if the baby has a food allergy to protein. And instead of chicken this case use turkey. This is a dietary, hypoallergenic and more tender meat.

Omelet with broccoli

• Milk - 0.5 stack;
• Wheat flour - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
• Chicken eggs - 4 pcs.;
• Broccoli - 350 grams.

Boil broccoli separately. Break eggs, mix with flour and milk. Cut the cooled cabbage and add to the egg-milk mass. In a mold greased with vegetable oil, put the omelet and bake for 12 minutes at 180 degrees. You can bake an omelet in the form of a cupcake, then it will look interesting and every child will like it. These methods will help if the baby refuses to eat.

Meat omelette

• Chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
• Chicken fillet or breast - 200 grams;
• Milk - 1⁄3 cup

Boil the chicken separately, cut into pieces. Beat eggs and pour in milk, mix. At the bottom of the pan, greased with butter, put the chicken down and pour in the egg-milk mass. Steam with a lid on for twenty minutes. If desired, the finished omelette can be sprinkled with chopped fresh herbs.

Beet salad with prunes

• Beets - 1 small fruit;
• Prunes - 50 grams.

Beets and prunes improve digestion and improve stool. These products are great for constipation, which often affects small children. To prepare the salad, boil the beets, and wash the prunes, sort and soak for twenty minutes. Peel the vegetable and, together with dried fruits, pass through a meat grinder. For dressing, take sour cream.

If desired, chopped and pre-soaked walnuts can be added to the salad. However, this dish is not recommended for children with high blood sugar and frequent diarrhea.

You can prepare a regular vegetable salad for your baby by finely chopping the ingredients and seasoning the dish with vegetable oil. A child can be given tomatoes and fresh cucumbers, pumpkin and zucchini, carrots and radishes, small amounts of bell peppers, fresh green peas and herbs. But in one serving it is better not to mix more than four or five components at a time.

To prepare salads, you can use boiled, stewed and fresh vegetables, but preferably peeled. In addition, in such dishes you can put boiled meat and fish, nuts, dried fruits. You can find many interesting recipes for children's salads for the holiday and for every day.

Casseroles

Casseroles are a dish that many mothers love to cook. It is hearty, tasty and healthy, if, of course, you choose the right ingredients. It is better to start with a classic cottage cheese casserole, then you can gradually add dried fruits, fresh vegetables and fruits, meat and fish to the dish. The casserole will be a great breakfast, second course for lunch or a full dinner.

vegetable casserole

• Broccoli - 500 grams;
• Milk - 1 stack;
• Flour - 1 table. a spoon;
• Tomatoes - 2 medium fruits;
• Cheese in grated form - 200 grams;
• Butter - 40 grams.

Boil the cabbage for five to seven minutes in boiling and lightly salted water. Melt the butter in a pan with high sides, pour in the flour and pour in the milk, mix the ingredients thoroughly. Bring the resulting mass to a boil and cook for several minutes until thickened. Sprinkle cheese on top and stir. Peel the tomatoes and chop. Mix the prepared cabbage and tomatoes, put on a baking sheet, pour over the cheese and milk mass and bake at two hundred degrees for 25 minutes. After introducing the recipe into the child’s menu, you can add zucchini to the dish along with tomatoes, and for older children, eggplant.

Potato casserole with meat

• Welded mashed potatoes- 500 grams;
• Minced chicken or beef - 500 grams;
• Hard cheese in grated form - 100 grams.

Prepare mashed potatoes and fry the minced meat until half cooked. Pour half of the puree into the butter dish and level with a spatula or spoon. Put minced meat on top and sprinkle with cheese. Close the casserole with the rest of the puree, level the layer and brush with sour cream. Bake for half an hour at 180 degrees or cook in a water bath under a closed lid for 40 minutes. Instead of meat, you can use fish fillet. What fish to choose for a child, see.

For cottage cheese casserole, it is better to cook cottage cheese yourself. To do this, pour children's or 1% kefir into a jar. Lay a cloth on the bottom of the pan, pour cold water and put the jar in there. Heat the pot over low heat and remove ten minutes after boiling. Strain the cottage cheese through a sieve and cheesecloth. The product is ready! Cottage cheese is used as a separate dish, and for making casseroles. Also, the baby can cook delicious dumplings.

Soups

Soups should be heavy and light. It is not recommended to give the baby a meat or fish-based broth. The fact is that when these products are cooked, extractive substances are formed that strongly irritate the intestines, cause digestive disorders and stool disorders. Therefore, it is better to cook meat and fish separately, and then cut into pieces and add to the finished vegetable broth. In the first months of feeding, the baby should receive puree soups, but in the second year, classic traditional soups can be introduced.

vegetable puree soup

• Zucchini - 1 medium fruit;
• Cauliflower and broccoli - 250 grams each;
• Tomatoes - 2 fruits;
• Carrots - 1⁄2 pcs.;
• Chopped fresh herbs to taste.

Grate washed and peeled vegetables. Simmer over low heat for three minutes and pour into boiling water (1.5 liters). If necessary, salt and pepper, add herbs and cook for ten minutes. Beat the prepared vegetables with a blender and grind through cheesecloth or a sieve. Then the puree soup will turn out airy and light. If the consistency is too thick, dilute the dish with vegetable broth that remains after cooking.

Soup with meatballs

• Minced beef or chicken - 300 grams;
• Potato - 3 tubers;
• Carrots - 1 pc.;
• Short vermicelli - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
• Chopped greens - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
• Onion - 1 head.

Put a whole peeled onion and chopped potatoes into three liters of boiling water. To prepare meatballs, use minced meat without salt and other spices, from which roll small balls. They should be small so that the child can chew without problems. Five minutes after the start of cooking potatoes, put the meatballs and cook until they float to the surface.

While the potatoes and meatballs are cooking, peel and finely chop the carrots, stew in vegetable oil and put in the soup. Then add vermicelli and cook for another five minutes. Instead of vermicelli, you can use homemade noodles (50-60 grams). Remove the onion from the finished dish and add the greens. Let it brew for 7-10 minutes. By the way, meatballs can also be used for second courses, for example, served with spaghetti, mashed potatoes or rice.

Soup with homemade noodles

• Chicken or turkey fillet - 200 grams;
• Potato - 3 tubers;
• Chicken egg - 2 pcs.;
• Flour - 1 stack;
• Spinach to taste.

Boil the chicken or turkey separately, drain the broth. To prepare noodles, break an egg, pour in 30 ml of water and add flour. Knead the dough, roll it into a thin layer and cut out the noodles. Put chopped spinach and diced potatoes into boiling water. After two minutes, add the noodles and cook the soup until the noodles float to the top.

Milk soups are especially popular among mothers. Such dishes can be prepared with rice, buckwheat, millet and barley groats, noodles or vermicelli. Pasta or cereals are first boiled in water, and then warm or hot milk is poured. Be careful with the combination of milk and buckwheat, as this is a hard-to-digest dish. Milk soups are best given in the morning.

The preparation of meat soups for babies is made from low-fat varieties. These are veal and beef, rabbit, turkey and chicken. Children also enjoy eating vegetable soups with zucchini and pumpkin, pea soup, you can gradually introduce and fish soup. You can find the recipes for these dishes here.

Main dishes

Among the traditional side dishes, noodles and other pasta, mashed potatoes from zucchini, potatoes and other vegetables are distinguished. The side dish is served with boiled or baked meat or fish. Remember that you can not give both meat and fish dishes on the same day. It is enough to give fish to children two or three times a week.

Vegetable stew with meat

• Chicken fillet - 100 gr;
• Cauliflower - 300 gr;
• Bulb - ½ pc.;
• Carrots - 1 pc.;
• Zucchini - 1 medium fruit;
• Tomatoes - 2 pieces;
• Green peas - 150 gr.;
• Low-fat sour cream - 4 table. spoons.

This is the perfect meal for a small child. For cooking, boil the chicken separately and cut into pieces. Finely chop the onion and carrot, stew in vegetable oil. Prepare zucchini and cabbage, peel the tomato, chop and add to the onion with carrots. Simmer until the tomatoes are soft, then add the peas and sour cream. Mix the ingredients and simmer for another 5-7 minutes.

Instead of chicken, you can use beef, rabbit or turkey. Moreover, it is better to cook the meat separately and, cut into pieces, add to stewed vegetables. If the child has not yet learned to chew well, the stew can be passed through a blender. And to make the baby’s kitchen more diverse, we offer a few more recipes for the second one.

Zucchini with minced meat

• Zucchini - 1 medium fruit;
• Ground beef - 300 grams;
• Cheese in grated form - 100 grams;
• Chicken egg - 1 pc.;
• Onion - 1 head.

Peel and cut the zucchini in half, remove seeds and entrails. Chop the onion and put into the bowl. Whisk the egg in there and mix. Spread minced meat in zucchini, put on a baking sheet or in a special form and bake for twenty minutes at 180 degrees. Sprinkle grated cheese on top of the zucchini and bake for another ten minutes.

Meat muffins

• Minced veal or beef - 500 grams;
• Chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
• Hard cheese in grated form - 100 grams;
• Chopped greens - 50 grams.

Eggs pre-cook and grate, mix with prepared herbs and cheese. Put the minced meat in cupcake or muffin molds first. By the way, minced meat for children should be used homemade, and not purchased semi-finished products. Put the filling with egg and cheese in the center, gently tamp with a teaspoon. Bake meat muffins for half an hour at 180 degrees. This dish looks very interesting and every kid will like it. The original food supply will come to the rescue if the child does not want to eat.

Fish in the oven

• Red fish (fillet) - 300 grams;
• Low-fat sour cream - 2 table. spoons;
• Grated cheese - 40 grams;
• Olive oil - 2 tsp. spoons.

Wash the fish and cut into pieces, lightly salt. Coat in butter and sour cream, put in a mold. Spread the remaining mixture of butter and sour cream on top of the fish and sprinkle with cheese. Bake for 40 minutes at 100 degrees. For a side dish, it is good to use crumbly boiled rice, vermicelli, mashed potatoes or buckwheat.

In addition, you can cook various meat and vegetable cutlets or meatballs for your child, baked or steamed. Use zucchini, pumpkin, minced meat. But for children under three years old, it is not recommended to use breading! Don't forget about cereals. It is a suitable breakfast and side dish for dinner. Children after 1.5 years can cook both milk and gluten cereals. A detailed daily menu for a child 1-2 years old with recipes and photos can be found at the link.

The correct, timely development of the child is the goal of every mother. One of the components of success is a well-composed menu for a child at 1 year old. At this age, many children are already weaned, transferring to artificial feeding. If the mother still has enough breast milk and she decides to continue to feed her baby, then it is still necessary for the child to eat regular food, although, as experience shows, all children are different. There are times when a child does not want to eat ordinary food, preferring only breast milk even at that age.

What does the menu of a one-year-old child consist of

It should be noted that there are certain norms, but in life everything is completely different, since all children are different and the nutrition of the parents themselves is different. To

So, it is believed that feeding a child at 1 year old is carried out 4-5 times a day. The interval between feedings should be no more than 4 hours. The total amount of food eaten is 1000-1200 ml, not counting the liquid. A similar diet should be maintained for children until they reach 1.5 years. AT real life few people will count these milliliters, accurately measure the time.

The diet of a child at 1 year old may consist of the following meals:

1. Breakfast (8:00);
2. Second breakfast (10:00);
3. Lunch (13:00);
4. Afternoon snack (16:00);
5. Dinner (19:00).

An approximate menu for a one-year-old baby can be represented by the following set of dishes:

1. Breakfast - porridge is best. Porridge can be made with a piece of butter or fruit. In a year, a baby can be given rice, buckwheat, oatmeal, corn, millet, semolina or multi-cereal porridge (if the cereals contained in it were given separately in advance). There are recommendations that after porridge you can give tea or compote, but personally I take this recommendation with great doubt, compote is still okay, water is okay, but why tea? To accustom a child to this drink, which does not bring much benefit to adults, except for creating the habit of drinking tea after eating, which leads to a deterioration in digestion processes, overeating bakery and confectionery products, creates problems with water in the body, and so on.
2. Second breakfast - children's yogurt and cookies, fruits. It is worth making sure that children's yogurt does not contain the entire periodic table. Carefully study the composition, the same applies to cookies. The best fruits, homemade cakes without yeast.
3. Lunch - vegetable salad, soup, meat dish with a side dish. The soup is cooked in vegetable broth. It can be beetroot, cabbage soup or noodle soup. As a meat dish, a child at 12 months old can be offered meatballs, steam cutlets or meatballs. 1-2 times a week, a meat dish can be replaced with a fish one. You should think about tea, compote or water. About meat and fish at this age - it is extremely individual. Our children are not accustomed from childhood to drink food and feel great, sometimes they ask for water after a meal, but rarely. For lunch, they eat soups with pleasure, they don’t want a salad, they can refuse the second one. Soup is usually sufficient.
4. Snack - cottage cheese, fruit or vegetable puree.
5. Dinner - vegetable and meat puree, steam omelette, millet porridge with pumpkin.

Useful information for parents

A child's menu at 1 year old should not include products such as:

• Citrus;
• Mushrooms;
• Nuts;
• Sausages, sausages;
• Caviar;
• Chocolate;
• Semi-finished products;
• Canned food.

You should also follow important rules regarding meals:

• do not arrange snacks for children;
• feed at the same time, observing the regimen;
• monitor the freshness and quality of the products that you use in the diet of a child at 1 year old;
• feed your baby only freshly cooked food, do not leave soup or a second for tomorrow;
• control the cleanliness of your own hands and the hands of the baby. Teach him to wash his hands before eating.

How to diversify the diet of a one-year-old baby?

Each mother has her own recipes, according to which she prepares delicious and healthy meals for your little one. To diversify the menu, I would like to offer a few more recipes.

Lazy cottage cheese dumplings with cherries in a double boiler

This dish is perfect for a Sunday breakfast or afternoon snack.

You will need:

• 1 pack of cottage cheese (preferably dry);
• 3 art. l. sugar (plus a little more for sprinkling)
• 5 st. l. flour;
• 1 egg;
• 10-12 pieces of frozen pitted cherries.

Cooking:

1. Pound sugar with an egg, add cottage cheese, mix.
2. Gradually add flour. The dough should be thick so that you can sculpt dumplings out of it.
3. Wet your hands with water, take a piece of dough and make a palm-sized cake. Sprinkle some sugar on it and put a frozen cherry on it. Roll up a cheese ball.
4. When all the balls are ready, put them in a double boiler and cook for 20 minutes.
5. Lazy cottage cheese dumplings with cherries are ready! Serve them with yogurt or sour cream.

Beet and Apple Salad

Very simple and delicious salad for kids - beet and apple salad.

You will need:

• 1/2 small beetroot;
• 1/2 apple;
• Vegetable oil.

Cooking:

1. Boil the beets until tender.
2. Peel the cooled beets and cut into small cubes.
3. Remove the skin from the apple and remove the core. Chop it into cubes.
4. Mix the apple and beetroot cubes in a bowl and dress the salad with a little vegetable oil.
5. Salad of beets and apples is ready!

Fish under a vegetable blanket

The menu for kids includes fish 1-2 times a week. For children, choose low-fat types of white fish. It is better to give preference to fish fillets or small-boned fish. And if you chose a piece of fish, then before serving, you need to carefully examine and remove all the bones.

Not all children willingly eat fish. To "deceive" them, you can hide it under vegetable blanket. This dish can be offered to the child for dinner.

You will need:

• Fillet or piece of white fish;
• 1/3 onion;
• 1/2 carrot;
• 1 cherry tomato.

Cooking:

1. Boil the fish or steam it.
2. Clean and chop the onion. Peel and grate carrots. Simmer the onions and carrots in a frying pan with a little water until tender.
3. Free the lumpy fish from the bones and chop. Even if you choose a fillet, check it for small bones.
4. First put a layer of chopped fish in a children's bowl, then cover it with a blanket of vegetables.
5. Remove the skin from the cherry tomato and chop it. Arrange the tomato slices on top of the vegetable blanket.
6. Fish under a vegetable blanket is ready!

Each child is individual, but experience suggests that a lot depends on the parent. The formation of eating habits depends on what foods a parent begins to give to a child from a young age, what dishes are on the table, what food is at home in sight. Eating soups, vegetables, fruits - this is often just a habit, although there are children who will never eat any type of food, no matter how you force it.