The nutrition of each person must be balanced so that the body receives enough energy for life. Especially if this is a growing baby, for whom food is a supplier of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, trace elements and fiber. The menu of a child at 2 years old must be carefully planned so that he receives enough energy per day. The body grows, and considerable attention is paid to food.
The menu of a child at 2 years old is already different from what he ate in a year. Now the main products have been introduced as complementary foods, almost all the teeth have grown, and it is possible to switch from pureed food to lumpy food. Soups should not be mashed, let the baby learn to chew. Also, the meat does not have to be twisted into minced meat, it can be boiled and cut into small pieces or stewed. The density of porridge should also gradually increase. Dairy products should be present in the diet along with meat, cereals, bread, vegetables and fruits. Let the baby join the common table, eat with everyone and take an example from their parents - this way he will quickly learn to hold a spoon and look forward to the next meal. However, the menu of a child at 2 years old should not consist of those dishes that adults eat. Children of this age should cook separately.
The growing body of the baby needs only those products that benefit him. You need to know what adult food is not suitable for a 2-year-old child on the menu:
Over time, the child will eat the same as adults, and for two-year-old babies there are a huge number of recipes that will delight not only the crumbs, but also his parents.
To make it easier for interested moms and dads, here is a detailed nutrition plan for children.
| Day | Breakfast | Dinner | afternoon tea | Dinner |
| 1. | 200 g semolina, 100 ml milk tea, sandwich (30 g bread and 10 g butter) | 40 g of green salad with sour cream, 150 ml of borscht in bone broth from fresh vegetables, 60 g of beef zrazy, 100 g of buckwheat porridge, 100 ml of apple juice, 30 g of wheat and 20 g of rye bread | 150 ml of kefir, 15 g of cookies, one apple | 200 g of fish with vegetables in sour cream, 150 ml of kefir, 10 g of wheat and rye bread |
| 2. | 200 g with nuts and apples, 150 ml of weak tea, sandwich | 40 g apple and beet salad, 150 ml potato soup with semolina dumplings, 50 g boiled beef stroganoff, 100 g mashed potatoes, 100 ml fruit compote, 30 g wheat and 20 g rye bread | 150 ml milk, oatmeal | 50 g omelette with cauliflower, 150 g 150 ml kefir, 10 g each of rye and wheat bread |
| 3. | 40 g apple and tomato salad, 160 g milk oatmeal porridge, 150 ml cocoa drink, sandwich | 40 g of herring snack, 150 ml of hot beetroot, 200 g of rice cake with liver and milk sauce, 100 ml of rosehip infusion, 30 and 20 g of wheat and rye bread, respectively | 150 ml with blackcurrant, cottage cheese cake | 200 g curd zrazy with fruit sauce, 150 ml kefir, 20 g bread |
| 4. | 200 g cheesecakes with sour cream, 150 ml milk, sandwich | 40 g fresh cabbage, carrot and beetroot salad, 150 ml pickle, 60 g steamed fish dumplings, 40 g sauce, 100 g mashed potatoes, 100 ml tomato juice, bread | 150 ml of kefir, 10 g of cookies, an apple baked with sugar | 200 g potato patties with egg and sauce, 150 ml kefir, bread |
| 5. | 200 g milk rice porridge, 150 ml cocoa with milk, cheese sandwich | 40 g green peas with onions and butter, 150 ml soup with meatballs and corn grits, 50 g beef patties, 100 g cottage cheese and zucchini, 100 ml strawberry jelly, bread | 150 ml nut milk, bun | 120 g cabbage cutlets, 80 g cottage cheese with carrots, 150 ml kefir, bread |
| 6. | 80 g omelet with cottage cheese, 120 g semolina cutlets with sour cream, 150 ml cocoa drink, sandwich | 40 g vegetable salad, 150 ml milk soup with 60 g 100 g buckwheat porridge, 100 ml fruit compote, bread | 50 g kefir jelly, 10 ml apricot drink, 10 g cookies | 150 g cauliflower baked in sour cream, 30 g marinated herring, 150 ml kefir, bread |
| 7. | 30 g beetroot salad with sour cream, 150 g cottage cheese pudding with raisins and sour cream, 150 ml milk tea, sandwich | 30 g 150 ml green borscht, 60 g stuffed beef cutlets, 120 g semolina porridge on vegetable broth, 100 ml plum juice, bread | 150 ml of kefir with crushed apples and mountain ash, oatmeal cake | 120 g of rice cake with fish and 80 g of carrots stewed in sour cream, 150 ml of kefir, bread |
If you do not have the opportunity to clearly follow the recommendations given in this menu for children, this is not a problem. The main thing is to follow some rules when preparing healthy meals for your baby:
These rules are followed by cooks in kindergartens, compiling the child's menu for 2.5 years.
To organize a suitable diet for a child (2 years old), the menu should contain boiled, stewed, baked, freshly prepared dishes. You should not give the baby fried, the same cutlets can be steamed. Let the baby eat vegetables and fruits, both raw and processed.
Some products appear in our diet periodically, seasonally. Therefore, in spring and autumn, you can support the body's strength by taking multivitamin complexes, but only after consulting a pediatrician. It is better to give preference to those products, fruits, vegetables and herbs that are grown in the region where you live.
The menu has already been given in detail, and it is desirable to maintain a given rhythm of nutrition for the baby every day. If he does not go to kindergarten yet, but sits at home, make a specific schedule, a sequence of actions for the day. Let the child know that, for example, in the morning he will wake up, wash himself, do exercises and have breakfast. After the walk, he will wash his hands and will have lunch, and after dinner he will receive a long-awaited candy. It is not necessary to adhere to the schedule by the hour, the main thing is the sequence of actions. So, after an energetic walk along the street, the baby will wake up with an appetite, especially since he knows that several delicious dishes are already waiting for him at home, and he will eat everything offered with pleasure.
You can not force the baby to eat everything that lies in his plate. If he doesn't want to eat right now, wait until the next meal without offering him a snack. Then the next time the portion will be eaten. Do not overfeed the baby, it overloads his digestive system. Let him eat little by little, but only when he really wants to. Parents should not be upset that the child, in their opinion, is malnourished. He will get all the necessary substances, just eat a little later or even tomorrow. If he feels good, plays and exercises cheerfully and enthusiastically, this is a sign that he is now quite full.
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.
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.
In the proper nutrition of a child of 2 years old, there are no medical contraindications, so you can make a menu without fear. You can give fish of 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 ones) - 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.
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.
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.
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, tomato paste and other seasonings in soups and borscht.
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 is rich in vitamin C. It can be given to the baby periodically, but remember that it often causes flatulence and intestinal cramps.
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.
Do not rush to give your child carbonated sweet drinks, chips and similar foods, smoked sausages, bouillon cubes, canned food. Their nutritional value is highly questionable, since such products usually contain preservatives, food additives and colorings. 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.
We bring to your attention a weekly menu for children at the age of two years.
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.
Despite the development of the digestive system and the presence of about 20 teeth, the nutrition of a child at 2 years old is still different from an adult. Although the peristalsis of the stomach is normalized when chewing solid foods, the chewing muscles are activated, food is absorbed faster, the body does not fully perceive the dishes from the proposed menu.
An organism with active growth requires a large amount of carbohydrates. You can provide the daily norm with additional energy by eating cereals.
Not all children like such a delicacy.
By being creative, you can easily turn a tasteless dish into a delicious one.
With a lack of carbohydrates in the body, vitamins and proteins are poorly absorbed. A significant number of them contain flour products, cereals, liver.
Enrich your diet with pancakes, dumplings.
If the child is overweight, flour products are contraindicated. The daily portion of bread should not exceed 100 g.
2 years is the ideal age to introduce legumes. It is recommended to periodically prepare mashed potatoes or pastes from beans, peas, lentils.
It's great if the menu is dominated by dairy products. Soups, yogurts, homemade sour cream, cottage cheese normalize the intestinal microflora.
Fat-free kefir, milk do not contain the required amount of fat. Due to the risk of developing pathologies of the nervous system in the baby, they should be excluded from the daily diet.
Calcium influences the formation of the skeleton. This element is found in dairy products, cabbage, cereals.
The menu of a two-year-old child must necessarily include food made from these products.
Due to the high content of iodine in sea fish, the weekly diet should be diluted with boiled fish fillet, stewed fish cakes, steamed rolls.
Side dishes are best served with lean meats. Store-bought sausages, sausages, boiled, smoked sausages should be abandoned, because. they contain preservatives, thickeners, salt, spices.
The first dishes are the basis of the daily diet. Soups, borscht are recommended to cook on the broth of lean meats.
Minimize tomato, bay leaf, spices.
It is better to refuse frying. A great option is to season soups with butter.
A two-year-old child is not limited to eating vinaigrettes, fruits, and vegetables.
In the absence of allergic reactions, the body is well perceived dishes from fresh cucumbers, radishes, tomatoes, cabbage.
As for salads, vinaigrettes, seasonal vegetables, fruits, they can be given without restrictions, provided that the child is not allergic to them. Dressing can serve 10-15% sour cream, olive oil, sunflower oil.
In winter, homemade preserves can be added to side dishes. In winter, the children's body more than ever needs vitamins and minerals.
Pickles should be introduced into the diet in limited portions. Pickled apples, cabbage, carrots are rich in micro and macro elements.
Excessive consumption of sauerkraut can provoke intestinal cramps, colic, flatulence, so it is better to give it in an amount not exceeding 2 tsp. per day.
Milk, fruit jelly, tea with the addition of milk, compote are well absorbed from drinking.
Freshly squeezed juices, fat-free kefir, cocoa are useful.
It is not forbidden to get acquainted with rosehip tea. A sweet menu enriched with chocolate, creams, sweets should be postponed until 3 years.
When the baby requires sweets, give him a marshmallow dessert, biscuit cookies, marmalade.
Two-year-olds are on four meals a day. Gaps between feedings should not exceed four hours.
Rare meals are fraught with malfunctions in digestion, apathy, despondency, frequent - loss of appetite.
The balance of food in carbohydrates, fats and proteins should be equal to the ratio of 4:1:1.
Proteins play an important role in the children's diet. They are a support in the formation and development of the internal organs of the child.
The menu of a two-year-old child should alternate with low-fat meat, dairy products, fish fillets, egg side dishes, fresh vegetables and fruits.
Carbohydrates must be present in the daily diet.
They are an energy source, a kind of foundation for the growth and development of the child's body. Contains carbohydrates in cereals, bread, sugar.
The daily norm is to provide a child with 1400-1500 kcal. Of these, approximately 25% should be distributed for breakfast, 30% for lunch, 15% for dinner.
A growing organism should be provided with vitamins, useful substances, amino acids as much as possible.
It is very important to control the intake of foods rich in calcium.
They affect the structure of the bone apparatus, epidermis, hair, nails. Prunes, milk, oatmeal, cottage cheese, peas, and cabbage contain the most calcium.
In the absence of contraindications to breastfeeding, it is recommended to supplement the baby with breastfeeding formula.
Popular products that favorably affect the health of the child are:
In order for the foods eaten to be assimilated, the first half of the day is allotted for the reception of the first courses. The menu should consist of chicken breast, turkey, rabbit.
It is advisable to alternate meat side dishes with homemade liver pate, lean boiled ham, steamed fish cakes, meatballs.
Once a week, treat your baby to a piece of peeled herring fillet. The daily ration of fish dishes should not exceed 180 g.
Pasta dishes, flour should be limited. The daily norm of eating bread is 85-90 g.
Muesli made from rice, oat, corn flakes is quickly digested. Mixing them with milk, uzvar, honey, you can get a nutritious treat.
The daily norm of vegetable oil should not exceed 5 g, butter - 15 g.
The daily volume of fluid consumed by the child's body is calculated from the average established norm. On average, this is about 100 ml of drink per kilogram of weight.
This volume takes into account all the liquids that the child drinks or eats throughout the day (broths, tea, soup, compote, etc.). In hot weather, an increase in the amount of liquid consumed is allowed.
The average rate of drinks is 1.2-1.5 l / day.
Breakfast should consist of a main course (150-200 g), a sandwich with cheese or butter, a drink (compote, uzvar, tea).
It is useful to enrich lunch with fresh salads (35 g), stew or porridge (up to 100 g), fish, meat side dishes (up to 75 g). Drink at the request of the child, but not more than 100 ml.
The afternoon snack should be light: 10-20 g of sweet pastries / biscuit cookies, 100-120 ml of milk (low-fat kefir), 1/3 apple, a quarter of a banana, other fruits to choose from.
Dinner should consist of 150-180 g of the main course and a drink (no more than 120 ml).
The menu of a child of 2 years should be dominated by vegetables, varieties of cereals, fruits. The baby is already accustomed to many products. The basis of the diet are well-boiled cereals.
Garnish should be enriched with boiled, stewed, baked, raw vegetables. A child can consume fruits without restrictions (whole, in the form of mousses, juices, uzvars, desserts, compotes).
Two-year-old children love to feast on stewed vegetable stews, baked fillets of sea fish, cottage cheese casseroles, cheesecakes.
From dairy products, fermented baked milk, cottage cheese, low-fat kefir are useful. Eggs introduce gradually in small portions. Be sure to monitor for allergic reactions.
It should be delayed with the introduction:
Limit your consumption of mayonnaise and the dishes seasoned with it.
It is worth giving up altogether:
Such food is crammed with dyes and food additives. Its origin, nutritional value, storage conditions are doubtful.
The processing of hazardous products by the stomach leads to fatal consequences, including oncology, bad stools, allergies, damage to the upper respiratory tract, and poor digestion of food.
The conclusions of pediatricians boil down to the fact that dietary, vegan, vegetarian dishes do not benefit the child.
They are suitable for nutrition, due to the recommendations of pediatricians in the presence of a child with severe diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, developmental anomalies, and obesity.
In the absence of an allergic reaction, do not limit yourself to special nutrition.
Periodically (up to 2 times a week), the menu of a two-year-old baby should be enriched:
A balanced diet is determined taking into account the characteristics of the body, taste preferences, and the tendency to food intolerance to certain foods.
No matter how much the baby asks for sausage, offer a stewed fish fillet or a boiled piece of lean meat instead.
Due to the high content of additives, fat, preservatives, for a child, it is equivalent to poison.
If you feel well, offer your baby for lunch a boiled baby sausage of the highest grade or a light vegetable soup with the addition of chopped pieces of chicken breast.
Products offered for feeding two-year-old children are recommended to be baked, boiled, steamed. Fried food is still contraindicated for him.
No need to finely chop food. It is enough to cut the food into cubes or knead.
It is forbidden to feed a child sausage on an empty stomach.
You can change the menu:
Baked beetroot salad with boiled peas and fresh cucumber;
Vegetable soup with fish meatballs;
Sweetened apple-prune salad;
Omelet with vegetables;
Steamed low-fat meat roll;
Pumpkin puree with wheat or oatmeal;
Cottage cheese pudding or casserole with chopped raisins.
Not always the lack of appetite in a baby indicates serious illness.
Often this situation is associated with small breaks between feedings, the lack of proper leisure, the use of treats that adults give, the perception of a standard serving of food as large.
Watch your child for a while. If portions of food are the reason for not eating, reduce the amount.
The perception of adults and children is different. What seems small to us is huge to the little ones. He is frightened by the portions he sees, cries, refuses to eat.
It is better to offer food more often and less, as you eat, give a supplement.
If the child is awake normally, but eating is problematic, consult a doctor.
Decreased appetite, complete refusal to eat are often the first symptoms of infection of the body, food poisoning, diseases of internal organs.
Against the background of refusal of food, signs of illness can be fever, frequent belching, changes in weight, and problems with stool.
Two-year-olds consider themselves independent, adults. They are curious, strive for constant development and communication.
Any deficiencies in development provoke a failure of the diet.
The fact is considered unreliable when the baby does not consume certain products enough.
In fact, at 2 years old, a diet is considered normal when the baby eats a repeated dish for a couple of days in a row.
Do not worry if the menu contains one of such products as cereals, apples, stew, kefir, meat, bread. When the diet is enriched with fruits, it is already varied.
If the baby completely avoids food, do not force it. Offer the minimum amount of food according to the established schedule.
Control the temperature, consistency, structure of food. The tactic for solving the problem should be a periodic offer of food, a ban on the use of treats, and avoidance of light snacks.
When the baby wakes up with a feeling of hunger, he will gladly eat the food that adults offer him.
Opinions regarding the introduction of mushrooms into the food of a two-year-old child differ. Some pediatricians are inclined to think that it is better to start acquaintance with any kind of mushrooms at 3.5-4 years.
Dr. Komarovsky, on the contrary, speaks negatively in favor of wild mushrooms. He recommends adding industrial champignons to food from the age of two.
Dr. Komarovsky is inclined to think that self-collected mushrooms contain many toxins. In addition, when collecting, inedible mushrooms containing poison can often come across.
Artificially grown mushrooms (oyster mushrooms, chanterelles, champignons) are useful in minimal doses.
To accustom the baby to the daily diet should be from 6 months. Adhering from an early age to a balance of nutrition, feeding hours, recommendations for proper food preparation, the risk of obesity problems is reduced.
Teach your little one to eat healthy foods. Do not include salted nuts, chips, mayonnaise, chocolate, ice cream in the menu.
It is a misconception that a two-year-old eats everything. Although the negative impact on the body has not yet manifested itself, in the future it is fraught with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, liver, and kidneys.
Make sure your child has healthy eating habits.
That's right, when the baby eats with all family members at a special children's table from their dishes.
Don't use food as reward manipulation. Trying to promise something for what you eat will lead to depression, overeating, or a complete rejection of food.
Reduce your consumption of processed foods and sweets. They adversely affect the absorption of food by the baby, besides, they are high in calories.
You can pamper your baby with a small amount of jam, marshmallows, marshmallows, marmalade.
Dishes from homemade cottage cheese should be prepared in compliance with the rules for heat treatment.
When buying special cottage cheese offered by baby food manufacturers for feeding two-year-old children, pay attention to the production and expiration dates.
Do not buy expired products, food in damaged airtight packaging.
When preparing porridge, pay attention to the density. They should be semi-viscous.
To do this, take 4 glasses of milk, vegetable broth, broth, fruit syrup or water per glass of porridge.
If the baby is breastfed before the age of two, gradually transfer it to adult food.
For kids who do not yet use a regular mug, it is recommended to purchase a training mug.
There is no need to buy vitamins separately in a pharmacy.
With a rational complex nutrition, the child's body receives sufficient nutrients.
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.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.
In the diet of two-year-old children, there must be:
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. 
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. 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:
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 apple, navy-style 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. |
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.
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.
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.
Lunch for a two-year-old should be balanced and contain the necessary amount of nutrients, but at the same time 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 dietary products are used in baby food according to the 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.
Soak a handful of white beans in cold water for 2 hours. 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 the 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 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.
Pass through a meat grinder 100 grams of lean beef. Add 15 grams of 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.
An afternoon snack is the smallest meal in terms of volume, but its importance for a growing organism is great. So that children can 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. There are a lot of simple and quick recipes with photos that are easy to please the crumbs for an afternoon snack.
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.
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. Separately add whipped chicken protein. 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.
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 casserole is one of the best ways to 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.
