All children in the diet must necessarily have porridge. How to cook porridge for a child? And how to choose the right children's porridge, which they sell in stores?
The constituents of the buckwheat are milk and cereals. Everyone knows that these products are very useful and valuable in their properties. In the croup of a lot of carbohydrates (starch), they give the organisms strength, energy, B vitamins, plant proteins, iron, magnesium; moreover, they provide the body with plant fibers, which are so necessary for good work of the gastrointestinal tract. Milk contains valuable proteins that exceed the proteins of cereals, besides it is rich in mineral salts and vitamins, and therefore perfectly complements the composition of porridge.
Often, the buckwheat is the second lure of a child who is breastfed. It is brought into the diet about a week after 2-3, after the first food has been introduced - vegetable sauce, and this is somewhere in five to six months. If suddenly the kid has problems with the stool, it is not stable enough, badly gaining weight or constantly regurgitating, then the doctor can advise you to start the first lure not with vegetable puree, but with porridge.
For the baby, the buckwheat is very important, because it is such a kind of bridge between the waist and solid food, that's why you need to feed the baby with small aliments. On the first day, you should try one teaspoonful, in the second - no more than three or four teaspoons and one week should be brought to a portion of 100-120 grams. This portion of porridge should replace one full breastfeeding. Feed your baby with a spoon, once a day, and best of all, if you do this in the morning for breakfast. After this, you can let the porridge wash with kefir, juice or breast milk.
If you decided to cook porridge yourself, then you need to know that at first you need to make it liquid (5%). What does it mean? Five grams of flour or cereals per 100 ml of water. After a while, somewhere, one or two weeks, you can start cooking porridge already ten percent. So that you can not rash your head by calculating the number of grams of flour for a certain amount of water, it is worthwhile to clarify that for the preparation of a five percent porridge you should spend a teaspoon of cereal flour per 100 ml of milk or water, eight percent porridge - 1.5 teaspoons per 100 ml of liquid, and a 10% two teaspoons for the same amount of liquid. You can add salt and sugar, this is not forbidden by anyone. But remember that for your taste, the porridge should be liquefied or under-salted. Of course, you need to add oil to the porridge, but only 5 grams per serving, not more.
Several ways of cooking. If you decide to cook a buckwheat from cereal flour, then first it should be diluted in cold water, so add hot milk and cook for about five minutes. If you use cereals for cooking, it is recommended that you first thoroughly digest it on the water, and then pour in boiling milk and boil until ready. Ready porridge must necessarily be wiped through a sieve.
What kind of cereal to choose for your baby?
The most useful are oatmeal and buckwheat porridge. Because they are more than all the other cereals are rich in protein and vegetable fibers, which are especially useful and necessary for good functioning of the gastrointestinal tract. In corn and rice, there is a lot of starch, which is useful for the body to produce energy. The third place in terms of utility is occupied by the mannakrumpa. But these cereals do not have enough mineral salts of vitamins, except corn, it is rich in iron. When the child is 6 months old, you can start giving him other grains: barley, rye, wheat - they contain gluten, if, of course, the baby does not have an innate intolerance to this squirrel.
In addition, when choosing croup, pay attention to the fact that rice has fixing and enveloping properties; buckwheat and oatmeal are rich in fiber, so they can cause a laxative effect; corn is neutral. Given the characteristics of each cereal, you need to alternate and even try to cook mixed porridge. For the baby will be very useful pink porridge, which add a pumpkin, carrot juice, apples or carrots.
Probably, you will find it strange that many pediatricians in the first year of life crumbs advise feeding the child with porridges of industrial production. Shop porridges are much better sterilized and recycled. For each age category, they are enriched with the corresponding mineral salts and vitamins, moreover, they contain iron and calcium. In them, non-artificial dyes, chemical additives, preservatives and stabilizers. Another advantage is that it is possible to add such cereals as rye, corn and barley to the baby's diet, and everyone knows that at home they are very difficult to digest.
Most of the porridges that are used in our country for baby food are brought from abroad. For some reason, domestic products are not so well represented in the market, although their useful composition is not inferior to foreign porridge, but there is one downside - they need to be cooked.
Many modern porridges, which are represented by foreign companies, have instant preparation, that is, they do not need to be cooked. Such cereals can be divided into 2 types-dairy and dairy-free. To make milk porridge requires only the water. Add the oil, sugar, salt and even more so they do not need milk. Only if the baby is poorly gaining weight or has a poor appetite, then on the advice of the doctor, you can add two or three grams of butter per serving of porridge to increase the energy value of the product and improve the taste.
Milk-free dumplings are prepared with the addition of specialized milk for baby food. If the baby does not tolerate milk, then you can dissolve the porridge with water, but follow the note that in this case the nutritional value of the porridge will decrease.
The complexity of the choice of cereals is that they are prepared not only with water and milk, but also with additives. Many companies produce cereals with natural additives: chocolate, honey, fruits, berries, caramel, hazelnuts, vegetables, banana. Mozhnovstretit even very interesting combinations, such as buckwheat apricot, banana with smoked and rice, buckwheat and quince, chocolate-nut. Some firms produce mixed cakes. For example, cereal and vegetable porridge of spinach, pumpkin, rice, leeks, wheat, or porridge of five cereals. Such cereals are generally much tastier and more useful than others, but you should pay attention to the possibility of allergic reactions.
When choosing a porridge for a baby, it is worth to focus on the child's preferences, financial possibilities and, of course, the recommendations of a pediatrician.
Particular attention should be paid to the following nuances:
- naupakovke necessarily must be written the contents of porridge in Russian so that you can read and find out what nutritional substances are there and how much - so you determine the quality of the product.
- The manufacturer must specify the detailed ingredients for 1 serving or tables. This information is useful to you, so that you can determine how this product is balanced and full.
- pay attention to storage conditions and shelf life.
Naturally, when preparing the porridge follow the instructions in which all the rules are indicated. Nestoit to make porridge "by eye". Treat your child's nutrition seriously. Pediatricians advise buying porridge for babies in specialized stores of baby food, polyclinics and pharmacies. You do not need to do this in markets, by ads or in other, unintentional places. Be wary of improper storage conditions and counterfeits.