For four meals a day, it makes sense to move on when the baby turns a year old. This meal includes self-feeding breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner. Between breakfast and lunch, a large enough time interval, so you can give the child an apple or one of the fruit juices during this period. This is how the child gradually moves to an adult diet.
Usual meals at standard time: at 08:00, next at 12:00, and the last at 18:00. In the interval - an additional meal. Depending on the nature of your daily routine, variations are possible.
Recommended daily intake of food at the age of one to one and a half years - 1000 - 1200 ml. from one and a half to three years - 1400 ml. But do not strictly adhere to these figures, take into account the nutritional status and type of food.
The main products that should make up the baby's diet after a year
If you cook meat, then it must be necessarily fresh. Similarly, other ready meals can not be left the next day. Even when stored in the refrigerator, their nutritional value is reduced.
Avoid giving the child such items as sausages, sausages, sausages, since the meat in these products can not be called high-grade.
Avoid giving smoked products to your baby. There is a high probability that they contain pepper. The taste qualities of a child are much higher than that of an adult, this spice abundance can dull the baby's taste.
When you include fish food, be very careful about small bones.
After one and a half years for the baby you can not rub vegetables, but cut. At first you can cut it finely, and that's why it's already big. The child needs to learn how to chew food, so you need to give a load to the teeth. In addition, such sliced food is useful for the intestines. Pieces of food irritate the walls of the intestine, thus provoking an early emptying.
Obligatory ingredients in the diet of a child after a year are foods rich in fiber. How is it useful? If there is a lot of fiber in the intestine, then it is easier to empty it. Fiber is not digested in the stomach and is the basis of the formation for fecal masses. A large amount of fiber is found in bread, fruits, vegetables and legumes.
However, peas, beans and beans give the child a better grind. Children of three years - can be given in a not crumpled form, but carefully.
In the diet of the child should be a lot of milk and dairy products, as this is the basic building material for the body. Unlike an adult, a kid needs not only to restore worn out tissues, but also to build new ones. In milk and dairy products except protein contains mineral salts, and vitamins A and B.
Milk for the child must be necessarily fresh. Before giving it to the baby, the milk should be boiled. The required norm of milk per day is 700-750 ml.
You can replace portions of milk for dinner with cottage cheese or another dairy product. Exception are sharp cheeses. Cottage cheese is especially recommended, because it contains a lot of protein and fat. Also, cheese cottage cheese is very much loved by children.
Butter is also found among valuable products, because the oil contains the necessary vitamins A and D.
Fruit in the baby's diet
A kid can eat any fruit when he is 2 years old. Fruits should be rubbed on the grater when the baby is still small. And then you can give fruit, cut into small slices. Whole fruits can be given only to three years.
It is best to use raw fruits, because they have more vitamins. In addition, they contain very valuable mineral salts and fruit sugar. Vitamin C is useful and in large quantities found in citrus fruits, but do not get carried away by them, since they can cause an allergic reaction. Some experts recommend using in the diet those fruits and vegetables that grow in your area. The organism best assimilates such products, unlike exotic ones.
A certain category of fruit should be given cautiously. For example, plums slightly weak, apples cause gases, and a pear can provoke an upset stomach.
In a season when fruits are not enough, and the need for vitamins is, they can be replaced with raw vegetables. For example, children are very fond of carrots, and it is extremely useful.
In addition to mineral salts, vitamins, fiber in raw vegetables and fruits, there is sugar, which is a source of energy and is necessary for a small organism.