The child has to receive enough proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. The nutritionists developing the menu for child care facilities consider requirements of a children's organism. Respect for balance is monitored by a diyetsestra and if a garden small, this function is assigned to the medic.
How many times to feed?
In most kindergartens with the 12-hour schedule of work – three meals a day when children receive a breakfast, a lunch and an afternoon snack. However, there can be also options when there are the second breakfast or a dinner. In the round-the-clock gardens children eat four times, and in sanatorium group – five or six, depending on orientation.
If you want to make the kindergarten menu for the child, consider that dishes have to change – soups and porridges have to be every day different.
Breakfast
For breakfast in kindergarten porridge usually is given; semolina, oat, buckwheat, wheat, rice, etc. Train her surely on milk. There can be exceptions – for example, in specialized gardens for children with allergic or gastric diseases porridge can be also on water. Children are given in the morning tea, cocoa or coffee drink with milk and also a roll piece with oil. Remember that natural coffee is not recommended to children of preschool age.
The second breakfast
There is the minimum set of products which the child has to receive every day. Fruit or natural juice surely enter this set. But the diet in kindergartens can be a miscellaneous. Fruit and juice can be given for the second breakfast and if it is not provided, then for the main breakfast or for an afternoon snack.
Lunch
The lunch in kindergarten usually consists of four dishes. It begins with salad – from fresh cabbage or carrots, tomato, cucumbers, etc. It is occasionally possible to give boiled beet salad, but you should not abuse it. Then soup or borsch is served. On the second – the meat or fish dish with a garnish is obligatory. It can be cutlets, goulash, subfrying, pieces of fried fish. On the third – dried or fresh fruit compote. By a lunch bread, usually black is served. In the senior groups offer children at choice black and white loaf.
Fish has to be without bones.
Afternoon snack
For an afternoon snack in gardens serve cottage cheese in different options – with sour cream, with raisin, in the form of cheesecakes or casserole. In gardens of the all-developing view with the 12-hour schedule of work the strengthened afternoon snack which meat casserole can enter, for example, several times a week is given. In some days children can offer fruit puree, sweet pilaf, fruit soup or just bun with coffee drink, milk or tea.
Dinner
If the dinner is provided in a garden, children receive porridge, cottage cheese casserole (if it was not for an afternoon snack), mashed potatoes with additives and also tea, milk or juice. In the round-the-clock sanatorium gardens children approximately for an hour to a dream are given yogurt, milk or kefir.
Example of the menu
Breakfast: - semolina porridge; - coffee drink; - roll with oil. The second breakfast; - cookies; - juice. Lunch; - fresh cabbage salad; - beetroot soup; - fish in Polish; - dried fruits compote; - bread. Afternoon snack: - cottage cheese casserole; - tea.