As soon as there comes feeding up time, young mothers are seriously puzzled how to make the balanced menu for their kids. Fuel to the fire is added by pediatricians and their scary tables, norms, indicative menus. And the child of it does not eat! If to read articles on this subject, then you think: "Everything, I am bad mother, I do not give the rest to the child of useful!". In this article — the easiest way to watch a diet of children and to cease to worry at last on this subject.
Breastfeeding
While your child who began to receive a feeding up (and perhaps already and the active eater), is on breastfeeding, it has both an additional source of calories, and absolutely amazing source of useful substances, proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. And still the huge list of all valuable and important which would occupy the whole page! There is not enough only cellulose. Children on breastfeeding already receive the food balanced on minerals that allows mom to worry less and just to feed with what the child eats.
Diet of parents
Eat it is useful, do not eat at children of harmful snack and fast food (chips, croutons, crackers, French fries, hamburgers and so on) and promote very clearly love for apples, bananas, cucumbers and all other vegetables. We — the best example for healthy eating habits.
Healthy plate
This symbolical plate from the program of healthy food "Choose my plate" replaced the outdated ideas of a healthy diet based on a pyramid and shows of what elements in what proportions there is a useful day menu for the healthy active person. These are fruit, vegetables, carbohydrate (cereals and potato together), proteinaceous, dairy products. It is simple and evident.
How to apply the principle of a healthy plate?
It is very simple. You do not need to try to connect all components in one priyemy food (it is ideal option). Just you watch that during the day in the menu of your child there were all 5 components of a plate, all gradually, and fruit and vegetables it is necessary to try to give more.
Ideal dishes
Many children love Italian cuisine: spaghetti or figured pasta with sauce, pizza. By the way, if you do sauce, then in it there will be several useful components at once. And home-made pizza is an ideal dish in which all healthy plate finds room at once.
Pies, fritters, pancakes with stuffings, borsch, omelets are the multicomponent dishes allowing to feed easily useful of those products which the child loves too.
Even if the child eats "as a chicken", it is always possible to put in it by the way in total little by little: cheese piece, three small peas, apple segment, bread slice, three spoons of yogurt and piece of cutlet.
At the time of doubts apply the principle of a healthy plate. Also it will not be necessary to mask broccoli, to draw to sausage eyes mayonnaise, to do a hedgehog of cutlet and to persuade to eat a spoon of useful tasteless cottage cheese. Be guided not by separate products, and by groups. In each of them there will be what is loved by your gourmet.