The child's food after a year gradually approaches the adult's diet. However transition to the new menu has to be sparing, at the same time the nutrition value of children's dishes should not decrease.
Optimum diet
All significant products have to be gradually entered into a food allowance of the one-year-old child and also the regimen of day and food is set. At this age it is necessary to feed the child of 4-5 times a day (apart from night feedings with a breast). In the morning at 7-9 o'clock in the morning offer the kid a breakfast, at 13-14 o'clock - a lunch, after a daytime sleep - an afternoon snack, and at 18-19 o'clock - a dinner. For the night the child can offer safely kefir milk, or to give a breast.
The lunch has to become the most volume by the number of calories from all daily feedings. During a lunch, several dishes by rules of an adult table are offered the kid. However many parents complain that the child eats only one dish, for example, soup or the second, and at the same time flatly refuses to continue a meal. The problem is here that parents do not observe volumes of the portions offered the child. Often the lunch of the kid consists of a huge portion of soup on 200 ml after which he really is not hungry any more – he is full. For this reason it is so important to observe the exact volume of dishes.
Transition to an adult table means the principles of healthy nutrition. Give to the kid more fruit and vegetables, but so far forget about spicy and very salty food.
What to begin with
It is better to begin a meal with salad. It can be fresh cabbage salad, vinaigrette, grated carrots and other. However the volume of a portion should not be more than 30 g, and these are several teaspoons. A problem of such snack to tempt appetite and to start process of release of gastric juice for the best assimilation of food. Then it is possible to offer soup: vegetable, borsch, Russian cabbage soup, noodles on chicken broth, fish or dairy. The volume of a portion of soup should not be more than 50 ml. To it offer a piece of bread or crouton. If the child prefers these delicacies to main courses, it is better to give them after the main meal as a dessert. After soup the main course has to follow. It can be to be cutlets (from a turkey, veal, beef), the quenelles, meatballs steamed or stewed with vegetables. A fish dish – the baked salmon, a stewed cod or Dori fillet, fish steam cutlets. The volume of a fish or meat dish has to be no more than 50 g. As a garnish vegetables, boiled on couple (the squash, a cauliflower, broccolis) which are small cut or shaken up in puree by the blender perfectly will approach. It is possible to offer a garnish from grain - buckwheat or rice if for breakfast there were vegetables or dairy dishes. Also mashed potatoes with a piece of butter or pasta will approach. The total amount of a garnish should not exceed 70 g. Together with cutlet or a small fish of 120 g of second course - the portion small and it quite can eat to the one-year-old child.
Potatoes in a food allowance of the one-year-old child should not be more often than 2-3 times a week.
Meal final
The lunch can be finished with drink. It can be fruit juice, kissels, fruit drinks, dogrose infusion. There is no accurate restriction on volume – how many the child will drink, so it is required to it so much. There are no restrictions on liquid at all. Only nuance: it is better not to be fond of juice, they in itself very much kaloriyna also can dampen ardor, causing sense of fulness in the child. As a result the total amount of food at the child aged up to one and a half years has to be 1000-1200 (without liquid). At the same time the lunch makes 200 g that agree, it is a little and it can eat to the one-year-old kid.