Regular meals are a prerequisite for proper nutrition. This is especially important for children, because the baby's body is rapidly growing and developing, which means that regular intake of nutrients is vital for him.
Nutritionists have proved that five meals is the optimal food regime. That is, for a day a child (however, like an adult) should have five meals - breakfast, lunch (snack), lunch, afternoon snack and dinner.
In this article, we'll talk about what to prepare a child for a mid-morning snack.
What to feed your child for a mid-morning snack?
There are a lot of options for what you can give your child for a mid-morning snack:
- fruit (apples, peaches, pears) and berries (cherries, currants, cherries, blueberries, raspberries);
- milk and dairy products (yoghurt, fermented baked milk, curd cheese);
- light vegetable, fruit or cereal casseroles, soufflé;
- fruit, berry or vegetable juice;
- tea with pastries;
- dishes from eggs (steam omelettes, boiled or raw eggs).
Do not try to make a very large portion and feed your baby with the fill, after a couple of hours the next main meal is dinner. Even if the crumb did not eat everything - it's not scary. A snack for a child is just a snack, here are a few recipes that you can use for a child's afternoon snack:
Cottage cheese casserole with fruit
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese - 250g;
- egg of chicken - 1 piece;
- sugar - 1ch .;
- apple - 1 piece;
- pear - 1 piece;
- starch - 1 teaspoon;
- butter - 5g + for lubricating the mold;
- bread crumbs (for sprinkling of the form).
Preparation
Fruits are washed and cut into slices, the remaining ingredients (except for biscuits and oil for lubricating the mold) are mixed in a blender until uniform. Lubricate the form and sprinkle with breadcrumbs, lay out the slices of fruit and pour the curd mass. Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes (at 180 ° C).
Baked apples stuffed with dried fruits and nuts
Ingredients:
- apples - 2 pieces;
- dried fruits (raisins, prunes, dried apricots) - 50g;
- toasted unsalted nuts (peanuts, pine nuts, cashews, walnuts) - 50g;
- liquid honey - 30 g;
- spicy herbs (lemon balm, mint or tarragon).
Preparation
Prepare apples: wash and cut the stone. The bottom hole in the apple is covered with prunes (dried apricots), like a cork, topped with chopped nuts, pour honey over it and put raisins on top. Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes at 180 ° C.
If the baby loves milk, you can give him a snack for children's vitaminized or sterilized milk, if milk is not included in the list of gastronomic favorites, crumbs, you can give a kid a jelly, compote or tea.