Dinner for a 4 year old child. Main courses for children. What you should know

According to science, dinner should make up 20% of the daily diet. But children, especially small children, change their daily routine in their own way.

Dinner should be light. This fact does not depend on the age of the child, but it depends on the individual routine and the amount of food that enters the body during the day. If a child goes to bed late (after 22-23.00), he should have dinner at 19.30-20.00 - and a second dinner in the form of a glass of warm milk or kefir at night, before bed, is advisable. Children receiving breast milk or formula do not count, everything is fine with evening and night food, it is correct and easily digestible. In general, dinner at 20.00 is considered ideal for any person. If the child goes to bed at 21.00, dinner is shifted to 19.00 (plus or minus half an hour). And at night he can also drink kefir, bifidok or milk, this ritual prolongs the feeling of fullness and calms him down.

Night hunger: do you need a hearty dinner?

Many parents are worried when a child wakes up several times a night and asks for food. Scientists have long found that the feeling of hunger, which illogically (provided there is sufficient nutrition) torments us during the day and even at night, is actually a feeling of thirst. A person wants to drink, not eat. Our body gives signals: we need water. To dissolve and expel street toxins, tone yourself. Even an adult confuses thirst with hunger and grabs another piece instead of a glass of water. A child may also want to drink at night; for most children this is normal and is not associated with any abnormalities. But some children unconsciously transform the desire to “drink” into “eat.” Parents are people too, they want to rest at night, so they have to fight with constant night jumps and demands. But many children really need to drink water or kefir at night; this simple action is better to do than to deal with the consequences of weaning. Repeated requests (2-4 times a night) signal that the reason is not food or drink at all.

Everyone is familiar with the old grandmother's remedy: in order for the child to sleep soundly, he needs to be fed more thoroughly at night. In this case, the parents will get peace of mind, but not the child. His body will not rest; it will be busy digesting food. Often such excesses - semolina porridge or meat dishes at night - lead to gastrointestinal diseases. Drowsiness after eating is natural, but severe drowsiness caused by stomach “cementation” is not good for anyone. Yogis call this state “tamasic” - some food causes a state of “tamas”: lethargy, laziness, contamination with toxins. There are dozens of reasons why a child often wakes up at night, and hunger is just one of many. Without removing the main cause, feeding meat at night is pointless - one link will pull another, and the chain of problems will sooner or later close. Restless sleep is associated with a lack of attention (getting attention from parents whom the child has not seen most of the day), unconscious fear (something happened during the day, it caught your attention, haunts you), disturbed microclimate (dry air, heat, stuffiness), impaired breathing (slight nasal congestion). In all these cases, the child is free to wake up and demand something to drink and eat, in fact wanting to eliminate the real problem, without being able to formulate it, understand it, or calculate it on his own.

They often ask: is it harmful to feed porridge for dinner, is it too heavy food. Look at the child! The child will always give a signal which food is preferable for him. If sleep is restless, the child cannot fall asleep for a long time, try experimenting with dinner. Porridge is a normal living food, it is better than sandwiches, processed foods, cereals, cookies, and so on. Porridge can be harmful if a particular child does not digest it for some reason. In other cases, porridge may not be harmful. We found something to worry about - thousands of parents don’t know how to push anything into their child, while others are worried about the porridge - heavy, not heavy... normal! But if you still have doubts about the need for evening porridge, make it easier. Do not serve millet, semolina, or pearl barley porridge for dinner; if possible, do not use milk and sugar, replacing them with fruit puree, dried fruit, a spoonful of honey - or add milk mixture. “Light” porridge for the night is buckwheat, oatmeal and any “children’s” (powdered). Semolina porridge, among other stupefying properties, interferes with the absorption of vitamins and microelements accumulated during the day.

Even among pundits there is no agreement about food at night: what it should be, whether it is necessary, whether it is harmful. Some venerable nutritionists are of the following opinion: our body spends energy during the day and accumulates energy at night, food is fuel for accumulation, which means that eating at night is not forbidden. That is, the child can eat before bedtime - not at dinner, but right before going to bed. It happens. Some kids need it. It's OK. Children live by different laws than adults. If you find yourself in such a situation (when a child has dinner before bed), do not remember all the horrors of the world written by hardworking journalists about junk food at night. Everything requires an individual approach. The child sleeps well, he has no health problems, excess weight and excitability - this means that a plate of light porridge or omelet is not a problem that is worth attention and loss of nerve cells on both sides.

Also considered ideal dishes for dinner are:

• Cottage cheese, cottage cheese dishes (casseroles, cheesecakes), cottage cheese with fruit.
• Omelet, vegetables in an omelette, boiled eggs.
• Vegetable mixtures, purees, stews, casseroles, cutlets and zrazy from vegetables, vegetables with rice, buckwheat. Raw vegetables.
• Salads.
• Fruits – bananas and green apples. Banana soothes, increases the feeling of satiety, and green apples are rich in “night” elements - calcium and iron, magnesium, potassium.
• Baked fruits: apples, pears.
• Any fermented milk products - kefir, yogurt, bifidoc, acidophilus. Cheese.

Any child can learn one simple truth, if you don’t belittle his mental abilities in advance and don’t think “Oh my, never!” It is necessary to constantly convince the child that a hungry person will eat everything that is offered to him. Do you want to eat? - that means eat what they give you. A child demanding food often has a very specific cookie or hidden candy in mind. It kind of tests parental fortitude. The sooner you instill in your children the right attitude towards food, towards their own feelings, the sooner they will form their own food culture. Doesn't obey, runs away, throws a tantrum, cries? - anyway, repeat from time to time that a hungry person will eat what is offered, and sweet desserts and all kinds of sausages are not food for the hungry, but pampering for the well-fed. Of course, all this is not pronounced in the boring voice of an admirer of Leo Tolstoy, raising a finger over the curly head of a baby. In a positive, confident tone, carry your thought through the days and weeks - it will definitely be postponed.

Let’s not focus on the “harmful things”; each family has its own traditions on this matter, its own problems, its own worldview. You should not give chocolate rolls, sweets, ice cream, or hot sandwiches for dinner. Children are children, we love to pamper them, and no one has the right to blame parents for this. But still, for the sake of strengthening the immune system, for the sake of resistance to viruses and bacteria, for the sake of a healthy nervous system, you should gradually and in small ways change the quality of food, especially in the evening. In the evening and at night, the body gratefully accepts and digests clean food. At night it merges with space, and it would be nice not to spoil the feeling of flight and relaxation with food that spoils metabolism and specifically kills the “building blocks” of health (vitamins, microelements) received with daily food. Choose simpler sweets, avoid fried foods, cholesterol explosions in the form of melted cheese on bread, pasta and casseroles. In the evening, the child is not given meat dishes - the meat takes 4-6 hours to digest, and it does not bring any benefit. The exception is steamed fish, as well as canned meat for baby food; they are added in some quantities to dinner at any age. And, of course, it is extremely harmful to give a child sausages, sausages and other mixtures of chemicals and salts for dinner. Charlottes, pancakes and pancakes also cannot be called the right dish for dinner, but for variety they can be eaten in small quantities.

The most important thing is do not try to feed a hungry child in the evening if he is hungry only in your imagination. If he doesn’t want to eat, he can’t sit him down at the table - make jelly, fruit juice or compote, give him a healthy drink and calm down yourself.

Dinner recipes (ages: 1.5-6 years)

Risotto “Highlight”
200 g cauliflower, 2 carrots, 1 cup rice, 4 tbsp. pitted prunes, 2 tbsp. raisins, 2 tbsp. butter.
Grate the carrots, sauté in oil, add a little water, simmer for 10 minutes. Scald the cauliflower and separate into florets. Pour 2 cups of hot water over the rice, add salt and add prunes and raisins previously soaked in water. Add vegetables and simmer risotto for 40 minutes over low heat. Before serving, sprinkle with finely chopped herbs.

Carrot-apple soufflé
350 g carrots, 60 g sour cream or milk, 30 g semolina, 1 apple, ½ egg, ½ tbsp. sugar, 2 tsp. butter, salt (to taste).
Grate the peeled apple and carrots. Grind the egg yolk with sugar, beat the white into a fluffy foam. Combine the apple and carrots, add sour cream or milk, yolk with sugar, semolina, salt, carefully add the beaten egg white, mix. Place the mixture in a greased baking dish, bake in the oven or steam for 30-35 minutes.

Omelette "Africa"
600 g carrots, 400 g milk, 4 eggs, 4 tbsp. grated hard cheese, 2 tbsp. butter, 2 tbsp. flour, 2 tbsp. orange juice, salt.
Boil and grate the carrots. Beat eggs, add milk and flour, cheese and juice, add salt, and combine with carrot puree. Pour the mixture into a frying pan and fry the omelette until cooked - or bake.

Broccoli and yogurt soup
125 g plain yogurt, 1 cup broccoli, 2 potatoes, 1 carrot, 1 tbsp. grated hard cheese, 1 tsp. olive oil.
Pour boiling water over the broccoli so that the water barely covers them, cook for 5 minutes over low heat. Grate the potatoes and carrots, sauté in olive oil with constant stirring. Add the sauté to the soup, cook for another 10 minutes, cool slightly. Pour yogurt into the soup, stirring constantly. You can add cheese.

Millet-curd porridge
2/3 cup milk or water, ½ cup cottage cheese, 1/3 cup millet, 2 tbsp. yogurt or sour cream, 1 tbsp. sugar, 1 tbsp. butter, salt.
Scald the millet and pour boiling milk over it. Add sugar, salt and cook the porridge, cool. Add cottage cheese, butter, yogurt to the prepared porridge, mix.

Buckwheat porridge with prunes and dried apricots
250 g buckwheat, 100 g pitted prunes, 100 g dried apricots, salt (to taste), 600 g water.
Soak prunes and dried apricots to swell, then boil them separately, chop some finely. Combine cereals and dried fruits, pour boiling water, add salt and cook until half cooked, stirring constantly. Bring the porridge to readiness in the oven.
Before serving, add melted butter to the porridge and decorate it with the remaining prunes and dried apricots.

Baby apricot puree with rice
Dried apricots – 100g, water – 375g, baby rice porridge powder – 2 tbsp. breast milk or warmed formula – 80 ml.
Combine dried apricots and water in a small saucepan and cook until soft for 20 minutes. Make apricot puree by adding water. Mix breast milk or formula with rice powder. Serve with 1 tbsp. apricot puree. Can be stored for up to 2 days in the refrigerator. Also, the puree can be frozen into cubes.

Curd pancakes
Wheat flour – 160 g, cottage cheese – 100 g, egg – 1 pc., sugar – 10 g, soda – 1/4 tsp.
Vegetable oil – 20 ml.
Beat the egg, grind with cottage cheese, add flour, sugar and soda. Mix everything thoroughly. Grease a hot frying pan with oil and bake pancakes in it.

Scrambled eggs with vegetables “Quail egg”
2 quail eggs, 1 carrot, 0.5 stalk of celery, 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil.
Cut the carrots into small cubes and lightly fry them in oil. Add celery cut into small pieces to the carrots. Add water to the vegetables so that it slightly covers the vegetables and simmer until tender over low heat. Beat the eggs, add them to the vegetables, mix. Cover with a lid and leave for 2 minutes.

Children's salad "Coral Reef"
200g cauliflower, 1 tomato, 1 apple, one and a half cucumbers, 2 leaves of green lettuce, 2 tbsp. sour cream, salt.
We disassemble the cabbage into inflorescences, boil it in salted water, and cool. Cut a tomato, an apple and 1 cucumber into small cubes, combine them with chopped lettuce leaves. Salt the prepared salad, season it with sour cream, mix and place cauliflower on top. We cut out a crab figurine from half a cucumber and decorate our salad with it.

Curd and fish meatballs
Cod (fillet) – 60 g, cottage cheese – 30 g, milk – 160 ml, egg – 0.5 pcs., sour cream 10% – 2 tbsp. l., white bread – 30 g, vegetable oil – 15 ml, herbs, salt.
Soak the bread in milk. Grind the fish fillet in a meat grinder, mix with cottage cheese and finely chopped onion. Mix the bread with the resulting minced meat and grind it through the meat grinder again. Beat in the egg and mix. Form the meatballs, place them in a pre-greased pan and bake for 25-30 minutes. Then pour in sour cream and cook for another 3 minutes. Sprinkle with herbs.

Fish with vegetables and rice
90 g of any red fish, stewed in lemon juice with fresh parsley, 100 g of stewed vegetable mixture with carrots and onions. Garnish: 40 g boiled rice.

Frozen vegetables in batter
Frozen vegetables: cauliflower or broccoli, green beans separately or in a mixture - whatever the child likes. We make a batter (egg, sour cream, a spoonful of flour, salt), pour it over the vegetables - or dip them in individual inflorescences, if it is cabbage. A little breadcrumbs on top and into the oven until golden brown.

Vegetable hedgehogs with a surprise
Boil various vegetables until half cooked: potatoes, carrots, cauliflower, maybe beets. Cool, grate on a coarse grater. Add egg, salt, a little semolina or corn (buckwheat) flour, form small balls. Hide a quail egg in the middle of each ball. You can roll the hedgehogs in breadcrumbs. Bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes until the vegetables are ready.

Potato cutlets with cheese
Boil 4 medium potatoes in their jackets, peel and grate. Finely chop 2 handfuls of spinach and mix with potatoes. Add 1 egg, cheese, green onions, parsley, and salt to taste to the mixture. Form cutlets, roll them in breadcrumbs and fry or bake in the oven.

Nutrition is an important aspect of the life of any person, especially a child. Food for children of different age categories must meet the needs of the body and take into account individual characteristics of development and lifestyle. Busy parents often pay little attention to what their children eat. They forget that a growing body needs to receive enough nutrients and follow a food intake, as well as a daily routine, so that health is strong and the psyche is stable.

Varied and tasty dishes prepared by caring, loving hands are the key to understanding and mutual love between parents and children. In this article we will define the basic rules for serving food, the weekly menu and offer several delicious and nutritious recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Meal schedule

Children after the third year of life enter a new phase of their development. They become more inquisitive, mobile, active, and independent; many go to kindergarten, clubs and early learning schools. Preschoolers and first-graders eat completely differently. Their taste preferences, menus and diets change. Due to their age and increasing independence, they can arrange unscheduled snacks in the form of sandwiches, sweets, snacks, and fruits.

Eating according to a schedule is very important; this allows the gastrointestinal tract to function properly and the child to feel healthy hunger and full satiety. The routine may vary depending on where the child goes, what time he gets up and goes to bed. Standard intervals between meals are 3-4 hours, during which time the food is completely digested. Standard feeding hours for children after three years of age:

• breakfast 8.30 am;
• lunch at 12:30;
• afternoon tea at 16:00;
• dinner at 19:00.

Is your child already in first grade? Today, children are often sent to school at six or even five years old. Then the schedule shifts depending on the study schedule. Does your child have to go to school at half past eight and you get up at 7 am? Try to give your baby tea or cocoa with cookies, a bun, a sandwich with high-quality cheese or baby sausage, muesli with milk before leaving home, because breakfast at school will not be until half past ten, and such a long and systematic fasting is very harmful for the child’s stomach.

Does your child not eat in the school cafeteria at all? Does the catering food of an educational institution leave much to be desired? Give your daughter or son a snack with you. For lunch, porridge is unlikely to be suitable, which a first-grader simply will not have the opportunity to heat, as well as sweets and a pack of cookies. Add a sandwich with cheese, tomato and chicken, steamed vegetables, oven pie, fruit and dried fruit.

After the 4th year of life, the volume of a child’s stomach is 400-500 g, which means that the daily volume of food should not exceed 1500-1800 g. A small person should eat most of this volume at lunch (40%). 25% is allocated for breakfast, 10-15% for afternoon tea, and 20-25% for dinner.

Consider the individual characteristics of the child’s body, his weight and appetite. There is no need to introduce a fifth meal if your child eats everything to the last crumb - this is fraught with obesity. There is no need to force-feed your little one to the required amount, but it won’t hurt to offer extra fruit or kefir and cookies.

Making a nutritious diet

Feed your child a variety of foods: you don’t need to give semolina porridge for breakfast every morning, chicken soup with noodles for lunch, cheesecakes for an afternoon snack, and pasta with a cutlet for dinner. Any organism, especially a child’s, requires variety:

• vary the porridge, do not forget about buckwheat and oatmeal, millet, muesli;
• for lunch, give borscht and soups with chicken, meat or fish broth, noodles;
• an afternoon snack may consist of cheesecakes with sour cream or jam, buns, and baked pies;
• do not forget about vegetables and fruits, both raw and baked, dairy products, eggs.

The diet of a child under 6 years old should be varied; the more healthy foods there are in his diet, the more nutrients the baby will receive.

All products are conventionally divided into food of plant origin and animal origin. The first group includes vegetables, fruits, cereals, and flour products. They are rich in fiber, dietary fiber, vitamins B, A, PP, E, D, K, stimulate the gastrointestinal tract and strengthen the immune system. Offer your baby fresh fruits, berries and vegetables in moderation so as not to cause stomach upset; also avoid exotic gifts of nature to avoid allergic reactions.

The second group includes meat, fish and eggs, dairy products:

1. Give your child 1 chicken or 2 quail eggs three times a week. The yolk is rich in vitamin B12 and unsaturated fatty acid, so it is a source of energy, but due to its high cholesterol content it should not be eaten regularly.
2. Meat contains a lot of protein and vitamins. Regularly offer your son or daughter lean beef, veal, chicken, turkey in the form of cutlets, goulash, boiled or stewed pieces for porridge, potatoes or soup. The nutrition of a 5-year-old preschool child does not include heavy goose and duck meat, fatty pork, especially shish kebab.
3. Periodically replace meat with filleted fish. Hake, pike perch, and sea bass are especially useful.

Make sure your baby drinks enough fluids, especially water. There are children who rarely feel thirsty or do not pay attention to it, so even during active games they will rarely ask for a drink. Offer water yourself, because dehydration is dangerous for the body.

Daily volume of products

The daily amount of food for a 4-6 year old child for various types of food is:

• porridge should be consumed per day in a volume of no less than 200 grams;
• dairy and fermented milk products – no more than 500 g;
• bakery products – no more than 10 g. per day;
• fresh and baked fruits, fruit salads – up to 120 g;
• beef, turkey, chicken, fish - no more than 80 g;
• soups account for 200 g;
• side dish in the form of light vegetable dishes or cold appetizers (for example, beet caviar, mashed potatoes, stewed cabbage) – 80 g;
• salads from fresh or baked vegetables – up to 60 g;
• compote, uzvar or jelly – up to 150 g;
• tea, cocoa – up to 200 gr. per day.

We offer you in the table options for a weekly menu for children 4-6 years old:

Several useful recipes

Recipe for pasta casserole with meat and cabbage:

1. Take 60 g of durum wheat pasta, 100 g of boiled beef or pork, the same amount of cabbage, half an egg, a little onion, cheese, butter.
2. Grind the meat, boil the pasta, chop the onion.
3. Mix all ingredients with half a raw egg.
4. Sprinkle the mixture with grated cheese. Place in the oven and bake until done.

Beef roll:

1. For minced meat you will need 200 g of lean beef, some bread and milk, butter and one egg.
2. For the filling, take a hard-boiled egg, half a carrot and a little onion.
3. Prepare the minced meat. Place it on damp gauze in a rectangle.
4. Top with finely chopped carrots, onions and a boiled egg.
5. Wrap the roll. Place the seams down on a greased baking sheet or frying pan and pour in the egg.
6. Pour some water into the pan and bake for half an hour. You can pierce the roll with a fork to prevent it from cracking during baking.

Green cabbage soup recipe:

1. You will need 3 cups of meat or chicken broth, one potato, half a carrot, 20 sorrel leaves, a little onion and a boiled egg, a little sour cream and dill.
2. Finely chop the vegetables. Pour them into boiling meat broth.
3. 5 minutes before readiness, add finely chopped sorrel.
4. Before serving, add egg, dill and sour cream.

Delicious semolina porridge:

1. Take half a liter of high-quality milk and 5 teaspoons of semolina. You can add a little water.
2. Let the milk and water boil.
3. Add the cereal in a thin stream, stirring constantly.
4. Cook for 5-10 minutes depending on the brand of semolina, stirring constantly.
5. 5 minutes before readiness, add sugar to taste and butter.
6. Before serving, you can add a little chocolate, jam or nuts.

Appetizing omelette:

1. Take three eggs, some sour cream.
2. Whisk ingredients together. Add some salt.
3. Pour the mixture into a hot frying pan. You can use molds.
4. A minute before cooking, add grated cheese.

Komarovsky's opinion on sour milk

Who doesn’t know that fermented milk products are very beneficial for the baby’s body! Lactic acid bacteria help the tummy work properly, relieve constipation, promote better digestion of food, heal skin, hair and strengthen the immune system (see also:). One of the most effective and appetizing options for fermented milk products, according to Dr. Komarovsky, is yogurt. It’s better when you don’t buy it in a store, but make it at home using high-quality starters.

The modern market offers a lot of starter cultures for yogurt, kefir, fermented baked milk, and cottage cheese for feeding children under 5 years old. The main thing is to pour the starter into warm milk, pour it into jars in a yogurt maker, or leave it in a thermos overnight. You will receive a healthy thick product with sourness, to which you can add fruits, nuts, chocolate or jelly figures, so that your child eats yogurt every day with pleasure.

Proper nutrition is a significant factor influencing health. As the child grows, his menu becomes more varied, and he gradually gets used to “adult” food.

A well-organized dinner plays a special role in nutrition, because the quality of sleep and the condition of the body as a whole depend on it. Of course, the nutrition of a 1-year-old baby is very different from the menu of a 3-4 year old child, but the basic principles remain the same.

What time should your child have dinner?

The best option would be to serve dinner no later than 1.5-2 hours before going to bed. If sleep is scheduled for 21.30, the child should eat at 19-20 hours. When planning dinner, you should take into account the child's age and the time of the last meal.

Children 3-7 years old have an afternoon snack in kindergarten around 16:00, so a late dinner will create too much of a break between meals, which will make you feel hungry. For them, the ideal option would be to eat their favorite dish at 19-19.30 hours, so the kids will not have time to get too hungry in the intervals between meals.

It is not advisable for children to have a snack after an afternoon snack, otherwise they will have a bad dinner later. So a light dinner at 21:00 would be appropriate for a child 1-2 years old (who was previously fed at 18:00), but for children of high school age, such a late meal is harmful, since they, as a rule, do not eat midday and have lunch later.

If your child feels hungry before bed, you can give him a glass of kefir, fermented baked milk or warm milk with honey (if he is not allergic to honey). It is important to lead by example by eating healthy meals and not overeating at night.

It is advisable to have dinner with the whole family, so the child will not have questions, for example: “Why can mom eat at night, but I can’t.”

Foods suitable for dinner

Dinner should be approximately 20% of the total amount of food consumed per day. Preference should be given to dishes that are quickly digestible and do not cause nervous excitement in the child, but on the contrary, calm him down. It should be remembered: what is tasty is not always healthy, but you can prepare a decent dish from the right ingredients.

Products that are perfect for preparing dinner:

• fermented milk products – cottage cheese, kefir, natural yogurt, fermented baked milk, cheese;
• low-fat boiled or baked fish - pollock, cod, flounder, pike and others;
• turkey meat, chicken breast, boiled eggs or in the form of an omelet;
• raw and baked vegetables and fruits (apples, pears, carrots, beets, cabbage);
• dried fruits (dried apricots, prunes);
• buckwheat and oatmeal.

Recipes for delicious and healthy quick meals

A common problem for modern parents is lack of time, and the question arises - what to cook for dinner quickly, but at the same time tasty and healthy. An adult can sometimes have a fast food snack or skip dinner altogether; for children, such a decision is not acceptable. We offer some recipes for dishes that can be prepared in a hurry, and at the same time delicious.

Cottage cheese casserole

Ingredients:

• cottage cheese 5% – 450 g;
• 1st category egg – 2 pcs;
• semolina – 3 tbsp. l;
• sugar – 3 tbsp. l;
• butter – 1 tbsp. l;
• sour cream – 50 gr.

Preparation:

1. in a deep bowl, combine cottage cheese, eggs, semolina, sugar and melted butter - beat the mass with a fork until it has a homogeneous consistency;
2. put the workpiece in the refrigerator for 30-40 minutes for the semolina to swell;
3. grease the baking dish with oil, and place the resulting dough into it, level it, grease with sour cream to obtain a soft golden brown crust;
4. Bake in a preheated oven for 40 minutes at 180 degrees C.

Fish casserole

Ingredients:

• pollock fillet (any lean fish can be used) – 500 g;
• rice - a quarter cup;
• eggs – 2 pcs;
• half a small onion;
• cream 20% – 50 g;
• salt to taste, bay leaf;
• vegetable oil – 1 tbsp. l.

Preparation:

1. prepare fish fillet by defrosting and grinding it through a meat grinder;
2. chop the peeled onion and sauté in a small amount of vegetable oil until golden;
3. Boil rice;
4. combine all the ingredients in a bowl, add salt and knead the minced meat;
5. Place the resulting mass in an oiled pan and level it;
6. Bake for 25 minutes at 190 degrees C.

Buckwheat with dried apricots and prunes

Ingredients:

• selected buckwheat – 250 g;
• dried apricots and prunes (pitted) – 100 g each;
• butter – 1 tsp;
• salt to taste.

Preparation:

1. soak dried fruits to swell, then finely chop and combine with washed cereals;
2. simmer over low heat, add salt to taste;
3. Add a little butter to the finished dish.

Lazy cottage cheese dumplings

Ingredients:

• cottage cheese 5% – 200 g;
• sugar – 1 tbsp. l;
• egg – 1 pc;
• flour – 250 g;
• 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• 1 tsp. butter;
• salt to taste.

Preparation:

1. Mash the cottage cheese with a fork so that there are no lumps;
2. add sugar, egg, salt and mix, then gradually add flour;
3. To prevent the curd dough from sticking to your hands, add vegetable oil and form small balls, or roll out and cut out circles with a glass;
4. Boil lazy dumplings in salted water; when they float, the dish is ready;
5. Remove the dumplings with a slotted spoon and serve with butter.

Omelette with vegetables

Ingredients:

• egg – 2 pcs;
• carrots – 1 piece;
• broccoli – 5-6 inflorescences;
• milk – 1⁄4 cup;
• salt to taste.

Preparation:

• boil carrots and broccoli, cut into small cubes;
• beat the eggs a little with milk and salt;
• Place vegetables in an oiled hot frying pan and pour in the egg mixture;
• cover with a lid and fry over medium heat.

What is better to refuse?

If you want to please children, you need to maintain reasonable limits, because a child may want a dish that will harm him.

Smoked meats, pickles, fatty and fried foods should not be present in the diet of children at all, especially in the evening.

Porridges such as pearl barley, millet and semolina in their “pure form”, as well as fast carbohydrates such as rolls and sweets, are prohibited. Cocoa and chocolate will have a stimulating effect. These simple principles will help you stay healthy and instill proper nutrition skills from childhood.

How does dinner affect children's sleep?

A late and heavy dinner can have a bad effect on a child’s sleep - instead of getting proper rest, the body will be forced to digest food all night. There may be difficulties falling asleep, sleep will be superficial and restless. Heavy food in a child will cause heartburn and nausea, and can also provoke unpleasant dreams and awakening in the middle of the night.

Constantly overeating in the evening can lead to serious problems and also create unhealthy eating habits. On the other hand, if you feed your child too little and too easily, he will wake up hungry in the middle of the night. Preparing proper and nutritious food means providing the child with the necessary energy spent during the day, and at the same time not overloading the body and guaranteeing good rest.

Systematic overeating at night not only forms the wrong habit in children, but also provokes diseases of the gastrointestinal tract - gastritis, various intestinal disorders, and also leads to obesity. Inadequate rest at night causes irritability and fatigue during the day, which negatively affects the baby’s development, and subsequently, school performance.

Every mother wants her child to grow up not only smart, beautiful, happy, but also healthy. And in this case, it should be noted that the child’s health largely depends on you. The main condition for a baby to grow healthy and strong is proper and balanced nutrition. And in order for a child’s meal to be considered complete, it must certainly contain both first and second courses for children. In this subcategory you will find the most appetizing, tasty and healthy recipes for main courses for children. These include main courses for a one-year-old child, main courses for children over one year old, as well as recipes for how to prepare breakfast for a 3-year-old child, lunch for a child, lunch for a one-year-old child, lunch for a schoolchild, dinner for a child, dinner for a 2-year-old child, dinner for a 3 year old child and much more. Breakfast for children should be as nutritious as possible in order to provide the child with strength and energy for the whole day. In this case, you can prepare a hearty breakfast “Bear”, delicious cheesecakes or buckwheat with vegetables. Pumpkin porridge with rice and baby cream porridge with almonds and plums will also bring many benefits. The kids definitely won’t be able to refuse such a breakfast and will eat every last crumb. For lunch for the children, prepare, for example, delicious dumplings that children love so much. You can also find the recipe for dumplings with cherries here. But what if the child is capricious and refuses to eat? In this case, caring mothers need to learn how to serve main courses for the child in a beautiful and original way. Buckwheat casserole “Kotik”, red pancakes, meat cutlets with vegetables and beautiful scrambled eggs “Egg Glade” will definitely not leave your children behind. You will also find recipes on how to prepare these dishes in this subcategory.

16.11.2019

Chicken cutlets with cheese in the oven

If you love cutlets, but don't like the hassle of cooking them on the stove, use our recipe and bake them in the oven, adding cheese to the minced meat. It will turn out very tasty!

Ingredients:
- 400 g chicken fillet;
- 1 onion;
- 1 egg;
- 80 g hard cheese;
- salt to taste;
- pepper to taste;
- dry garlic to taste;
- - 1 tbsp. vegetable oil.

30.07.2019

Danish hot dog, like at Stardogs

Hot dog is a very popular fast food that is easy to prepare at home. We will be happy to help you please your family with such a delicious dish.
Ingredients:
- 1 hot dog bun;
- 1 sausage;
- 0.5 onions;
- 1-1.5 tbsp. vegetable oil;
- 0.5 tsp. flour;
- 0.5 pickled cucumber;
- 1 tsp. mustard;
- 2 tsp. ketchup;
- 1.5 tsp. mayonnaise.

16.07.2018

French fries in the oven

You can cook delicious French fries in the oven. This is not difficult to do and quite quickly.

Ingredients:

- 7-8 potatoes,
- 2 eggs,
- salt,
- a pinch of ground black pepper,
- 1 tsp. ground paprika.

17.06.2018

Fried potatoes with stewed meat in a frying pan

Fried potatoes are my entire family's favorite dish. Today I have described for you a simple recipe for delicious and satisfying fried potatoes in a frying pan with stew.

Ingredients:

- 3-4 potatoes;
- 1 onion;
- clove of garlic;
- 200 grams of beef stew;
- 2 tbsp. vegetable oil;
- salt;
- black pepper;
- 5 grams of greens.

28.05.2018

Omelette with kefir

Usually omelettes are prepared with milk, but today I will describe for you a recipe for a very tasty omelet with kefir.

Ingredients:

- 2 eggs;
- 5 tbsp. kefir;
- salt;
- 1 tbsp. flour;
- 2-3 pinches of black pepper;
- a third tsp turmeric;
- 2 tbsp. water;
- a few green onions;
- 1 tbsp. vegetable oil.

22.05.2018

Cottage cheese casserole in the oven

Cottage cheese casserole is a dish that almost all children like. It is often given in kindergarten, but it can also be prepared at home in a regular oven without much difficulty. Our recipe will tell you exactly how.

Ingredients:
- 300 grams of fresh homemade cottage cheese;
- 0.5 glasses of milk;
- 2 tbsp. flour;
- 3 tbsp. Sahara;
- 1 pinch of salt;
- 1 egg;
- 1 small piece of butter;
- sour cream for serving;
- berry sauce for serving.

05.03.2018

Beetroot cutlets like in kindergarten

Now I will tell you how to prepare very tasty beet cutlets, which almost all of you remember from kindergarten.

Ingredients:

- 2-3 beets,
- 1 egg,
- 100 grams of semolina,
- 3 cloves of garlic,
- half tsp salt,
- ground black pepper,
- 30 ml. sunflower oil.

27.02.2018

Telnoye from fish

If you decide to go on a diet, then you just need to make friends with a double boiler. Steamed dishes turn out very tasty and are considered healthy. Today, for example, I bring to your attention a simple fish recipe.

Ingredients:

- 450 grams of fish;
- 100 grams of white bread;
- 30 ml. milk;
- 80 grams of onion;
- 1 tsp. parsley;
- salt;
- black pepper;
- vegetable oil.

27.02.2018

Lenten potato cutlets

Today we will prepare very tasty, satisfying lean potato cutlets. This dish is easy to prepare and quite quick.

Ingredients:

- potatoes - 5 pcs.,
- salt,
- flour - 1-2 tbsp.,
- vegetable oil - 2 tbsp.

21.02.2018

Lenten zucchini pancakes

You can make these delicious lean zucchini pancakes quite easily and quickly. I have described the cooking recipe in detail for you.

Ingredients:

- 350 grams of zucchini;
- 50 grams of leek;
- 2 tbsp. dried carrots;
- 35 grams of bread crumbs or breadcrumbs;
- 30 grams of flour;
- 15 ml. olive oil;
- salt;
- sunflower oil for frying.

17.02.2018

Lenten dumplings with potatoes

Lent will begin very soon, which is why today I have described for you a detailed recipe for delicious, hearty Lenten dumplings with potatoes.

Ingredients:

- 250 ml. water,
- 1 tsp. salt,
- 2 tbsp. sunflower oil,
- 450-500 grams of wheat flour,
- 600-700 grams of potatoes,
- salt,
- ground black pepper.

15.02.2018

Dietary carrot cutlets

Today we will prepare a dietary second course - carrot cutlets. The recipe is very simple and quick.

Ingredients:

- 300 grams of carrots,
- 1-2 cloves of garlic,
- 1 tbsp. semolina,
- 1 tbsp. oat bran,
- half tbsp. sunflower oil,
- 180 grams of onion,
- 1 quail egg,
- salt,
- ground black pepper,
- khmeli-suneli,
- corn flour,
- 3-4 black peppercorns.

13.02.2018

Fluffy pancakes

A very simple recipe for fluffy pancakes will be your lifesaver, because you can prepare delicious pancakes very simply and quickly.

Ingredients:

- eggs - 3 pcs.,
- sugar - 40 grams,
- flour - 40 grams,
- salt - a pinch,
- baking powder - 1 tsp,
- vanillin - a pinch.

11.02.2018

Baked vegetables in the oven

I really like oven-roasted vegetables. Today I have prepared for you my favorite recipe for a baked assortment of the most famous vegetables.

Ingredients:

- 200 grams of cauliflower,
- 1 carrot,
- 1 onion,
- 100 grams of champignons,
- 2 sweet peppers,
- 2-3 tomatoes,
- 2 handfuls of green peas,
- half tbsp. dry ground mushrooms,
- salt,
- ground black pepper,
- 50 ml. vegetable oil,
- 1 tsp. dry garlic,
- 1 tsp. paprika.

30.01.2018

Fluffy omelet in the oven like in kindergarten

Thanks to my recipe, you will learn how to cook the most delicious breakfast - a lush and delicious omelet in the oven. The recipe is very simple and quick.

Ingredients:

- eggs - 3 pcs.,
- milk - 150 grams,
- butter,
- salt.

30.01.2018

How to cook oatmeal porridge

Today I have prepared this recipe for people. who have never cooked oatmeal for breakfast in my life. The recipe is very simple. We will cook oatmeal in water.

Ingredients:

- 100 grams of oatmeal;
- 400 ml. water;
- 20 grams of oil;
- a pinch of salt.

After talking with friends and conducting a small survey, we managed to put together several simple and tasty dishes that our children love. But, most importantly, their preparation does not take much time.

1. Chicken in sweet sauce

2. Shells with cheese

While the shells are boiling, cut the onion into cubes and fry in olive oil, add salt, pepper, and aromatic herbs if desired. Cut the boiled chicken breast and tomatoes into small cubes. Mix onions, tomatoes and meat. Grate the cheese on a fine grater.
Fill the shell with minced tomato and meat, add cheese on top. Place the shells in a deep frying pan or baking dish, after greasing them with oil. You can put it on fire or put it in a hot oven for 3-4 minutes to melt the cheese.

Can be served with any salad. Cooking time takes approximately 15-20 minutes.

3. Potatoes with cheese

Ingredients: potatoes, butter, cheese, salt.
Preparation: Choose small potatoes. Cut peeled or well-washed potatoes in half. Place on a greased baking sheet, add salt and a piece of butter. Place in a preheated oven for 20 minutes. Then put a piece of cheese on each potato. Cook for a few more minutes until the cheese melts and browns a little. Can be served with any salad.

4. Chicken liver with sour cream sauce

Ingredients: chicken liver, onions, carrots, salt, pepper, aromatic herbs, sour cream, sunflower oil.
Preparation: fry chicken liver on both sides until color changes in sunflower oil in a preheated frying pan. Add diced onion, salt and pepper, and add aromatic herbs if desired. After a few minutes, add the carrots grated on a medium grater. Simmer for a few minutes under the lid. Add low-fat sour cream. Add fresh herbs if desired. Simmer for a few more minutes.

You can serve with pasta, potatoes or porridge. With this liver, children will sweep away everything. It takes about 15-20 minutes to prepare, and the taste is simply amazing!

5. Meatball soup

Ingredients: minced chicken, potatoes, carrots, onions, green peas, turmeric, small star pasta, olive oil, salt, pepper, bay leaf, herbs.
Preparation: If you have minced chicken lying around in the refrigerator, this is a godsend. Well, if not, then cook it yourself by chopping the meat, adding a small onion, a clove of garlic and salt to taste.

Cut the potatoes, carrots and onions into cubes and make meatballs from the minced meat. Place the potatoes and carrots on the fire, wait until they boil and cook for a few minutes, add the onion, salt, pepper, bay leaf, pasta and turmeric. Cook for a few minutes. Add meatballs and a spoonful of olive oil. A minute before readiness, add the greens. If you have canned peas, add them at the end. If fresh - along with potatoes.

This soup looks very beautiful, the turmeric makes it golden and delicious, and the ingredients of different colors and shapes will definitely interest the children.

6. Fish cutlets

Ingredients: fish fillet 500 g, 2-3 slices of white bread without crust, onion, hard cheese, one egg, vegetable oil, dill, salt.
Preparation: pass the fish fillet through a meat grinder along with the onion, add an egg, squeezed bread in water, or in milk. Add finely chopped dill, salt, a spoonful of vegetable oil. With wet hands we form cutlets. For beauty, you can give them the shape of stars, fish, hearts. Place on a baking sheet and place in a preheated oven for 15-17 minutes. After this time, sprinkle with grated cheese and place in the oven for another 5 minutes. The cutlets are ready!

7. Carrot cutlets

Sweet cutlets
Ingredients: 5-6 medium-sized carrots, half a glass of semolina, 2-3 tsp. sugar, one egg, a pinch of salt, vegetable oil.
Preparation: boil the carrots, when cool, grate them, add semolina, egg, sugar, salt. Form cutlets, roll in semolina and fry in vegetable oil. Can be served with jam or jam.

Salty cutlets
Ingredients: carrots, small onion, garlic clove, salt, egg, semolina, dill.
Preparation: Grate boiled chilled carrots, add chopped onion, garlic, finely chopped dill, egg, salt, semolina, stir, form into cutlets, fry on both sides.

8. Omelet with sausage and vegetables

Ingredients: 8 eggs, 1 glass of milk, 1-2 tbsp. spoons of flour, a whisper of salt, several baby sausages, 1-2 tbsp. spoons of canned peas, 1 boiled carrot, 1-2 boiled potatoes, greens.
Preparation: break eggs into a deep bowl, add milk, salt, flour and beat well. Cut the sausage into rings, carrots and potatoes into cubes, finely chop the greens, rinse the peas with water. Add all ingredients to the eggs, mix, pour into a greased baking sheet and place in a preheated oven. This omelette can be served with fresh vegetables or sauces.

9. Mannik

Ingredients: 1 glass of semolina, 1 glass of sour cream (can be replaced with kefir or taken in half), half a glass of sugar, three eggs, half a teaspoon of soda, you can add vanilla sugar.
Preparation: Mix all ingredients and let stand for a while. Can be prepared in the evening and left in the refrigerator overnight.
Pour into a greased pan and place in the oven for 30 minutes. You can put dried fruits, berries in the manna, or simply pour over your favorite jam or syrup.

10. Curd casserole

Ingredients: 1 kg of cottage cheese, 3 eggs, half a glass of semolina, half a glass of milk, vanillin, 1 glass of sugar (to taste, a little less), zest of one lemon, juice of half a lemon, 1 tbsp. spoon of starch.
Preparation: Pass the cottage cheese through a meat grinder or grind in a blender. The more tender the cottage cheese, the tastier the casserole will be.

While you do this, pour milk over the semolina. Stir the eggs with sugar, it is not necessary to beat until foamy. Mix cottage cheese, eggs, semolina, add vanillin, pour in the juice of half a lemon, grate the lemon zest on a fine grater, add a spoonful of starch. Mix everything well. You can add dried apricots, raisins to the casserole, after soaking them in water, or berries and fruits. Pour the cottage cheese into a greased pan and place in a preheated oven for 40 minutes until golden brown on top. It's quick to prepare, and in 40 free minutes you can do a lot of useful things.