A proper breakfast helps the child's body recover after a night's sleep, energizes the day ahead. Some mothers are racking their brains in the morning over the question of how to feed a 2-year-old child for breakfast if he does not really like porridge and milk. Meanwhile, no special skill or culinary talent is required, breakfast recipes are simple and quick to prepare.
General rules and recommendations
Two-year-old children are usually transferred to 4 meals a day, but if the baby is physically weak or does not go to kindergarten yet, but is brought up at home, it is advisable to organize two morning meals for him - one light, the second more satisfying.
With the correct daily regimen, after the first breakfast, a 2-year-old child is taken out for a walk. Thus, the time for the second breakfast comes about 2-2, 5 hours after the first. By this time, the baby will just have time to work up an appetite.
As a first breakfast, when the baby has recently woken up and is not yet hungry, sandwiches with tender pates, butter, and soft cheese are ideal. The second breakfast can be milk porridge with butter, pudding, casserole, omelet, etc.
A healthy breakfast for 2 year olds should include foods that include:
- carbohydrates;
- proteins;
- fiber.
Carbohydrates will energize the child's body and help start a new day cheerfully and in a good mood. It is no coincidence that they say that carbohydrates in the morning are the surest way to health. Protein is a source of energy for a longer period (until the next meal). Fiber will ensure the normal functioning of the digestive system, and the baby will feel good until the evening.
Breakfast, recommended by experts in baby food, is, of course, milk porridge - semolina, oatmeal, rice, buckwheat, millet; cottage cheese dishes - casseroles, puddings, cheese cakes, lazy dumplings; vegetable purees; egg-based dishes - omelets, soufflés and eggs themselves, boiled and baked. You can multiply the beneficial properties of breakfast dishes with the help of herbs, fresh fruits and berries, yogurt, jams, gravies, etc.
As a drink for breakfast for a 2-year-old baby, cocoa, jelly, juices, compotes, sweet teas are ideal. Yes, there should be a 2 year old child already on their own.
Breakfast recipes
Omelet with carrots. Peel 1 carrot, finely grate and simmer in a skillet in butter. Beat 2 eggs with a little salt, add 2 tbsp. milk, mix and pour the resulting mixture into the carrots. Fry the omelet over medium heat, covered, until tender. Sprinkle with finely chopped herbs and a wedge of fresh tomato before serving. By the way, the same light and healthy omelet with carrots or apples can be fed to a child at dinner.
Curd pudding with raisins and apples. You will need the following ingredients:
- cottage cheese - 250 g;
- semolina - 2 tsp;
- granulated sugar - 2 tsp;
- chicken egg - 1 pc.;
- walnuts - 5 pcs.;
- fresh apple - 1 pc.;
- butter (melted) - 1 tablespoon;
- salt to taste.
Rub the curd through a sieve. Combine with semolina, sugar, crushed nuts, chopped or coarse grated apples, egg yolk and salt. Mix everything well (preferably in a blender). Beat the protein until thick foam, pour, stirring occasionally, into the curd mass. Place in a greased baking dish and bake in an oven preheated to 200 ° C until golden brown. Before serving, you can sprinkle with sweet yogurt, sour cream, or brush with fruit jam or preserves.
Semi-viscous porridge oat, rice, buckwheat. For 1 glass of milk, take: 1/4 cup cereals for making semolina and millet porridge, 1/3 cup cereals for rice and buckwheat porridge, 1/2 cup oatmeal for oatmeal porridge. In boiling milk, to which 2 tsp are added. sugar and salt to taste, add cereal and cook with constant stirring until tender. It remains only to add butter and offer the porridge to the baby.
In milk porridge, you can put fresh or defrosted berries and fruit slices, jam or preserves. When adding jam and preserves, you do not need to put sugar in the milk.
Sweet shortbreads for morning tea. You will need: 200-250 g of premium wheat flour, 40 g of butter, 150 ml of milk, 10 tbsp. granulated sugar. Preparation: sift the flour through a sieve, attach the butter grated on a coarse grater to it (it must be hard, just from the refrigerator), mix and place on a wide cutting board. Add sugar and chop this mass with a knife. Then, without stopping chopping and stirring at the same time, slowly pour in the warm milk. Then knead the dough with your hands. You should have a firm but soft dough. Roll it out to a thickness of 1, 5-2 cm and cut out the circles with a round mold. Place them on a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil and bake in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 12-15 minutes. Before serving, you can grease the biscuits with jam or jam.
