Healthy Breakfast And Dinner Ideas For Kids

2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29

If you need any inspiration to help you cook healthy and delicious food for your children, try our ideas for healthy children's dishes.

They are not suitable as a first food, but are good once your baby is used to eating a wide range of solid foods.

When preparing baby food, do not add salt, sugar or diced broth directly to the food or cooking water.

Breakfast ideas for babies and young children

- unsweetened porridge or cereals mixed with milk, with the addition of ripe pear puree;

- wholemeal biscuits with milk and unsweetened stewed fruit or compote without sugar;

- Toasted slice with stewed zucchini puree;

- toasted slice with hard-boiled egg and slices of ripe peaches;

- unsweetened stewed apple-cereal breakfast with plain, unsweetened yoghurt;

Children's lunch or ideas for afternoon snacks

- desalinated soft cheese with boiled pasta;

- mashed potatoes with broccoli and cheese;

- bean puree with toasted slice;

- scrambled eggs with toasted slices or loaves of bread;

- cottage cheese with homemade bread and cucumber and carrot sticks;

- plain unsalted cheese with porridge of stewed vegetables.

Children's evenings

- sweet mashed potatoes with chickpeas and cauliflower;

- shepherd's pie (made from beef or lamb) with green leafy vegetables;

- stewed rice or pea puree with stewed zucchini;

- mashed boiled lentils with rice;

- chopped boiled chicken with vegetables or mashed potatoes;

- stewed salmon with boiled couscous or stewed peas;

- fish garnished with boiled potatoes, broccoli and carrots.

Snacks for babies and young children

- fresh fruit, such as small pieces of soft, ripe peeled pear or peach;

- canned fruits in fruit juice;

- rice pudding or porridge (without added sugar or salt);

- usually unsweetened yoghurt;

- unsalted and unsweetened rice cakes;

- ordinary pretzels;

- small desalinated soft cheese cubes.

To increase your child's consumption of more fruits and vegetables, try:

- Put his favorite vegetables or canned pineapples on the pizza;

- Offer carrot, green pepper or peeled apples as snacks;

- mix sliced or mashed vegetables with rice, mashed potatoes, meat sauces;

- slicing prunes or dried apricots in oatmeal or with plain, unsweetened yoghurt;

- mixing fruit (fresh, canned or stewed) with plain unsweetened yogurt for a delicious dessert; you can also try canned fruits in fruit juice, such as pears and peaches, or unsweetened stewed fruits, such as apples.

Your baby and cow's milk

After the age of 6 months, continue to give your baby breast milk or formula, as well as solid foods, but do not give cow's milk as a drink.

Whole cow's milk can be used in small amounts in cooking or mixed with foods from the age of 6 months. You can give it to your child as a drink after the age of 1.