Surely everyone still has fresh childhood memories when the appetizing aroma of potatoes fried in butter wafted from the kitchen. And how did this same butter improve the taste of the usual scrambled eggs or cabbage? For many, such cooking today is comparable to a gastronomic nightmare, and you can’t name it more than the translation of products or harm to health. Let’s figure out what it means to eat right, and how to “tune” a child’s nutrition to a healthy wave?

What to invest in the concept of “correct”?

First of all, proper nutrition for children is a menu designed in such a way that the child eats little by little and with short breaks. It is optimal if his daily diet is divided into several parts: for breakfast, a light lunch, lunch, a small afternoon snack, dinner and a dream book. Drawing up a clear order for eating contributes to the consistent and uniform work of the stomach, excluding its morning or evening overload.

The second important criterion is the regularity of eating, that is, each meal should have its own specific time. So it will be possible to quickly “accustom” the baby’s body to the correct diet. This ensures the timely appearance of appetite and the absence of any problems with the stomach in the future.

Finally, the rules for proper nutrition for children should be common to the whole family, including its adult members. Agree, this is not entirely fair when a mother persuades a child to taste steam cutlets and immediately eats the same food herself, but fried in a pan. If all family members eat the same way, there will be no problems with the persuasion of the child.

Indeed, the correct diet for children and their eating habits are determined by appropriate education. When parents teach a baby to drink every meal from infancy, he, as an adult, will continue to follow this bad habit.

How to fill the children’s diet with the “right” products?

Now let’s talk directly about what the baby should eat. Since we divided the proper nutrition of preschool children and schoolchildren into several meal periods, it would be logical if at breakfast the child was asked to eat foods rich in complex carbohydrates and proteins: these are all kinds of cereals, eggs in the form of an omelette, pancakes, cheese toasts. Optimal products for lunch and afternoon snack – fruits and berries, low-fat pastries, cottage cheese and yogurt, casseroles. For lunch, soups, stewed vegetables (it is better if they are steamed), meat, baked fish, juices and compotes are best suited. Optimal for a child’s stomach are any lean meats: veal, chicken, turkey, rabbit. Dinner should also consist mainly of vegetables. But before going to bed, so as not to overload the stomach, a glass of milk and cookies are quite suitable.

It is already more difficult to talk about what proper nutrition of school-age children should be, since the daily routine of the child is changing dramatically. Keeping track of the regime here is very difficult, but possible. For example, instead of a sandwich, you can give the student an apple, cottage cheese or drinking yogurt for lunch.

The number of daily calories consumed should be no more than 2000, and it is best to distribute their intake as follows:

For the share of lunch – 35%;
For breakfast and dinner – 25%;
For an afternoon snack – 15%.
It is obvious that today the diet of children is compiled in such a way that a variety of fruits and vegetables are present in sufficient quantities – these are sources of many vitamins and minerals. During the off-season, special vitamin and mineral complexes, such as Multifort, can provide good support to the child’s body. The increase in the amount of fruits and vegetables in the children’s diet is scientifically explained. The fact is that every year the total percentage of nutrients in fresh vegetable and fruit crops decreases. The reason for this is the depletion of soils and the rapidly deteriorating state of the environment.

Of course, the culture of food is not a fleeting whim of parents. Proper eating habits should become a kind of “family jewel” that can and should be passed on to new generations. And if you have a tradition of getting the whole family together for Sunday breakfast and feasting on a fragrant vanilla casserole, it is worth keeping, if only because it is a great occasion to communicate with each other.