Introduction: How to arrange meals for babies aged 1 to 3? Keep the following principles in mind to help your baby grow
When your baby reaches the age of one, he can eat a lot of different foods, does that mean that he can arrange meals at will? The answer is no.
The stage of 1 to 3 years old is very important, do not be careless! Unreasonable dietary arrangements have a direct impact on the baby's habit formation and growth and development.
So how to arrange meals for babies aged 1 to 3? Parents need to keep in mind the following principles, the baby eats fragrantly, to help grow. Check it out.
First point: Make meals that are conducive to the development of your baby's ability to chew
The ability to chew is innate, but if you don't exercise, this ability will not improve.
Under normal circumstances, the baby's chewing ability is better after growing to one year old, but if the baby only eats milk before the age of one, or only adds rice paste, the baby's chewing ability is very poor, and it is not recommended to suddenly make too hard and too large a large piece of food.
To gradually change from the shape, softness and type of food, do not always remain unchanged, such as fear that the baby can not chew, any food will be ground to pieces, this practice is not good for the baby. Only if the chewing ability is getting better and better, can we eat everything in the future, not picky and not biased.
Second point: Don't cook meals that taste too heavy
Baby can eat salt after one year old, but does not mean that eating casually, for the sake of the baby's health, when making meals should try to be light, keep the original taste better, it is not recommended to put salt other spices, salt to put can not taste salty as well.
If you give the baby too heavy a meal at the beginning, over time, the baby's taste will become heavier and heavier, and it is easy to bring harm to the body in the future.
Third point: Use a cooking style that suits your baby when cooking
There are many ways to cook, but some are not suitable for babies, such as frying, although it is very fragrant, but it is not very good for the baby to eat, it is recommended to cook with more water, steaming, stewing, and stir-frying.
Like frying, braised, grilled, sweet and sour these are still less as good.
Fourth point: Try to have as many ingredients as possible for each meal
This stage from one year old to three years old is the peak period of baby growth and development, and it must be well controlled in the diet, and the meal must be nutritional, but also nutritionally balanced, and the ingredients must not be single.
Whether the baby eats or not, whether he eats or not, what ingredients must be tried to be made for the baby, different ingredients have different nutritional components, if you always do it according to the baby's preferences, do not eat what to deliberately avoid, or parents do not eat a certain dish and do not give the baby to eat, this is very bad.
Fifth point: Make meals in a variety of ways
No matter what kind of food is cooked too much, it will make people feel annoyed, especially in the face of picky babies, so parents should spend more time making food. For example, a yam, in addition to being stir-fried with wood ear fungus, can also be fried with vegetables such as meat slices, and can also be steamed, or kneaded into balls with meat filling, chopped and put into the pot to cook soup, there are many tricks, do not limit a certain method.
Constantly changing the pattern of doing, the baby eats fragrantly. If you don't have a good idea, you can look at the recipes and expand your thinking.
In addition to mastering the above principles, parents should also cultivate good eating habits for their babies.
First of all, don't always reach out and feed.
After one year old, the baby can eat on his own, may eat slower, but parents should give the baby the opportunity to develop the habit of eating on his own, do nothing when eating, do not turn on the TV, do not turn on the mobile phone, do not put toys, do not talk, give the baby a good dining environment.
Secondly, each meal every day should be arranged at a fixed time.
If you do this, you can form a habit for the baby, and when it comes to the meal, you will be hungry, just hungry and good to eat.
Also stipulate the time of eating, before each meal to inform the baby, if you can't finish eating to collect the bowl, there is a hard measure, the baby has a sense of urgency, do not dare to eat while playing, wait until the time is not finished, really take away, do not be soft, otherwise the baby feels that the parents' statement is a false handle, the next time it will still not be good to eat.
Do you understand how to arrange meals for 1 to 3-year-old babies? If you do it wrong, correct it as soon as possible.