For proper development, growth, the formation of their own immunity, the baby must receive a lot of useful substances, vitamins and trace elements along with nutrition. Despite the opportunity to buy baby food in jars at any supermarket, many modern mothers prefer to cook their own baby. This makes sense - a caring mother tries to use only "clean" products, grown and produced in the right conditions without the use of harmful substances. Our article provides recommendations on the proper processing of products for babies, as well as recipes for dishes that are suitable for feeding it.

Start of complementary foods

Pediatricians believe that it is better to start complementary foods with vegetable puree or cereals. To choose the option that is right for your child, it is worth considering several factors:

• For large children from 6 months old, whose body weight is at the upper limit of the norm or is completely excessive, it is better to start complementary foods with vegetable purees (we recommend reading:). Porridge, on the contrary, is suitable for those who are underweight.
• Vegetable puree slightly thins the stool due to the presence of fiber. This property gives reason to offer mashed potatoes to children prone to constipation.
• If it is decided to start complementary foods with cereals, it is advisable to choose gluten-free cereals - buckwheat, rice. With a normal reaction of the body, after 2 months, you can enter cereals with gluten content - oatmeal, wheat.
• Vegetable puree should initially contain only one component, usually starting with potatoes, cauliflower, zucchini, broccoli.
• Fruits are not used as the first complementary foods. Their turn will come a little later, when the child is already familiar with vegetables and cereals. The fact is that sweet fruit puree can “kill the appetite” of a child - he will appreciate delicious dishes and refuse to eat vegetables and cereals.
• In the table of the first complementary foods, meat occupies only the third line. His pediatricians advise introducing the baby to the menu no earlier than 7-8 months and always after vegetables and cereals (we recommend reading:). This product is heavy on the stomach. To facilitate the assimilation of meat, to begin with, they choose a rabbit, turkey fillet, and a little later, beef.

6 months - vegetables

By 6 months, vegetables begin to be introduced into the baby's diet. Babies should be mashed from them, observing the technology.

Any vegetables, even those that will be peeled, must be thoroughly washed - this can be done with a brush. After cleaning, the fruits or root crops should be washed again, preferably with hot water, then poured over with boiling water.

After that, the vegetables are chopped, poured with boiling water and boiled until soft. Also, almost any vegetable can be steamed. We will give two simple recipes for their preparation that the baby will like.

pumpkin puree

It will take 100 g of pumpkin, previously chopped into cubes, which must be poured with freshly boiled water. Cook, covered, with a lid for about half an hour. Mash the finished pumpkin with a potato masher or rub it through a sieve, mix with a quarter cup of the milk mixture that the child is used to. You can also use the decoction in which the pumpkin was boiled. This puree can be stored at +4˚С for no more than 2 days.

Broccoli for baby

150 g of broccoli must be thoroughly washed in heated water. After that, add a small amount of boiling water to the inflorescences and cook under the lid for a quarter of an hour. Then drain the broth, wipe the green mass through a sieve. Mix with a quarter cup of mixture or decoction. Put back on the stove, bring to a boil, remove from heat. Add 1/2 teaspoon butter, set aside.

7 months - cereals

Groats can be boiled in water, and vegetable broth can also be used. We will give two methods for preparing cereals for children of the first year of life, each of which has its own admirers:

1. First option. The groats are sorted, washed, then dried. Then it is ground in a coffee grinder to a powder state. Then such flour is poured into boiling water or broth, stirring with a spoon to avoid the appearance of lumps. The porridge is homogeneous and cooks in 5-10 minutes. This method is applicable to any cereal.
2. Second option. If the farm does not have a coffee grinder, cereals can be cooked differently. First, it is washed, then poured into boiling water and boiled until the porridge is boiled. After that, the dish is removed from the heat, the mass is rubbed through a sieve, or ground with a blender. Dilute with water or broth, put on fire again and cook, stirring, for a few more minutes.

Rice porrige

The first porridge on the baby's menu can be rice, although sometimes they start with buckwheat (more in the article:). Rinse 1 tablespoon of rice, pour a glass of water and cook for 50-60 minutes. You should get a viscous, boiled porridge. If the water evaporates during the boiling process, add boiling water from time to time. Remove from heat and, without cooling, rub through a sieve. Dilute with 100 ml of hot milk or mixture, then return to the fire again. Boil for 5 minutes, season with butter (3 g).

Buckwheat porridge

With buckwheat porridge, most often they begin complementary foods with cereals for children under one year old. 1 tbsp Rinse the cereals, changing the water several times. Then pour boiling water for a few minutes. Drain the water, pour 1 cup of boiling water again, boil until tender. After that, close the container with porridge tightly with a lid, cover with a towel on top, wrap it on all sides. After half an hour, rub the porridge through a sieve, add 1 teaspoon of butter.

8 months - meat dishes

Meat in the baby’s menu is best introduced no earlier than he is 8 months old (for more details, see the article:). In this case, it is advisable to immediately pour the meat with boiling water, and then cook it for a long time (depending on the quality of the product). This will achieve a more delicate structure of the dish and avoid possible rigidity. Note that stewed meat dishes are more juicy than boiled or steamed. You can cook baby mashed potatoes, cutlets, meatballs and meat puddings. We offer you simple recipes for meat dishes for children.

Meat puree

It will take 100 g of meat fillet, which must be cut into small pieces. After that, it must be poured with water (0.5 cups) and simmer under the lid until the meat becomes soft. Remove the meat from the broth, cool slightly and grind twice in a meat grinder. After that, add a quarter cup of the broth in which the meat was cooked, put on fire, bring to a boil. You can salt a little, add butter.

Meatballs

It will take 200 g of boiled meat - you can take beef, rabbit, turkey. Turn the meat through a meat grinder 2 times, along with a piece of white bread. Add 1 yolk, a little salt to the prepared minced meat, mix well. Roll into small balls, the size of a quail egg, or slightly smaller. Throw the meatballs into the boiling broth, cook for at least 10 minutes.

9 months - fruit purees

Pediatricians recommend offering fruits to babies no earlier than 8-9 months. At first it can be apples, pears, prunes. At the same time, you should carefully monitor that new dishes do not cause allergies. In this regard, it is recommended to give preference to green apples and pears. It is also advisable to prepare fruit dishes immediately before feeding in order to preserve the maximum of vitamins.

Prune puree

This puree should not be prepared for infants prone to diarrhea. You need to take 50 g of prunes, rinse in warm water several times. Then fill with cold water. Leave for 4 hours, waiting until the prunes swell. Boil fruits in the same water in which they were infused until soft. Rub through a sieve, dilute with broth until the desired consistency is obtained. If after such a puree the child's stool becomes too loose, it is better not to give it the next day.

Prune puree is good for constipation in babies

2-component puree - apple and pumpkin

If the child has already managed to get acquainted with at least one of the ingredients of this puree, you can safely offer the baby a two-component dish. Cut 50 g of pumpkin into cubes, add water, cook under the lid for 10 minutes. Add one unpeeled apple cut into slices, cook for another 10 minutes. Rub the finished ingredients through a sieve, you can add a little sugar, butter.

10 months - fish dishes

Before offering fish to your baby, you should know a few rules for cooking it:

• Firstly, fish is boiled several times faster than meat.
• Secondly, for the preservation of trace elements and vitamins in the finished dish, it is worth pouring water over the fish so that it covers the pieces by no more than 5 centimeters.
• Thirdly, this product should be immediately poured with boiling water so that the fish does not boil. Pediatricians advise choosing low-fat varieties - hake, pollock, pike, perch are suitable.

Fish meatballs

Wash 60 g of fish, remove skin and bones. Pass the resulting fillet through a meat grinder, grind 10 g of white bread with it. Add 1/2 teaspoon of sunflower oil, ¼ of the yolk to the minced meat, mix well, beat. Roll into small balls, the size of a walnut, which are thrown into boiling water and boiled over very low heat for about half an hour.

fish pudding

Grind 100 g of prepared fish fillet twice in a meat grinder along with 50 g of wheat bread. Then rub the finished mass through a sieve, add the yolk, salt to it, beat. Prepare a form with sides or a saucepan - lubricated with vegetable oil and sprinkled with breadcrumbs. Set the mold in a saucepan with water so that the water reaches the middle of the sides. Cover, bring to a boil, cook for 40 minutes.

For children up to a year Pumpkin puree with apples
Peel the pumpkin and apples from the skin and seeds, wash, cut into slices. Pour pumpkin with water and cook in a sealed container until soft, then add apples and continue cooking for 10 minutes. After that, rub the pumpkin and apples through a sieve or chop with a blender, add sugar syrup and boil. Put the butter into the slightly cooled puree.
Ingredients: Small slice of pumpkin, 1 apple, 1 teaspoon butter, 1 teaspoon sugar solution.

Carrot puree
Wash the carrots thoroughly, peel, chop, put in a saucepan, pour boiling water so that the water covers the carrots, cover with a lid and simmer over low heat until tender. Rub hot carrots through a sieve or chop with a blender, add hot milk, salt solution, vegetable broth, oil and boil. Add vegetable oil to the finished puree.
Ingredients: Carrot 100 gr. (1 pc.), milk 2 tbsp. spoons, butter 1/4 teaspoon, salt solution 1/4 teaspoon, vegetable oil 1/4 teaspoon.

Cauliflower puree
Peel the cauliflower, rinse, divide into small pieces, pour boiling water over, simmer under a tightly closed lid. Rub hot cabbage through a sieve or chop with a blender, add hot milk, a little salt, and boil for 1-2 minutes. In the finished puree, add vegetable oil, pounded with the yolk of a hard-boiled chicken egg.
Ingredients: Cauliflower 50 gr., 1/4 yolk, butter 3 gr.

Soup puree of cauliflower and zucchini
Cauliflower 50 gr., Zucchini 50 gr., Yolk 1/4 pc., Butter 3 gr.
Peel the cauliflower and zucchini, cut into small pieces, pour boiling water, cook under a tightly closed lid until tender. Drain the broth into a separate bowl. Rub hot vegetables through a sieve or chop with a blender, combine with broth, salt a little and bring to a boil. Season the finished soup with butter, mashed with yolk

Potato puree
Wash, peel, boil potatoes until tender in a small amount of water, rub hot through a sieve and beat well or chop with a blender, add hot milk, a little salt, bring to a boil. Add vegetable oil to the finished puree.
Ingredients: Potato 100 gr., Milk 40 ml, vegetable oil 3 gr.

Mashed potatoes or pumpkin
Boil potatoes or pumpkin in water or steam until soft, drain the water. Make a puree in a blender or mixer, combining with breast milk (milk formula) or cooled boiled water.
Ingredients: Potato or pumpkin 200 gr.

Carrot and potato puree
Wash the vegetables thoroughly, peel, chop, put in a saucepan, pour boiling water so that the water covers them, cover with a lid and put on a small fire; rub hot boiled vegetables through a sieve or chop with a blender, add hot milk, salt solution, vegetable broth, oil and boil.
Ingredients: 1 potato, 1/2 carrot, 2 tbsp milk. spoons, vegetable oil 1/2 teaspoon, salt solution 1/4 teaspoon.

Spinach puree
Peel the spinach, remove the root parts, rinse thoroughly in running water and, leaving in a colander, let the water drain. Put the spinach in a saucepan and simmer over low heat in its own juice until soft, 10-15 minutes. Prepare white sauce - melt the butter, fry the flour in it and add milk, boil for 5-7 minutes. Strain the spinach through a sieve, season with white sauce, salt and bring to a boil. Add butter and sugar syrup to the finished dish.
Ingredients: Spinach 100 gr., wheat flour 5 gr., milk 50 ml, butter 3 gr., sugar syrup 2 gr.

Mixed vegetable puree
Wash the vegetables with a brush, peel, chop, put in a saucepan, pour boiling water so that the water covers them, cover with a lid and put on a small fire. Rub hot vegetables through a sieve, add hot milk, salt solution, vegetable broth, oil and boil.
Ingredients: Various vegetables (carrots, cabbage, beets, pumpkin, turnips, onions) 80 gr., potatoes 20 gr., greens, finely chopped 1 teaspoon, milk 25 ml, vegetable oil 3 gr., salt solution 1 / 4 teaspoons.

Recipes for meat and fish dishes for children up to a year

Meat puree
Wash the meat, separate from the bones and tendons, cut into small pieces, put in a saucepan with water and simmer until tender. Turn the cooled meat twice through a meat grinder, then rub through a fine sieve, add broth, salt, bring to a boil, add butter, mix thoroughly, remove from heat (you can also make mashed potatoes in a blender, then add broth to boiled meat and grind with a blender) .
Ingredients: Beef meat 40 gr., water 50 ml, butter 3 gr.

Chicken soufflé
Pass the chicken meat through a meat grinder, salt a little, add raw yolk, mix thoroughly, put in a pan greased with oil, and bake in the oven for 30-35 minutes.

Steamed meat cutlets
Ingredients: Beef meat 50 gr., Water 30 ml, wheat bread 10 gr.
Pass the meat through a meat grinder, mix with bread soaked in cold water and pass through a meat grinder again, add a little salt, beat thoroughly, adding cold water. Form cutlets from the resulting mass, put them in one layer in a bowl, pour half the broth and simmer under the lid in the oven until cooked (about 30 - 40 minutes). Steam patties can be cooked in a double boiler or in a colander placed over a pot of boiling water with a lid closed.
Ingredients: Chicken meat 60 gr., Milk 30 ml, yolk 1/4 pc., Butter 2 gr.

Liver puree
Rinse the beef liver in running water, remove the film, cut out the bile ducts, cut into small pieces, lightly fry in butter, add water and simmer in the oven for 7-10 minutes. in a closed container. Cool the liver, pass twice through a meat grinder, rub through a sieve, salt a little, add hot milk, bring to a boil. Add butter to the finished puree, mix thoroughly.
Ingredients: Liver 50 gr., Water 25 ml, milk 15 ml, butter 3 gr.

Steamed fish puree
Remove skin and bones from fish. Place in a steamer basket (colander), cook, covered, steam for about 5 minutes. until ready. Make fish puree with a blender or mixer, dilute with a little milk. Serve with vegetable puree.
Ingredients: Fish fillet (cod) 150 gr.

Fish meatballs
Peel the fish from skin and bones, pass through a meat grinder along with bread soaked in cold water, add the yolk and vegetable oil, salt a little, beat the fish mass with a mixer or spatula. From the resulting minced meat, form small balls, put them in a bowl, half fill with water and put in the oven or on a very small fire for 20 - 30 minutes.
Ingredients: Fish (cod) 60 gr., wheat bread 10 gr., egg yolk 1/4 pc., vegetable oil 4 gr.

Soup recipes for children up to a year

Vegetable soup
Wash and clean vegetables. Finely chop the carrots and simmer in a small amount of water for 10 minutes, then add chopped cabbage and potatoes, green peas, pour hot water and cook until the vegetables are ready. Soup - puree rub through a sieve, salt a little, bring to a boil, add butter.
Ingredients: Carrots 3 gr., white cabbage 6 gr., potatoes 6 gr., green peas 3 gr., water 30 ml, butter 1 gr.

Soup with cauliflower
Peel the cauliflower, wash, divide, pour boiling water over it, cook over low heat for 15 minutes, put it on a sieve and rub it. Pour sifted semolina into the broth and cook, stirring, for 10 minutes, add cauliflower, a little salt. Warm milk, bring to a boil. Add butter to the finished soup.
Ingredients: Cauliflower 15 gr., Water 20 ml, semolina 1 gr., Milk 25 ml, butter 1 gr.

Borsch
Wash vegetables thoroughly and peel. Cut the beets into strips, pour a small amount of water and simmer until tender. Cut the carrots and parsley root into small pieces and simmer until tender for 20-30 minutes. Put chopped cabbage and potatoes in boiling water and cook for 20 minutes, then combine with stewed vegetables, rub everything through a sieve, add sugar syrup, a little salt and bring to a boil. Add butter to the finished borscht.
Ingredients: Beets 6 gr., white cabbage 6 gr., carrots 3 gr., parsley root 2 gr., potatoes 6 gr., water 50 ml, sugar syrup 0.5 ml, butter 1 gr.

Chicken puree soup
Rinse chicken meat, put in a saucepan, add chopped roots and onions, cook the broth. Skip the cooked chicken meat twice through a meat grinder, put in a boiling broth, add flour mixed with butter, boil for 2-3 minutes, salt a little, add hot milk and bring to a boil again.
Ingredients: Chicken meat 30 gr., Milk 20 ml, water 80 ml, carrots, parsley roots, onions 1 gr., butter 3 gr., wheat flour 3 gr.

Salad recipes for children up to a year

carrot salad
Wash the carrots, peel, pour over with boiling water, grate, add sugar syrup and vegetable oil, mix thoroughly.
Ingredients: Carrots 25 gr., sugar syrup 1 ml, vegetable oil 1 gr.

Carrot and apple salad
Wash carrots and apples, peel, pour over with boiling water, grate on a fine grater, add sugar syrup, mix.
Ingredients: Carrot 10 gr., Apple 15 gr., Sugar syrup 1 ml.

Fresh cucumber salad
Wash the cucumber, peel, pour over with boiling water, Grate on a fine grater. Wash the greens thoroughly in boiled water, chop very finely or chop with a blender, combine with cucumber, salt a little, add vegetable oil, mix.
Ingredients: Cucumber 25 gr., Garden greens 1 gr., Vegetable oil 1 gr.

Tomato salad
Wash the tomato, pour over boiling water, cut into slices, rub through a sieve, salt a little, add vegetable oil, mix.
Ingredients: Tomato 25 gr., Vegetable oil 1 gr.

Beet salad with apples
Boil or bake beets in the oven, grate on a fine grater. Wash, peel, grate the apple, combine with beets, add sugar syrup and vegetable oil, mix.
Ingredients: Beets 15 gr., apples 10 gr., sugar syrup 1 ml, vegetable oil 1 gr.

I.V. Bagramyan, Moscow

The path of growing up a person is quite thorny. For a child, the first school of life is his family, which represents the whole world. In the family, the child learns to love, endure, rejoice, sympathize and many other important feelings. In the conditions of a family, an emotional and moral experience inherent only to it develops: beliefs and ideals, assessments and value orientations, attitudes towards people around them and activities. The priority in raising a child belongs to the family (M.I. Rosenova, 2011, 2015) .

decluttering

Much has been written about how important it is to be able to let go, to complete the old, obsolete. Otherwise, they say, the new will not come (the place is occupied), and there will be no energy. Why do we nod when we read such cleaning-motivating articles, but everything still remains in place? We find thousands of reasons to postpone what is deferred for throwing away. Or not to start sorting out rubble and storerooms at all. And we already habitually scold ourselves: “I’m completely cluttered up, we need to pull ourselves together.”
To be able to easily and confidently throw away unnecessary things becomes a mandatory program of a “good housewife”. And often - a source of another neurosis for those who for some reason cannot do this. After all, the less we do “the right way” - and the better we can hear ourselves, the happier we live. And the more right it is for us. So, let's see if it's really necessary for you personally to declutter.

The art of communicating with parents

Parents often like to teach their children, even when they are old enough. They interfere in their personal lives, advise, condemn ... It comes to the point that children do not want to see their parents, because they are tired of their moralizing.

What to do?

Acceptance of shortcomings. Children must understand that it will not be possible to re-educate their parents, they will not change, no matter how much you would like it. When you come to terms with their shortcomings, it will be easier for you to communicate with them. You just stop expecting a different relationship than before.

How to prevent change

When people create a family, no one, with rare exceptions, even thinks about starting relationships on the side. And yet, according to statistics, families most often break up precisely because of infidelity. Approximately half of men and women cheat on their partners in a legal relationship. In a word, the number of faithful and unfaithful people is distributed 50 to 50.

Before talking about how to save a marriage from cheating, it is important to understand

I have been asked so many times about my favorite recipes for children's dishes that I already feel obliged to share them.

Over the past year, it has become a habit for me to daily play the role of Yulia Vysotskaya from the program “We Eat at Home” in the kitchen. Yana is ready to listen endlessly to my chatter about food processing technology and observe the process. The main thing in this matter is to organize a comfortable place for the viewer, and given the phenomenal perseverance of Yana, this is not at all difficult. For the previous month and a half, in addition to the role of Vysotskaya, I had the opportunity to perform the functions of a photographer. Our camera lived in the kitchen, and I caught good shots of my favorite dishes.

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Menu for a child from 1 year old | Introduction

I really wanted to write for you the most delicious recipes for kids, but I'm afraid that this did not happen, because I am very picky about the degree of harmfulness of food. It turned out that I only had a couple of really tasty children's meals in stock, and everything else was basic healthy meals that for most may seem tasteless. After thinking, I decided that these useful recipes can also be useful to someone, because my cooking technology is not quite the usual, a little original and intuitive. Now it is fashionable to call the word "author's".

To many, our selection of recipes may seem strange 🙂, so I’ll immediately clarify my views on nutrition - I am of the opinion that animal food is harmful, therefore not a single recipe contains milk. It turned out to be easier for me to eliminate it from the diet than other animal products. Meat, liver, fish and eggs are still present in our diet, but are not a daily necessity. In the compilation you will find some of our favorite recipes, including some of them.

In addition to the usefulness of the dishes, the time that I have to spend on cooking is very important for me. I cook almost everything in the slow cooker. For me it is very convenient. Timed shutdown and automatic modes allow you to press the button and forget about the kitchen. While the pan on the stove literally chains to itself. When cooking on the stove, it is necessary to wait for a certain degree of boiling, then adjust the temperature to maintain it constantly and note the cooking time. In addition, the progressive multicooker allows you to set the temperature.

In the photo for the recipes, I tried to give the dishes an appetizing look, using delicious additions: raisins, green peas, etc. In fact, I only use these supplements when I've been denied food. I also want to add that Yana is small and unwilling, and all the recipes have been repeatedly tested on her.

I also want to note that I don’t add salt and sugar during the cooking process, because I don’t want to accustom Yana to bright tastes. Of course, this will inevitably happen in kindergarten, but let it happen later 😥 . Adults add spices to their plate.

Menu for a child from 1 year old | viscous cereals

In children, unlike adults, the stomach is very susceptible to the consistency of food. In addition to this, Yana has a peculiarity, she does not drink any drinks, even the most delicious and sweet ones. The maximum can take a couple of sips. That is why our entire diet is viscous and liquid. For breakfast, we usually have dairy-free porridge, which I cook in a slow cooker. Yana does not have a very positive attitude towards cereals, but with a handful of raisins the situation evens out. Here are a couple of recipes for cereals with vegetables:

Dairy-free oatmeal porridge with zucchini

This porridge can be introduced already in the first year of life, only in this case it is necessary to peel the apple.

Ingredients:
1 st. long-cooked hercules;
4 tbsp. water;
1 apple;
200 gr zucchini (pumpkin also goes well).

Cooking:
Three zucchini and an apple on a grater. We put all the ingredients in a slow cooker and cook in milk porridge mode. When serving, add oil.

Serving:
If your baby is unwilling, try to get interested in dried fruits (raisins, dried apricots, etc.).

Semolina porridge with vegetables

Ingredients:

• Carrots, beets or pumpkin - 600 gr;
• Semolina - 3-4 tbsp;
• Milk (I add water) - 125 gr;
• Oil 2 tbsp.

Grind vegetables on a grater. Add water and simmer for 15 minutes. Pour semolina in a thin stream and cook for another 5 minutes. When serving, season with oil.

Menu for a child from 1 year old | Soups

For lunch we usually have vegetable soups. Soups, unlike cereals, Yana respects and may even ask for an addition. If you are not a fan of vegetable soups, then you can add meat to any of them.

vegetable soup

Set of vegetables for soup. Homemade zucchini is not only a real rarity in the winter season, but also a rich source of nutrients!

The easiest way to introduce a stranger into your diet is to add him to your soup! Personally for myself, I discovered that any soup perfectly complements parsnips, celery and parsley root. By the way, zucchini is also great as an ingredient in soup.

So, vegetable soup:

Ingredients:
Several different fresh vegetables (prefer local ones) in the same proportions, with the exception of spice vegetables (onions, garlic and other vegetables with a rich taste). Vegetables and spices in small quantities. If you want to make the soup more high-calorie, add a handful of cereals (this is true if you are underweight). I took:

• 200 gr. cabbage;
• 200 gr. carrots;
  
• 200 gr. celery root;
• 200 gr. squash;
• small onion.
• 5 minutes before the end of cooking, add half a teaspoon of dill and a couple of bay leaves.

Cooking:

Option 1(the most common): onion, chop cabbage. Carrots, celery three on a grater. Zucchini cut into cubes. Pour all the ingredients with water and cook until tender.
Option 2(how I do it): I cut vegetables into large cubes - about 4x4 cm. I cook in a slow cooker in stewing mode for 1 hour. Grind cooked vegetables with the addition of broth in a blender chopper. I like the grainy consistency that is obtained in this way. The size of the resulting pieces is controlled by the speed and time of grinding. What is important - even cabbage after such grinding is completely placed in the mouth.
Option 3. Puree option - grind everything with a blender. If you do not adhere to vegetarian views, 100 gr. cream will significantly improve the taste (this is knowledge from a past life 🙂).

Serving:
If you do not adhere to vegetarian views, add sour cream, otherwise vegetable oil at the rate of 1 teaspoon per 1 serving.
If a non-hochuha refuses to eat soup, you can try to interest him by adding a spoonful of green peas.
For adults (taking into account our spoiled taste habits): I add salt, a spoonful of tomato paste or half a teaspoon of lemon juice - sourness greatly contributes to the taste perception of the dish.

Soup of the borscht family

Ingredients:
Beets and as many other vegetables as possible. I took:

• 200 gr beets;
• 300 gr potatoes;
• 3 00 gr. cabbage;
• 300 gr. carrots;
  
• 200 gr. string beans;
• 300 gr. squash;
• half an onion.

Option 1(the most common): onion, chop cabbage. Three beets, three carrots on a grater. We cut the beans into pieces 0.5-1 cm long. Pour all the ingredients with water and cook until tender.
Option 2(how I do it): I cut vegetables into large cubes - about 3x3 cm. I cook everything, with the exception of beans, in a slow cooker in stewing mode for 1 hour. Grind cooked vegetables with the addition of broth in a blender chopper. Beans boiled in
double boiler until tender and add to the soup at the serving stage.

Option 3. Puree option - grind everything with a blender.

Serving:
If you do not adhere to vegetarian views, add sour cream, otherwise vegetable oil.
If a non-hochuha refuses to eat soup, you can try to interest him by adding pieces of a boiled egg.

Soup with fish

Ingredients:

• steak of pink salmon, chum salmon or other red fish(I didn’t take into account that red fish is a strong allergen. Since we never had problems with this and this soup is in our adult diet, Yana has been eating it since the year. For moms who are more careful in the diet, it’s better to take white lean fish ( ));
• a couple of medium potatoes;
• a couple of medium carrots;
• a handful of green beans (can be replaced with a bunch of fresh dill);
  
• 1/3 cup rice (if you have a leftover side dish from a previous meal, you can use it - just add it to the soup at the very end);
• 5 minutes before the end of cooking, do not forget to add half a teaspoon of dill and a couple of bay leaves.

Cooking: cut carrots and potatoes into large pieces (as in the photo), cook in water until tender. It is this vegetable broth that will be used for the soup. In a slow cooker, cook rice as a side dish along with fish and beans (we steam fish and beans). When everything is cooked, we combine in a separate pan:

Puree option: this soup is also very good mashed. In this case, it is better to increase the amount of green ingredients (beans or fresh dill) or reduce the amount of carrots, otherwise the color will not be as beautiful as in the photo.

Menu for a child from 1 year old | side dishes

Our favorite side dishes:

• Viscous buckwheat porridge cooked on water from green buckwheat (I cook in a slow cooker on the “milk porridge” mode. Proportions: 1 tbsp. cereals - 4 tbsp. water.). In general, at this age, you can already give crumbly cereals, only with sauces (for example, gravy).
• A complex side dish of stewed zucchini or cabbage with carrots and rice.

Perfect mashed potatoes

• to make puree no lumps, do not rush - it is better to digest than not to cook;
• to puree didn't turn gray- add only hot milk or broth to it;
• to puree it was airy- potatoes should not be crushed, but beaten!

Little secret: Probably, each of us was disappointed at one time or another when we found out that the blender is not suitable for making mashed potatoes. It turns out that for these purposes you need to use a conventional mixer.

In the photo are not those nozzles! We take regular for whipping and we get guaranteed the most tender mashed potatoes, provided that the potatoes are cooked until tender.

After the mixer, not a single lump!

Menu for a child from 1 year old | Children's gravy - the main recipe

To maintain a viscous consistency of food in order to prevent digestive problems, sauces and gravies are indispensable. The technology for preparing children's sauces is different from the usual one - no frying and other procedures that enrich food with carcinogens.

Ingredients:

Cooking:

1. Remove skins from vegetables before chopping. To do this, heat treatment. I usually steam tomatoes and bell peppers for 10 minutes. After that, they are easily cleaned. Then, to obtain a puree, grind the vegetables with a blender.
2. Mix flour with a little water. Rub thoroughly until the lumps disappear.
3. Bring vegetable juice or puree with liquid to a boil. This is the base of the gravy.
4. While constantly stirring the solution of water with flour (I like to stir with a whisk), pour it into the boiling base of the gravy.
5. Add dill and bay leaf to the gravy and boil for another 10 minutes.
6. If, despite all the tricks, lumps form in the gravy, we filter.
7. Drizzle with butter, sour cream or cream and serve.

Gradually add flour and water to the tomato sauce, stirring constantly.

Bell pepper sauce goes well with boiled chicken with rice. I added a teaspoon of lemon juice to the adult version of this sauce.

Menu for a child from 1 year old | fish/meat/liver

Steam fish cakes

These cutlets are distinguished by tenderness and a very successful flavor combination.

Ingredients:

• 700 gr. (weight of thawed fish) - sole fillet;
• 350 gr carrots;
• 200 gr of bread.

Defrost the fillet, drain the water. We scroll all the ingredients in a meat grinder. Knead the minced meat - it should turn out
sticky and slightly viscous. If the minced meat is very thick and does not stick to your hands, then too much bread was added and the cutlets will not be so tender and tasty.
When forming cutlets, we moisten our hands with water so that the minced meat does not stick. Cook the formed cutlets for a couple of 25 minutes.

Serving:
Mashed potatoes or rice with steamed zucchini are ideal for a side dish.

Turkey or chicken meatballs

As a rule, poultry meatballs, if you do not add more fatty minced meat, are dry and not tasty. Fatty meat is not recommended in the diet of babies, so I suggest you make meatballs with cabbage in gravy.

Ingredients:

• 500 gr. fillet;
• 250 gr. cabbage;
• small onion;
• gravy.

Cooking:

Fillet, cabbage and onions are passed through a meat grinder. We knead the mince. Gravy is ready. Minced meat is soft and does not hold its shape well when raw, so we immediately lower the formed balls into boiling gravy. Cook for 25 minutes. Serve ready-made meatballs with a side dish - I have mashed potatoes.

Liver pate

Ingredients:

• 500 gr. chicken liver;
• 300 gr. carrots;
• small onion;
• Bay leaf.

Cooking:

1. Boil the liver, carrots and onions. Carrots and onions can be steamed. The liver is better in water with the addition of bay leaf.
2. Grind the boiled ingredients into a puree.
3. According to the original recipe, 50 g of butter should be added to the finished puree (I add 1 tsp of vegetable oil for 1 serving).
4. Serve with a side dish - this time I have buckwheat porridge.

This concludes the compilation, I hope you found interesting recipes and cooking methods in it! I will be glad if you share your hits.

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