Recipes for children from 8 months. Soups for babies

The diet of an eight-month-old baby on artificial and breastfeeding is becoming more diverse every day. It already contains at least 3 types of cereals (buckwheat, corn, rice), fermented milk products, juices, lean meat, hypoallergenic vegetables and fruits. The baby receives three complementary foods a day, so food at this time can be tasty and varied. The main thing for mom is to try to preserve the natural taste of products, avoid sweeteners.

Baby feeding schedule at 8 months

In the menu of an 8-month-old baby, you can enter several products at once: carrots, pumpkin, low-fat white fish, biscuit cookies, yolk. He is already "armed" with his teeth and is ready to get acquainted with meat, fish, new varieties of fruits. To the question of how to feed a child on artificial feeding and breastfeeding, the diet will answer:

1. Breakfast first - 6:00. This is mother's milk or a bottle with the usual mixture of 200 ml.
2. Second breakfast - 10:00. Consists of porridge with milk / mixture / water (you can try oatmeal) with a volume of 150 ml. and fruit puree (50 grams). You can give food with a spoon.
3. Lunch - 14:00. Vegetable soup or puree soup - 170 grams, vegetable puree (50 gr), yolk - ¼, meat puree (50 gr), non-concentrated compote.
4. Dinner - 18:00. Vegetable puree (50 gr), kefir or fermented baked milk (100 gr), cottage cheese (50 gr). You can offer biscuits or crackers.
5. Eating before bed - 22:00. Formula feeding or breastfeeding in a volume of 200 ml.

New foods in the baby's diet

Mom's desire to diversify the baby's menu at 8 months is natural. When introducing new foods, it is important to carefully monitor the digestion and skin reaction of the crumbs. If there is diarrhea, constipation, vomiting, rash, the product introduced the day before is excluded. You can return to it no earlier than in 2-3 weeks. The interval between the introduction of new products is a week.

In the diet of 8-month-old breastfed and formula-fed babies, there may be:

1. Milk (in the absence of an allergy to its protein) can be used in a diluted form to create cereals, mashed potatoes, stew fish and other dishes. Of the fermented milk products in the daily diet, yogurts, cottage cheese, children's kefir and fermented baked milk are approved.
2. Fruit. The child can try juices and purees from baby food. It is advisable to start with single-component products (apple, plum, apricot juices and purees), gradually moving to multi-component products. Fruit should grow in the area where the family lives. By the end of 8 months, you can eat blackcurrants, strawberries and raspberries.
3. Meatballs and pates. Nutritionists and pediatricians, including Dr. Komarovsky, recommend including them in the daily menu for both breastfed and formula-fed babies. Meat contains valuable amino acids, iron, necessary for the proper development of muscles and the nervous system. The baby can taste high-quality rabbit meat, turkey, beef. Soups should be prepared exclusively on vegetable broths.
4. Lean white fish (we recommend reading:). A new product in the baby's diet if he receives complementary foods from 5 months. It is rich in phosphorus, valuable amino acids and vitamins that are important for the harmonious growth of the baby. For the first time, it is important to choose marine species - hake, pollock, or fresh - carp. Acquaintance with salmon is better to postpone until 2 years. Some mothers whose children are on breastfeeding put off fish food for up to 10 months, which is a variant of the norm.
5. Bakery products. Wheat bread is a new product, the daily volume of which in the diet is no more than 5 grams. It is too early for a child to try rye bread, but you can give children's biscuit cookies, bagels, crackers.

Menu for the week

What dishes and in what volume to feed the baby and artificial at 8 months? It is allowed to try a lot of natural products, but they are all recommended in limited quantities. Diet planning will help the mother organize the correct regimen for the baby, expand the richness of taste sensations and buy fresh products on time.

An approximate weekly menu for every day for a baby on breastfeeding and feeding with milk formula is presented in the table:

Baby cereal recipes

Kashi is one of the main dishes in the baby's diet. They are made from rice, buckwheat flour or cereals. A couple of times a week, you can cook oatmeal (in the absence of an allergy to gluten), barley and millet porridge. With nourishing semolina, you should wait a little - it is difficult for the digestive tract. However, an underweight breastfed child can be periodically offered liquid semolina in diluted milk at night.

Semolina

Components:

• milk 2.5% - 125 ml;
• semolina - 2 tsp;
• baby water type "Agusha" - 25 ml;
• butter 72% - 1/3 tsp

Boil 60 ml. milk diluted with water. Gently add semolina and cook, stirring, for at least 15 minutes. Pour in the rest of the warm milk, boil, turn off and season with butter. Serve semolina in a plate at a temperature of 36 degrees.

Pureed buckwheat

Components:

• groats (freshly ground flour) buckwheat - without a slide 1 tsp;
• purified drinking water - 50 ml;
• 2.5% milk - 125 ml;
• unsalted butter - 1/3 tsp

Boil water, carefully pour in the prepared cereals (whole or ground). Close the lid, cook over low heat for 10-20 minutes. Wipe hot porridge, pour in hot milk, boil. Remove buckwheat, butter, cool and feed with a silicone spoon.

Rice porrige

Components:

• rice (Krasnodarsky variety) - 2 tbsp, without a slide;
• baby milk - 125 ml;
• children's drinking water - 250 ml;
• unsalted butter - 1/2 tsp

Rinse the cereal, pour boiling water and cook for 1/3 hour. Sparse hot porridge wipe through a sieve. Pour hot milk into a homogeneous mass, mix gently. Boil, stirring vigorously. Turn off when the dish thickens, and flavor it with soft butter.

Soup and puree recipes

An artificial baby can be offered cream soups from 7-9 months of age (we recommend reading:). They improve digestion, serve as a supplier of energy and trace elements. Having studied what soups and how much an eight-month-old baby can have, mom can cook them every day.

The main rule is to use only vegetable broth. Lean meat should be boiled separately and added to the finished dish. A blender or food processor will help to grind the soup to a creamy state.

Rice-carrot puree soup

Components:

• juicy carrots - 1 pc;
• drinking water for children - 250 ml;
• baby milk 2.5% - 125 ml;
• rice "Krasnodar" - 1-1.5 tbsp. without a slide;
• butter 72% unsalted - 1 tsp

Chop clean carrots, pour a small amount of hot (95-98 degrees) water. Bring to a boil, while hot, gently wipe with a sieve along with separately boiled rice. Oil the resulting slurry, pour in the remaining carrot broth, hot milk, boil and cool the soup to 40 degrees.

Soup puree from young vegetables

Components:

• peeled young zucchini, cauliflower - 50 gr each;
• unsalted butter - 1/3 tsp;
• boiled egg yolk - half.

Put neatly chopped vegetables in a shallow aluminum saucepan, pour hot water, simmer for 20 minutes. Drain the vegetable broth into a separate container, and rub the hot vegetables through a sieve. Add a warm broth to the vegetable mass, boil, butter and add the chopped yolk.

Mashed Potato Soup

Components:

• boiled chicken yolk - 1 unit;
• milk 2.5% baby - 125 ml;
• young potatoes - 2 pcs;
• unsalted butter - 1 tsp

Boil and mash potatoes. Pour the vegetable mass with warm milk and drained broth, boil. Butter the finished dish and add carefully ground yolk. If desired, instead of the yolk, you can boil the meat separately, attach it to the soup in grated form.

Components:

• medium potatoes - 1 unit;
• young zucchini without peel - 150 gr;
• unrefined olive oil - 1 tsp;
• boiled quail yolk - 1 pc;
• milk 2.5% baby - 125 ml.

Chop vegetables and boil. Grind with a blender to a puree state. Add soft butter, mashed yolk, dilute with warm milk and mix. Keep on fire until boiling, serve at a temperature of about 36 degrees.

fruit puree

Components:

• apple and honey pear - half each;
• dried apricots - 30 gr;
• baby water type "Agusha" - 15 ml;
• diluted milk mixture - 1 tbsp;
• rice porridge in powder type "Baby" - 0.5 tbsp.

Grind dried apricots and fruits. Separately, boil the apple and dried apricots for 5 minutes, put the pear and simmer over medium heat for a couple of minutes. Wipe the finished fruit hot, add warm milk mixture diluted with powder. Mix thoroughly and serve warm.

Recipes for meat dishes

Meat delicacies are served to eight-month-old children in the form of crushed to a puree state. To do this, they are ground in a blender or several times in a meat grinder. You can buy ready-made meat puree in jars - it is convenient to take it to the clinic and for a walk. However, the hostess is much more interested in preparing a quality dish at home, based on recipes with photos and step-by-step instructions.

Chicken dumplings

Components:

• chicken fillet not frozen - 150 g;
• unsalted butter - 1 tbsp;
• baby milk -125 ml;
• wheat bread - 50 gr.

Soak bread or crust in milk and chop together with boiled fillet, butter, fresh yolk, beat well. Form neat balls, cook them in a double boiler, slow cooker. You can add the pulp of boiled zucchini to minced meat.

Meat puree

Components:

• purified children's water - 100 ml;
• lean meat - 100 gr;
• unsalted butter - 1/3 tbsp;
• broth, diluted in half with water - 30 ml.

Cut the turkey fillet into pieces and simmer over low heat until tender. Grind in puree, add broth and bring to a boil. Season with oil and remove from heat. Serve alone or with porridge boiled in water.

Proper feeding of a baby up to 1 year old is one of the main tasks of a young mother, no matter what kind of feeding the baby grows - breastfeeding or formula. The child is growing, he is already 8 months old and his menu dishes are becoming more diverse - in addition to cereals and mashed potatoes, meat and fish are already being introduced into his diet. With such an abundance of products, a mother can already experiment, prepare multi-component dishes and delight her baby with new tastes.

An 8-month-old baby is already enthusiastically eating cereal porridge, grated boiled fruits and vegetables. Its menu contains fermented milk bioproducts, egg yolk and meat. You can already replenish the menu of a child of 8 months with low-fat fish and expand the list of vitamin components.

How to include new meals for an 8 month old baby

1. Before feeding an unknown crumb product, you need to get clarification from the doctor, as he watches its development. Each organism has its own uniqueness.
2. Before the planned adjustment of the children's menu, the baby should be alert and healthy.
3. Offer unfamiliar crumbs food, starting with 1 teaspoon - before serving the main course. It is better to give a new menu component no later than 2 pm, in order to be able to follow the response of the baby's body during the day.
4. Offer a dish with an unfamiliar crumb component within 7-10 days. Only after the child’s body has become unconditionally accustomed to it, proceed to other planned combinations of components.

Meals for an 8-month-old baby - an approximate daily diet

In this section, we will give the most acceptable meals for all meals throughout the day. With our food list, you can easily plan your daily and weekly meals for your growing baby.

Keep in mind that the total amount of food at one meal is about 200 g, and at lunchtime - a little more. If the list contains products unfamiliar to your child, then accept our instructions above.

First breakfast: 06.00

• Breast milk

Second breakfast: 10.00

• Cottage cheese - 40 g
• Yogurt for children - 100-150 ml
• Vegetable puree - 40 g
• Porridge with vegetables (on vegetable broth) - 40 g
• Natural yogurt - 100-150 ml
• Milk porridge (from buckwheat, oatmeal, rice, barley) - 150 g
• Fruit puree - 60 g

Lunch 14.00

• Mashed potatoes with butter - 150 g
• Vegetable puree on water or vegetable broth - 150 g
• Carrot and potato puree - 150 g
• Puree from cabbage (cauliflower or broccoli) and zucchini - 150 g
• Vegetable soup with potatoes and rice with 1 tsp. vegetable oil - 150 g
• Egg yolk - the fourth part (every day)
• Puree from beef or veal, chicken, rabbit - 30 g
• Puree from meat offal (tongue, liver, kidneys) - 30 g
• Fish puree - 30 g
• Vegetable or fruit juice - 40 ml

Dinner: 18.00

• Milk (oatmeal, wheat, buckwheat, rice) porridge - 170 g
• Milk porridge on semolina or rice with pumpkin - 170 g
• Vegetable or fruit puree or juice - 20-30 ml

Dinner before bed: 22.00

• Breast milk
• Milk adapted mixture - 180-200 ml

Principles of cooking for an 8-month-old baby

Dairy dishes

Milk porridge for children under 1 year old is prepared only on adapted milk mixtures. Cow's (goat's) milk is not absorbed by the child's fragile body, it can provoke a metabolic failure and force the child's kidneys to work in extreme mode.

The cereals are first boiled until airy, wiped and liquefied with a dry mixture dissolved in water and boiled again for a couple of minutes. Salt and sugar are not added.

Fermented milk products, such as kefir, yogurt and cottage cheese, must be adapted to the physiology of children under 1 year old.

Vegetable and fruit purees

We choose tender, without coarse fibers, vegetable crops. It can be zucchini, carrots, potatoes, pumpkin, cauliflower, petiole celery, broccoli and others.

With fruits, you need to be even more careful, since many of them can provoke allergic manifestations in a child.

Meat dishes

It is desirable to prepare puree and soufflé from meat, which are combined with vegetable puree or vegetable broth. The meat used in dishes for an 8-month-old baby should be fresh and not greasy.

Forbidden: goose and duck, fatty pork.

Fish meals

If the baby receives breast milk, then it is better to introduce fish into his diet not at the age of 8 months, but later - at 9-10 months. Fish contains many unsaturated fatty acids, minerals and vitamins and often causes allergic manifestations on the skin.

If the baby is bottle-fed, then you can carefully give him a taste of fish soufflé or mashed potatoes, starting with 1/3 teaspoon. Fish dishes for a baby can be consumed no more than 2 times a week for 30 g, mixing it with potato or vegetable puree.

Preference should be given to sea fish with white meat: pollock, hake, cod. It is better to refrain from red salmon fish. From river fish, carp and pike perch are suitable for dishes of an 8-month-old child.

You, as a mother of a growing baby, know more clearly than all other family members what your baby needs. You spend all your time with your baby, and there is an inextricable bond between you. The expedient inclusion of any dish for a baby of 8 months tells you your maternal intuition. May she never run out of you!

Nutrition of infants should be balanced and healthy. After all, a small organism grows and at the same time requires constant enrichment of the diet. At 8 months, babies are already allowed many foods, including meat, fruits, vegetables, kefir, cottage cheese. Formula-fed babies, in addition to these products, can already eat fish. At the same time, one should not forget that acquaintance with new elements of the diet should be carried out carefully, starting with the minimum portions, and with a gradual increase in the dose. What foods can and should be given to an eight-month-old baby, how to make an approximate diet for a week? More on this later.

Baby nutrition at 8 months - what new foods should be introduced into the diet

At eight months, the baby continues to be fed with breast milk or formula. It is advisable to keep these products in the diet for at least 1 year twice a day - in the morning and at night.

• Vegetables. A baby at this age already eats many vegetables: zucchini, cauliflower, pumpkin, potatoes, carrots. At 8 months, the baby can already safely introduce green peas and beans. First, legumes are served as a puree, then mixed with vegetables, meat, fish, or added to soup. Onions are also introduced into the baby's diet. It is added to puree soup and served in combination with other vegetables. The maximum number of vegetables per day for an eight-month-old baby is 180 gr.
• Kashi. Porridge must be present on the child's menu. It is recommended, in addition to the usual buckwheat, corn, rice, to introduce the child to oatmeal. You need to cook a healthy dish on the water, with the addition of breast milk or formula. After getting acquainted with a new type of porridge, cereal-based dishes can be diversified: add fruits and vegetables there. The best option are cereals intended for baby food. All the necessary elements for the normal functioning of the baby's body have already been added there. The optimal dose per day for the indicated age is 180 gr.
  
• Dairy products. At this age, the baby already eats kefir, cottage cheese and yogurt. These products do not replace a full meal, but are given as a supplement to a meal. It is allowed to flavor them with fruits and dried fruits. Dairy products should be without artificial additives and low fat. A more suitable option for feeding a child is kefir and yogurt, prepared on their own based on sourdough or bought in a dairy kitchen. They will enrich the intestines of the crumbs with beneficial bacteria and prevent the development of pathogenic microflora. The norm for the use of cottage cheese per day is 50 gr., kefir, yogurt - 200 ml.
• Fruits and dried fruits. Fruits are the main source of vitamins and microelements that will strengthen the immune functions of the baby and resist the development of beriberi. A child at this age already eats apples and pears, so you can additionally please him with peaches, bananas, cherries, blueberries and currants. If the crumbs have no problems with stool, then introduce him to prunes, raisins, dried apricots, melon pulp. The use of fruits can be slightly diversified by mixing them with yogurt, cookies or cottage cheese. Amount per day - 80 gr.
• Meat. Meat is rich in all trace elements necessary for a growing organism - animal protein, phosphorus, magnesium, iron and potassium. The main novelty in the menu of a baby who is breastfed is meat. Children who were content with milk mixtures begin to get acquainted with this product 1 month earlier. The introduction begins with low-fat varieties - rabbit, veal, turkey. Since not all babies at this age are able to fully chew food, it is better to give the product in the form of mashed potatoes, pate. When the stage of acquaintance with meat is passed, and no undesirable reactions are observed, you can start adding the product to vegetable purees, cook soups in meat broth, and cook soufflé. Consumption rate per day - 50 gr.
  
• Fish. While breastfed babies have just begun to get acquainted with meat, the menu of artificers already includes fish products. It is better to introduce the baby to white sea fish - hake, cod, pollock. After testing these varieties, after 2-3 weeks, you can offer the baby salmon, carp and pike perch. Fish at this age should be given 2 times a week. The product should be served in the form of puree, soufflé. After a while, you can diversify the dish with vegetables. Fish is rich in B vitamins, amino acids, polyunsaturated fats, minerals. This is very important for a growing organism. The optimal dose is 5-30 gr.
• Beverages. Be sure to include vegetable and fruit juices (80 ml) in the baby's diet. At this age, it is better to dilute them by half with water. Acquaintance with juices should occur only after the baby has tasted fruit purees, and if there are no reactions, then you can safely please him. Be sure to drink boiled or filtered water. In addition to juices and water, decoctions based on raisins, prunes, dried apricots can be included in the baby's diet. It is also allowed to cook compotes from dried fruits (without adding sugar).

What else can be introduced into the baby's diet?

1. A baby at this age can eat wheat bread (5 grams per day).
2. Gnawing, sucking crackers (5 years).
3. Cookies can already be added to cottage cheese and fruit puree (5 grams per day).
4. Porridge is allowed to flavor with butter - no more than 4 grams.
5. Vegetable oil can be added to soups and vegetable puree (maximum - 5 ml).
6. Chicken yolk is also necessary for crumbs at this age. The optimal dose at 8 months is half a week.

Features of the daily diet, taking into account the type of feeding

If we talk about the recommendations of the famous doctor Evgeny Komarovsky, then he advises to slightly change the sequence of dishes. For the second breakfast, the pediatrician recommends giving the baby cottage cheese and sour-milk products, and for dinner - a hearty porridge.

Sample menu for each day of the week

At this age, the baby is already content with a variety of dishes. As for the differences in the menu of an artificial baby and a breastfed baby, it practically does not differ from the “baby” one. Just add fish dishes. You can serve them on Tuesday and Saturday for lunch instead of meat.

As usual, each day of the week starts (first breakfast) and ends (bedtime meal after dinner) with mother's milk or adapted formula. All other meals are listed in more detail in the table.

The diet of a child at this age can be very diverse. The same products that are offered to the baby should not be repeated throughout the day. Be sure to include meat, vegetables, cereals, dairy products and fruits in the baby's menu every day. This will provide the body with all the nutrients and vitamins.

Here are some tips for moms to help with menu planning.

1. For breakfast, you can serve not only porridge, cottage cheese, fruit puree, but also meat, fish, yolk. From drinks, fruit drinks, fruit juices, compotes, jelly are allowed.
2. Lunch must necessarily combine vegetable dishes, meat and fish. After that, you can please the baby with a dessert in the form of fruit and berry puree, baked fruits, juices, mousses, soufflés.
3. The maximum protein for the baby should be consumed before lunch.
4. For an afternoon snack, the baby must definitely eat fermented milk products with the addition of fruits, dried fruits, and cookies.
5. Dinner is based on the principle of breakfast.
6. The child must definitely drink a field of food.

To make it easier for yourself, you should take care of compiling a weekly menu for the baby in advance. You need to plan a diet taking into account all the products recommended at this age and the daily requirement.

Video about feeding a baby at 8 months

Features of drawing up a daily feeding regimen and menu for children with allergies

We think that it should not be pointed out that an allergic child should eat only hypoallergenic mixtures. In no case should you give such a baby cow's milk. According to generally accepted norms, complementary foods for allergic children are introduced 1 month later.

If the child is 8 months old, then the following allergenic foods should not be introduced into the diet:

• chicken eggs;
• whole milk products;
• fish;
• citrus;

You should be careful when introducing crumbs of orange-red vegetables, fruits and berries (carrots, red apples, cherries, etc.) into the menu. The basis of nutrition should be lean meats, fermented milk products cooked at home or bought in a dairy kitchen, vegetables. Porridge (gluten-free) should only be cooked with water. Meat is allowed to be introduced only at 9-10 months, and fish - closer to a year. As for fruits, first the child should be introduced to the green apple, and then gradually introduce pears, plums, bananas, and yellow currants into the diet. Eggs are completely excluded up to 1 year or replaced by quail.

The menu of a child at 8 months of age should be balanced. There is no particular difference between formula-fed and breast-fed babies. Unless an artificial person needs more wholesome food, and a baby at this age can have mother's milk and food in proportions of 50:50, since he receives almost all the substances the child needs from his mother.

The baby can already eat a lot, but it is still worth carefully introducing him to new products. New food is introduced into the diet gradually to observe the reaction of the baby's body. You can add new products to your favorite dishes - then they will be perceived better.

The first (after sleep) and the last feeding (before bedtime) should be formula milk or breast milk!

What products are available?

What to feed a baby at 8 months? Definitely porridge. You can cook, corn, rice, oatmeal porridge separately, or you can mix several cereals. It is better to do this in cow or goat milk, diluted a little with water.

In addition to cereals, the baby should eat:

• vegetables (all varieties of cabbage, zucchini, potatoes, pumpkin, onions, carrots);
• fruits (apples, bananas, pears, peaches);
• berries (currants, raspberries, blueberries, cherries);
• meat (veal, rabbit, turkey, chicken);
• eggs (no more than one egg twice a week);
• fermented milk products (cottage cheese, kefir, yogurt);
• herbs (parsley, green onions, dill);
• legumes (beans, peas);
• fish (lean fillet).

The last point has been controversial for a long time. Some mothers say that it is too early to give fish at such a young age, others insist that the fish contains the substances necessary for proper brain activity, which is important at a time when the baby learns the world. Remember that the child's diet is thought out only by the mother, who sees her child and his reaction to different foods.

What foods are banned?

There are also a number of foods that are undesirable in the diet of an 8-month-old baby. We will not write about chips, crackers, sweets bought in the store, mayonnaise and so on, because this is a matter of course. In addition, it is better not to give the baby:

• melon;
• watermelon;
• kiwi;
• nutritional yeast;
• bread;
• flour;
• fatty;
• acute;
• sweet (marshmallow and similar sweets);
• sausage and other raw-smoked products.

Salt, spices or sugar should not be put in the child's food, you can only season it with sunflower or butter for taste. I will also change a child of 8 months on breastfeeding, or on an artificial one, everything that he has allergic reactions to, diarrhea or constipation should be removed.

Sample menu for the day

• 7:00 - milk formula or milk;
• 10:00 - any porridge, fruit juice or fruit and vegetable puree;
• 14:00 - vegetable puree, some meat puree, egg yolk;
• 18:00 - cottage cheese or kefir, one cookie, you can supplement with milk or a mixture;
• 21.00-22.00 - milk or mixture.

This is how the menu of a child of 8 months looks like for every day, but all children are unique: someone eats complementary foods from 4 months, and someone at 8 months only gets to know him. Only the regimen itself remains unchanged in children: feeding occurs 4-6 times a day, leaving an interval of about 4-5 hours. Some people eat when they wake up in the middle of the night. Try not to overfeed your baby at night so that his body also rests during sleep.

Sample menu for the week

Creating a child's menu for 8 months for a week is practically a science. It is necessary to distribute meals for a week in such a way that the baby gets the maximum benefit from them, and so that he does not get tired of eating the same thing. We have made the following approximate table:

On other days of the week, you can repeat this menu or come up with something else.

The menu of a child of 8 months on artificial feeding   or on the chest does not have to look exactly like that. Adjust it at your discretion, ask your pediatrician, and most importantly, watch the baby. If the baby does not like the product, try giving it little by little, mixing with other products. The child refuses to eat, for example, broccoli, "calculating" in any puree? Stop feeding her and try again after a few months.

Finally

Between meals, treat your baby to drying or homemade crackers so that he scratches his gums. Be sure to give juice, water or compote throughout the day. It is better to make the drink yourself to be sure of its quality. You know how to feed a child - it remains only to figure out how to create a varied menu from these products. Try to decorate dishes at the same time - the child will like it, and he will eat with great appetite.

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Soups for children under one year old are an important element in the development of the baby. After all, they improve digestion, ensure proper absorption of food and have a positive effect on intestinal motility. It is necessary to learn how to cook soup for babies so that the child does not refuse to eat and gets the maximum benefit from the finished product.

When to Introduce Soups into Your Diet

Today, soups are introduced into the baby's diet, depending on how often the baby is breastfed, and what types of complementary foods have already been introduced. So, soups during breastfeeding (we are talking mainly about vegetarian options) are administered immediately after the introduction of vegetables. These first courses are the same vegetable puree, only diluted with a light broth.

Pediatricians also talk about the age at which children should be given soups. Doctors believe that the optimal solution will be 6-7 months, immediately after the introduction of complementary foods.

Proponents of this theory make the diet of crumbs more diverse in accordance with age. So, they can use soups with small meatballs from 8 months (the time of introducing meat into complementary foods). You can also add chopped poultry fillet to the broths. Naturally, these will be mostly pureed. From 9-12 months, you can offer the crumbs the first dish, which will be crushed with a fork. This will encourage chewing. Closer to the year, you can also add an ear.

What options are suitable for the baby

Before you start cooking soups for one-year-old babies, you should study the list of recommended options so as not to harm the health of the crumbs. Among the most popular soups for a child at 1 year old are:

• Fish
• Vegetable
• Dairy Options

In an effort to diversify the diet of the crumbs, you should not get carried away and offer him more "adult" options - tomato, garlic, cheese. Also, you can not use such a soup for children under one year old, like okroshka.

How to cook soups for kids

For a baby, the first soups, despite the minimum of products, can still be varied. Parents often have a question: what soups can be prepared for a baby who is not yet a year old.

Firstly, for a baby, you need to cook soup based on water, and not broth (meat or fish), because. the latter is heavy food for the crumbs. After all, meat can lead to an overload of the pancreas and liver. Fish soup for a child aged 1 year is not recommended, because fish is an allergen.

Secondly, you need to take special water - filtered or bottled. Soups should be started on the basis of those vegetables that have already been introduced into the diet of crumbs. Later it will be possible to combine 2-3 vegetables at a time, but it is worth starting with monovariants. To prepare optimal nutrition for a child at 1 year old, it is worth adding to the soup:

• Buckwheat
• Millet

Such products are considered hypoallergenic. In order to form healthy habits and a varied taste in a child, it is recommended to alternate and change products in the recipe.

At first, it is better to avoid the use of spices - they interrupt the natural taste of the product, spoil the taste buds of the crumbs. The maximum that can be added to the soup is greens: parsley and dill. Even a little salt can distort the taste of the dish.

Soup must be cooked fresh - at a time. To prepare first courses, you should use a blender - it will allow you to make the product optimally homogenized. Vegetables grind them pretty quickly.

Recipes for first courses for vegetable crumbs

Since the first options for dishes for babies should be prepared from vegetables, it is worth familiarizing yourself with them from the very beginning. Soup recipes for children of the first year of life are quite diverse, despite the limited products.

Pea soup

Pea-based soup is very useful for crumbs. It is necessary to use green peas - fresh or frozen. Such a soup in the diet of a child will take pride of place. When cooking, make sure that the proportion of peas does not exceed 1/3.

Baby food diversifies pea soup. It will require:

• Green peas - 4 s.l.
• Rice - 2 tbsp.
• Butter - a small piece

Rice should be thoroughly washed, put in a saucepan and pour a glass of boiling water here. Peas should be boiled separately, also with a glass of water. After they need to be connected and add a little liquid. Grind everything with a blender and put to boil again. The finished dish remains flavored with half a teaspoon of butter. Butter and vegetable soup are a great combination. Butter gives a special taste and makes the soup more nutritious.

Potato and carrot soup

Among the healthy and tasty ones, potato-carrot soup-puree is also called. For its preparation you will need:

• Potato - 200 g
• Water - 200 ml
• Carrots - 100 g
• Butter - 5 g
• Milk - 100 ml

Potatoes and carrots should be peeled, cut into small pieces and put on fire to boil. When the water boils and the vegetables are cooked, drain the broth and set aside for a while. Boiled vegetables must be rubbed through a sieve or mashed with a blender. Pour milk into the broth and boil again. It should be added to the vegetable mix little by little, gently stirring. In the finished soup, it remains to add oil.

Zucchini soup puree with broccoli

You can cook soups for crumbs from different products. So, a great combination would be zucchini and broccoli. For this option, you need to take:

• Zucchini - a quarter of the fruit
• Broccoli - a few florets
• Bulb - 1 pc. (a small onion is enough)
• Milk - 50 ml
• Vegetable oil - a little
• Greens

Peel the onion and cut into cubes. Heat oil in a frying pan and put onion cubes in it. Fry them until golden brown. Next, you need to make a blank of vegetables. To prepare a vegetable mix, cut vegetables into cubes and disassemble into florets. Put them in a saucepan and pour water, then boil them. All ingredients should be combined and beat with a blender until smooth. Then add milk to the puree and mix everything again. To complete the taste, you can add a spoonful of low-fat sour cream to such a soup.

Pumpkin puree soup

To prepare this soup, you need to take the following products:

• Pumpkin - 250 g
• Potato - 1 pc.
• Carrot - 1 pc.
• Milk - 125 ml

Finely chop the pumpkin, after peeling it from the skin. Potatoes and carrots also need to be cut into cubes. Vegetables should be put in boiling water and cook for 20 minutes until soft. They must be pulled out of the broth and worked out with a blender. The resulting puree should be put in a saucepan, add a glass of vegetable broth and stir everything. Pour milk into it and heat for 5 minutes.

Carrot soup with millet

For this soup you will need:

• Onion - 1 pc.
• Carrot - 1 pc.
• Potatoes - 2-3 pcs.
• Millet - 4 tbsp.

Onions should be cut, carrots washed, peeled and also cut finely. Do the same with potatoes. Vegetables should be put in a pot of boiling water and cook until half cooked. It remains to add millet and cook until tender. For a richer taste, you can put a teaspoon of low-fat sour cream in such a soup.

Cream soup with semolina and green peas

You can cook another version of a vegetable dish with the addition of semolina. For this you will need:

• Potato - 1 pc.
• Peas (it is better to choose green) - 2 tbsp.
• Bulb - 1 pc.
• Groats - 1 tbsp.
• Butter - 1 tsp
• Greens

Peel, wash and chop the vegetables, pour a glass of boiling water and cook for half an hour. Process the finished mixture with a blender and pour the broth. Put on fire again, add semolina and cook for another 20 minutes.

Soups with meat and fish fillets

Soups based on meat or fish are more satisfying. These options are suitable for older children. And there are also quite a few recipes.

Rice with turkey meat

For this soup you will need:

• Potatoes - 2 pcs.
• Carrot - 1 pc.
• Onion - 1 pc.
• Tomato - 1 pc.
• Turkey or rabbit fillet (the meat is somewhat similar)
• Boiling water
• Rice - 2 tbsp.

Onions must be passed through, then carrots should be added to it. After that, it remains to add the poultry fillet to the vegetables, cut into small pieces and fry a little more. Boil potatoes and rice in a pot. Then combine everything, add the tomato and season with herbs.

Soup with meatballs

An excellent solution would be a soup prepared according to the following recipe. Need to take:

• Rabbit meat - 100 g
• Quail egg yolk - 2 pcs.
• Onion - half a head
• Semolina - 3 tsp
• Greens

The meat must be washed, cut and chopped. Meat puree should be supplemented with finely chopped onions and yolks. Mix everything and form small balls. They must be boiled for 5 minutes in ordinary water. Pour semolina into this water so that there are no lumps, then add dill.

Bean with beef

• Beans - 2 tbsp.
• Potato - 1 pc.
• Carrot - 1 pc.
• Onion - half a head
• Beef - 100 g

First you need to soak the beans - to reduce the cooking time, you need to do this 8 hours before cooking. Then put the broth to boil. Then it remains to place the beans in the broth and cook until it becomes soft, then add potatoes, carrots and onions, chopped finely. Before turning off the soup, you need to put a little chopped greens in it.

Rice with fish

To prepare this you will need:

• Boiled fish - 100 g
• Potato - 1 tuber small or half large
• ½ tbsp rice
• carrot - half fruit
• onion - half head
• a little butter

First you need to cook the fish broth. Then pour rice into it and cook for about half an hour. Peel potatoes and cut into cubes. Carrots and onions are cut into strips. They must be fried in vegetable oil. Send the vegetables to the already prepared broth and cook them in it until tender.

Milk soup with vermicelli

When the baby is fed up with milk porridge, you can cook milk soup. For this you will need:

• water - half a liter
• vermicelli - 5 tbsp.
• milk - one and a half liters

Vermicelli should be put in water that is already boiling, and cook until tender. Then drain it with a colander. Boil the milk and then put the pasta in it. Reduce the fire to low, and on this it is necessary to cook the noodles for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Put a spoonful of oil in the finished dish.