Children love holidays. But especially love New Year, because they believe that a miracle can happen on the night of December 31, so they often wait with their parents for the cherished chiming clock.
Very young children fall asleep on the evening of December 31 long before the start of the family celebration. But those who are older help their parents with enthusiasm and inspiration and can't wait for the New Year's feast.
So, it is necessary to make sure that at the “adult” holiday they have something to treat themselves to. After all, the dishes that are on the festive table of adults are not always suitable for children's food, and children are too capricious, not wanting to eat what their parents offer them. Moms constantly have to invent something and turn on their imagination in order to feed the kids not only tasty, but also healthy.
Despite the fun around and the festive mood, the children's diet on December 31 should not be anything special. It must include breakfast, lunch and dinner, albeit later than usual.
The New Year's feast differs from the usual one in that it takes place at night. At this time of the day, it is difficult for our stomach to digest food. Nutritionists recommend the following New Year's table rules for children:
- Do not let your child sit at the table for three hours. Night gatherings should be purely symbolic for him. After the chiming clock, he clinks glasses of fruit drink with everyone, receives a gift and goes to bed. Before the feast on December 31, feed your child as usual: breakfast, lunch and dinner.
- On the festive table should be the lightest dishes. It is not advisable to feed children with fatty meats and fish, mayonnaise, fatty sour cream and cheese. heavy, fatty meals it is better to eat for lunch on the first days of the new year.
- No need to force the table with many different dishes. The child is advised to give no more than 3-4 meals, including drinks.
- Children's food should not include more than 3-4 ingredients. Then it is easy to digest.
- During a night feast, it is not advisable for a child to give chocolate, tea and other products that excite the nervous system. Otherwise, then he will not be able to sleep, although he will get tired.
- It is not necessary to put bread on the table. The child will receive the necessary vitamins and minerals from other foods. If desired, you can offer yeast-free bread instead of bread.
New Year's table decoration
If other kids came to visit you, it is worth organizing a separate children's table for the kids. It must be festively decorated with a beautiful tablecloth, bright napkins, give the dishes a festive look and put a little surprise under each plate. Indeed, in fact, it is not a feast that is important for a child, but an indescribable atmosphere of a miracle and a holiday.
The table should be placed in such a way that children can safely leave because of it. Also, it should be handy and easy to carry in case the kids need a place to play. Do not place fragile items and utensils on the children's table. You can use plastic or special paper plates and glasses.
What to cook for the New Year for children
It is compiled taking into account the gastronomic preferences of the kids, financial capabilities and family traditions.
How are children's meals different from others? First, they are always more dietary and simple. And secondly, dishes for children are always something original in their form, beautiful and funny.
It is better not to include complex dishes in the menu, you will have enough worries on this day. Be sure to check with the parents of the children who will come to your holiday if they have any food allergies, and any special preferences regarding the taste or presentation of dishes.
As for harmful products, you can remove the restriction, for example, on french fries or pizza, but it is still better not to give Coca-Cola to children. If allergens are present on the children's table, in the form of tangerines or chocolate, stock up on antihistamines, just in case.
Not all children like salads, so limit the amount on the menu. You can make small baby sandwiches from fresh bread with butter and cheese. Drinks should be varied: mineral water, juices, compote or fruit drink. In general, everything that kids love so much.
As a dessert, small eaters can be offered fruit, small cakes, cookies or a light cake. Suitable and milk shake, which crumbs simply adore.
Babies under 2 years old are best left with their grandparents. But if you do not have such an opportunity, prepare a separate menu for them: special children's cookies, cereals, purees and juices.
Salads, appetizers, main courses and desserts can be given a New Year's flavor by shaping them in the form of Christmas trees, snowmen, stars, or you can use traditional colors and decorative elements for this holiday to decorate them.
New Year's recipes for children
"Potato in the Snow"
Ingredients: cottage cheese - 200 g, a few green onion feathers, a small bunch of parsley and dill, 1 tbsp sour cream, vegetable oil.
How to cook: wash the potatoes, dry them, brush with oil and cut into halves. Then wrap each half in a separate foil and place in the oven, heated to 180-200 ° C. Cut greens, knead cottage cheese and mix with sour cream. The prepared ingredients must be beaten with a mixer and a little salt.
Serving: remove the finished potatoes from the foil, cool, and put the curd cream on top.
"Vegetables on Ice"
Ingredients: take 25 g of carrots, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts, broccoli, a glass of water, gelatin, salt.
How to cook: wash the vegetables, disassemble the cabbage, cut the carrots into cubes, cut the Brussels sprouts into halves. Next, you need to mix the vegetables and boil them in slightly salted water. The broth where the vegetables were cooked must be drained and the gelatin diluted in it. Then you need to pour the vegetables laid out in a salad bowl with broth with gelatin.
Serve: Remove the finished jelly from the refrigerator and garnish with herbs.
New Year's table: hot dishes for children
Rice with seafood
This dish is prepared in Japan, it is very useful, not in vain, because there are many centenarians among the Japanese.
Ingredients: rice - 1 cup, seafood - 500 gr (mussels, squids, shrimps), pickled cucumber - 1 pc., onion - 1 pc., carrots - 1 pc., dill - 1 bunch, parsley - 1 bunch, oil creamy - 1 tbsp. l., sunflower oil - 5 tbsp. l., ground black pepper, salt.
Peel onions and carrots and finely chop. Grate pickled cucumber. Finely chop the greens. Melt butter in a heavy-bottomed saucepan or saucepan, add sunflower oil and fry onion and carrots until golden. Add grated pickle and simmer vegetables for 2 minutes. Add seafood to the pan and fry together with vegetables for another 5 minutes. Pour into a saucepan with vegetables and seafood 3 tbsp. water, simmer for 2 minutes and add rice. Salt and pepper the dish to taste, add chopped greens. Bring to a boil and simmer over low heat until the rice is fully cooked. Optionally, you can add fresh tomatoes, bell peppers, garlic. Ready rice should be served on the table, filled with hot broth, or simply laid out in bowls and garnished with greens and fresh tomato slices.
chicken casserole
Fast and very tasty dish. You can cook literally half an hour before the arrival of guests.
Ingredients: chicken fillet 500 gr., tomatoes 2 pcs., hard cheese 150 gr., sour cream 15-20%, 200 gr., mushrooms 300 gr., salt to taste., vegetable oil 1 tbsp.
Cut the chicken fillet into strips or small pieces. Put in a baking dish, pre-grease the form with oil, salt. Wash the tomatoes and cut into slices, put on the chicken. Mushrooms cut and put on tomatoes, salt. Grate cheese on a coarse grater and mix with sour cream and salt. Lubricate the casserole with this mixture and put in the oven at a temperature of 180-200 degrees for 30-40 minutes until the chicken is cooked.
Christmas duck with apples
A signature American Christmas dish is the turkey. And in the Russian tradition, serve a duck with apples to the New Year's table. We offer this gourmet recipe for the New Year's table.
Ingredients: 1 duck carcass, 1 carrot, 2 onions, 1/4 celery root, 125 gr. dry white wine, 4 tbsp. sugar, 2 tbsp. rum, 4 tablespoons grape vinegar, 6 green apples, salt, black pepper, 1 tbsp. starch.
Grate the prepared carcass of a young duck with a mixture of salt and pepper - on both sides and let it soak a little. In the meantime, prepare the gravy: peel the carrots, onions and celery, cut them into cubes and fry in a greased pan. Add wine, simmer. Place the duck in the preheated oven. Bake for 45-55 minutes at 220°C. Caramelize the sugar and add the vinegar and rum, warm the apple halves in the resulting syrup. Strain the gravy and add to the apples, bring to a boil. Put the finished duck on a warmed dish, cover with apples, thicken the sauce with starch and serve in a gravy boat!
New Year's table: desserts for children
Some of the easiest to prepare are fruit desserts, but by the holiday, you can add your own zest to them, making them more attractive and tastier. The easiest way is to make a fruit platter and garnish it with whipped cream. But you can cook a variety of original and delicious New Year's desserts from fruits and berries, decorating them on the theme of the New Year.
For example, you can use different fruit decorations for the new year:
- Christmas trees from kiwi, white grapes or green apples decorated with raspberries, strawberries, dark grapes - these will be Christmas decorations and balls. Such Christmas trees can be laid out simply on a dish, or you can build a vertical composition by fastening all the fruits and berries with toothpicks.
- Snowflakes- they can be full of the whole palette of colors of fruits and berries, or you can lay out fruits in the form of a snowflake, decorating with whipped cream on top - and you will have a white snowflake;
- New Year characters- here the fantasy is not worth restraining. For example, excellent Santa Clauses are obtained from strawberries. To do this, you can cut off the sharp tip of the berry, turn the strawberry over, decorate it with a thick cream, curd mass or whipped cream, place the cut top on top and decorate the hat with the same filler.
In principle, any dessert for the New Year can be decorated with strawberry hats, this will be especially appropriate for the children's New Year's menu.
Pudding "Snowdrift"
Ingredients: a glass of milk, 2 tablespoons of semolina, 1 teaspoon of vanilla, yolk, 1 teaspoon granulated sugar, 20 g butter, fresh or canned fruit.
How to cook: boil semolina, add vanillin, sugar, yolk and then mix everything well. Put the mixture into prepared small molds, greased with oil and refrigerate for 2-3 hours.
Serve: Serve on serving plates and garnish with fruit.
P.S. So, New Year's table for children must be useful and beautiful - these are the two main requirements. Show your imagination and give your child and his friends an unforgettable holiday!
Happy New Year and good mood!
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New Year- the time when the whole family gathers at the festive table, including small children. Therefore, when compiling the menu, you need to take care of special dishes that will be not only tasty, but also healthy for kids. What to cook for a child for the New Year so that he likes it?
For a snack
Children are unlikely to like traditional salads with mayonnaise, and the benefits of such dishes remain in doubt. It is best to make some simple dishes, but arrange them in such a way that children want to eat them.
Sandwiches "Ladybug"
Kids love snacks that you can eat with your hands. These, of course, include various sandwiches. To prepare "Ladybugs" you will need:
- white bread - 4 slices,
- 4 plates melted or plain soft cheese,
- cherry tomatoes - 1 for each sandwich,
- a few olives
- greens, butter, lettuce.
Each slice of bread must be greased with butter, put a piece of cheese on top. Cut the cherry tomatoes in half, place each half cut side down on the cheese (2-3 for each slice). Cut a few olives into half rings, the rest into 4 parts (these will be the heads of the cows). Lay out half rings like insect legs. Chop the greens and sprinkle over the dish. Sandwiches are laid out on lettuce leaves.
stuffed tomatoes
Bright stuffed tomatoes are a great option for a festive baby food. You can stuff tomatoes with almost any product, but it is best to use these (for 2 tomatoes):
- a quarter of boiled chicken breast,
- greens - a couple of branches,
- boiled rice - 2 tablespoons,
- grated cheese - 2-3 tablespoons,
- salt, butter.
Cut the top off the tomatoes and scoop out the pulp with a spoon. Finely chopped chicken meat is placed at the bottom, then a piece of butter, then rice (it must be salted). Top everything with grated cheese. You don’t need to bake the tomatoes for a long time, just a couple of minutes in the oven or microwave is enough to melt the cheese and melt the butter. Ready meal sprinkle with herbs.
Recipes for children for the New Year may include other ingredients: fresh vegetables from which they prepare a salad, seasoning it with sour cream; dried fruits; potatoes, etc.
hot dish
As a rule, very satisfying and heavy. Children are unlikely to want to try steaks or layered casseroles. Minced meat dishes are suitable for kids, mashed potatoes, eggs and puff pastry.
Stuffed potato croquettes
Usually croquettes are deep-fried. But they can also be cooked in the oven for a healthier meal. Ingredients:
- mashed potatoes from 2 potatoes and 1/4 tbsp. milk;
- minced meat - 100 g;
- onion - 1/4 head,
- 2 eggs: boiled and raw
- raw yolk;
- salt to taste.
First you need to prepare mashed potatoes by adding warm milk to it and a raw egg. Twist the minced meat again with onions and boiled egg, salt, make small balls of minced meat. Make bigger balls from the puree and place the prepared minced meat in the middle. Put on a baking sheet, grease with raw yolk. Bake for half an hour at 180 C °.
chicken rolls
Among children's dishes for the New Year there can be a variety of rolls. For example, baked in foil chicken breasts with stuffing. To prepare them you will need:
- 1 breast
- berries of lingonberries, cranberries or red currants - 2 tablespoons,
- butter - 1 tsp,
- half green apple,
- salt.
The breast is beaten off, salted, spread berries, thinly sliced apples and butter. The meat is rolled up and tied with threads (they will then need to be removed). The rolls are baked in foil in the oven at 200°C for 40 minutes and 10 minutes without foil to brown. Before serving, cut into portions.
Instead of chicken fillet, you can take a turkey. And if the child loves nuts, then they are added to the filling, pre-chopped.
Dessert
Dessert is the most long-awaited holiday dish for children, so you need to give free rein to your imagination and cook something for the kids that will be associated specifically with the New Year.
meringue snowman
Light and very cute dessert "Snowman" is prepared quite quickly. You just need to beat the whites correctly:
- egg whites - 150 g,
- 100 g of powdered sugar or just fine granulated sugar,
- vanilla sugar- 1 tsp,
- whipped cream.
Proteins are beaten with a mixer, setting a high speed. Of course, you can use a regular whisk, but then your hand will quickly get tired. To make the meringue, sugar should be added in small portions. They begin to add it when the proteins have already turned into a thick mass. The readiness of the mass is determined as follows: they turn the container over with it, and if nothing flows out, then it is ready. The mass is carefully transferred with a spatula into a pastry bag. Cakes are squeezed out of it with a diameter of 3-4 cm onto baking paper placed on a baking sheet. In the oven (at 100 ° C), the meringue should be 1.5-2 hours.
Ready-made "bezeshki" are fastened together in 3 pieces, lubricating the joints with whipped cream from a can. Eyes and buttons are best made from confectionery sprinkles, attaching them to sugar syrup.
The children's menu for the New Year also includes cookies that you can make with your child. So the baby will be involved in the process of preparing for the holiday and will remember it for a long time.
Toddlers up 1-1.5 years are unlikely to be able to appreciate your culinary efforts, since their diet is still scheduled by the hour and their food quite conservative.
children from 1.5 to 3 years it is difficult to sit at the table for more than 15-20 minutes, being in a state of excitement, they are not able, like adults, to wait for the change of dishes - appetizers, hot, dessert. Therefore, it is necessary to immediately develop a children's holiday menu and serve the table according to a pre-designed plan. Most likely your legal dinner on New Year's Eve child he will receive, and by the time of the festive table he will already be full, and you will have to surprise him with unusual desserts. Even if your plans include a full-fledged festive children's table, you should not force it with pickles - the kids still won't be able to try and appreciate more than 2-3 dishes, so it's better to direct all your culinary skills and imagination to these few options. Often, children are not yet familiar with the taste of many foods and dishes; taste preferences have not yet been fully formed. Therefore, it is not necessary to treat the baby with “novelties” on this festive evening. Firstly, he may simply not evaluate them, and secondly, you still do not know the reaction of the child's body to a new product. Follow the rule: new dishes - from familiar products. If you plan to invite your baby's friends to the holiday, be sure to ask their parents about food tolerance of products, the presence of allergic reactions in child, as well as whether it does not comply child certain diet.
As a snack baby over 1.5 years old you can offer salads from vegetables, both fresh (tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, greens), and boiled, such as vinaigrette. Can be added to salads canned vegetables, for example, peas, corn, but only in very small quantities, since these products cause flatulence (increased gas formation in the intestines), and sick tummies are useless on New Year's holiday. Exotic vegetables that you haven't tried yet child, it is better not to use in cooking festive dishes. Salads for young children (up to 3 years old) should not be dressed with mayonnaise; use refined vegetable oil or sour cream with a reduced percentage of fat content (10-15%). If you want to treat your preschooler with an "adult" salad, which includes mayonnaise, dilute it by half with sour cream.
A variety of sausages, boiled pork, smoked meats with spices for children up to 3 years it is better to replace boiled or baked meat at home. Before baking, a piece of tenderloin can be stuffed with garlic - to give the meat a piquant taste. In small quantities, thermally processed garlic will not cause a deterioration in the functioning of the baby's gastrointestinal tract. Children over 3 years of age as meat snacks you can offer ham, a piece of ham or boiled pork. Salted fish and seafood (boiled shrimp, squid, etc.) can be offered baby, which has reached 3 years only if there is no allergic reaction to them, and in very limited quantities - 1-2 pieces. Herring and salty fish stimulate appetite child, but a sufficiently high concentration of sodium chloride, i.e. salt, renders Negative influence on the kidneys. When buying ready-made herring, pay attention to the sauce, dressing in this case should be only from oil and preferably without spices.
Boiled squid and shrimp can be used to make salads such as sea cocktails for kids older than 3-4 years . Fish caviar (red, black) can be used to make sandwiches, baskets for children over 3 years old only, and only if the product is well tolerated. If your kid loves cheese, please him with a cheese platter. For young children, non-spicy, low-fat foods are recommended. hard varieties cheeses, preferably without vegetable additives and spices . The origin of the feedstock - whether cow's milk or goat's - is not important.
Salted and pickled cucumbers, tomatoes, olives, black olives are not recommended for children under 4-5 years old , and pickled mushrooms - for children under 5 years old. These products do not contain complete nutrients, but only have a specific taste. In addition, a high content of salt, vinegar and spices can adversely affect the functions of the gastrointestinal tract, kidneys, and cause allergies. Especially not suitable for children spicy snacks and salads of Korean cuisine. jellied fish contain a large amount of extractive substances (substances, including harmful ones, boiled from meat or fish, and partially transferred to the broth), and are not products suitable for children. As hot meals for babies, you can use lean meats and fish. For their preparation, it is better to use the methods of boiling, stewing or baking.
When preparing hot meals for children over 2 years old you can use onions and herbs, bay leaves and sparing spices . But with black and red pepper it is better to wait, at least up to 5 years . When baking products, to get a delicious golden crust, you can use mild varieties of cheese. The range of side dishes is usually wide. For a children's table, boiled or vegetable stew. Fried side dishes can be offered to older kids 3-3.5 years , and such a dish as french fries for children is only older 4.5-5 years .
The children's table will not do without fruit. Offer babies only those berries and fruits that do not cause allergic reactions. Fruits-allergens (capable of causing allergic reactions), for example, citrus fruits, strawberries, it is better not to show them than to take them away with a scandal child. It will be much more convenient for children if the fruits are peeled and cut into pieces in advance. fruit cocktails and salads can be seasoned with bio-yogurt. Hold child at the table, you can only interest him in changing intricate and "funny" dishes, as well as waiting for the most delicious and favorite - dessert or sweets.
Into the diet child early age (up to 3 years) does not include sweets in the form of chocolate, caramel sweets, cakes with creams, pastries. But it is precisely these products that are unhealthy for young children that are found in Christmas gifts that your guests will bring. Babies up to 2-3 years it is better to offer marshmallows, marshmallows or marmalade - sweets containing pectins (ballast substances that actively bind and remove toxins (from the Greek toxikon - poison) from the body) and are allowed for young children. Also, “old friends” are quite suitable for treats - cookies, dryers, bagels, air flakes. children over 3 years old can be offered in small quantities milk chocolate, sponge cake With fruit filling, caramel stuffed with jam, candy soufflé. Pastries and cakes butter cream can be offered in small quantities only to healthy children over 5 years old . Ice cream, loved by children, is better to offer dairy, without flavorings and dyes . And you can decorate it yourself - with jam or berry jam and fruits. Nuts are suitable as ice cream dessert decorations for children over 5 years old.
With great attention it is necessary to approach the choice of drinks. children early age you can offer your favorite fruit or vegetable juices, compotes made from fruits and berries, berry fruit drinks. children over 3 years old milkshakes are available. And do not forget to prepare a decanter with boiled or drinking water, as juices do not quench your thirst. I want to protect both adults and children from overuse unhealthy and not at all children's carbonated drinks. Nutrients, included in their composition are not adapted for child, and can cause allergic reactions, flatulence, etc. And even more so, you should not even give babies a try alcoholic drinks such as champagne, beer, etc. It is known that children are attracted to foods and dishes not by taste or smell, but exclusively by appearance- the more interesting you decorate the dishes, the more likely it is that child eat the proposed New Year's dishes. But don't force child eat, let him choose this evening what to treat him to.
An integral part of the children's holiday is New Year's table setting. The attention of all children is attracted by bright, beautifully and intricately designed cutlery, products and dishes that have undergone “artistic processing”. All kinds of animals (hedgehogs, snowmen, mice, pigs), intricate figurines, faces, created from products by caring mother's hands, arouse great interest in children. Don't forget to come up with something funny and familiar for your masterpieces. child names, and before you put the dish on the table - say them aloud. Do your best to decorate New Year's table. You can buy dishes with a Christmas theme, cut out snowflakes from napkins, put a figured New Year's candle or a New Year's toy, such as a snowman or a deer, in the center of the table. The edges of the cups can be decorated with "snow" - immerse the inverted glass in sugar or fruit syrup by 0.5 cm, then dip either in sugar or in powdered sugar, and place a slice of fruit cut to the middle on the edge of the glass. However, a table rich in delicious treats, delicacies and culinary masterpieces- it's not exactly what you're expecting children. They need to create an atmosphere of a holiday, a New Year's fairy tale, with a Christmas tree, the appearance of Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden, with the presentation of gifts and competitions. Try to prepare for the holiday in such a way that child Enough inspiration for a whole year!
When thinking over the New Year's menu for a baby, it is necessary first of all to take into account its age characteristics. No matter how much a caring mother would like to add to the general celebration of a baby who has not yet turned 1.5 years old, you still shouldn’t offer complex culinary delights to such a crumb - his diet still consists of simple meals and there are not so many allowed products in it, and food takes place by the hour in accordance with the regime. In addition, most children at this age are quite conservative in their preferences and simply may not appreciate the efforts of their mother. If for very small ones it is still supposed festive table, it is better to cook the usual and favorite dishes of the child, decorating them in an unusual way. Older children are already able to appreciate the taste and beauty of holiday treats, feel the atmosphere of the holiday and, together with their parents, enjoy the elegantly decorated New Year's table. But it is better to feed such kids with dinner at the usual time, and put light snacks and dessert on the children's holiday table.
When compiling a holiday menu for babies from 1.5 to 3 years old, the following nutritionist recommendations should be observed:
Better less is better. New Year's table for young children should not consist of many dishes. Due to their age, kids will be able to taste and appreciate a maximum of three or four dishes, the younger the child, the fewer meals he can try. It is known that in cooked dishes, children are more attracted not by taste and smell, but by appearance - the brighter and more interesting the treat is, the more likely it is that the child will eat the proposed New Year's pickles. Therefore, it is better to direct all your culinary imagination to the beautiful design of several dishes and their useful components.
Piping hot. Unlike adult dishes that can be prepared in advance, it is advisable to prepare treats for a children's holiday table immediately before serving. In cooked food, even if it is stored in the refrigerator, after a few hours, vitamins begin to break down and pathogenic bacteria multiply. When food is stored at room temperature under favorable conditions, the number of microbes increases approximately 2 times every 15 minutes. In the acidic environment of the stomach of adults, most of these microbes die, while the acidity of the gastric juice of babies is much lower than in adults, so pathogenic microbes persist and, penetrating into the intestines, can cause intestinal upset in the crumbs. For the same reasons, it is not advisable to offer the child the leftovers of yesterday's food the day after the holiday.
New Year with old friends. You should not experiment and treat your baby with new products on a festive evening, because it is not known how the child's body will react to them. In order not to overshadow the holiday with allergic rashes or digestive disorders, it is better to use products already familiar to the child in the preparation of holiday treats.
We cook, steam, but do not fry. For the preparation of hot dishes, it is better to use the methods of boiling, stewing or baking. Products prepared by these methods are easier to digest, do not irritate the digestive tract mucosa and retain more vitamins. The frying method is not suitable for young children, as this produces harmful substances that make up the crust and frying oil, which irritate the stomach and intestines and have a harmful effect on the liver and kidneys of the child. For this reason, even on New Year's Eve, you should not pamper your child with a delicacy so beloved by all children, but equally harmful to their small organisms - french fries.
Don't overeat! When there are so many delicious and beautiful things on the table, the little gourmet is tempted to try as many different dishes as possible. Parents should pay attention to what and how much the child eats. Even if the dish you like can be used in baby food, it is necessary to ensure that the child does not overeat, as this can lead to various health disorders and, first of all, to problems in the digestive tract.
What to put on the children's table
Children over one and a half years old can serve salads from fresh or boiled vegetables (cabbages, carrots, beets, cucumbers, tomatoes, bell pepper), seasoned vegetable oil or low-fat sour cream. If a hot dish is expected, you can bake or steam meat or fish (low-fat varieties), and cook boiled or stewed vegetables as a side dish. For dessert, such kids are quite suitable for a “cocktail” of dried fruits (raisins, dried apricots, prunes), mousses, the basis of which is semolina and fresh fruits and berries, tasty and healthy fruit salad, consisting of the baby's favorite fruits and seasoned with children's yogurt or juice, curd or rice pudding. Closer to 3 years, you can offer your baby more varied treats: stuffed vegetables, poultry or fish rolls, canape sandwiches (slices of bread garnished with vegetables, herbs and low-fat cheese). You can pamper your baby with a homemade pie or cookies, fruit and berry jelly. Of the purchased sweets, you can treat them to marshmallows, marshmallows (vanilla, without dyes) or marmalade (it is preferable to choose domestic marmalade, soft colors with a faint aroma, which is made from sugar, molasses, agar-agar, pectin, fruit juices and natural dyes, Imported "chewing" marmalade, as well as marmalade of bright colors, so attractive to kids, contains a large amount of bright artificial colors, flavors, thickeners and other chemical additives. From drinks, young children can be offered fruit or vegetable juices (freshly squeezed and industrial production intended for feeding children under 3 years old), compotes cooked from fresh or frozen fruits and berries, berry fruit drinks. Children over 3 years old can prepare a variety of milkshakes and smoothies (a thick drink in the form of berries or fruits mixed in a blender or mixer with the addition of juice or milk). Freshly squeezed juices, due to the high content of organic acids, are too aggressive for the gastrointestinal tract and tooth enamel of a child, therefore, when offering fresh juice to a baby, it is better to dilute it with water in a ratio of 1: 1 and serve with a straw, you need to prepare fresh juice immediately before use, so how in the air he very quickly loses his beneficial features. Children from 1 to 3 years old are “allowed” to drink no more. than half a glass (100-150 ml) of juice per day. It should be remembered that juices and fruit drinks do not quench their thirst and contain sugar, so in case the kids who have played enough and run over want to drink, it is better to have a supply of clean drinking water (it is better if it is special bottled water for baby food).
New Year's serving
Festive and New Year's children's table will be made not so much by treats as by its decoration and serving. Attach the baby to the New Year's table setting. All kinds of New Year's accessories (candles, toys, figurines of Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden, dishes with a Christmas theme) will come to the rescue, which are sold in abundance in stores before the holidays. You can also invent and make it yourself from improvised materials. new Year decoration and toys, cut out snowflakes, festively arrange cutlery and glasses. The baby will certainly want to try fabulously decorated dishes with intricate figurines, animals, faces created from products by caring mother's hands. It all depends on the flight of your imagination, for example, you can make a snowman from boiled in uniform and peeled potatoes of different sizes, fastened with a toothpick, using for the eyes green pea, for the nose - a piece of boiled carrot, and for buttons canned corn. You can make baskets of oranges and fill them with pieces of chopped fruit, or make a sweet Christmas tree out of green marmalade, using a straw as a stem, and insert it into a snowdrift from a half of a white marshmallow. Vegetables and fruits can be served in the form of a “kebab”, strung on skewers (can be mixed with pieces of cheese) or cut out of them figures (Christmas trees, stars, animals) using dough cutters. Together, come up with funny names for culinary masterpieces with a New Year theme, and solemnly announce the name of the dish before putting it on the table.
And yet, a festive table filled with culinary masterpieces is not the main joy for kids. It is much more important to create for the child the atmosphere of a New Year's fairy tale with a decorated Christmas tree, the appearance of Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden, presenting gifts, fun contests and round dances. It is these family traditions of celebrating the New Year that will leave warm memories in the child's soul for life.
It is difficult to imagine even one child who would not wait for the New Year. Many children love this holiday more than their own birthday. And all because the atmosphere of magic and fairy tales reigns around: the house is saturated with the smells of citrus fruits and beautiful spruce. And how the kids are waiting delicious treats! What are you going to cook for the holiday? Fried-crusted chicken, an abundance of multi-layered salads generously smeared with mayonnaise and, of course, a big cake. Without a doubt, you would definitely win the competition for the Best Hostess of the Year. But would preschoolers like this version of New Year's treats? In order to answer “Yes!” to this question, it is necessary to think over the variations of the children's menu for the New Year in advance.
If you start planning your New Year's menu in advance, you can easily choose snacks that are perfect for your baby. Beautifully presented dishes will undoubtedly attract the attention of the child, and healthy ingredients reduce the harm of traditional winter holiday goodies.
Children's snacks: menu for the little ones
On New Year's Eve, a baby of six to eight months of age will most likely drink milk and sleep sweetly in his crib. But for a child who is already on artificial feeding, you can come up with a more interesting version of the snack.
If the baby already knows the taste chicken egg, and you made sure that he is not allergic to this product, we suggest that you arrange an “edible hedgehog” at home. To do this, a boiled, peeled egg should be cut in half, make eyes out of nuts or miniature carrot circles. And green onion stalks can serve as needles.
Another option suggests that the child is already familiar not only with the egg, but also with the liver and sour cream. Cut the egg, take out the yolk. This will be the basis for the holiday baskets. Start them with liver stewed in sour cream and yolk. Make a basket handle from a sprig of dill.
Despite the fact that December 31st is not a reason to make significant changes in the baby's food. No matter how much you would like to attach a crumb to adult food, stay true to your principles and recommendations of doctors. Here is an unwritten set of rules that must be followed when preparing children's treats.
Less is better
Adults have a tradition of preparing exactly 12 dishes for a gala dinner. Needless to say, most people never manage to try everything on the New Year's menu. And this is a grown man! Therefore, it is recommended to offer crumbs 1-3 years old no more than three treats.
The younger the child, the fewer dishes should be in his diet on the occasion of the New Year.
Celebrate the New Year with old friends
Let the adult table burst with new exotic delicacies carefully prepared by the hostess. A small child should be offered as a treat food only from those components with which his body is familiar.
A one-year-old kid will happily gobble up a baked apple or a flourless banana pancake after a serving of mashed potatoes. A three-year-old child will enjoy stewed chicken, vitamin vegetable salad and baked potato wedges. As a dessert, we recommend choosing healthy candy like "Raffaello" with dried fruits inside or the beloved by many "Potato" cake.
As for a five-year-old daughter or son, you can offer them chicken baked on a vegetable “cushion”, healthy lasagna and cottage cheese muffins with chocolate chips.
Note to moms: Does the child like sandwiches very much? Well, it is not at all necessary to deprive him of such joy. Indeed, even in the family menu for the New Year, you can include their healthy variation. For example, using special molds for cookies, cut out cute circles or triangles from the bread. You can put a salad on top, then a piece of boiled or baked turkey without a crispy crust. And then - cheese and a piece of tomato.
By the way, this option of treats will appeal not only to small children, but also to adherents. proper nutrition, as well as those guests who are on a diet.
There is only one freshness - the first
Usually for adults, we prepare holiday treats in advance. After all, the cake should be soaked for at least 10-12 hours in the refrigerator, and the components of salads and snacks do not interfere with making friends with each other. All this is true, but when it comes to the children's New Year's menu, then all treats should be exclusively piping hot.
The fact is that even in food standing in the refrigerator, pathogenic microflora begins to develop. When eating such dishes or sweets, the gastric juice of an adult destroys these microorganisms due to its high acidity. But the acidity of the child's body is much lower, so the bacteria may well penetrate the intestines, which will inevitably lead to frustration.
Only natural drinks
New Year's table for children should not contain carbonated liquids of acid colors. Better prepare fruit drink or homemade utensils, delicious cocoa without milk foam or freshly squeezed juice.
The following tips apply to the New Year. Instead of abundance hot spices added to the dish, you can use sweet paprika and allspice, thyme and oregano. And if you have planned the New Year in the Italian style, then it is not at all necessary to make the sauce for traditional pasta fiery. Use fresh tomatoes, marjoram, salt, a pinch each of pepper and sugar, and you'll have a great restaurant-style spaghetti sauce. By the way, you can supplement it with pumpkin meatballs. There is no doubt that both young and adult guests will enjoy such a treat.
Do not prepare anything for the New Year that could tempt a child with allergies. If the baby has an intolerance to chocolate, instead of the traditional chocolate cream use whipped cream to decorate the cake.
A little about the technology of preparing festive children's dishes
If there are hot dishes on the New Year's table for young guests, then pay attention to their cooking method. The best option- this is boiled meat or meatballs. But baking is fine too. By the way, in addition to turkey or goose with fried golden crust you can put "Chicken in a jar" on the table. This is very tasty and juicy meat. At the same time, it can be safely given to children from 3 to 5 years old to try.
- Lay in layers in three-liter jar chicken and vegetables (for example, tomatoes, bell peppers, onions, etc.).
- Add spices to the meat if necessary.
- Tamp everything well.
- Put the jar in a cold oven for 1.5 hours. Cook at 180 degrees.
Water is not used in the preparation of this dish, the meat gives the necessary juiciness.
Sweet table for a one-year-old baby
Not every mother will dare to treat a young taster not only with a store-bought cake, but also with a delicacy prepared by her hands on own kitchen. What to do in this case: leave the child without sweets? We offer you a selection of interesting desserts for the little ones.
Curd treats
Most babies one year old very familiar with cottage cheese. That's just to make the crumbs eat at least a few tablespoons of this protein product - a real test. However, our children's New Year's sweet menu will allow you to breathe a sigh of relief.
Classic biscuits smeared on top with banana-curd cream.
- Beat in a blender granular cottage cheese.
- Add banana, cinnamon and sugar as needed.
- You can lay out a delicacy in the form of a banana house, where the cookies will serve as a foundation, and the banana cream will serve as cement.
Also welcome is the design of sweets in the form of a house of cards.
Healthy dessert
If the baby likes the taste of prunes, we suggest cooking " Dried fruits in the snow».
- Scald prunes hot water and then dry it with a paper towel.
- Remove the bones by inserting instead walnuts or raisins.
- Top decorate sour cream: Beat sour cream with sugar until the sweetener is completely dissolved.
That's all - the dessert for the children's New Year's table is ready!
Multicolored jelly cake
baby banquet menu hard to imagine without jelly. Use sea buckthorn or raspberries as a base. If the child has not tried such goodies yet, but enjoys drinking children's teas of various colors, there is an excellent solution - hibiscus jelly. The best design of such a dessert is in the form of a cake. To make it more interesting, it is worth adding another layer - milky.
fruit salad
An excellent sweet addition will be the New Year's children's salad of fruits familiar to the child with yogurt dressing. For its preparation it is recommended to use natural yogurt without additives. And from apples, pears and other fruits, you can cut leaves, geometric shapes, and so on.
New Year's snack
Perhaps you always have in the refrigerator fresh eggs from domestic chicken, or you are sure of the high quality of the purchased product. In this case, we are preparing New Year's " Peas in the snow».
- Prepare lingonberries and raspberries in advance.
- Lubricate it with raw yolk, whipped with powdered sugar.
Don't forget to decorate the treat nicely. For example, lay out turrets from "winter" berries.
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Festive children's table, or about serving
To begin with, it is recommended to pay attention to the dishes. The design of the New Year's children's table should be bright, so saucers and cups with images on the New Year's theme will be quite appropriate. And if you manage to get non-breakable plates - it will be absolutely fine. After all, what kind of mother would want to clean up the broken dishes and worry about the child instead of enjoying delicious food and communication with people dear to her heart.
Little secret: little child it is not so important what you serve as a treat on New Year's Eve, it is much more important how you present it all. Therefore, dishes for children should look original and festive.
When the presence of several children is planned at the holiday, it is recommended to set up a separate New Year's children's table for them. Having taken over its design, do not forget to connect your imagination. Use the New Year theme: cut a large number of snowflakes and scatter them around the table, put a huge “fruit tree” in the middle. Let the decoration of the New Year's table by its very appearance arouse genuine interest in the children.
Now you know how you can make the children's holiday menu for the New Year not only tasty, but also safe for the youngest family members. Do not forget to experiment and improve familiar dishes. After all, even a salad with crab sticks or the same "Bunito" can be smeared not with mayonnaise, but with sour cream, supplemented lemon juice and necessary spices.
