Nutritional
Recomendations
In the second semester (6-12months)
the number of meals gradually decreases until the baby has 4-5
daily meals, like an adult: breakfast, lunch, dinner with midmorning
and afternoon snacks. Don't forget your baby still needs 1 pint
of milk a day or the equivalent made up in dairy products such
as yogurth, cheese, ice-cream.
Between 12 and 36 months the total calories should be from 1000
to 1400 calories, split into 4-5 meals, ideally devided as:
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Breakfast:
15-20% of total calories
Mid morning snack: 5%
Lunch:
40%
Afternoon snack:
10%
Dinner:
25%-30%
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It
is important to offer a wide variety of foods during the course
of the week, bearing in mind the following:
cereals
should ALWAYS be present at every meal (in form of bread,
pasta, rice, biscuits, crackers, french toasts or other bakery
products)
vegetables and fruits should
be consumed at least twice a day.
As far as proteins are concerned
the expert nutritionists suggest the following:
meat 3-4 times a week (preferably
chicken, turkey, rabbit, lamb). Also very good cured ham like
parma ham or bresaola (you can find the latter in most big supermarket
chains)
fish 3-4 times a week
eggs 1-2 times a
week
cheeses 2-3 times a week
pulses 2-3 times a week
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BABY
FIRST MEALS for the 6 to 10 month olds:
Cereals:
including breakfast cereals, pasta,
bread, rice. proein rich, oatmeal, barley, wheat
Vegetables: avocado, beans, broccoli,
carrots, dried beans and peas, pumpkin, spinach, squash, sweet
potato (yam)
Fruit: apples, apricots, bananas,
nectarines, pears, peaches, plums,prunes, pineapple.
Juice: orange, apple, grape, blackcurrant
(unsweetened and well diluted)
Eggs: yolks and whole, after 7 months
Cow's
milk: introduce
slowly in cereal from 10 to 12 months and watch for reactions.
It should be boiled. Do not give fat reduced or skimmed milk.
Meat: chicken, lamb,
livers, fish.
Cheese: cheddar
type cheeses, creamed cottage cheese, ricotta, yoghurt, butter. |
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Some suggested meals to be used only when each food has been individually
introduced
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Cereal,
cereal with fruit, cereal with creamed cottage cheese
Hard boiled egg yolk mashed with milk or cheese
Scrambled egg
Mashed banana with rice or barley cereal or creamed cottage
cheese
Mashed banana or apple with fruit juice
Mashed apple
Mashed avocado with sieved hard boiled egg yolk
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| Lunches: |
Pureed
liver and vegetables
Pureed chicken and livers with vegetables
Mashed vegetables with egg yolk
Lentil and vegetables
Mashed avocado with creamed cottage cheese
Banana pudding
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| Dinners: |
Creamed
cottage cheese with mashed fruit or vegetables
Vegetable omelette
Chicken, egg and carrot custard
Mashed sweet potato (yam) and apple
Rice cream
Egg yolk custard
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