Soups for children: from what age you can and what

As the child grows up, he gradually learns a variety of foods. Except juices for children puree and the first porridge in his menu includes soup. Prepared according to special recipes, baby soups are necessary for the stomach and intestines of the child, they are well nourishing and easy to digest.

When a child can have soup

Experts have not come to the same opinion about the age at which the baby is introduced to the soup. Some are sure that the optimal time to start such a feeding is six months of age... Others believe that it is worth postponing with soups until the age of nine months, or even up to one year old... In general, pediatricians advise not to rush to introduce soups for those babies who eat breast milk. But for artificial people, it is allowed to enter the soup early.

When introducing a child to soup, the general rule according to which any complementary food is introduced must be observed. You need to start with one spoonful of a new dish, and then gradually increase the amount of soup, all the while observing the reaction of the child's body. TO one year old the baby should eat 50 g of soup in one feeding.

In order for the child to enjoy the soup, during its preparation it is necessary to adhere to the following rules:

• The soup should contain the minimum amount of ingredients. Then, with the development of allergies, it will be easy to identify the irritating substance.
• For small children, the soup is cooked exclusively in water. Meat broths are harmful to babies of this age.
• You don't need to use spices. A small amount of onions or carrots are added to make the dish flavorful.
• Soup vegetables must not be fried. In general, it is better not to give your child food prepared in this way until the age of three.

It is better to cook baby soups with purified water. If possible, buy special water for baby drinking. In extreme cases, the water must be cleaned with a household filter. All vegetables must be washed especially thoroughly and cleaned before the very process of cooking. You need to take as many vegetables as you need for one serving. After all, you cannot store soup for baby food.

Vegetables, peeled and cut into small pieces, are placed only in boiling water. This will keep more nutrients in the vegetables. There is no need to add salt. The finished soup must be kneaded with a spoon or passed through a blender. So it will be more convenient for the baby to eat food, because at this age he still does not know how to chew.

The very first soup for a crumb should be made from zucchini, cauliflower or pumpkin. From the age of eight months, they give the baby carrot soup, then potato and pea soup. Later on the rest of the vegetables, beets are added to the soup. From the age of one year, baby soup can contain eggplant, tomatoes and bell peppers. From the same age, you can cook chicken broth soup for your child.

Baby Soup Recipes

For the first baby soup, use some cauliflower or broccoli. Wash the vegetable thoroughly, peel and disassemble into inflorescences. After soaking in cool water for two hours, place the vegetables in boiling water and cook until tender. Grind the pieces of vegetables with a blender and dilute the resulting puree with the broth where the vegetable was cooked. After the baby gets used to this soup, it is allowed to add carrots or potatoes to it.

From the age of 8 months, the baby is offered a creamy vegetable soup. For him you will need 10 g of pumpkin, half a potato and half a carrot. Vegetables need to be washed and peeled, cut into small pieces. Then the vegetables are boiled. Separately boil 20 g of chicken breast and 1 quail egg. The finished meat is cut into small pieces, the yolk is separated from the egg. All vegetables, yolk and chicken meat are mixed and chopped with a blender, pour in a little vegetable broth. You can add a little chopped herbs and half a small spoonful of vegetable oil to the finished soup.

A one-year-old child can be given milk soup with homemade noodles. In this case, the dough for noodles is cut very thinly and finely so that it is convenient for the baby to eat such a soup. The pasta is boiled in boiling water and discarded in a colander. After the liquid has drained, the noodles are transferred to boiling milk and boiled for no longer than 3 minutes. A little butter is added to the finished soup.