Soups for children: at what age is it possible and what kind?

As a child grows, he gradually explores a variety of foods. In addition to juices, children's puree And the first porridges on his menu also include soup. Prepared according to special recipes, children's soups are necessary for the child's stomach and intestines; they are well nourishing and easily digestible.

When can a child have soup?

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

When introducing a child to soup, the general rule by which any complementary foods are introduced should be observed. You need to start with one spoon of a new dish, and then gradually increase the amount of soup, all the while observing the reaction of the child’s body. K one year old The baby should eat 50 g of soup at one feeding.

In order for your child to enjoy eating soup, the following rules must be followed when preparing it:

• The soup should consist of a minimum number of components. Then, when an allergy develops, it will be easy to identify the irritating substance.
• For young children, soup is cooked exclusively in water. Meat broths are harmful for children of this age.
• No need to use spices. To make the dish flavorful, add a small amount of onion or carrots.
• Vegetables for soup should not be fried. In general, until the age of three, it is better not to give your child food prepared in this way.

It is better to prepare children's soups using purified water. If possible, buy special water for children's drinking. As a last resort, the water should be purified with a household filter. All vegetables must be washed especially carefully and peeled just before the cooking process. You need to take as many vegetables as you need for one serving. After all, you cannot store soup for baby food.

Peeled and cut into small pieces vegetables are placed only in boiling water. This will preserve more nutrients in the vegetables. No need to add salt. The finished soup must be mashed with a spoon or passed through a blender. This will make it more convenient for the baby to eat food, because at that age he does not yet know how to chew.

Your baby's very first soup should be made from zucchini, cauliflower or pumpkin. From the age of eight months, the baby is given carrot soup, then potato and pea soup. After the rest of the vegetables, beets are added to the soup. From the age of one year, soup for a child can contain eggplants, tomatoes and sweet peppers. From the same age, you can prepare your child soup with chicken broth.

Children's soup recipes

For your baby's first soup, take some cauliflower or broccoli. Wash the vegetable thoroughly, peel and separate into inflorescences. After soaking in cool water for two hours, place the vegetables in boiling water and cook until they are soft. Grind the vegetable pieces using a blender and dilute the resulting puree with the broth in which the vegetable was cooked. After the baby gets used to this soup, you can add carrots or potatoes to it.

From the age of 8 months, the baby is offered creamy vegetable soup. For it 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, and 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 spoon of vegetable oil to the finished soup.

A one-year-old child can be given milk soup with homemade noodles. At the same time, the noodle dough is cut very thin and small so that it is convenient for the baby to eat such soup. The pasta is boiled in boiling water and drained in a colander. After the liquid has drained, transfer the noodles into boiling milk and cook for no longer than 3 minutes. Add a little butter to the finished soup.