Many young parents are interested in the question, when can children be given soup, at what age is it best to add liquid dishes to the diet.
The first months of his life, the baby eats breast or artificial milk, but as the child grows, it requires complementary foods to supply the body with vitamins and nutrients necessary for life. Doctors advise starting to include mashed vegetables in the baby’s diet first. Enter them gradually, starting with 1-2 teaspoons. In this case, it is imperative to monitor the reaction of the stomach and intestines to certain vegetables.
Usually, doctors recommend starting complementary foods, on average, from 6 or 7 months. The pediatrician raises the question of the need for additional nutrition individually for each child. It depends on the fat content and quality of the mother’s milk. Artists start feeding earlier. After the child is accustomed to eating vegetable purees, cereals and noodles can be added to them, much later children try meat and broths.
In the article, we will consider when children can be given soup, from which products it is best to cook it. For young mothers, we’ll give you a variety of recipes and useful tips for making soups. We will pay special attention to milk soups and give recommendations of experts on complementary foods with noodles.
First lure
As mentioned earlier, the first lure is given to children at different times. Artists recommend it no earlier than 4 months, and infants - when they turn six months old. How can mom understand the need for extra nutrition? Watch the baby. If he more often began to ask for a breast or reach for a bottle, is interested in adult food and knows how to sit for a short time, then you can start giving vegetable purees for testing. The weight of the baby by the time of feeding should double by the time of birth.
It is advisable to give the first complementary foods in the morning, before breastfeeding. This will make it possible to observe the reaction of the intestine during the day. First time, cook the baby two-component mashed potatoes, for example, broccoli and zucchini, and on the water and without adding salt. Give the first time a half teaspoon. The consistency of such a puree should be liquid. It’s better to buy a spoon for a child, it is much narrower than the usual one, it has a shape convenient for a small mouth.
After the test, immediately give the breast or mixture in a bottle. In the first lure, the child should feel good, be cheerful. If he has problems with his tummy, then refrain from feeding, postpone it until a more favorable moment. If the baby is twisted and does not want to eat what is offered, do not insist and do not force-feed. If everything went smoothly and the body perfectly accepted the new food, then gradually increase the amount of complementary foods. Enter new soups for a child up to 1 year of age only after 4-5 days. You can cook them from cauliflower, carrots, potatoes, pumpkins and onions. In the same period, give the child a try and fruit puree made from local fruits - apples or pears.
Introduction of porridge and meat
After the introduction of complementary foods in the form of mashed vegetables, cereals are gradually introduced. From the age of eight months, the child is added buckwheat, corn and rice porridge, but without milk. They are thrown into a pot of vegetables, such soups for a child of 1 year of age are boiled in water. First they are cooked without salt at all, then a minimal amount is added, literally on the tip of the knife.
The baby tries the meat products at about the same time. Prepare a child a lean dietary meat of turkey, rabbit, chicken or veal. For the first time, add half a teaspoon of ground boiled meat to the vegetable puree. The broth is not yet used. Fish is offered to the child not earlier than 11 months, and in the presence of allergies - even later.
Prohibited Soup Ingredients
Mashed soups for children should contain only natural vegetables and fresh meat. No spices, bay leaves, parsley or celery root, or spicy dried herbs should be added to the pan. Kids can’t cook soups with roast, sauerkraut and pickles, spicy kharcho and hodgepodge with smoked meats and sausages. Up to three years, sorrel and spinach are not recommended for children.
Also, you can not cook borsch with the addition of tomato paste in fatty broth. It is strictly forbidden in early childhood to cook soups on bouillon cubes, such as Gallina Blanca, with the inclusion of seafood and flour dumplings. Mushroom soups are undesirable for preschool children; any mushrooms can be included in the diet from only 7 years old.
Consistency of Soups for Young Children
It is difficult for small children to chew solid food, any bit of it that can provoke a cough in a child. The first lure with soups is given in mashed form. Puree soup is easier for a child to chew and swallow. To prepare it, use either a pusher with holes or a blender.
To get a liquid consistency, add a couple of spoons of vegetable broth to the rubbed vegetables. Over time, the amount of liquid increases, and by the year you can not knead vegetables, but cut into soups in small pieces, accustoming the child to chewing.
Broths - neither meat nor fish - do not give a child up to 3 years. Boil the meat for soups separately, and then cut into soups in small pieces or grind simultaneously with other ingredients of the soup. If you want to make the soup more nutritious, you can add a little vegetable or butter to it. A child from 9 months old is allowed to put a little low-fat sour cream in the soup.
Nutrient Vermicelli
By 10-12 months, the baby is already able to chew on pieces of food, so you can try adding pasta to the soup. First boil the shallow vermicelli separately in the water and let the child just try new food. If the baby coped well with chewing, then you can add it to vegetable soups little by little.
Knowing when you can give your child a vermicelli soup, parents wonder what pasta you can buy for such small children. It is recommended to choose products marked "A" made from durum wheat. They are easy to find by the inscription durum on the packaging.
A child at the age of 1 year spends a lot of time in motion, spending a large amount of energy. Pasta contains complex carbohydrates, B vitamins, potassium, calcium and phosphorus, as well as amino acids necessary for vital functions. Therefore, vermicelli can be added to a child’s food 2 or 3 times a week. This will saturate the baby and give him the necessary strength and energy for walking and active games.
Who is not recommended to give vermicelli?
When children can be given pasta soup, you already know. Let's look at cases when this is not necessary. Limit the vermicelli in the following situations:
- If the child has a tendency to constipation.
- In the presence of diabetes.
- If the baby's weight exceeds the norm.
- In the presence of an allergic reaction to gluten.
I would like to additionally warn the young parents that the kids should never be given instant noodles.
Vermicelli milk soup for baby
The first lures with milk soups are not prepared with whole milk, but diluted with water. Some prepare such dishes in milk powder or condensed milk. In the first case, you need to dilute the mixture with water and stir until the dry powder is completely dissolved. In the second - for 1 tsp. add 500 ml of water to the condensed milk, otherwise the soup will turn out to be too sweet.
Let's look at a recipe for soup (for children under 1 year old) made from milk and vermicelli. To prepare it, you will need 1 liter of water, a glass of milk and 50 grams of vermicelli. Pasta is poured into boiling water and immediately mixed so that they do not stick together. Boil them for 6-8 minutes and strain through a colander or sieve. Boil milk in a bowl and put the boiled vermicelli in it. Let it boil for a couple of minutes and you can turn off the fire. Put a small piece of butter in a bowl of soup. When the soup has cooled, you can give your child a hearty breakfast.
Vegetable soup
What soups can a child eat as a first meal? Now you know that at the beginning the baby is given only vegetable puree soups. Consider a recipe for a delicious soup for a baby aged 7 months. You will need such products:
- half a carrot;
- one small potato;
- a slice of beets;
- half a small onion;
- 1 tsp vegetable oil;
- 1 sprig of dill.
Vegetables are peeled and washed under wastewater. Then cut into small pieces and cook until cooked. A puree consistency is achieved using a blender. If the soup is too thick, then add 1 tbsp. l vegetable broth. At the end, pour oil and mix with a spoon. Do not throw salt.
Cauliflower Meat Soup
To prepare the next soup for a one-year-old child, two cauliflower inflorescences and half a potato are needed. Vegetables are cut into pieces and poured with water to cover completely. Boil until tender. Separately, rice and chicken are cooked.
In the children's soup to the prepared vegetables add 1 tsp. boiled rice and a small piece of chicken. Then all the components must be ground with a blender. If necessary, add a couple more spoons of vegetable broth. When serving, put a teaspoon of sour cream or a slice of butter.
Vegetable Soup with Vermicelli and Chicken Meatballs
Let’s first figure out how old a meatball soup is for a child. Despite the fact that they turn out to be soft and soft, it is recommended to cook such a soup only from the age of 1.5. Salt is still not added, however, if the baby does not like the soup completely without salt, you can put a little. The composition of the soup includes such products:
- chicken fillet;
- 1 potato;
- half a carrot;
- 1 small onion;
- greens - a sprig of dill and parsley;
- vermicelli - 50 grams.
Grind chicken fillet into minced meat. Peel and put the vegetables in a crushed form. After 5 minutes, open the lid of the pan and, having formed balls of meat, dip them gently into the soup. 5 minutes before turning off the heat, add the vermicelli and mix gently so as not to break the meatballs. Add finely chopped greens at the end.
In the article, we examined in detail when children can be given soup, how to cook it for babies up to a year, and presented to your attention several recipes for delicious dairy and meat dishes.