Here are some foods suitable for the elderly, which are beneficial to the digestion and absorption of the elderly and ensure adequate nutrition.
1, millet and pumpkin porridge
Use millet1000g and pumpkin 300g. Wash the millet first, peel the pumpkin and cut it into small pieces, put it into the pot together, add some water, stew for half an hour on high fire and then simmer for 5 minutes on low fire. Stir from time to time when stewing to avoid sticking to the pot. Millet is the best nourishing food. Pumpkin is soft and easy to digest, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis. This food can benefit the five internal organs, nourish the stomach, strengthen the bones and muscles, and promote defecation.
2, lotus seed yam porridge
Seedless lotus seed 30g；; Yam 80g；; 50 grams of japonica rice. After washing and peeling the yam, cut it into small dices, put the washed japonica rice, lotus seeds and diced yam into a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, boil it with strong fire, and then turn to low heat to continue stewing until it is sticky. This kind of porridge is easy to digest and absorb, and has the functions of strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach, clearing away lung heat and moistening intestines. Old people with poor appetite and weak spleen and stomach often eat this porridge, which has a good therapeutic effect.
3. stewed mutton with radish
500g of fresh mutton, 0/000g of radish/kloc, and 0/0g of dried tangerine peel/kloc. Cooking wine, 2 onions, ginger, salt. First, the radish is washed and cut into pieces, and the mutton is also cut into pieces of uniform size. Boil mutton and dried tangerine peel in a pot with high fire, skim off the floating foam, and then add seasonings such as radish. Cook the radish until it is cooked thoroughly. It is good for the elderly to eat mutton in cold weather. Mutton is rich in protein, vitamins and various trace elements. The soup made of radish has the effects of resolving phlegm, relieving cough, warming the middle warmer and benefiting qi.
4. kelp tofu soup
200 grams of old tofu; 50 grams of kelp; 50 grams of mushrooms; Ginger slices, a little onion. Squeeze the tofu and cut it into cubes. Wash kelp and cut it into small pieces. Wash the mushrooms and tear them into small pieces. Add oil to the pot, heat it, fry the tofu until the surface turns yellow, and pour in water, kelp and ginger slices. After boiling, turn to low heat for half an hour, add mushrooms halfway, add appropriate seasoning and take out of the pot. Tofu contains protein and isoflavones, which has the functions of strengthening brain and preventing osteoporosis. Kelp can clear the bowels, relieve constipation, supplement calcium and strengthen bones and muscles. This kind of food is delicious and nutritious.
Four nutritious and healthy recipes for the elderly. Filial children collect well and often cook for their parents. Parents' health and longevity are their greatest blessings. Remember that the food for the elderly should be thick and thin, soft and easy to digest and absorb. Eat regularly, regularly and quantitatively, chew slowly. Also pay attention to a light diet to ensure health.