The elders say that "confinement" is equivalent to the second growth. Problems such as dysmenorrhea, cold uterus, and flat chest before marriage and pregnancy may be improved through confinement. On the contrary, if you do not sit properly during the confinement period, you will suffer from various potential diseases, such as physical weakness, rheumatism, visceral ptosis, pelvic floor muscle relaxation, etc. Therefore, women are very concerned about the taboos during confinement, especially dietary precautions. Returning to the main question, it can be summarized as follows: If women in the north eat porridge, noodles and noodles during confinement, women in the south value soup and water more during confinement.
Southerners have a "fascination for soup"
I was born in the southwest and moved to Guangdong eighteen years ago. I am considered an authentic southerner. And I have a best friend from college who is from the Northeast. Every time we have a party, if she orders food, her attention is always on the "hard dishes" and she often forgets to order soup, so she always has to remind me last. The two of us had a special discussion on this issue, and we came to the conclusion that northerners don't like soup, while southerners can't live without soup.
In 2001, when I went to Guangdong for the first time, I was shocked by the local "tangshui culture". Every meal must be accompanied by a delicious soup. Whether you can cook good soup is an important criterion for measuring the quality of a housewife's cooking skills. The soups are also divided into those that nourish blood and replenish qi, those that clear away heat and detoxify, those that reduce swelling and remove dampness...there is a dazzling array of them. Just as northerners love to eat pasta, southerners love to drink soup, which is reflected in the "confinement" diet. Classic Southern "Confinement Meal" Recipes
1. Fermented glutinous rice eggs (rice wine eggs) - In our hometown in the southwest, "confinement" must eat fermented glutinous rice eggs (rice wine) eggs. Boil the fermented glutinous rice, add the eggs, and cook until the yolks are slightly solidified. This not only nourishes the body but also promotes lactation.
2. Pig's trotters and ginger - a famous confinement meal in Guangdong. Put the sweet vinegar and pig's trotters into a vinegar pot, simmer for 20-30 minutes, then turn off the heat and let it sit overnight to allow the vinegar to penetrate. For the pig's feet, add ginger slices the next day and continue to simmer until thoroughly cooked. You can also add eggs. It is sour and sweet, very appetizing, and has the effect of removing coldness.
3. Chicken soup, fish soup, pig's trotter soup - they are all soups that can replenish qi, nourish the body, and produce milk. They are good for both the mother and the baby. Warm reminder: Be careful when purchasing ingredients for confinement meals online
Modern people like convenience. When I was in confinement, I purchased special "confinement meals" online. From the perspective of the types of materials, after all, it is more scientific to have professionals match the ingredients, but after actual use, you will find two problems:
1. The recipes are too varied and the taste is difficult to guarantee. For example, I bought a "30-day luxury confinement package" that included 24 soups, of which almost half were unpalatable. In fact, there were 6 or 7 different soups that were enough to drink.
2. It is difficult to guarantee the quality of food ingredients. The price of this kind of postpartum meal is as low as 200 and as high as 2,000. The main difference lies in the quality of the ingredients, and the water in them is relatively deep. If you have enough patience, it may be better to follow the recipes online and purchase the mix yourself.
In short, you should pay special attention to your diet during the "confinement period". Southern women and northern women have different eating habits and physical constitutions since childhood. In addition, the local water, soil and climate are different, so it is more appropriate to arrange according to local conditions.
My first child was born in the north. During the entire confinement period, he was fed the same food as his third child, millet porridge, eggs, and dried noodles. No oiliness at all. My health is really bad. I have been in confinement for two months. I still feel weak when I go upstairs. I sweat every time I move.
The second child was born in Hubei. During his confinement, he had a chicken every two days. It was a rooster, not a hen. People in Yichang, Hubei Province eat roosters, and there are all kinds of soups. I just got it from Fish caught from the Yangtze River, pig's trotters soup... My body is obviously stronger than when I gave birth to my eldest child! Some people say that women in the north usually drink millet porridge during confinement, but what about the south?
In China, women have the custom of confinement after giving birth.
With the development of society and the increase in population mobility, it has become extremely common for northern women to marry southern men and northern men to marry southern wives.
Because of this, the difference in confinement care between the north and the south has become one of the sources of conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and between mother-in-law and mother.
The most important contradiction is the flavor and customs of confinement meals.
Because of the differences in region, climate, and cultural customs between the north and the south, confinement meals are also very different.
So what are the differences between the confinement meals in the north and the south? ?Let’s take a look at their menu first!
Confinement meal staples
North
Millet porridge:
Millet is rich in iron, vitamins, and dietary fiber. It has the effect of strengthening the spleen and replenishing deficiency. So it is very popular among northern mothers.
Materials: millet, cold water
Method:
1. Wash the rice, boil it in cold water and add the millet; < /p>
2. After boiling, reduce the heat to low;
3. When the rice grains are rotten and the porridge is sticky, turn off the heat and serve.
South
Lean Pork Liver Porridge
1. Soak the pork liver in water for half an hour
2 Wash the pork and liver, mix well with an appropriate amount of chicken powder, salt, light soy sauce, and starch and marinate for half an hour. Chop the green onions and set aside.
3. Wash the rice and put it into the pot, add an appropriate amount of Bring the water to a boil over high heat
4. Remove the scum on the surface, turn to medium heat and simmer for 20-30 minutes
5. Use a spoon to shuttle back and forth on the bottom to avoid burning the bottom< /p>
6. Cook until the rice is rotten and the rice soup is thick, add pork and cook
7. Add pork liver and cook
8. Add appropriate amount of salt, Season with chicken powder
9. Add appropriate amount of sesame oil and mix well
10. Sprinkle with chopped green onion and turn off the heat
Pass Postpartum meal with breast milk
North
Crucian carp soup:
As we all know, crucian carp has the effect of promoting lactation, so in the north, new mothers often stew crucian carp soup to help the body recover and promote milk secretion.
Ingredients: crucian carp, soft tofu, ginger, garlic, salt, coriander, green onion
Method:
1. Remove the scales of crucian carp and remove its internal organs and gills. Wash and drain;
2. Add oil in the pot. After the oil is hot, add ginger and garlic and stir-fry until fragrant;
3. Add crucian carp, turn to low heat and fry front and back.
4. When the fish skin turns yellow, add an appropriate amount of boiling water and simmer over medium heat;
5. After fifteen minutes, add the soft tofu cubes and continue to simmer for 5 minutes; < /p>
6. Add salt, coriander and chopped green onion and serve.
Southern
Rice wine:
Rice wine is suitable for mothers to drink through breast milk: it contains carbohydrates, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, etc., which helps to replenish qi, Promoting blood circulation, reducing swelling, dispersing knots, etc. Common dishes made with rice wine include: confinement rice wine egg soup, confinement rice wine and red date soup.
Rice wine and egg soup
Ingredients: One bottle of rice wine (380g), 2 small bowls of water, 3 grass eggs (for three people).
Method:
Crack the raw eggs into a small bowl and break the eggs clockwise with chopsticks. Add two bowls of water to the pot, turn on the heat and bring to a boil. 2. After the water boils, pour the rice wine water into the pot and bring to a boil.
After the rice wine water is boiled, gently pour the egg liquid evenly into the pot, stir it up quickly with chopsticks, wait for the soup in the pot to boil and the egg liquid will cook into fluffy egg flowers, close fire.
If you like it sweeter, you can add brown sugar
Easy-to-digest postpartum meal pasta
Northern
Vermicelli:
Vermicelli is a must-have product for confinement in the north. It is mainly made of wheat flour, salt, alkali and water, dried by hanging and then cut into dry noodles of a certain length. New mothers often eat them to supplement calories and Easily digested by the human body.
Egg noodles
Ingredients: two eggs, 1g chicken essence, 3g salt, 5g sesame oil, 300g noodles
Method:
1 .Put the chicken essence and salt into a bowl, add a small amount of water, and mix well
2. Break the eggs into the bowl and beat them with chopsticks until foamy
3. Use Boil the noodles in water, put them on a plate after cooking, leaving a little water inside
4. Put the bowl with eggs into the pot, and steam for 3-5 minutes with less boiling water
5. After steaming, take it out, add sesame oil, and mix the eggs with chopsticks
6. Place the eggs on top of the noodles and serve
Southern
Rice noodles:
In the south, rice noodles are a common ingredient during confinement. A kind of pasta made from high-quality flour with salt and other auxiliary ingredients. It has a white color, fine and even lines, and a soft and fragrant taste.
Sesame oil rice noodles
Ingredients: 150g pepper, 50g ginger, 50g garlic, 100g scallion, 5g star anise, 1500g salad oil
Method :
1. Peel and smash the ginger, cut the garlic into nail slices, and smash the green onions.
2. Put the wok on the fire, add the salad oil and heat it until it is 50% to 60% hot, add the ginger, garlic, and scallions and fry until fragrant, then add the peppercorns and star anise and stir-fry until the flavor is released.
3. Remove the pot from the heat, let it cool, remove the residue, and put the oil into a container, which can be used at any time.
Highly nutritious postpartum meal supplements
North
Eggs:
< p> Eggs are nutritious, contain a variety of essential amino acids for the human body, and are easily absorbed by the body. They can meet the needs of new mothers, but new mothers should take 1 or 2 eggs per day.Brown sugar boiled eggs
Ingredients: 3 raw eggs, a bowl and a half of water, 100g brown sugar
Method:
1. Take Take a bowl and a half of water (a small bowl you usually use for eating is fine, or you can also depend on the size of your pot), start heating it, wait until blisters appear in the water, then break in the eggs.
2. When the water boils, collect the egg whites together and add brown sugar.
3. Add brown sugar for 1 minute, pick up the eggs, add a small amount of soup and serve.
Southern
Russula:
Considered the "Southern red ginseng", it is often stewed with chicken, duck, eggs, pork belly, pork ribs, etc. The soup,
is rich in color and sweet.
Chicken soup with red mushrooms
Ingredients: 1 native chicken, 10 red mushrooms, appropriate amount of ginger slices, appropriate amount of salt
Method:
1. Wash the native chicken and cut it into two pieces
2. Boil it in boiling water
3. Put the blanched chicken into the pressure cooker and add ginger slices , add water to cover the chicken
4. After the pressure cooker is pressed for 20 minutes, scoop out part of the chicken soup and the oil on the soup surface to make soup stock
5. While making the chicken soup, prepare the red meat. Use scissors to cut off the soiled pedicles of the mushrooms, and rinse the surface of the red mushrooms with clean water
6. Scoop out the chicken soup, which is yellow and clear
7. Scoop out the broth and put it in Wash the red mushrooms, cover them and press them for one minute, then keep them warm for a while.
8. This is the cooked red mushroom chicken soup. The redder the soup, the shorter the pressing time and the fresher the taste. , add some salt before drinking.
It can be seen that northern mothers still mainly eat pasta and porridge during confinement. Millet porridge, noodles, etc. are common. Eggs are also essential, but they are not necessary. Eat too much, three meals a day, a hard-boiled egg for each meal, paired with brown sugar water, plus porridge or noodles is a nourishing postpartum meal. Although it is very nutritious, if you eat it every now and then, it will be a bit difficult for our northern mothers.
Confinement meals in the South are mainly based on soups. In addition to being light in taste, they are also very rich in ingredients. Moreover, the main difference between the South and the North is that as long as mothers in the South do not eat food that restores breast milk, Basically, there is nothing to worry about. You can eat lean meat, rice, or stir-fried vegetables. Compared with the north, confinement meals in the south are a little less simple and a little more delicate.
Although the confinement meals of both parties are very different, the confinement meals of both parties can supplement the mother's body with nutrients in time after the mother gives birth to the baby, so that the mother can be very energetic and have enough energy. Feeding your baby with milk enables your baby to thrive.
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Northern women usually drank millet porridge during confinement. That was a long time ago.
When my eldest son was born, I had three meals of millet porridge and egg soup. Millet is simply the magic meal for postpartum period, it can supplement everything. I feel constipated and angry after eating, but I still don’t feel full. When the second baby was born, he stopped drinking millet porridge. Now that the Internet is so developed and the amount of information and knowledge is so abundant, the north and the south are basically unified. During the confinement period, mothers no longer eat simple nutritional supplements such as millet porridge. Various confinement recipes are coming online one after another. Everyone will do it. Before I gave birth to my second child, I found a lot of confinement recipes, printed them out and bound them. I got a book and planned to follow them during the confinement period. But before I had time to prepare the ingredients, the baby was born two weeks early, and I ended up not eating a lot of it!
The climate in the south is different from that in the north, and the recipes for confinement are also different.
I heard that people in the south mainly eat the following:
1. Camellia oil: Camellia oil is very rich in vitamin E, vitamin D, vitamin K, carotene, and trace amounts of flavonoids. , early crisp and other substances. During the confinement period, if mothers consume tea oil appropriately, it can promote milk secretion and improve immunity.
I have never been to the south, and I have never eaten camellia oil, but I feel that camellia oil is also an oil, and the mother is quite happy. You know, we in the north cannot use oil in confinement dishes!
2. Rice wine: Rice wine contains sugar-water compounds, vitamins, etc., which help to replenish qi and activate blood circulation, reduce swelling and resolve knots, etc. It is very suitable for postpartum mothers to consume through breast milk.
3. Russula: Russula is considered to be the "Southern Red Ginseng". It is often stewed with chicken, duck, eggs, pork belly, pork chops, etc. It is delicious and rich in color, and can effectively improve the health of people. Maternal immunity.
4. Day lily: Day lily is rich in nutrients and contains many nutrients necessary for our human body, such as carbohydrates, protein, vitamin C, fat, carrots, etc. If consumed by postpartum mothers, it can promote lactation and relieve depression.
I am not from the South, so I won’t say much about what mothers in the South eat. Let’s talk about our north.
1. Millet: Millet contains iron, vitamins and dietary fiber, which has the effect of strengthening the spleen and replenishing deficiency. Millet cooked into porridge is rich in nutrients and is known as "Ginseng Soup". It is deeply loved by mothers-in-law in the north. I like making it for my daughter-in-law. I don’t know how many daughters-in-law like to eat it. I don't like it anyway.
2. Crucian carp: Crucian carp has the effect of promoting lactation, which I believe many people will understand. Almost every pregnant woman has drunk crucian carp soup.
3. Eggs: Eggs are nutritionally comprehensive, contain a variety of essential amino acids for our body, and are easily absorbed by the body. They are also highly praised by mothers-in-law in the north. Brown sugar and egg soup is a must-have for confinement rice. Before I gave birth to a child, I heard that someone ate more than a dozen eggs in one meal during confinement, and I was surprised how they ate it. It wasn’t until I was in confinement that I realized that even if I ate more than a dozen eggs and millet every day, I still wasn’t full!
Hubei women eat soup during confinement, mainly chicken soup, pork ribs soup, pig's feet soup, crucian carp soup, etc., plus eggs, rice, noodles, and vermicelli. Class Auxiliary. Generally, no condiments are added, and vegetables with strong pungent taste are not used, for fear that the child will stop breathing after feeding. Customs and habits may vary from place to place.