Before I gave birth to a child, I rarely went into the kitchen. I thought mothers who could cook a table of delicious food for their children were amazing.

After becoming a mother, starting from complementary foods, the kitchen novice has really transformed all the way. From being able to prepare a few complementary foods in an hour at the beginning, to now it is no problem to prepare a nutritious meal with meat, vegetables and staple food in 30 minutes.

Summarizing the growth along the way, it is actually good to master these principles: 1. Make a menu. From the time when the children started adding complementary foods, I made a plan. An important part of the plan was the menu. At that time, it was all done on a monthly basis.

Formulated, because in the early stage of complementary feeding, a new ingredient is added every two or three days. In fact, only 10 kinds of ingredients can be added in a month, which is not that troublesome.

But as the baby can eat more and more things, it starts to become a weekly menu.

What are the benefits of planning a menu?

It saves you worry and you don’t have to worry about what to feed your children every day. Just look at the menu and buy food.

The combination is more reasonable. The menu must be formulated to meet the needs of various ingredients for each stage of growth of the child. Only by eating them together can the nutrition be more balanced.

2. Preparing inventory For working mothers, it is necessary to prepare inventory.

I was still working during the complementary feeding period for my children. At that time, I would take advantage of weekends or other days when I got off work early and was not too tired, so I started making some frozen complementary foods, from various kinds of minced meat, to meatballs, and steamed cakes.

Nowadays, most of the steamed buns and dumplings that are edible have been frozen.

When you go to work, tell your family and children what they want to eat, then take it out and freeze it and heat it up. Family members also find it very convenient, or sometimes they are in a hurry and can eat it. It is very convenient to add meatballs and vegetables to make soup.

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In short, don’t panic if you have inventory.

3. Prepare in advance. Usually I will make simple preparations the night before. For example, put the rice in a stew pot and reserve it. When I wake up the next morning, I can have porridge directly. I can also put some corn, sweet potato or steamed buns on top.

Yes, it will be hot together.

Then the vegetables and fruits are simply processed and prepared, and they can be processed directly when you get up in the morning. It is very fast. When I was a child, I boiled them in plain water. Now I am older and can basically stir-fry or cool them.

Or if you don’t like to do it, just cut a few pieces of fruit.

Boil another egg, and the protein, vitamins, and sufficient water required for basic breakfast are all met.

The lunch pairing is usually rice or multi-grain rice with meat, stir-fried vegetables, soup, etc. In short, there will be meat and vegetables.

Sometimes noodles are cooked, but there are also three to five ingredients in them. It’s actually very simple. Even if you don’t make a menu, just add whatever dishes you have on hand.

Evening is about the same as noon, and sometimes I make some cakes and the like.

In fact, cooking for children does not necessarily have to be fancy. Those who can cook exquisite food are really great. Don’t compare. Let’s just cook three normal meals. Children mainly eat nutritious and balanced meals.

More important than anything else.

My children don’t like to drink porridge in the morning, so I usually make mango milkshake or banana milkshake, soy milk, or yogurt if I don’t have time, and pair it with steamed buns or steamed buns (sometimes I buy it the day before and freeze it in the refrigerator, and then heat it up when I want to eat it)

), steam eggs, corn, purple sweet potatoes, etc. You can choose several items to steam them in the pot at the same time, saving time and effort; or you can cook oats, add meat floss, eggs, carrots, etc.; and then set the alarm clock in the morning to get up early and cook eight-treasure porridge.

, and then go back to sleep; otherwise, make some dumplings in advance and eat them if you want.

If it's usually faster, I cook shrimp, steamed eggs (you can also minced meat, clams, you name it), steamed fish, etc. Everything that can be cooked at the same time is very fast.

Breakfast is really important, but time is really tight in the morning, so I have explored a lot of ways to make a nutritious breakfast quickly ~ I need to have high-quality protein, carbohydrates, vegetables and fruits every morning, so the first item is

~ Prepare milk, yogurt, soy milk, one cup is enough.

Adequate source of protein for children.

The second item, carbohydrates, are staple foods such as rice, pasta, and whole grains.

If the child likes to cook corn or multigrain porridge, put it in the rice cooker and turn on the corresponding mode, and you can prepare other things. If the child likes dumplings, wonton buns, you can make more when you have nothing to do, freeze them in the refrigerator, and cook a bowl in the morning.

Convenient and simple.

The third item is vegetables and fruits. Our country’s eating habit is to stir-fry vegetables. If you have enough time in the morning, you can stir-fry a portion of vegetables. If you don’t have time to prepare vegetables, you can eat them raw, such as lettuce. Chop them into salad dressing or add other fruits.

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Fourth, try a Western-style breakfast, such as an omelette, a piece of ham, lettuce, two slices of bread sandwiched together, a glass of dairy products, and some fruit to eat at school, which is also very good.

Fifth, you can cook meat in advance (sauce beef, cooked pork belly, etc.) and slice it into vegetables in the morning to make side dishes. Steamed pasta such as steamed buns is troublesome, so you can buy it in advance.