Some Foods That Will Help In Keeping your Child Healthy

Foods contains Iron, Mineral and Vitamins are also important for children, they are very beneficial for their growing age. We provide different types of food for the growth of our children. The best sources of iron include- Beans, Dried fruits, Eggs, Cereals, Whole grains. Vitamin- A, D, E, K . Minerals like- Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium and sodium. These are found in large quantities in most fruits and vegetables.

Iron: Iron deficiency is very beneficial for our child. The amount of Iron is very beneficial for bones. Iron is essential for producing oxygen for human body. Iron is found in every cells of the body. And we get iron through foods.

The best sources of Iron include foods:

1. Beans : all types of beans
2. Dried Fruits: Prunes, Raisin, Apricots.
3. Legumes: Soya beans, peas, Dried Beans, Kidney Beans.
4. Seeds: Almond, Brazil Nuts.
5. Vegetables: Broccoli, Spinach, Collards Green, Dandelion greens
6. Whole grains: Wheat, Millet, Oats, Brown rice.

The best sources of Vitamin Include foods:

Fat soluble:

1. Vitamin A: Eggs, Fortified Milk, Sweet Potatoes, Carrots, Pumpkins, Spinach, Mangoes.
2. Vitamin D: Fortified Milk and Cereals.
3. Vitamin E: Leafy Green Vegetables, Vegetables oil, Whole grains, Nuts.
4. Vitamin K: Cabbage, Milk, Eggs, Spinach, Broccoli,

Water Soluble:

1. B1: Soymilk, Watermelon, Squash
2. B2: Milk, Yogurt, Cheese, Whole grains, Cereals.
3. B3: Whole Grains, Mashrooms, Potatoes
4. B5: Chicken, Whole Grains, Broccoli, Avocado, mashrooms.
5. B6: Soy Products, Bananas, Tofu
6. B7: Whole grains, Eggs, Soya beans
7. B9: Grains and cereals, Spinach, Broccoli, Orange juice.
8. B12: Fortified Milk, Cereals, Cheese.

The Best source of Minerals:

1. Calcium: Yogurt, Cheese, Milk, Leafy Green Vegetable.
2. Magnesium: Spinach, Broccoli, Seeds, Wheat bread.
3. Potassium: Milk, Fruits, Vegetable, Grains.
4. Sodium: Salt, Soy Sauce, Vegetable.
5. Chromium: Nuts, Cheese

Some Food Recipe for baby: So today we have brought some recipes for your baby. It is healthy weight gain recipe.

1- SEMOLINA (Sooji,Rava) PUDDING : Semolina is very beneficial for your child. It increase the strength of your child. The child become healthy and fat. Many things can be made with semolina like Pudding, Dosa, Uttapam, Upma etc.

Semolina Pudding: Semolina pudding is very beneficial and healthy for your child. This is very simple dish.

1. Roast the 1/2 cup semolina
2. Take 2 cups of water
3. Take sugar/salt as per taste
4. Ghee

Recipe: Place a pan on the gas stove over low flame, Put ghee in the pan, when the ghee becomes slightly warm put the cardamom in it, Cardamom gives a nice aroma and taste the put 2 cup of water in it. After taking a boil in water put semolina in it, add sugar as per taste and keep stirring it. Then serve it in a bowl. then feed the child by putting milk in it.

2- DALIA: Dalia is very healthy for your child. Dalia recipe is recipe from grandmother’s time. It is made in two ways sweet and salty. Dalia means broken wheat. It is used in every household. It used to make pudding, porridge, upma, pulao.

1. Roast the Dalia
2. Take 2 or 3 cups of milk
3. Take sugar/Juggery/honey as per taste
4. ghee

a- Recipe of sweet dalia : It is very easy recipe, This recipe is from your grand mother’s time. Take 2 cups of roasted dalia in the cooker. place a cooker on the low flame gas stove. Put Dalia , milk and ghee in the cooker and whistle it. After 4-5 whistles turn down the flame. after 5 minutes open the cooker and see if dalia is cooked properly, add milk to it add sugar, honey, juggery as per taste and let it boil.

b- Recipe of salty dalia: Take 2 cup of roasted dalia and some veggies like, carrot, onion, capsicum, broccoli, beans, first cook veggies, take a 1 table spoon ghee in the cooker let veggies saute. Put Dalia in it and add 3 cups of water. Add salt and whistle it. After 5-6 whistles turn of the flame and after 5 minutes open the cooker and see dalia is cooked properly then mashed it. Then take 1 table spoon of ghee in other pan when the ghee is slightly warm add 1 pinch mustard seed, 1 pinch hing, 1 pinch cumin seed then put all Dalia in the pan and stirring it. Feed your child.

3- UPMA: Upma is very simple dish it get ready in 10 minutes. It is made with semolina. It is very healthy for your child.

1. Take 1/2 cup of fine semolina.
2. 1 cup hot water
3. 1 pinch turmeric powder
4. 2 tsp ghee
5. 1 pinch hing
6. salt as per taste
7. 1 pinch mustard seed
8. 1 pinch cumin seed

Recipe: Roast the semolina in the pan for 5 minutes until aroma comes. Heat ghee in a saucepan. Add mustard seeds, and cumin seeds the add hot water in it. Add sooji little by little to the hot water. Make sure there are no lumps remained. Add turmeric, hing and salt. Then cooked for 3-5 minutes in medium flame. Switch off the flame once done.

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