Menu for a child's birthday 1-3 years

The first birthday is the most awaited holiday for the whole family. Behind there are many first troubles and worries. Table for a child from 1 year can already be expanded and supplemented with many dishes. For kids aged 2-3 years, you can include various combinations of products in the menu; you also definitely need useful sweets as desserts.

For kids up to three years, overloading the menu with an abundance of products is not worth it.

For kids, the holiday itself will become more important than what dishes stand on the holiday table. Most likely, after many years he will not even remember how the celebration went. Just try give baby on this day more joyful emotions.

Include in the menu:

• a couple of types of snacks;
• hot meal;
• dessert.

As an appetizer, you can even serve a simple carrot salad, but it is better to supplement it with sliced ​​dried apricots and fill with sour cream. Crackers with chicken or fish paste, decorated with slices of thinly sliced ​​cucumber, are perfect for older babies.

Kids at the age of 2-3 years love to eat canapes and sandwiches. Choose fresh and soft breads. It is better to give preference to white wheat bread, as it is easier to digest. Add canapes with pieces of boiled chicken and fresh vegetables. Put on the skewers all the ingredients for the canapes alternately, put the food on a beautiful plate. Kids will love the original design of the dish.

For hot at this age it is better to use the usual products, but with an unusual method of cooking. Instead of soup with turkey and boiled rice, cook baked rolls of turkey meat stuffed with vegetables, and serve garnish with boiled rice. Such new combinations of familiar products will not harm the children's body after a feast.

As a dessert, give preference to light souffles or milk-based puddings. Cook them easily and at home. To do this, boil the milk, add sugar and pre-swollen gelatin. Pour into molds and refrigerate until cool. Such dairy puddings can be decorated with chopped fruit or strawberries. For a birthday, insert a candle in the dessert and light it. This is definitely a very nice kid.

The first birthday is a very important and long-awaited holiday for parents and grandparents. The child still does not understand what all these holidays that adults like so much mean.

When organizing a menu for children holiday You should choose a starter, main course and dessert. If your child likes fruits and berries, prepare a fruit bowl with chopped fruits.

On the hot side, you can cook baked turkey meat balls with a complex side dish. To do this, prepare the meat balls from the turkey meat and bake in a heat-resistant form in the oven with a creamy sauce. As a side dish, cook mashed cauliflower and potatoes. To make mashed potatoes of beautiful color, you can add boiled egg yolks to it and grind.

For sweets, you can cook milk-rice plum pudding. For babies 2-3 years old, you can add a little vanilla or cinnamon, as well as citrus zest.

As a beverage, babies can be offered any berry juice or compote (preferably cooked at home). From the purchased carbonated drinks should be abandoned, they are too much sugar and dyes. A wonderful choice would be blackcurrant juice or strawberry.

The decor of the holiday table should also be given due attention. Be sure to carefully select the festive colors for the table. You can also decorate the room, walls and windows with decorative elements.

Bright printed posters with greeting words can be hung on the wall. Kids of this age love balloons very much. Choose helium balloons that look very nice under the ceiling of the room, giving a real festive mood to the little ones.

An excellent addition to the gift will be a large print poster depicting photos of the baby in different months of the first year of life. It can then be hung on the wall in the nursery. The kid will be able to see him, remembering how small he was.

Festive table can not be imagined without a beautiful tablecloth. Choose a tablecloth of bright colors (or taking into account the chosen theme, the interior of the room). On the table you can put a bright dish and decorate all the festive decorations. Do not put candles on the table! A child may accidentally get burned. If you decide to light a candle on a holiday cake or dessert, be sure to strictly ensure that the child does not cause injury to himself or burn himself. After blowing out the candle immediately remove it.

The organization of a children's holiday table for kids causes moms a lot of trouble and questions.

To facilitate the process of preparing for an important family celebration, use the following tips:

• Try to plan and create a menu for children's parties in advance. Think over which supermarkets and stores you will buy products for the holiday table. Write down the dishes and necessary products in the diary. So you can not only create a menu, but also calculate in advance the approximate costs of organizing a holiday.
• Purchase only the freshest products. Never buy food many months in advance! Check expiration dates, especially closely monitor the suitability of fermented milk products.
• Cook at home. For children under the age of three years try not to buy ready-made salads and hot. So you protect your kids from possible food poisoning after the holiday.

• Do not include new products and ingredients in the holiday menu. If your baby has never tried fish or seafood before the holiday, you shouldn’t include them in the menu. The result can be a trip to the hospital with a strong allergic reaction, and not blowing out the candles on the birthday cake. Use only those products with which your baby has long been familiar.
• For babies of the first year of life on the birthday try to cook familiar dishes. You can cook a daily meal, but in a new version. This will avoid the appearance of indigestion or colic in the baby after the holiday.

• It is better to plan the celebration on lunch time. Focus on the usual time. For one year old babies, be sure to consider the regimen. If your baby usually sleeps after lunch, he will almost certainly want to rest on his birthday.
• Do not overload the menu with an abundance of dishes. It is better to prepare a good table for relatives, relatives and friends who will come to congratulate the kid on his birthday. For the crumbs more suitable pair of snacks, hot and light dessert. You can add fruit to the menu.
• Observe portion sizes. It is not necessary to offer the birthday man a double portion in honor of the birthday. It only hurts the baby and can cause abdominal pain, impaired stool. Follow normal diet even on a birthday. For kids under three years old it is very important.

Making a menu for a festive table is not an easy task, but an interesting one. I want to organize a holiday for the kid so that he has only joyful memories from this day. For kids under the age of three years, meals for the holiday table should be the most simple.

Banana pudding is a dessert that any kid will love. Detailed instructions for cooking delicacies - in the attached video.