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Every family wants to provide their children with the best possible conditions for growth and development. Poor financial or housing conditions, family size or unexpected and emergency situations make it difficult to provide appropriate foods and prepare food for an infant.
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Here is some advice on how to provide your child with the meals he/she needs. It is important to keep in mind that sometimes even a small addition to the diet can be greatly beneficial to the child.
- Add mashed boiled cooked vegetables and a teaspoonful of oil to the baby's purée.
- Vitamin A protects the child from infections and has a beneficial effect on the development of vision. In addition to breastmilk, it is found in dark green leafy vegetables (add a few leaves of chard, spinach or monk's rhubarb to the baby's purée), orange and yellow fruits or vegetables, eggs, dairy products.
- Mashed beans or eggs can replace meat.
- Children need foods rich in iron, in order to improve their physical and mental abilities and prevent anemia. The best sources of iron are animal-origin foods - eggs, meat, liver and fish. Another way of ensuring a sufficient iron intake is iron-fortified food (cereals or formulas for children on supplemental or artificial feeding).
- Give the child freshly prepared cooked food at least once or twice a day, and other meals can be dry and light - fruit, bread, biscuits, bananas. Safe food preparation and storage/safe child feeding
- Breastmilk is also an ideal "quick" meal.
