Suggest A Diet Plan For A Child Who Is Under Weight
Diet plan suggested
Detailed Answer:
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I have gone through your query carefully and understand your concerns. For proper development your child needs the following nutrients:
* Grains, especially whole grains and/or high fiber varieties
* Fruits and Vegetables, especially rainbow colored ones. Your child should consume 5 portions of fruits and vegetables every day.
* Fats and oils, especially oils from fish, nuts, avocados and liquid oil such as corn oil, soybean oil, olive oil and canola oil.
* Milk and dairy products
* Meat, poultry, fish, beans, peas, eggs, nuts, and seeds
* The vegetarian alternatives to meat are soya, beans, eggs, milk, cheese, yogurt, mushrooms, nuts, and seeds.
A typical diet plan can be something like:
* Early Morning - A glass of milk, 2 XXXXXXX biscuits
* Breakfast
- 1/2 bowl of milk with cornflakes and 1/2 banana
- 1/2 cup oatmeal with 1/2 teaspoon of honey and half an apple
- 1/2 cup XXXXXXX made with milk with crushed or powdered nuts
- 1/2 cup suji halwa with powdered cashews and almonds
- 1/2 bowl of vegetable poha
- 1/2 stuffed vegetable parantha
- 1 idli with peanut chutney
- 1/2 cup suji upma with vegetables
- 1 small cheela with tomato chutney or sauce
- 2 pieces paneer sandwich dhokla with green chutney
* Mid-morning Snack
You should keep this snack light as there is not much gap between this and lunch and filling up on this would not leave much room for lunch.
- 1 small banana, a small apple, 1 orange, half a cup cut papaya or any other seasonal fruit
- 2 XXXXXXX or whole-wheat biscuits
- 1/2 cup cut seasonal fruit
- 1/2 glass shikanji with honey
- 1/2 cup plain chaas
* Lunch
- 1 small chapatti smeared with little ghee with 1/4 cup dal and 1/4 cup vegetable. Keep serving different vegetables and dals.
- 1/4 cup dal and 1/4 cup seasonal vegetable with 1/2 cup rice. Add 1/2 teaspoon ghee to dal.
- 1 cup vegetable khichdi with 1/2 teaspoon ghee on top.
- 1/2 cup rice with 1/2 cup of sambar and 1 teaspoon peanut chutney.
- 1 cup vegetable pulao with 1/2 cup yogurt or raita.
- 1/2 cup Matar paneer with 1/2 cup rice or 1 small parantha.
* Evening Snack
- 1/2 cup milk with 2 wholewheat crackers
- 1 small sandwich with mixed fruit jam and butter
- 1 small peanut butter sandwich
- 1/2 cup fresh fruit cut into cubes and 1/2 cup milk
- 1 cup fresh fruit milkshake (banana, XXXXXXX cheeku etc.)
- 1 cup fresh fruit smoothie
- 5-6 sweet potato fries
- 3-4 Tofu or paneer sticks
* Dinner - Let the kid eat whatever and however much he wants. Let the dinner be light.
- 1/2 cup Vegetable pulao with mixed raita
- 1/2 to 1 cup Vermicelli upma with vegetables
- 1/2 to 1 cup Vegetable pasta with cheese
- 1/2 to 1 cup Vegetable noodles
- 1/2 to 1 cup Khichdi with veggies
- 1/2 cup Matar paneer with 1/2 cup rice or 1 small parantha
- 1 small chapatti with paneer bhurji
In case you are a non-vegetarian, suitable modifications may be done. The following items can be given in addition to the above list.
Breakfast
- 1 scrambled egg with buttered toast
- 1 Omelette with buttered toast
- French toast
- 2 small Banana pancakes with honey
Lunch
- Vegetable pulao with 1/4 cup egg curry
- 1 small chapatti with 1/4 cup chicken curry and salad
- 1/2 cup rice with 1/4 cup fish curry and veggies on the side
- Mild chicken biryani with mixed veg raita
Dinner
- Vegetable pulao with 1/4 cup egg curry
- 1 small chapatti with 1/4 cup chicken curry and salad
- 1/2 cup rice with 1/4 cup fish curry and veggies on the side
- Mild chicken biryani with mixed veg raita
- Chicken and veg pasta in tomato sauce
- Egg and veg noodles
Based on an understanding of the above you can custom make a diet plan that suits your child.
Let me know if I could help further.
Regards
You gave a list of suggestions for breakfast,lunch and dinner does the options are like all together or any one of them like for breakfast 1/2 bowl of milk with cornflakes and 1/2 banana or 1/2 cup oatmeal with 1/2 teaspoon of honey and half an apple or its both
Also does drinking milk causes phlegm and cough?
I give her 2 Idly with some raagi porridge for breakfast is it good to give raagi porridge to kids?
Anyone of them
Detailed Answer:
Thanks for writing back.
The suggestions for each meal is one hyphenated line (anyone) and not in combination.
Drinking milk does not cause phlegm.
2 idlies and ragi porridge are good. Ragi porridge in fact very good for kids.
Regards