What to cook for the New Year for a nursing mother

No favorite winter celebration is complete without a luxurious festive table. The hostesses do their best and prepare the most unusual and delicious dishes to please the whole family. But not all of them can afford to enjoy prepared foods, for example, mothers who are breastfeeding their children. However, don’t be upset, in addition to forbidden foods, there are many recipes based on healthy products from which you can create an excellent New Year’s menu for a nursing mother of a newborn.

Nutritional rules for breastfeeding

For newborn babies, the quality of breast milk is very important. This is their main food, which contains all the elements necessary for their full development and rapid growth. But this is only possible if the parent’s daily diet is carefully thought out and balanced. Proper food is needed not only for the child, but also for the woman herself - it helps her quickly restore her body after childbirth.

As for the baby, in the first days and weeks after his birth, high-quality milk helps to form the baby’s immunity, since, thanks to this, the intestines are populated with beneficial colonies of bacteria. Very often, the lack of important components in breast milk causes problems with the digestive tract in children. Because of this, they experience discomfort and pain with constipation, colic, and sometimes allergic reactions.

List of prohibited products

Let's figure out which foods and dishes are contraindicated for nursing mothers:

1. 3-4 months after the birth of the child, it is necessary to exclude egg yolks, natural honey, any nuts and seafood, as well as red and orange fruits and vegetables (including citruses) from the diet. This is necessary so as not to provoke an allergy in the baby.
2. Almost all babies suffer from abdominal pain and colic, which begins less than a month after birth. To prevent this trouble, mothers are not recommended to eat various pickled vegetables, fresh cabbage, baked goods prepared with yeast, soda, legumes, enzyme-based cheeses, grapes, radishes.
3. It will be hard for mothers with a sweet tooth - too much sugar is extremely harmful for small children. Sometimes it can cause red spots and severe itching to appear on the child’s skin, and these are the first signs of diathesis - impaired metabolism. Therefore, you need to give up overly sweet desserts and drinks. During the first 30 days, you should completely avoid sweets, especially store-bought ones, since such products contain margarine. But already in the second month you can eat crackers, cookies, cheesecakes, marshmallows, marmalade, and marshmallows in small portions. Preferably, without flavorings or harmful additives in the composition.
4. Sausage, carbonate, frankfurters, and smoked meat products are also not advisable for consumption. They contain increased levels of sodium and salt, which increases the risk of decreased milk production due to dehydration.
5. Delicacies (fish, meat), lard, venison, elk, wild boar, dried and fatty meats are also among the prohibited dishes.
6. You can start eating mushrooms, preferably champignons, when the child turns 7 months old. This is a heavy product that, when consumed, leads to digestive disorders.

To reduce the risk of poisoning and other troubles, the list of undesirable foods includes any canned food (vegetables, meat), semi-finished products, and instant food. Needless to say, consuming a large amount of salt is harmful not only for the child, but also for his mother, just like vinegar, so you will have to give up marinades in any form. Poor mothers are probably groaning now - so many things are listed, what can be put on the New Year's table for a nursing mother?

What products are allowed

If the baby is in the first month, then the mother should be especially careful about her diet. At this time, the following foods and products are allowed:

1. Liquid soups based on vegetable broth or lean meat broth (not too strong).
2. Vegetable dishes can only be prepared by boiling, baking or steaming.
3. Fruit purees and juices can be consumed, but they must be safe baby food.
4. The meat that a parent can afford is boiled turkey or chicken.
5. Egg yolks should not be eaten, only the whites, which can be added to the salad.
6. Cottage cheese, despite the fact that the baby needs it, the mother can eat in limited quantities, as it can cause constipation in the child.
7. Sour cream is also allowed from fermented milk products, but not a lot - it can be used to season various dishes.
8. The best side dish is rice and buckwheat.

In the second and third months, mommy can already afford:

• eggs with yolks;
• barley and millet porridge;
• greens and fresh vegetables, with the exception of tomatoes, cucumbers and cabbage;
• twice a week – sea fish in small portions;
• pasta;
• fresh fruits, including bananas;
• from meat products - rabbit meat and lean beef.

After the third month, the diet expands significantly, but gradually and little by little. However, citrus fruits, chocolate products, honey, mushrooms and alcohol are still undesirable to eat. Therefore, the New Year's menu for a nursing mother of a newborn should be carefully thought out.

Appetizers and salads

As a snack, a vegetable salad would be an excellent solution. Classic Olivier can be easily adapted for nursing by simply replacing dangerous ingredients. So, instead of salted or pickled cucumbers, they put fresh ones, and instead of boiled sausage, they put boiled meat. You can prepare beetroot and Greek salad, vinaigrette. You can take a more unusual recipe.

• Green apple – 1 pc.;
• Turkey or chicken fillet – 200 g;
• Avocado – 1 pc.;
• Lettuce – 1 piece;
• Olive oil and lemon juice for dressing;
• Salt to taste.

Boil the poultry meat and cut into small pieces. Peel and cut the fruit into cubes, tear the lettuce leaves with your hands. Mix the ingredients, season with oil and sprinkle with lemon juice. Add salt and mix.

• Chicken fillet – 400 g;
• Green apples – 2 pcs;
• Hard cheese – 100 g;
• Walnuts – 50 gr;
• Eggs – 4 pcs.;
• Sour cream or natural yoghurt for dressing – 150 ml;
• Salt and pepper to taste.

Boil the fillet and eggs. Peel the apples. Cut the chicken, peeled eggs and fruit into cubes. Chop the soaked nuts and grate the cheese on a fine grater. The salad is laid out in layers. Eggs are placed first, then chicken, nuts, apples and cheese. Each layer is coated with yogurt or sour cream, salt and pepper. The prepared salad can be decorated with greens on top.

• Beets – 2 pcs.;
• Dried apricots – 30 gr;
• Hard cheese – 50 g;
• Walnuts – 30 gr.

Boil the beets, peel and cut into cubes. Chop the soaked nuts and dried apricots and add to the beets. For dressing, use olive oil and lightly add salt. Easy and quick to prepare, the salad turns out to be very nutritious and satisfying. The dish can be decorated with sprigs of greenery.

Fish salad

• Boiled fish – 250 grams;
• Cherry tomatoes – 5 pieces;
• Bell pepper – 2 pieces;
• Green leaf salad – 1 bunch;
• Olive oil and juice of ½ lemon for dressing;
• Salt to taste.

The finished fish is minced in a meat grinder or chopped in a blender. The peppers are cut into strips, and the cherry tomatoes into halves. The salad is torn into large pieces. Mix the ingredients, add olive oil and lemon juice, and lightly salt.

• Chicken breast – 400 g;
• Sesame seeds – 1 tbsp. spoon;
• Hard cheese – 100 g;
• Lettuce – 1 bunch;
• Gray wheat bread - 3 slices;
• Vegetable oil and salt to taste.

Boil and cut the chicken, cut the bread and fry in vegetable oil. You can also dry the crackers yourself on a radiator. Grate the cheese. Tear the lettuce leaves with your hands and place in a dish, sprinkle sesame seeds on top, add chicken. Place crackers and cheese on top. For dressing, use oil and add salt if desired.

There are many vegetable recipes, but not everything can be afforded by a young mother feeding a child. Recipes for breastfeeding should not have many components. Salads with fresh vegetables and fruits can be eaten only when the baby’s colic period ends.

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New Year's menu for a nursing mother of a newborn

Let's try to consider all the categories of dishes that are usually served at the holiday table, and select the most acceptable, healthy, and, of course, delicious for our mothers. The first item on the New Year's menu for nursing mothers, as well as for other family members, will be hot.

The options are:

1. Depending on the age of the child, it can be boiled chicken, turkey, or best of all, breast. If you take beef, it must be lean, tender veal meat or a rabbit dish is acceptable if the baby is already 3-4 months old. Meat pieces can be boiled, stewed, or baked in the oven. Most importantly, a minimum of spices, garlic, onions, seasonings.
2. Provided that the portion is small, a woman can treat herself to fish for the holiday - salmon steak, rainbow trout, flounder or cod.
3. For a side dish, it is better to choose rice, not in the form of porridge, but crumbly, but potatoes, previously peeled and soaked in water for half an hour, are also suitable. This is necessary so that the starch comes out of it. It can then be boiled, pureed, or baked in the oven. Vegetables are baked in the same way - it’s much tastier than eating them boiled. If you add a little sour cream to them, the dish will turn out even more appetizing.

Simple New Year's recipes for a nursing mother will help you prepare original, light, and, at the same time, satisfying dishes that the rest of the household is unlikely to refuse to try:

Fish fillet with cream. To prepare, you need to take any fish fillet (300 g), a glass of low-fat sour cream or cream, an onion, 2 tablespoons of wheat flour and sunflower oil. The only spices are pepper, salt and one bay leaf. The fish is cut into portions, placed in a frying pan along with onions cut into half rings, and after adding water, simmer for 5-8 minutes. A little flour is poured in there, sour cream or cream is poured in, and the stewing continues for another 20 minutes with the lid closed. The best accompaniment to this dish is mashed potatoes.

Veal baked with tomatoes. This dish can be made easily and quickly. Ingredients: fresh piece of veal, tomatoes, garlic and a small piece of cheese. The dish is very simple to prepare. Each serving consists of a small piece of meat of medium thickness. Inside, you need to make transverse cuts into which a slice of each ingredient is inserted. Wrap the meat in foil and bake over high heat for 50 minutes. A few minutes before the end, the pieces must be opened so that an appetizing crust forms on them.

An ideal dish for breastfeeding mothers is chicken breast. Boiled chicken is too boring for such a holiday, but you can bake meat with vegetables. The result will be a wonderful dietary dish. For one breast you will need two zucchini or zucchini, a piece of hard cheese and bacon, as well as several sprigs of parsley, olive oil and salt. The chopped vegetables are placed on a baking sheet, sprinkled with oil and lightly seasoned. The pieces of breast are coated with crushed parsley. Then they need to be wrapped in thin sheets of bacon and placed on top of the vegetables. In the oven at 180 degrees, just keep the dish for 30 minutes.

Festive salads that will also be useful for mom can be made from:

1. Cherry tomatoes, watercress, dill and grated Parmesan. You can season it with sesame seed or olive oil.
2. Tomatoes, boiled cod, sweet peppers and lettuce, which is seasoned with lemon juice and olive oil.
3. Boiled chicken breast, eggs, any hard cheese and green apples. After mixing, the salad is poured with yogurt or low-fat sour cream.
4. Chicken or turkey fillet with avocado pulp, green apple slices and regular lettuce leaves. Dressing – mixed lemon juice and vegetable oil.
5. Made from lettuce leaves, bell peppers, olives and cheese with herbs. You cannot use feta cheese, fermented Suluguni or Adyghe cheese, but you can use any other, semi-soft one. It's almost like a Greek salad.

If the baby is already 3-5 months old, the mother can make a tasty and healthy salad with boiled beets, walnuts, cheese and dried apricots, seasoning it with any oil (vegetable).

Let's see what sweets a nursing mother can have for the New Year. You can cook:

• apple marshmallows and marshmallows made from egg whites, applesauce, agar-agar and powdered sugar;
• cottage cheese soufflé with apples made from soft cottage cheese, apples, eggs and almonds;
• cottage cheese casserole using yogurt, almond flour and chia seeds;
• pies (not yeast) using apples, cinnamon, eggs and sour cream;
• cake made from banana, kefir, egg and red rice, pre-ground;
• candies made from dried apricots and coconut flakes, just use a blender to chop the apricots, and then roll them into balls and roll them in coconut flakes, ground into flour.

Delicious first course recipes for nursing mothers

Despite many prohibitions, you can prepare wonderful soups that should definitely be present in the diet of a nursing mother. After all, first courses are the path to proper, healthy and varied nutrition.

Photo of a recipe for a simple and tasty soup for nursing mothers

• Skinless chicken breast should be boiled.
• Add diced potatoes, grated carrots and a little onion to the broth.
• Prepare the dumplings as follows: mix 1 egg with milk and egg until thick sour cream, add salt.
• Next, use a teaspoon to drop the dough into the boiling broth. It will take 5-7 minutes for them to be ready, so you should throw the dumplings into the soup when the vegetables are not yet cooked.
• Add bay leaf if desired.
• The soup is ready when the dumplings float to the surface and cook for a couple more minutes.

Fish soup

Mandatory criteria for a nursing mother's diet are completeness and calorie content. During this period, a woman needs 400 - 600 kilocalories more daily than in other periods of life. The lactation process is complex; beneficial substances enter the milk from the mother’s body, which means their supply in the body must be sufficient.

Modern doctors and scientists agree that absolutely any product can cause an allergic reaction if it is consumed in excessive quantities. At the same time, when a child receives allergens in small quantities through milk, his body gradually adapts to them. However, you should gradually accustom your baby to different substances in milk.

That’s why it’s so important to follow a diet in the first month after the baby is born. And for the entire period of breastfeeding, avoid semi-finished products, canned, smoked, fried foods, as well as those containing vegetable fat, preservatives, dyes, flavors, and substitute products.

It’s better to eat more often, but little by little (3-5 meals a day).

Breakfast

Eat porridge for breakfast. At first, choose those that do not contain gluten (it causes allergies in many). It can be buckwheat, rice, corn porridge. Boil them in water. Place a piece of butter in the finished dish.

Two or three times a week, replace porridge with cottage cheese (Never with a cottage cheese product - carefully read the information on the label). If you take low-fat, eat it with sour cream.

As a drink, try rosehip infusion, weak green or black tea (not from bags, loose leaf), herbal teas. There are herbal infusions on sale intended for nursing mothers. Be careful with infusions of sage, jasmine, mint: they suppress lactation. Drink tea without sugar. If you really want to add it, replace white refined with brown cane.

We invite you to familiarize yourself with Beef recipes for nursing mothers

Avoid coffee and strong tea. They can cause colic, overexcitation, and disrupt sleep. Remember that when breastfeeding, liquids should be consumed in moderation. Its deficiency leads to dehydration of the body, increasing the fat content of milk, while its excess leads to lactostasis. The consumption rate for a nursing woman is 2.5–3 liters, including water supplied with food. Half of this amount should be drinking water.

If you want something sweet for your tea, replace your usual confectionery with dried fruits (dried apples, pears, prunes) and biscuits.

Make it a rule to eat soup every day, because it replenishes the body with useful substances, vitamins, and microelements. In addition, warm liquid promotes better milk production. At first, eat regular vegetable broths, adding zucchini and potatoes. Instead of table salt when cooking, use sea salt. Don't forget about greens, they promote better digestion of food.

After a week, try cooking meat or fish broths. For meat, use turkey, rabbit, veal, lean pork, for fish - cod, hake, pike perch. Pour water over the meat or fish, cook for two to three minutes after boiling, and then add new water. Try adding carrots, cabbage, onions, and garlic there.

Contrary to popular belief, onions and garlic do not spoil the taste of milk, especially when boiled. Excessive consumption of cabbage can cause increased gas formation and colic in the baby. However, boiled in small quantities will only be beneficial, because it is a storehouse of vitamins and microelements. Do not eat cabbage or peas raw at first.

Instead of yeast breads and pastries, use whole grain bread, bran bread, rye buns, and crispbread.

For the main course, prepare potatoes, pasta, and stewed zucchini. Add unrefined vegetable oil to vegetables - olive, sunflower, corn, flaxseed. Eat meat daily (preferably boiled or steamed). The daily norm is 100 grams.

Dried fruit compote is suitable as a drink.

Although during the lactation period food should be varied and nutritious, some foods should be abandoned. These include:

• fatty meats, especially fried (goose, pork, duck);
• any semi-finished products (sausages, sausages, etc.);
• mushrooms;
• sweet baked goods;
• nuts;
• citrus fruits, other fruits and red berries;
• concentrated meat broths;
• canned food;
• red bell pepper;
• legumes;
• ketchup and spicy sauces;
• cabbage, radish, radish;
• garlic and onion;
• alcoholic and carbonated drinks;
• rich tea and natural coffee.

Refusal of such food prevents negative consequences for the baby and helps a woman get rid of excess weight.

A dish prepared according to all the rules will avoid disturbances in the digestive process.

• buckwheat - a glass;
• potatoes – 200 g;
• onion - 1 piece;
• carrot – 1 piece;
• vegetable oil - a tablespoon;
• parsley - a tablespoon;
• salt - to taste.

Vegetables are thoroughly washed and peeled. Finely chop the onion, carrot and potato. Place onions and carrots at the bottom of a greased multicooker bowl and sauté for 10 minutes. in the "Baking" mode. Next, pour in the buckwheat, and after 5 minutes, add the potatoes. In 10 minutes. pour one and a half liters of water, salt. And cook the soup in the “Stew” mode for 60 minutes. Add greens 10 minutes before the end of cooking. If you want a twist, mix 1 egg with a tablespoon of water in a glass and pour into the broth in a thin stream.

Meatball soup

Minced meat is made from dietary meat in a meat grinder. Wait until the water boils in the pan and add the chopped potatoes, carrots and onions. After 15 min. small meatballs and vermicelli are added. After another 15 minutes. After boiling, add salt and sprinkle with herbs.

Fish soup

Boil cod or pollock for a few minutes. Drain the boiling water, clean the fish from the bones, and divide it into small pieces. Cut up fish, potatoes, carrots, onions and a little rice cereal are dipped into new boiling water. After waiting for it to boil, leave on low heat for another 20 minutes. Salted, decorated with herbs.

Second courses

Great attention is paid to the type of heat treatment.