Menu of the kindergarten

A promising menu for a kindergarten is a balance between the cost of a daily diet, its calorie content and the quality of food. It should be noted that the child's diet in any educational and preventive institution should, first of all, be ideally balanced for fats, proteins and carbohydrates. This is necessary to ensure that the children's body receives all the necessary for growth and development in the amount in which these substances will only benefit.

The menu of the kindergarten is on average 1300-1500 calories per day, which is quite enough for the child. The daily diet should include:

• Porridge (most often it is served for breakfast). The most common baby porridge is oats or oatmeal. Also, babies eat excellent rice sweet soup, which can be added raisins. Of course, porridges are also used as side dishes. For example, buckwheat or rice. It is possible to replace the morning porridge with milk soup or an omelet, but no more than once a week.
• The first dish for lunch. It can be any soup, soup or borsch. Children are not prescribed in the menu the first dishes containing a large number of spices. Therefore, the most common dinners in the garden are soup from fresh or sour cabbage, borsch, oxalic or potato soup, as well as soup with pasta.
• The second course includes meat and garnish. In this case, the garnish can be simple (porridge, potatoes) and complex (mashed potatoes with canned green peas). Meat for children is delivered only fresh and quality. Usually it is chicken fillet, pork and beef. These three kinds of meat each kindergartener should eat during the week. It is allowed that the garden can feed children once or twice in 10 days with sausage or sausage products. Meat dishes can be very diverse and should not be repeated twice a week (cutlets, croissants, chops, stew with sauce, meat balls, etc.).
• Drinks: milk, kefir (low-fat), compote of fresh or dried fruit, juices, jelly, tea, coffee drink, cocoa. This type of products should not be duplicated during the day. Usually for breakfast, the children are given tea (regular, with milk or lemon) or a coffee drink. For mid-afternoon snacks (between breakfast and lunch, and lunch and dinner) - juices, milk or kefir. And for dinner - cocoa or something that was not prescribed for breakfast. Thus, the drink should not be repeated twice a day, but you can not always start the day with one drink.
• Bakery products (bread, black rye and white, rolls and cheesecakes, various sweets). Usually white bread with a slice of butter and cheese is given to the children for breakfast, and black bread for lunch. As for sweets, they are the basis of afternoon snacks (wafers, cookies, gingerbread and marshmallows). Also on a mid-morning snack, children can be given some fruit.

For dinner (if there is one in the garden), children can be offered garnish and meat, or soup.

The menu for the kindergarten is always drawn up at the end of the week for the next 7-10 days. This takes into account many factors:

1. Season of the year is important. After all, the range of dishes depends on the season.
2. Deliveries of various products. I explain: if pork is brought on Tuesday and Thursday, it means that it must be served on Tuesday or breakfast on Wednesday, and, respectively, on Thursday or for breakfast on Friday. The same situation is with chicken meat. Milk products should be eaten during the day of delivery, and they are delivered daily in the morning. It is assumed that a small residue can be used during the preparation of the next day's dishes.
3. From the shelf life and sales of products. Here, in general, we are talking about dairy products (cottage cheese), eggs and bread. The menu of the kindergarten should be written so that on Friday (if this is the last working day of the week), there are no remnants of these products. This is hard enough to calculate, because their purchase is made at the beginning of the week, i.e., the dieter should assume the number of people who eat.
4. Number of children in the institution. This item is one of the most difficult, because it is impossible to know in advance who will fall ill or just go to visit your grandmother for a visit this week. Of course, parents should warn the dieter that they are planning not to bring the child to the garden. But, unfortunately, this does not always work. Proceeding from this, on Friday it is necessary to finish everything that was not eaten within a week.
5. The menu of the kindergarten is drawn up on the basis of special developments, according to which children should receive a certain dish for a certain number of times during 10 days. The sister can only adjust the day of the product supply, and additional ingredients.
6. There is also a certain list of products that can not be used in cooking for children. This is also important to consider!
7. Do not give the same dish 2 times a week or several days in a row. Here we have in mind the main component, i.e. Chicken, pork or cabbage. It is assumed that if children ate chicken cutlets for dinner, then it is possible to make chops for breakfast from the remnants of meat, but no more.
8. Fruits and vegetables are an important part of the kindergarten menu. But they often cause a lot of difficulties, because the fruit can not be divided (cut). Therefore, in case of inaccurate order, there may be unnecessary or, on the contrary, not enough for someone. Also these products are perishable.

Thus, drawing up the menu of a kindergarten is a very hard job, which requires attention and knowledge of all the subtleties and calculation of caloric content of dishes. The sister should make such a menu that the child receives the necessary amount of energy, microelements and vitamins every day. Today, this work has been greatly simplified due to the advent of special computer programs that automatically calculate the calories and cost of each dish.