It is important to provide your young children with healthy and nutritious foods to meet their daily needs. It is a good idea to introduce your child to a variety of healthy, homemade foods. It is important to bear in mind that each child is unique and we must follow their instructions when feeding. Expert advice is that breakfast should be eaten 1 to 2 hours after waking up, as it is the first main meal of the day and helps break the fast, as the name suggests. Here are some breakfast recipes that are easy to make and healthy too:

Vegetable chilla with sooji and oatmeal

Ingredients: Sooji, rolled oats, onion, carrot, coriander leaves, salt, turmeric, butter, buttermilk and tomato sauce.

Preparation time: 20 to 25 minutes.

Method: Roast the sooji and oats well and set aside. Wash and clean the vegetables. Finely chop all the vegetables. In a bowl, combine the sooji, oatmeal, vegetables, and buttermilk. Mix well and prepare a dough with a dosa consistency. Add salt and turmeric. Brush the pan with a little butter. Pour half a ladle of batter into a preheated skillet. Cook well on both sides. Use different cookie cutters to make fun shapes. Serve with tomato sauce on the side.

Sprout Veg Idli

Ingredients: Sprouted moong daal, peas, onion, carrot, bell pepper, sooji, rice flour / besan, coriander leaves, salt, turmeric, curd and butter.

Preparation time of 20 to 25 minutes.

Method: Wash, clean and chop all the vegetables finely. By boiling the sprouts and peas. Drain it and let it cool. Grind the sprouts and peas in a blender. Mix together all the vegetables, the sprout and pea mixture, a tablespoon of besan, a tablespoon of sooji, and curd. Mix well and prepare balls in the form of idli. Preheat the Idli machine and put these balls in it. Steam for 10 to 12 minutes. Serve with hot sauce or tomato sauce.

Bread pizza

Ingredients: slices of whole wheat bread, pizza sauce, mayonnaise, onion, tomato, salt, slices of cheese, butter and tomato sauce.

Method: Cut the edges of the bread, wash and finely chop all the vegetables. Spread mayonnaise and pizza sauce evenly over bread. Put a handful of chopped greens and top with a slice of cheese. Butter preheated skillet; put these slices of bread on it. It toasts a couple of minutes. Serve with tomato sauce on the side. Use different cookie cutters to make fun shapes.

The food that we offer to our children should please their eyes, try to make it colorful. Young children are known to be picky eaters and picky eaters. They want to assert their newfound independence by feeding themselves. Snacks are one of the best food options for two-year-olds, as they can eat them without creating too much of a mess.