Meal Plan for Kids
Breakfast:
- Ideal time 6-8am.
- Milk +fruit / Soaked dry fruits in winters. (Preferably use one type of fruit)
Lunch:
- Time 11am-1pm
- Start with raw salads. ( sprouts can also be used in salads)
- Rice or Chapatti.
- Daal.
- Vegetables. ( vegetables quantity > daal)
- Daal.
- Curd optional.
Evening Snack Fruits/ Corn/ Biscuits
Dinner:
- Time 6-8pm.
- Start Mixed vegetables soup.
- Daal.
- Vegetables sabji (Vegetables – Rice or chaptti
Notes:
- Do not drink water just before or after meals.
- Fruits showed be preferably eaten ½ hour before meals/milk.
- White sugar is refined sugar. Raw forms of sugar like gud, shakker, mishri are better.
- Reduce /stop the use of white flour (maida and white sugar) in particularly hyperactive kids
- Milk is not the absolute necessity in child’s diet.