balanced meals. She even takes them along to buy ingredients, at the same time she teaches them what to check while buying raw food material. Don’t you think she makes the task of serving them nutritious meals attractive? Besides, encourage children in age- appropriate tasks of cooking their meals, and serving.
They often get excited and develop healthy and positive concepts of food. Besides following the guidelines for planning balanced diets you may refer to Table for the quantities of foods to be consumed by school going children as recommended by ICMR: Table : Balanced Diet for School Going Children (ICMR), S.No. Food Groups Quantities (g) – years – years Boys Girls . Cereals and Millets .
Pulses and Legumes . Milk and products . Fruits and vegetables Roots and Tubers Green Leafy Vegetables Other Vegetables Fruits . Sugars Fats Amrita and Ankit very particular about serving three balanced meals and two healthy snacks to their school age children .
Let us view the diet plan prepared by them for their children for today. You can use it as cross reference. — Breakfast: Milk and cornflakes, Rawa upma and an apple or any seasonal fruit — School Tiffin: Grilled sandwich with egg filling for their daughter but paneer filling for the son (who is allergic to egg) and a seasonal fruit. — Lunch: Vegetable pulao, tomato rings and cucumber sticks for salad and butter milk.
— Evening Snack: Boiled potato and moong sprout chaat . — Dinner: Bengal gram dal or chicken curry, okra and onion vegetable, chapati and raw salad. In rural areas the breakfast may consist of items such as upma (with banana), pootu (with chana curry or banana), idli or dosa (with sambar / coconut chutney) or appams (with potato/chicken curry) in the south or paranthas with buttermilk or poori with potato preparation in the north. Snacks may include items prepared from rice flour with a filling of jackfruit and a paste of nuts or rice flour extruded from