5 BEST HEALTHY MEALS FOR CHILDREN

5 Best healthy meals for children.  These are our best 5 healthy recipes for children. Some kids are picky with food, others

cannot stand peppery food. Some kids would have really loved to enjoy Nigerian food but the pepper content scares them. Imagine Nigerian jollof rice with less pepper… Which kid won’t love it and ask for more?

A look at our Nigerian school lunchbox foods will give an idea of what kids love to eat. Kids naturally don’t care about eating healthy meals. They just want what’s sweet and sugary. To make them love eating healthy meals, we have to make their food not only tasty but also nutritious and colorful.

Recipes for 3 month old babies, 6 month old babies and babies ready for weaning all already on the blog. Here are our 10 best healthy meals for children all ages.

5 BEST HEALTHY MEALS FOR CHILDREN IN NIGERIA

1. Ripe plantain with beans porridge. Whether boiled or fried, very soft ripe plantain (over ripe) plantains are loved by kids. If you have picky kids, try serving them plantain with beans porridge. Cook the beans delicious with fish and crayfish, cook your beans really soft and watch your picky kids enjoy their meal.

2. Boiled rice with tomato stew (Reduced pepper stew) Rice and Nigerian tomato stew is a favourite of many kids. They love this meal and can endure the pepper in Nigerian stews but some can’t and would rather skip the delicious lunch or dinner. If you have never hit it with tomato stews and are beginning to be scared of cooking stews, there is one method you need to try… Cook good Nigerian stews by first boiling your tomatoes before blending. That way you are sure nothing will go wrong with the taste. You can boil the tomatoes with carrots before blending and frying. Carrots add delicious taste to tomato stews. Kids love the aroma of tomatoes and carrots mixed together.

3. Fried rice with chicken. If you have kids that don’t really love to eat their vegetables, cook the Nigerian fried rice with less vegetables. Add a few greens and carrots with your boiled liver and they’d love it. To make the taste more acceptable for them. Rather than use runner beans or peas, for green colour, fry your green bell peppers with onion. Kids love that taste more. Some kids cannot eat Nigerian fried rice because of the type of green vegetable used… Runner beans if not properly cooked can make them ignore the meal. Peas too are delicious and nutritious but a few kids don’t like them. Do not try to force them to eat the meals. Just use their most preferred green and you’ll get them to eat well.
4. Spaghetti or macaroni with stew or sauce or even gravy. Kids love pasta. I am yet to see a kid who rejects pasta served with good sauces and stews. The only time I saw a kid ignore their pasta meal was because of the spicy stew served. Boi pasta (Macaroni or spaghetti and serve with good shredded chicken sauce or good stews. They’ll clear their plates and leave no leftovers for you. You can also try out all our gravy recipes on the blog. They’ll love them.

5. Bread and beverage. This helped a lot those days when I needed to wean my babies from breastmilk. Bread and beverage also known and Tea in Nigeria can be delicious and filling. Kids below 10 love this especially. I call it a meal because after the bread and tea, they still eat a boiled egg or some coleslaw to balance the meal. Most kids who are very picky with foods cannot reject bread and tea. For this age, they enjoy it most when the bread is dipped in the tea (Beverage) eaten soft like that.

 

These five meals listed here are the best 5 healthy meals for kids in Nigeria. They love these healthy meals. Can you add to this list by naming other healthy meals for kids?