Bella Adams
Both children and adults look forward to celebrating the New Year. Some families are accustomed to long feasts with a huge number of dishes for every taste, but such a strain on the stomach often leads to undesirable consequences. Let’s figure out what rules you should follow to celebrate the holidays with ease and health benefits.
When choosing ingredients for the holiday table, you should create a healthy children’s menu. Remember that eating any heavy foods before bedtime can lead to digestive disorders and problems with the intestines, gallbladder, and stomach.
How to choose the right dishes for your baby for the New Year
- When planning a children’s menu, you should take into account the age, health status, and tastes of your little family member. You should not prepare more than 3-4 dishes: sometimes one type of salad, a light snack, and a dessert are enough.
- Your child will definitely want to try bright and colorful food. Be creative: complement the New Year’s decor of your home by decorating each festive dish.
- To avoid possible allergic reactions, the classic ingredients of salads and hot dishes should be replaced with healthier ingredients. In this case, the child will be able to eat dishes from the “adult” table without risk to health.
- Fish should be of low-fat varieties: give preference to pike perch or sea bass. Redfish is best served baked and in small portions: up to 80-100 g.
- To avoid irritation of the gastric mucosa, do not use hot spices. Give preference to dill, parsley, green onions, oregano, basil, or rosemary: they emphasize the main taste of the dish without unpleasant consequences for the child.
- The free menu is not suitable for a festive children’s table: replace fried potatoes with boiled or baked-in foil.
If you are celebrating the New Year with friends, you should not offer your child foods that are unfamiliar to them: this can lead to allergic reactions and ruin the holiday. Prepare dishes from your child’s favorite foods in advance, and instead of sweets, offer familiar fruits or a cottage cheese casserole.
How to avoid overeating: tips from nutritionists
To avoid heartburn, heaviness in the stomach, and other unpleasant consequences of overeating during the New Year’s feast, nutritionists advise following certain rules:
- Organize an interesting entertainment program: it will help you break away from the feast, and lively movements will speed up the digestion process. For example, we decorate the Christmas tree together with our guests.
- Plan a balanced diet in advance and try to stick to it.
- Don’t forget to eat throughout the day on December 31 and don’t sit down to dinner on an empty stomach: timely hunger satisfaction will prevent you from overeating.
- Moderate consumption of dry red wine will help speed up metabolic processes and normalize the gastrointestinal tract. Spirits and carbonated drinks are not the best choices: a glass of champagne during the chimes will be enough.
- To avoid spoiling the holiday, avoid dishes with exotic ingredients and foods that can provoke allergic reactions. Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables: plant fibers fill the body with essential vitamins and minerals, and fiber contributes to the proper functioning of the intestines.
New Year’s Eve is an atmospheric holiday when everyone makes wishes and writes down plans for the future. Don’t turn it into a “stomach holiday”: take care of your loved ones’ health now and create a safe menu for each family member.
