The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-29
Preparing Infants Food Is an
Important Consideration.
TEACH HIM CAREFUL EATING
Don't Give Infant Anything to
Drink While Eating.
Excess of Sweets Destroys APP
petite for Plain Foods.
Second of a series written for the
State journal by the Children's Blu
reau, United States Department of
LabOr.)

When the baby reaches the third
at regular intervals having the heav-
lest meal in the middle of the day.
1t is of the utmost Importance to
teach him to chew his food carefully
and then to take plenty of time at his
meals. But since his tiny teeth can
only partly masticate his food, this
should be properly prepared for him.
Meat should be cut into small pieces,
vegetables either mashed or put
through the coIander, and all the
cores. skins and seeds should be re-
moved from fruits.
He should not be allowed to drink
while eating solid food, lest he fall
into the habit of washing down his
food before it is thoroughly chewed,
as do SO many of his elders.
Things Good for Children.
The following foods are recon-
mended for children from two to
three years, and a daily program is
suggested for the convenience of the
mothers:
1880 q. m: Cereal-Well-cooked
oat, wheat or corn preparation. with
thin cream or milk and very little SUI
gar. Cereals should be cooked three
d
with a little salt when being cooked.
Glass of whole milk, warmed in the
cool months of the year.
Egg, soft boiled, poached or cod
died.
Toast, or dry bread and butter.
10 a. M: Fruit-Use one orange and
strain the juice, or baked apple, and
two graham crackers; or warm milk,
one glass, with dry bread or toast
p. m: Vegetable soup-one tea
cupful, or meat broths with rice or
arroWroot.
Meat-Bcef, mutton or chicken,
broiled, roasted or boiled, or fish, cut
into small pieces. favored with lit
tie salt. Use no pepper, sauces or
condiments.
Potato-Baked, mashed, with a lit
tie salt, butter and milk, or salt and
cream; or boiled rice or spaghetti
both thoroughly cooked, with butter
or cream.
Green Observation-Disclosures carrots
asparagus, string beans, peas spinach,
young beetS, or squash. each cooked
until very soft, with little salt in the
water, strained through a colander or
mashed.
baked apple, or apple sauce or stewed
prunes, or plain custard, or junket
Drink-Water. No milk at this
meal.
Stale bread, with butter.
500 p. M: Bread and milk; or GER
cal, farina, arrowroot. or wheat, or
milk; or milk toast: or dry toast or
bread with glass of milk.
Raw fruit juice and milk should
not be given at the same meal
A Few Don'ts.
Do not give a child of this age any
of the following foods: Pork in any
form, or sailed meats or sailed fish;
! cabbage, onions, celery. radishes, let
tuce, cucumberS or raw tomatoes; hot
breads, or griddle cakes: sweet cakes,
pastry, syrups, or jellies; nuts or
candies; bananas, nor any green or
overripe fruit; tea, coffee. wine, beer,
cider or soda water. Mothers are apt
in feeding children. An excess of
sweet food, not only upsets the young
stomach but destroys partially the ap-
petite for plain food.
| Children should be taught to eat
simple, weil-cooked food, but should
not be forced to eat when they have
/ no appetite. If child shows a dis
! inclination to eat some special food,
+ which he ought to have, this should be
: given first at the meal, even if only
( a small quantity is eaten Do not fall
| into the error of scolding the child at
meal times, which should be one of
the pleasantest hours of the day, full
of fun and joy. A little judicious
coaxing will usually result in the
child's taking the right food in suffi-
cient quantity.
Methods Of preparing meats, vege-
tables and soups for young children
are given in infant care, little book
which is sent free to all WHO ask for
it, addressing the request to the. CHIEF
of the children's bureau, United
States department of labor, Washing
ton, d. G.