As a rule, with the onset of pregnancy, a woman begins to carefully monitor her diet in order to provide the unborn child with all the necessary vitamins and nutrients. After childbirth, during breastfeeding, it is also necessary to ensure that the nutrition of the young mother is complete. At the same time, attention is paid not only to the baby's health, but also to the restoration of the body after pregnancy and childbirth. When a child is very small and takes all his mother’s time and attention, it’s so nice to have a cup of tea with cookies in the rare moments of rest. If you correctly approach the issue of choosing cookies, then this snack will be not only pleasant, but also useful.
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Everyone knows that the larger the composition of the cookies, the less useful this delicacy is. It is unlikely that the child will benefit from emulsifiers, preservatives, margarine, milk powder or egg powder, which most manufacturers add to cookies, trying to improve the structure of the dough, increase its resistance to mold crops and increase the shelf life of the finished product. To improve the quality of breast milk, it is advisable to exclude the mentioned additives. In addition, for nursing mothers, lean biscuits that do not contain animal products are preferable, as more useful for the figure. Therefore, it is better to refuse store cookies. Moreover, there are many recipes for making homemade lean cookies, which can be used with breastfeeding. Lean biscuits for breastfeeding 1. Tea biscuits. Mix 250 grams of wheat flour and 2 tablespoons of rice flour, add ground cinnamon, cardamom, anise and a pinch of saffron to taste. To taste, add granulated sugar. And put half a teaspoon of baking soda. Mix the dry ingredients thoroughly and pour in 100 ml of vegetable oil. Stir until greasy, friable. Roll this dough into sausages and cut into 30 - 35 pieces. Form small cakes from each and place on a dry baking sheet. In the center of each cake, make a small depression and fill it with any jam. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius and bake lean tea biscuits for 20 minutes. Cool the finished cookies on a baking sheet and carefully transfer to a dish.
2. Anzac cookies. Mix 1.25 cups of wheat flour, 1 cup of oatmeal, 80 grams of coconut flakes, and 0.25 cups of granulated sugar. Mix 2 tbsp separately. molasses or liquid honey with 0.5 tsp. baking soda and add 150 ml of vegetable oil to the mixture. Combine the oil and dry mix, mix thoroughly. Collect the resulting loose dough with a tablespoon, form balls and lay them out, pressing the back of your hand on a baking sheet sprinkled with flour. Bake for 12 minutes at 180 degrees. Carefully remove the prepared soft cookies from the baking sheet, transfer to a flat dish and cool. This way you get 52 tender crispy and crumbly lean Anzac cookies.
Lean gluten-free and casein-free biscuits with breastfeeding
Wheat flour can be replaced with gluten-free flour, which will make cookies easier to digest, since it is believed that an excess of consumed gluten (gluten, wheat protein) negatively affects the small intestine.
Lean gluten free pumpkin cookies. Grate 400 grams of pumpkin pulp on a fine grater and squeeze out the excess juice, which will turn out 50 - 100 ml. Put in a bowl with prepared pumpkin 0.5 cups of granulated sugar, 0.75 tsp. baking soda and as much ground cinnamon, 1 cup walnut kernels grated on a coarse grater, as well as 1 cup chickpea flour and 0.5 cup cornmeal. Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil, spread one third of a tablespoon of the resulting dough, leaving a small distance between the cookies. Press each ball of dough lightly with a fork. Bake at 200 degrees for 20 minutes. As a result, get 30 soft warming and healthy cookies.
Raw Food Cookies Raw food cookies can safely be considered the most useful. The absence of heat treatment preserves vitamins, the components of the test help cleanse the intestines. One of the common problems during lactation is the difficulty in removing waste products from the body, which is harmful not only to the mother, but also to the baby. Eating raw biscuits will gently fix this problem. Although the preparation of such cookies requires some time. Macarons. Grind 0.5 cups of flax seeds in a coffee grinder and pour 0.25 cups of water, leave for 15 minutes. Then whisk this mixture with a blender until the mixture turns white. Add sweetener to taste. It can be honey or agave syrup, for example. Grind 1 cup of peeled sunflower seeds or almond kernels in a coffee grinder and mix gently with whipped protein mass. Put the dough on a dehydrator sheet with a spoon. Dry for 18 hours, turning over when the top of the cookie dries. Remove the dried cookies from the sheets and glue between them using urbec or raw food jam.