High calcium diet for pregnant women

The body will become weaker during pregnancy, so you must pay attention to the nutritional combination in your daily diet. You must ensure that there is enough energy to supply both the pregnant woman and the baby. Especially when the baby is growing, you must ensure that you can take in enough trace elements and calcium. Calcium deficiency will have a particularly great impact on the baby. During pregnancy, you can eat more nuts and some vegetables and other foods.

Scallops with Hazelnuts and Lettuce

Ingredients: hazelnuts, lettuce, scallops, salt, chicken essence, cooking wine, salad oil, sesame oil, starch

Method: Soak the hazelnuts in water, remove the skin, and fry them in a pan until crispy. Peel and dice the lettuce, dice the scallops, and blanch them together in boiling water. Use egg white to mix starch into a paste, then add the scallop meat and marinate. Put a little oil in the pan, add diced scallops and diced lettuce and stir-fry, add hazelnuts after seasoning, thicken the sauce and drizzle with a little sesame oil. The skin of hazelnuts should be removed to avoid an astringent taste.

Calcium supplement effect:

Hazelnuts have the highest calcium content among all nuts, which complements calcium-rich scallops, and their taste is not inferior to cashews and peanuts. In addition to calcium, it is also rich in protein and unsaturated fatty acids. Tips for calcium supplementation: If you want to supplement calcium, you can eat more aquatic foods such as river crabs and dried shrimps. In addition, eating more nuts, calcium-rich vegetables and coarse grains and beans (especially peas) is also very helpful.

Fried Shrimp with Chives

Ingredients: 30 grams of dried shrimps, 300 grams of leeks, and appropriate amounts of salt, cooking oil, and MSG.

Method: ① Wash the leeks, drain the water and cut into 2 cm long segments. ②Wash the dried shrimps and squeeze out the excess water. ③Put the pot on the fire, heat the oil in the pot, fry the dried shrimps first, then put the leek and salt into the pot, add a small amount of water, stir-fry for a few times, add MSG to season, and serve.

Calcium supplementation effect: This dish is rich in nutrients, especially calcium. It also contains vitamin C and cellulose, which is very helpful for postpartum mothers and breastfed newborns to prevent calcium deficiency.

Steamed Pumpkin Meat

Ingredients: 1 pumpkin, 400 grams of pork belly, rice wine, soy sauce, brown sugar, soup, onion, ginger, pepper powder, cooking oil, and MSG as appropriate.

Method: ①Cut a square incision on the surface of the pumpkin, scoop out the flesh inside and set aside. ②Wash the pork belly, cut it into thin slices, chop the green onion and ginger into fine pieces, and set aside. ③ Mix rice wine, pepper powder, chopped green onion and ginger, soy sauce, brown sugar, old soup, cooking oil and MSG and put them into the pumpkin. Then put the washed pork belly into the pumpkin. Place the pumpkin on a plate and steam it until cooked.

Calcium supplementation effect: This dish is rich in calcium, phosphorus, zinc and other nutrients. It also contains protein, fat and other nutrients. It is very effective for postpartum mothers to supplement calcium and prevent anemia.

Duck Blood Tofu Soup

Ingredients: 50 grams of duck blood, 100 grams of tofu, coriander, broth, vinegar, salt, starch, pepper, etc.

Preparation: Cut duck blood and tofu into shreds, put them into the boiling soup and stew until cooked; add vinegar, salt and pepper to season, thicken with starch, and finally sprinkle with coriander leaves.

Calcium supplementation effect: Tofu is a good calcium supplement, and duck blood can meet the iron needs of expectant mothers. The hot and sour taste can not only stimulate mommy's appetite, but also promote calcium absorption.

Whitebait Bean Sprouts

Ingredients: 20 grams of whitebait, 300 grams of bean sprouts, 50 grams of fresh peas, and 50 grams of shredded carrots.

Preparation: Blanch the whitebait, drain and cook the peas; add oil to a wok, sauté chopped green onions, stir-fry bean sprouts, whitebait and shredded carrots; add the cooked peas after a brief stir-fry and adjust to a sweet and sour taste.

Calcium supplementation effect: Whitebait and bean sprouts are both good sources of calcium. Moreover, there is no need to worry that such calcium-supplementing dishes will contain too much fat and cause a burden on the weight of expectant mothers.

Dried Shrimp and Tofu

Ingredients: dried shrimp, spiced tofu, green beans, mushrooms, salt, and chicken essence.

Method: Dice the spiced dried tofu and mushrooms, and blanch them in boiling water together with dried shrimps and green beans. Mix all the ingredients with appropriate amount of salt and chicken essence. Dried shrimps can also be replaced with small fish or other seafood.

Calcium supplementation effect: Dried shrimps and other seafood are good sources of calcium, while tofu, dried tofu, tofu shreds, fermented bean curd, etc. are the best calcium-containing plant foods. Peas are rich in calcium, while shiitake mushrooms contain precursors of vitamin D. Therefore, although this dish looks very simple, it is a good source of calcium.

Deep-fried shrimp meatballs

Ingredients: 400 grams of large shrimp, 2 eggs, 15 grams of pork fat, 25 grams of shiitake mushrooms, 10 grams each of cooking wine and onion and ginger juice, 3 grams of salt, 1 gram of MSG, 50 grams of flour, and 800 grams of peanut oil.

Preparation method: Chop the pork fat, button mushrooms and shrimps into fine pieces. Crack the eggs into a container and stir them into egg liquid. Add flour, cooking wine, onion and ginger juice, salt and MSG into the egg liquid and mix well. Then add chopped shrimp, minced meat and chopped mushrooms and mix in the same direction to make the filling. Make the seasoned shrimp meat filling into even small balls, fry them in 50% hot oil until golden red, remove from the pan when cooked, drain the oil, and serve.

Calcium supplement effect: Shrimp contains calcium, phosphorus, iron and rich protein, vitamins, iodine, etc. Oyster mushrooms are rich in calcium, phosphorus and zinc. Eggs are rich in calcium and vitamin D. This dish can provide pregnant women with rich calcium and has a preventive and therapeutic effect on lower limb cramps during pregnancy.