✓ The calendar of fruits and vegetables in spring

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Fruits and vegetables in spring

Don't ask me why, but spring is certainly the season I look forward to most. And her arrival makes me happy as I was still a child and had never smelled the scent of the first flowers or tasted sweet and juicy strawberries. Perhaps because spring offers you the chance to be reborn, just enough to breathe the new.

Since I was a mother all of this seems to have doubled. Don't believe it? Well, wait for your "mesenne" to start chattering and we'll talk about it.

As I wrote for the autumn and winter calendars, consuming seasonal products is essential for a whole series of reasons: product quality, environmental sustainability, as well as economic savings. In spring it becomes even more important to cleanse and nourish the body after the colder months. And it is not difficult, given that the "vegetable" banks are a rainbow of colors and shapes.

For the baby, if the months allow it, buy fresh peas and asparagus tips, create combinations with baby courgettes and baby carrots and start offering something other than apples and pears, which have reigned for the winter.

Spring fruits and vegetables for children

Spring vegetables

New potatoes
Fresh peas: have fun shelling them with older children, they are rich in vitamins A and B1, iron, magnesium and potassium, as well as vegetable proteins.
Asparagus
Lettuce
Spinach and beets
Envy
Fennel
Carciofi
Friar's beard
Spring onions
Cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli (surviving, for a few more months, from the winter season)
Zucchini
Broad beans (pay attention to their introduction if there are cases of allergy or favism in the family)
carrots
Green beans (perfect for the first months of weaning, for example in velvety with new potatoes)
Ravanelli

Spring fruit

Apricots (referred to, as plums, from the 7th month onwards)
Loquat
Sour cherries
Cherries
Strawberries (buy lightly treated or organic products for the first tastings after the year)
Kiwi Del Paeseni
Tangerines

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The author of the article and the photographer

Miralda Colombo she is a journalist and author of the blog www.ilcucchiainodialice.com, born on the occasion of the weaning of her daughter Alice and from which the recipe book for children "The spoon", ed. Gallucci.

In recent months the weaning adventure with the second child Lea has started again and has agreed to accompany the mothers of mymodernparents.com with practical advice, tricks and indications from the most accredited scientific societies on baby feeding.

The photos are from Cevì (Cecilia Viganò), artist, photographer and illustrator graduated from the Brera Academy.