Meatless May - kid friendly ideas?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So many chemicals in fake meat!

So many chemicals in car exhaust, cleaning chemicals, and modern life!! Have you seen the breakdown of chemicals in an apple?! Do you know what goes into making your clothes, the paint in your house, any medication? Or hey, since we’re after it, regular meat? Or the waste waters from making that meat? Or pesticides on the vegetables…. Or…

My kid has a liver and kidneys. She’ll survive a month if I add in some fake meat that she enjoys. Kinda wondering what your point is as I can. Read and it’s not what I asked.

[Anonymous]

Well, breakfast is easy cause you can have eggs and cereal.

Lunch is easy cause she can have peanut butter and jelly sandwich sandwiches or grilled cheese sandwiches.

For dinner…

Rice bowl with roasted veggies (google tahini lemon dressing for drizzle)

Cheese fajitas… black beans, or vegetables

Trader Joe’s has a peanut sauce and I roast tofu and then I toss it with the peanut sauce and pan frying…. I eat that with pita bread.

I would do a toco night once a week that’s only four taco nights and each night I would do something different. There’s so many vegetarian taco options like… Red beans, tofu, avocado…. You can just google vegetarian tacos.

I do a loaded baked potato night you can compare that with a salad or soup.

I’d make plenty of soup and serve it with a baguette and brie.

And make a vegetarian sandwich like with sliced apples and arugula… but you can look up vegetarian sandwiches. I like to make one with a portobello sandwich and roasted red peppers..

I make something that’s like an açai bowl, but it’s really just bananas, ice, and blueberries for the base you can use vanilla protein powder if you have it. I would put it in a bowl and then I would slice strawberries and raspberries and almonds and granola on top and since you have a daughter, I might make it fun and put a drizzle of Nutella.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So many chemicals in fake meat!

So many chemicals in car exhaust, cleaning chemicals, and modern life!! Have you seen the breakdown of chemicals in an apple?! Do you know what goes into making your clothes, the paint in your house, any medication? Or hey, since we’re after it, regular meat? Or the waste waters from making that meat? Or pesticides on the vegetables…. Or…

My kid has a liver and kidneys. She’ll survive a month if I add in some fake meat that she enjoys. Kinda wondering what your point is as I can. Read and it’s not what I asked.

Apples contain a diverse range of chemicals, including water, various sugars like glucose and fructose, vitamins, minerals, and a variety of organic acids and phenolic compounds

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What will they make up next.

My thoughts too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Restricting a child's diet in an unhealthy way. What could go wrong?

Eating meat in unhealthy. Being vegetarian is totally healthy if you eat the right foods and nof just chips and chocolate milk.

[Anonymous]

What a terrible idea!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a terrible idea!

Well, I wasn’t looking for opinions on something that is a thing already. I’d be really interested as to why you think it’s a terrible idea? My kid is going to be living long after I’m around in a world that is damaged by large scale factory farming.

So please share - what’s terrible about reducing meat consumption? You clearly have an opinion you’re dying to share. Are you a beef lobby shill?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hot news item: being vegetarian is not unhealthy. In fact, it’s the opposite.

Stop with your meat obsession. Almost no culture ate as much meat as Americans do now, so the kid will survive a vegetarian month.

They also don't completely avoid it either with some exceptions.

[Anonymous]

I'm not a vegetarian but my sister is so I know quite a few vegetarian meals. I don't generally go for imitation meat products but that's a personal choice.

First of all, don't overthink it. Mac and cheese with veggies, grilled cheese with soup, bean quesadillas. Good ol PB&J. Kids eat tons of these things without them being labeled as vegetarian foods, but they often are.

Chickpea curry is a fast and easy one.
Ratatouille with bread.
Tofu stir fry.
Don't forget good ol beans and rice, a staple diet across the world. Beans are basically the secret cheap super food.
Greek yogurt parfaits for breakfast
Eggs - great source of protein and iron. Frittatas and omelets are a good one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hot news item: being vegetarian is not unhealthy. In fact, it’s the opposite.

Stop with your meat obsession. Almost no culture ate as much meat as Americans do now, so the kid will survive a vegetarian month.

They also don't completely avoid it either with some exceptions.

Not PP, but do you know any other cultures other than white bread (bred) Americans. Yes, some (actually a huge number of people) completely avoid it.

[Anonymous]

I'm the poster that said I generally don't got for imitation meat products but I'll backtrack on that slightly, actually. Certain products work better in certain contexts than others. Meatless sausage, for instance, in a sauce? You aren't really going to taste much difference. So spaghetti and imitation meat balls works better than eating them on their own. As long as you have reasonable expectations they work fine.

[Anonymous]

Are eggs allowed?

[Anonymous]

A few things that have been hits here:

Crispy chickpeas used as croutons on caesar salad.

Black bean or Chickpea noodle soup with grilled cheese sandwich

Baked ravioli (tastes a lot like lasagna but way faster)

Teriyaki tofu

Lentil taco meat in tacos or quesadillas (I cook it like

This recipe for satay: https://itdoesnttastelikechicken.com/vegan-satay-skewers-soy-curls/

Breakfast burritos with black beans

[Anonymous]

Great idea OP! My kids love baked, breaded tofu (cut into cubes), various chickpea/lentil curries and stews, and it’s also super easy to shred tofu using a grater and fry it up in a pan with some flavorful sauces/spices.

Grilled cheese, cheese quesadillas, homemade mac and cheese, frittatas, etc.”

We do fake meat on occasion but try to limit it to a couple times a month.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So many chemicals in fake meat!

So many chemicals in car exhaust, cleaning chemicals, and modern life!! Have you seen the breakdown of chemicals in an apple?! Do you know what goes into making your clothes, the paint in your house, any medication? Or hey, since we’re after it, regular meat? Or the waste waters from making that meat? Or pesticides on the vegetables…. Or…

My kid has a liver and kidneys. She’ll survive a month if I add in some fake meat that she enjoys. Kinda wondering what your point is as I can. Read and it’s not what I asked.

Nobody is eating car fumes and cleaning chemicals Janice. Also why would you clean with chemicals? Or buy beef that’s not local and grass fed without any growth hormones and antibiotics? Maybe the problem here is you don’t know how to shop. Stop feeding your children garbage! Learn to clean too!