Meatless May - kid friendly ideas?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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!

As a chemistry major I would love to know how you manage to clean without "chemicals", given water is a "chemical".

[Anonymous]

Morningstar Farms chix nuggets or patties.
Stuffed shells/ baked ziti
Omelettes
Never underestimate how good peanut butter and jelly is.
Will she go pescatarian? Then she can eat lots of fish and seafood!

[Anonymous]

My kids like honey sesame spaghetti, which I make with wheat pasta to add protein and fiber, and one will eat edamame tossed in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids like honey sesame spaghetti, which I make with wheat pasta to add protein and fiber, and one will eat edamame tossed in.

Do you have a recipe?

My vegetarian kinda picky kid will eat edamame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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!

You dumb

[Anonymous]

I and 2 kids are vegetarians while DH isn’t. We drink milk and eat eggs. When we eat out order food, we ask restaurants not to add meat. We eat pizza, pasta, burritos, quesadillas, burgers, sushi, fried rice etc, just not to add meat. For food you can cook at home you don’t add meat, if you buy frozen vegan food you can pair with fresh veggies.

[Anonymous]

So far today my kids have eaten:
Veggie omelettes and oatmeal with fruit

Watermelon after soccer game

Sautéed green beans, rice, Edamame, banana with peanut butter

Dinner will probably be some form of pizza

[Anonymous]

Why did you say this? Milk and eggs are vegetarian. They are meatless.

“ FWIW, I will still be giving her milk and eggs for the month. I know that goes against the point,”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

China, Africa, India all eat meat. Vegatarianism is only realistic for moderately high living standards. To be blunt, if you are poor, you eat what you can get.

Before you tell me India are vegetarians, https://www.dataforindia.com/meat-consumption/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

China, Africa, India all eat meat. Vegatarianism is only realistic for moderately high living standards. To be blunt, if you are poor, you eat what you can get.

Before you tell me India are vegetarians, https://www.dataforindia.com/meat-consumption/

Historically meat was a luxury item. The daily consumption of meat was limited to the ultra wealthy. That's how ordinary Americans are getting the diseases of the historically rich, like gout.

I'm not even a vegetarian but the constant need to eat meat is extremely weird.

[Anonymous]

The only fake meat we like is the TJ soyrizo which we use to make tacos with scrambled eggs and black beans.

Lentil enchiladas.

Crisp bake tofu and cover it with whatever sauce she likes.

Make muffins with half almond flour.

Pesto has nuts and cheese.

Peas have decent proteins and we add them to lots of stuff.

Black bean brown rice bowls.

Falafal (once upon a chef recipe is great)

Sadly my kids won’t eat daal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why did you say this? Milk and eggs are vegetarian. They are meatless.

“ FWIW, I will still be giving her milk and eggs for the month. I know that goes against the point,”

Because you know there’s some meatless May vegan warrior who is going to come here and freak out. I’m not new here, fortunately. Look at the other ridiculous comments from the “meat is necessary” people. Unfortunately, there’s blah blah blah ok both sides and I wanted to qualify early as it would be a question many people would have.

[Anonymous]

Make sure she understands that eating candy and sweets and white bagels and sugar yogurt are worse for her health than fish or chicken, by a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!

As a chemistry major I would love to know how you manage to clean without "chemicals", given water is a "chemical".

All chemistry majors take everything literal or you just autistic?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!

As a chemistry major I would love to know how you manage to clean without "chemicals", given water is a "chemical".

All chemistry majors take everything literal or you just autistic?

Nope, just pointing out pearl clutching about things containing "chemicals" makes you sound like an idiot. Like that "clean food" blogger who freaked out about nitrogen in the air on airplanes.