Mostly vegetarian with kids - do you cook meat on your kids?

[Anonymous]

If you are mostly vegetarians, how do you handle eating out and cooking at home? DS is 2 and I have no problem having him eat meat out, but he generally just wants grilled cheese or cheesy pasta. We’ve ordered a burger or meatloaf, but he prefers to just eat the mashed potatoes or fries that come with it. I don’t really cook meat at home, do you think I need to specifically prepare it for him? We do eat seafood or fish every few days.

As an example today he ate:
Breakfast : Scrambled egg with spinach, few spoons oatmeal, 1/2 orange
Snack : Cheese stick and handful of grapes
Lunch : spinach mac and cheese, few strawberries
Snack : yogurt with muesli and few blueberries
Snack: banana
Dinner : rice, sweet potato, broccoli, tahini sauce
Throughout: couple cups of milk

Now that I write it out I feel like he’s eating too much dairy and fruit!

[Anonymous]

Never on them, no.

[Anonymous]

I tend not to cook very much of anything on my daughter. Although sometimes when she runs a high fever we might try a lean cut of beef on her forehead while she naps, but that tends to be hit or miss.

[Anonymous]

This is where I don't understand how people think of fish/seafood as "not meat" - you eat plenty of meat at home if you're having seafood/fish every few days. Your kid will be fine not eating meat every day but a few times a week - that's how most kids around the world grow up (probably less, in fact).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I tend not to cook very much of anything on my daughter. Although sometimes when she runs a high fever we might try a lean cut of beef on her forehead while she naps, but that tends to be hit or miss.

Try a fattier cut.

[Anonymous]

He eats meat and beans at day care that he refuses at home. Otherwise it's mostly frozen chicken nuggets 1-2x a week (we usually cook one meat meal for adults a week but he won't eat it, whatever it is). Daily vitamins. Lots of dairy. So far no known nutritional deficiencies.

[Anonymous]

My favorite LOL thread in quite awhile

[Anonymous]

Seafood is meat because it's animal protein. So if you're eating seafood at home a couple times a week at home, then you're fine.

-also mostly vegetarian who eats meat (including seafood) 3x a week

[Anonymous]

Our family is half vegetarian (1 adult, 1 kid) and half fish/chicken eaters. You can easily get rotisserie chickens cooked at any grocery store if you want to add a little meat to his diet without cooking it yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is where I don't understand how people think of fish/seafood as "not meat" - you eat plenty of meat at home if you're having seafood/fish every few days. Your kid will be fine not eating meat every day but a few times a week - that's how most kids around the world grow up (probably less, in fact).

This.

[Anonymous]

On them? Like on a spit? Nah. Not here.

[Anonymous]

This typo is making me laugh harder than it should.

[Anonymous]

I’ve been a vegetarian (ovo-lacto) for 24 years and I raised my kids for a good number of years as such. My husband eats meat and felt that it was silly to cook two meals so he ate vegetarian at home.

[Anonymous]

I’ve been tempted to crack an egg on my son’s head, does that count as cooking on him?

[Anonymous]

In what planet are you a vegetarian if you eat meat a few times a week? Why not offer your kid what you eat?