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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think OP is anti-vegetarian and I don't think it's a question of selling her on vegetarian cooking.  [b]I don't sense any anti-vegetarian feeling per se in her post. [/b]

I think the point of her post is that she's concerned that her daughter will not eat a variety of foods in order to sustain growth.  OP could cook fabulous vegetarian meals but if her daughter is not willing to try them or eat them, what is the point?  Is the kid going to eat breakfast cereal for the next 10 years?

Chiming in that you are a vegetarian and have been so since childhood is great but perhaps you could add what foods you were willing to eat as a child.[/quote]

No, not in OP's posts, but there is a strong feeling in other posts that vegetarian = eating disorder.[/quote]

I am a vegetarian. I have been a vegetarian for over 30 years. And I think OP's DD has disordered eating. I am clearly not reacting to the vegetarian part.

OP I think you need to get professional advice. The more you write the more I think there may be some OCD like issues creeping in (which are closely related to ED's). She refuses certain foods based on the site of them. She can't see tomatoes in her food. She'll eat spinach it if isn't so obvious. She cried over lamb but ate a burger and then refused chicken. I don't doubt that she loves animals passionately but that could bring another category of OCD.

As wonderful as a vegetarian diet is, many of think its just a bad idea to allow yet another restricted diet onto a child whose diet is already quite restricted and who is underweight as a result. PLus I suspect you cater to her diet eccentricities quite a bit because you just want her to eat something. OK, I'll just hide the tomatoes and maybe she'll eat. I'll stop cooking meat and maybe she'll eat. The problem with this kind of accommodation is that you lose site of how disordered she has become.

Even without the vegetarianism there's enough here for concern. Speak with your pediatrician.[/quote]

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