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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.
Thank you all for your wonderful suggestions and ideas.
We sat down with our nanny a few days ago.
[b]She said she was overwhelmed with DD being picky with her food before becoming vegetarian[/b]. For example, DD would refuse multiple choices of food offered by the nanny while making school lunches. Dinner leftovers (involving meat), turkey sandwiches and occasional hotdogs were something that my DD would actually eat. It's a nut free school, so now DD's lunches would be more challenging with no meat and my DD being picky. 
She said she was supportive of my DD becoming a vegetarian, but wanted her to take some responsibility for planning her meals - meaning DD should do some research about nutrition and come up with different choices to substitute the meat part of the meals. Not cook her own meals, although she would be expected to help on no homework days.

It's been a few days and things seem to be going well. We got veggie bacon and burgers in the freezer. Eggs, lentil soup, some indian food and a few other options. 
It will probably take a few more days to adjust, but so far so good.

Thank you everyone :)

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Well there you go. If your daughter is gonna be that picky, then she needs to figure out her own shit.  Your nanny is NOT lazy.

Personally, I think your kids are spoiled.  But then again, I think most Americans are spoiled.  I didn't grow up here, but I think American kids are little terrors - dictating to their parents what they want and don't, how they want to live their lives, etc.

I grew up in a house with a nanny, a cook, and a housekeeper.  As kids, we NEVER got to choose what we ate.  The cook made dinner for everyone, and we could eat it or not. It NEVER occurred to us to ask for something else.  The nanny watched us, made sure we got to school okay, went to bed on time, but certainly did not entertain us or even play with us.  As kids, we would have been embarassed hanging out with the nanny.

The cook made meals. The housekeeper cleaned.  There was no overlap of duties, and it would never occur to any of us to boss any of them around.

Lecturing aside - planning meals for a vegetarian, especially a kid, takes care.  You really need to read up on and it and do your research, because it's trickier to get all the nutrients your kid needs, like getting all the amino acids she needs to grow and repair her muscles.

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