Anonymous
06/07/2019 08:19
Subject: Mostly vegetarian with kids - do you cook meat on your kids?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Well, eating fish and seafood every few days leaves you nowhere near vegetarian. You sound pescatarian at least so there’s that. Fish and seafood are animal meats, with the same sort of protein and B12 benefits.
Aside from that, my 2 year old, living in a completely omnivorous house, eats more “vegetarian” foods than it would appear your child does. We serve a lot of hummus, white bean dips, etc., plus roasted chickpeas, “cowboy caviar” with pita at lunch, tofu in a bajillion different combinations (eg. In stir fry, breaded with panko, and baked in nuggets, crumbled up with nutritional yeast and basil as a cheese substitute). We make a lot of vegetable curries (eg. Spinach, butternut squash, chickpea), dal, falafel, lentil patties, etc.
We do a clear “meatless Monday”, but many other of our dinner meals are vegetarian. DD may or may not eat the meat portion of dinner that day, but I know she gets lots of nutrients the rest of the day.
She also JUST started drinking milk at 2.5, but would normally have 1 serving of cheese and 1 serving of yogurt a day.
Yuckto all her foods! Poor kid. Why wasn’t she drinking milk before 2.5?
I think those foods sound delicious!
Really? Cowboy caviar? Nutritional yeast and basil as a cheese substitute? Tofu? Gross. This sounds like some paleo, new age crap.
Wow. The kid obvi eats dairy, but nutritional yeast is a great way to get in extra vitamins for a kid who doesn't eat a lot of meat.
And what's wrong with tofu and cowboy caviar?
You can't be for real.
I’ve noticed in every vegetarian thread there are some people who seem to take offense at other people’s choices to not eat animal flesh. To me, the above sounds delicious too.
I've noticed in every vegetarian thread there are some people to seem to try to make a poignant point by using 'animal flesh' instead of the word 'meat'. Now if you'll excuse me, my kid is getting dizzy on the spit.
Anonymous
06/07/2019 07:34
Subject: Mostly vegetarian with kids - do you cook meat on your kids?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Well, eating fish and seafood every few days leaves you nowhere near vegetarian. You sound pescatarian at least so there’s that. Fish and seafood are animal meats, with the same sort of protein and B12 benefits.
Aside from that, my 2 year old, living in a completely omnivorous house, eats more “vegetarian” foods than it would appear your child does. We serve a lot of hummus, white bean dips, etc., plus roasted chickpeas, “cowboy caviar” with pita at lunch, tofu in a bajillion different combinations (eg. In stir fry, breaded with panko, and baked in nuggets, crumbled up with nutritional yeast and basil as a cheese substitute). We make a lot of vegetable curries (eg. Spinach, butternut squash, chickpea), dal, falafel, lentil patties, etc.
We do a clear “meatless Monday”, but many other of our dinner meals are vegetarian. DD may or may not eat the meat portion of dinner that day, but I know she gets lots of nutrients the rest of the day.
She also JUST started drinking milk at 2.5, but would normally have 1 serving of cheese and 1 serving of yogurt a day.
Yuckto all her foods! Poor kid. Why wasn’t she drinking milk before 2.5?
I think those foods sound delicious!
Really? Cowboy caviar? Nutritional yeast and basil as a cheese substitute? Tofu? Gross. This sounds like some paleo, new age crap.
Wow. The kid obvi eats dairy, but nutritional yeast is a great way to get in extra vitamins for a kid who doesn't eat a lot of meat.
And what's wrong with tofu and cowboy caviar?
You can't be for real.
I’ve noticed in every vegetarian thread there are some people who seem to take offense at other people’s choices to not eat animal flesh. To me, the above sounds delicious too.
Anonymous
06/07/2019 06:59
Subject: Mostly vegetarian with kids - do you cook meat on your kids?
Anonymous wrote: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!
He should eat more nuts, beans, and high protein grains. Spread almond butter on banana slices. Serve hummus with whole wheat pita triangles.
Anonymous
06/07/2019 06:29
Subject: Mostly vegetarian with kids - do you cook meat on your kids?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Well, eating fish and seafood every few days leaves you nowhere near vegetarian. You sound pescatarian at least so there’s that. Fish and seafood are animal meats, with the same sort of protein and B12 benefits.
Aside from that, my 2 year old, living in a completely omnivorous house, eats more “vegetarian” foods than it would appear your child does. We serve a lot of hummus, white bean dips, etc., plus roasted chickpeas, “cowboy caviar” with pita at lunch, tofu in a bajillion different combinations (eg. In stir fry, breaded with panko, and baked in nuggets, crumbled up with nutritional yeast and basil as a cheese substitute). We make a lot of vegetable curries (eg. Spinach, butternut squash, chickpea), dal, falafel, lentil patties, etc.
We do a clear “meatless Monday”, but many other of our dinner meals are vegetarian. DD may or may not eat the meat portion of dinner that day, but I know she gets lots of nutrients the rest of the day.
She also JUST started drinking milk at 2.5, but would normally have 1 serving of cheese and 1 serving of yogurt a day.
Yuckto all her foods! Poor kid. Why wasn’t she drinking milk before 2.5?
I think those foods sound delicious!
Really? Cowboy caviar? Nutritional yeast and basil as a cheese substitute? Tofu? Gross. This sounds like some paleo, new age crap.
Wow. The kid obvi eats dairy, but nutritional yeast is a great way to get in extra vitamins for a kid who doesn't eat a lot of meat.
And what's wrong with tofu and cowboy caviar?
You can't be for real.
Anonymous
06/07/2019 06:24
Subject: Mostly vegetarian with kids - do you cook meat on your kids?
We are fortunate enough that we have always been able to put food on our family.
Anonymous
06/06/2019 23:01
Subject: Mostly vegetarian with kids - do you cook meat on your kids?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Well, eating fish and seafood every few days leaves you nowhere near vegetarian. You sound pescatarian at least so there’s that. Fish and seafood are animal meats, with the same sort of protein and B12 benefits.
Aside from that, my 2 year old, living in a completely omnivorous house, eats more “vegetarian” foods than it would appear your child does. We serve a lot of hummus, white bean dips, etc., plus roasted chickpeas, “cowboy caviar” with pita at lunch, tofu in a bajillion different combinations (eg. In stir fry, breaded with panko, and baked in nuggets, crumbled up with nutritional yeast and basil as a cheese substitute). We make a lot of vegetable curries (eg. Spinach, butternut squash, chickpea), dal, falafel, lentil patties, etc.
We do a clear “meatless Monday”, but many other of our dinner meals are vegetarian. DD may or may not eat the meat portion of dinner that day, but I know she gets lots of nutrients the rest of the day.
She also JUST started drinking milk at 2.5, but would normally have 1 serving of cheese and 1 serving of yogurt a day.
Yuckto all her foods! Poor kid. Why wasn’t she drinking milk before 2.5?
I think those foods sound delicious!
Really? Cowboy caviar? Nutritional yeast and basil as a cheese substitute? Tofu? Gross. This sounds like some paleo, new age crap.
Anonymous
06/06/2019 21:11
Subject: Mostly vegetarian with kids - do you cook meat on your kids?
You should have your ped run a CBC and make sure your child is getting sufficient iron. Dairy blocks absorption and they can get a little anemic if diet is poor since they are growing so much.
Anonymous
06/06/2019 19:35
Subject: Mostly vegetarian with kids - do you cook meat on your kids?
Also, in the tofu section, you can find spinach cutlets which are pretty good.
Anonymous
06/06/2019 19:34
Subject: Mostly vegetarian with kids - do you cook meat on your kids?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There is no thing as mostly vegetarian, you are either vegetarian or not. Mine are vegetarian too. We do veggie nuggets.
Do you make these at home or have a preferred brand that you'd recommend
We like the Morningstar and Quorn brands
Anonymous
06/06/2019 11:16
Subject: Mostly vegetarian with kids - do you cook meat on your kids?
Anonymous wrote:There is no thing as mostly vegetarian, you are either vegetarian or not. Mine are vegetarian too. We do veggie nuggets.
Do you make these at home or have a preferred brand that you'd recommend
Anonymous
06/06/2019 11:08
Subject: Mostly vegetarian with kids - do you cook meat on your kids?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Well, eating fish and seafood every few days leaves you nowhere near vegetarian. You sound pescatarian at least so there’s that. Fish and seafood are animal meats, with the same sort of protein and B12 benefits.
Aside from that, my 2 year old, living in a completely omnivorous house, eats more “vegetarian” foods than it would appear your child does. We serve a lot of hummus, white bean dips, etc., plus roasted chickpeas, “cowboy caviar” with pita at lunch, tofu in a bajillion different combinations (eg. In stir fry, breaded with panko, and baked in nuggets, crumbled up with nutritional yeast and basil as a cheese substitute). We make a lot of vegetable curries (eg. Spinach, butternut squash, chickpea), dal, falafel, lentil patties, etc.
We do a clear “meatless Monday”, but many other of our dinner meals are vegetarian. DD may or may not eat the meat portion of dinner that day, but I know she gets lots of nutrients the rest of the day.
She also JUST started drinking milk at 2.5, but would normally have 1 serving of cheese and 1 serving of yogurt a day.
Yuckto all her foods! Poor kid. Why wasn’t she drinking milk before 2.5?
I think those foods sound delicious!
I'm sorry but you really aren't allowed to post in this thread if you don't attack OP for a typo or for eating fish or saying "mostly vegetarian". But honestly, we'll let it slide if you promise to be extra harsh next time.
OP- I'm sorry everyone is so snarky, though I think the "cooking on" posters were just having a bit of fun. The only advice I can really give here is do your best and try not to worry about what others are doing. In 10 years, there will certainly be some research that shows some thing you thought was benign is actually the end of the world.
Anonymous
06/06/2019 09:33
Subject: Mostly vegetarian with kids - do you cook meat on your kids?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Well, eating fish and seafood every few days leaves you nowhere near vegetarian. You sound pescatarian at least so there’s that. Fish and seafood are animal meats, with the same sort of protein and B12 benefits.
Aside from that, my 2 year old, living in a completely omnivorous house, eats more “vegetarian” foods than it would appear your child does. We serve a lot of hummus, white bean dips, etc., plus roasted chickpeas, “cowboy caviar” with pita at lunch, tofu in a bajillion different combinations (eg. In stir fry, breaded with panko, and baked in nuggets, crumbled up with nutritional yeast and basil as a cheese substitute). We make a lot of vegetable curries (eg. Spinach, butternut squash, chickpea), dal, falafel, lentil patties, etc.
We do a clear “meatless Monday”, but many other of our dinner meals are vegetarian. DD may or may not eat the meat portion of dinner that day, but I know she gets lots of nutrients the rest of the day.
She also JUST started drinking milk at 2.5, but would normally have 1 serving of cheese and 1 serving of yogurt a day.
Yuckto all her foods! Poor kid. Why wasn’t she drinking milk before 2.5?
I think those foods sound delicious!
Anonymous
06/06/2019 09:26
Subject: Re:Mostly vegetarian with kids - do you cook meat on your kids?
Vegetarian here - don't worry about it. DH is a big meat eater and will cook meat for DS once a week or so, and DS sometimes eats it, sometimes not. Be casual about it and his tastes will evolve to whatever he prefers. If he doesn't prefer meat, that's fine (perhaps even preferable, I'd argue!) as long as the rest of his diet is balanced.
Anonymous
06/06/2019 08:39
Subject: Mostly vegetarian with kids - do you cook meat on your kids?
Anonymous wrote:On them? Like on a spit? Nah. Not here.
One of my kids loved going around on a spit. The other complained it made her dizzy so we just put her on the grill now.
Anonymous
06/06/2019 08:38
Subject: Mostly vegetarian with kids - do you cook meat on your kids?
Anonymous wrote:Well, eating fish and seafood every few days leaves you nowhere near vegetarian. You sound pescatarian at least so there’s that. Fish and seafood are animal meats, with the same sort of protein and B12 benefits.
Aside from that, my 2 year old, living in a completely omnivorous house, eats more “vegetarian” foods than it would appear your child does. We serve a lot of hummus, white bean dips, etc., plus roasted chickpeas, “cowboy caviar” with pita at lunch, tofu in a bajillion different combinations (eg. In stir fry, breaded with panko, and baked in nuggets, crumbled up with nutritional yeast and basil as a cheese substitute). We make a lot of vegetable curries (eg. Spinach, butternut squash, chickpea), dal, falafel, lentil patties, etc.
We do a clear “meatless Monday”, but many other of our dinner meals are vegetarian. DD may or may not eat the meat portion of dinner that day, but I know she gets lots of nutrients the rest of the day.
She also JUST started drinking milk at 2.5, but would normally have 1 serving of cheese and 1 serving of yogurt a day.
Yuckto all her foods! Poor kid. Why wasn’t she drinking milk before 2.5?