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Kids on the Kind Diet

Started by sbeacco on August 17, 2011

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sbeacco said #1 Aug 17, 2011 at 11:20pm

Hi - I just joined and love the book. I really want to become a vegan (have been veg. for years) Have 2 kids, 4 and 7, and not sure they'd be willing/able to eat what I would make - espec. dinners! Anyone else out there with children eating vegan and have any ideas for kid-appealing meals?? :)))

Ashlei Noone said #2 Aug 20, 2011 at 8:58am

I find that with kids (like my husband) if you don't tell them what is in it and it is tasty they will eat it. Gardenia makes a great soy "chicken" nugget.

Getting started I found it easiest to take the recipes I already know and make substitutions. Since you are already veg then you really just substituting the dairy. Soy milk is thick like regular milk. I use that is all my baking and cream recipes. Butter is an easy sub since now there are so many oil based butter sub. Cheese is the only hard thing. I have yet to find a cheese sub I like.

My hubby got me "The Everything Vegan Cookbook" which I find wonderful for substitutions. It is a lot of everyday dishes with some tweeky.

Good Luck.

Nadine said #3 Aug 20, 2011 at 10:26am

I grew up a vegetarian, it's all I knew. I am now a teenager, and trying to do it again. Kids are young, they can be tought how to eat healthy food! Hope all goes well! :)

claire said #4 Aug 20, 2011 at 1:51pm

There are a lot of good threads about kids and picky eaters if you search this site. Also, these are some really good resources for kid freindly vegan recipes:

http://www.vrg.org/nutshell/kids.htm

http://vegandad.blogspot.com/search/label/kid-friendly

http://www.vegfamily.com/

http://vegweb.com/

claire said #5 Aug 24, 2011 at 10:22am

Oh also I love this book/blog http://peasandthankyou.com/ Its written by a mom and its really fun and practical and healthy.

jo chahal said #6 Aug 29, 2011 at 2:09pm

hi there im new to this and just starting the kind diet book already i have changed my habits my older son 7 is up for the change as i read him a little of the part of cows, he said he doesnt want to eat a cow any more.... my middle son on the other hand who i would love to change has an allergy to soy and a deadly one to peanuts and other nuts.. almonds are okay. any suggestion

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