Guest guest Posted March 7, 2001 Report Share Posted March 7, 2001 Hello, i am new to this list, and new to vegetarianism. I have a one year old daughter (abi) and i live with my parents and 2 sister and one brother. I have wanted to be vegetarian for several years now but there were things that prevented my complete cross over. Now that i'm 19 i have better control over my life and i want to do this. But this time around i have a daughter, and as hard as i search i can't find any recipes that are appetizing to a 1 yr old. My sister who is 3 yrs old. Has become the junk food queen. She eats oreo's and other snacks all day, but she is not my daughter so i can't control that, but i dont want my daughter to have that. I heard some where that the foods we feed them when thery are young is a good indication of how they will eat when they get older. I just ordered Sharon Yntema's book on baby vegetarianism, but from what I read there are no recipes in there. Since you all seem to have experienced the one year old vegetarian stage any advice, or tips would be helpfull thankyou jessica Mail Personal Address - Get email at your own domain with Mail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 7, 2001 Report Share Posted March 7, 2001 My son and I like Rose Elliot's Vegetarian Mother and Baby Book. He's also a fan of chick peas and cous cous, black beans and rice, and lentils. (But I can't remember when they can start eating these!) Good luck. ---------- >Jessica Alvarado <dinner_fairy > > The junk food queen >Wed, Mar 7, 2001, 8:58 AM > > > Hello, i am new to this list, and new to vegetarianism. I have a one year > old daughter (abi) and i live with my parents and 2 sister and one brother. > I have wanted to be vegetarian for several years now but there were things > that prevented my complete cross over. Now that i'm 19 i have better > control over my life and i want to do this. But this time around i have a > daughter, and as hard as i search i can't find any recipes that are > appetizing to a 1 yr old. My sister who is 3 yrs old. Has become the junk > food queen. She eats oreo's and other snacks all day, but she is not my > daughter so i can't control that, but i dont want my daughter to have that. > I heard some where that the foods we feed them when thery are young is a > good indication of how they will eat when they get older. > > I just ordered Sharon Yntema's book on baby vegetarianism, but from what I > read there are no recipes in there. Since you all seem to have experienced > the one year old vegetarian stage any advice, or tips would be helpfull > > thankyou > > jessica > > > > > > Mail Personal Address - Get email at your own domain with Mail. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 7, 2001 Report Share Posted March 7, 2001 Jessica asked: <<as hard as i search i can't find any recipes that are appetizing to a 1 yr old. My sister who is 3 yrs old has become the junk food queen. She eats oreos and other snacks all day, but she is not my daughter so i can't control that, but i dont want my daughter to have that.>> Sharing living space is the toughie, I think. Otherwise, your daughter would be able to learn all about good eating habits from you, without too much outside influence until she was a little older. Still, she's too little to get to any of the food herself yet, so you do have *some* control. One thing that helped me was to cultivate friends in other families that share similar eating habits. With most of Anna's friends (and most are not vegetarians, for what that's worth), a " snack " is baby carrots or raisins or pieces of fruit, that sort of thing. I can actually use vegetables as an enticement ( " stop that, honey, or no more broccoli for you " ) because she gets positive reinforcement about good eating habits whenever she's with her friends. There's not a lot of " so-and-so gets to eat chips; why can't I? " . Dipping is big fun for kids at Abi's age, so give her steamed vegetables with tahini or ketchup or yogurt (if you do dairy) to dip. Bake some pita bread in the oven, let it cool, then break it into pieces -- much healthier than chips to use for dipping! Whole grain pasta is always welcome. And if you've got a natural foods store in your area, consider some of the look-alike products. You can get " oreos " without the hydrogenated fat. You can get vegan cookies made with less sugar and all whole grains. There are a lot of soy products made to resemble meat products. Try to make more healthy options available in your home, so that maybe the rest of your family might come 'round a bit to your way of thinking. They may assume that being a vegetarian means they can never eat cookies or tacos or ice cream again. You can show them that those are still options in a vegetarian diet. Really, for a one year old, there's not a lot of necessity for " cooking " . Steam some vegetables, cut up some fruit, mash up some beans, give her finger foods like pasta, cut up cubes of tofu (my daughter eats it like candy)...that sort of thing. Good luck, Liz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 7, 2001 Report Share Posted March 7, 2001 > cut up cubes of tofu (mydaughter eats it like candy)... frankly tofu kind of scares me. i have never used it before....do you use soft, med or firm...Do you marinate or flavor it in any way...i heard it was quite tasteless. jessica Mail Personal Address - Get email at your own domain with Mail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 8, 2001 Report Share Posted March 8, 2001 Jessica, It's going to be awfully hard to keep your daughter away from junk food once she's a little older as long as others in the house are eating it. Any chance you could get your little sister interested in some healthy snacks, even sweet ones you can make at home?\ My 4-yr-old likes vegan rice crispie bars (made with peanutbutter, etc), tofu pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, fruit muffins,chocolate soymilk, not to mention fruit salads and fruit platters. Maybe if you can fill the little ones up on that kind of stuff they won't have room left over for the junky stuff. It would help if you could enlist your parents' cooperation in the change. They don't have to be vegetarian to eat healthy snacks! Susan P. ______________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 8, 2001 Report Share Posted March 8, 2001 Jessica, My kids like tofu cubes simply sprinkled with tamari. They LOVE tofu cubes marinated in tamari, tossed in cornstarch and fried in canola oil! susan P. ______________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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