kids and vegetarianism

March 5, 2002

I often do something similar with both visitors and my son

(who visits once a month atm). Breakfast is generally a

platter of raw fruit and perhaps crumpets, toast or cereal.

Lunch - raw fruit/veg and thin rice/corn cakes spread with

vegemite, sometimes noodle soup or something. Dinner -

raw veg and something substantial and hot, like savoury

pinwheels or bean tacos. IMO, raw fruit and veg are the

best place to get vitamins from, so providing a wide range

of them is generally the easiest and least overbearing way

to do so. The cooked food provides that 'full' feeling that

ppl are used to - altho i've noticed lately that bread

products in particular cause me to feel 'overfull' instead.

Love,

Naomi

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> Hi...every family rightfully has its own way of eating and its own

> nurtitional priorities..having said that,I will just menton how I

> dealt with my own children's nutrition when they were young. It became

> obvious to me that meals were turning into a power struggle or a

> testing of mom's limits and I recognized that in my own case, I would

> have to make some changes quickly.Perhaps I should also mention that

> my husband (a surgeon) and I had dinner much lateralone because of his

> erratic working hours, so dining as a family around the table was

> never an issue.In any case, it took a lot of willpower on my part and

> some of my friends were very critical, but this is what I did: for

> breakfast,lunch, and dinner, I prepared a medium-sized platter

> ofbite-sized fresh fruits and vegetables since cooked veggies were not

> popular, then I madeseveral small bowls of something they did like:

> beans, rice, macaroni-and-cheese, whole wheat pancakes, toast, and

> oatmeal/raisin But it was occasionally very difficult to do without

> unnecessary guilt and the critical comments of friends! Maybe the one

> thing I did that helped was this: I asked myself how I would feel if a

> fussy powerful giant was nagging at me to eat things I hated and which

> made me feel slightly sick and on top of that, kept insisting I eat

> more than I could handle of a food I actually did like! Katherine

March 6, 2002

In a message dated 03/06/2002 12:10:33 AM Eastern Standard Time, catcuddlez writes:

.. IMO, raw fruit and veg are the best place to get vitamins from, so providing a wide range

I agree that a wide variety of fresh veggies and fruit are the best place to start along with fresh clean water. It's just my opinion that in today's world I feel the soil has been depleted of many of it's nutritional values and alot of it has been replaced with artificial or harmful nutrients and chemicals. Organic isn't always an option for some of us. I use supplementation as an insurance so to speak. Mother Nature has given us a wonderful buffet upon to feast but Man has taken it's toll. Wishing you wellness, Robin