Hi. I'm having difficulty meal planning/shopping/cooking due to depression. And, yay it's the school holidays. And I'm a single mum.
I'm vegan. My 3 Kids eat meat. I brought them up vegetarian, but they chose to eat meat when they knew what it was.
I was cooking and freezing food for me, and cooking different meals for them or cooking similar meals but veganising one of them, and making most of our cakes/snacks from scratch. I was able to plan the week and shop accordingly. This now, has all gone to pot and I am currently living on marmite sandwiches and the kids are on fishfingers/chicken nuggets and chips/pizza…you get the jist. It's not healthy and is actually rather expensive. I don't trust my food hygiene particularly at the moment either and I'm always paranoid about meat anyway.
I've got an old book- the single vegan which has a shopping list and easy recipes that are nutritionally all there. The food is nothing extravagant and relies on the minimum amount of ingredients to make a meal, and the meals don't take long/use lots of pans. I think I could cope with this level of shopping/cookery. Would it be so bad if I gave them food made with the recipes for most of the week? With bread so that if they don't eat it at least they have something? Does anyone feed their kids vegan food?
My two youngest are a bit more up for trying new stuff, eldest has a fit at anything that involves vegetables/pulses which makes his diet really restrictive in terms of variety.
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dangermouseisace · 23/07/2016 16:48
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