veggie baby

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i have been a veggie for 20 + yrs and am planning to bring ds up the same (well until he decides otherwise). anyone got any advice good or bad,or personal experience or even some recipes that make sure he is getting the protein he needs. he is 8 months old....... we will give him white fish. ta

check out the vegetarian society website, it has a special section on veggie babies and children with lots of recommendations.

Iron is the main thing to watch out for. veggie babies can have it fairly easily in chickpeas, lentils, spinach, apricots, eggs.

protein is pretty easy if you include lentils and chickpeas, beans, eggs, soya (various things like organic soya sausages - cauldron foods do these). are you giving him dairy, cos cheese and yoghurt is popular with most babies. all mine ate peanut butter but we have no allergies in our family, it's not recoommended for all babies.

Carol Timperley has a vegetarian baby weaning and cook book which had some nice recipes.

I've got that book and have found it really useful. The tiffin and lentil hotpot are particularly good.

My ds eats what we eat at the moment (9mths) with no problems at all. Finding dd (2.5 yrs) more tricky. Typical toddler not eating anything - has cheese and yogurt for most meals. Getting worried she'll turn her nose up at these! fingers crossed it's a phase (like everything else)

dp is vegi, the children & i aren't, but i made a great soup for lunch with olive oil, chopped carrots, courgettes, leeks, celery, lentils, low salt stock & a tin of tomatoes. i didn't blend it, left it chunky & served it with parmesan. dd, 7 months, loved it!

I think oily fish, like mackerel, is very good for babies, is also high in protein and essential fats.