Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Food/recipes

For related content, visit our food content hub.

Dd wants to be vegetarian. Help needed please.

28 replies

Posey · 01/01/2007 20:02

Just need some general advice or recommendations for a good book/website to look at.
Dd's 9 and has been on about being a vegetarian for ages. Thought it was just a whim but it would appear not.
We are meat eaters but not "meat and veg at all meals" types. Not really sure where to begin, don't particularly want to have to always cook seperate meals for us all. Don't ovviously want her to become deficient in certain foodstuffs. We are big pasta eaters and also like "stews" if that helps!

Any help/advice gratefully received.

OP posts:
janeite · 01/01/2007 20:39

Some of the veggie things you can buy ready made are good for giving her when you're having a "meat and potatoes" type meal. Eg: beanburgers, falafel, veggie sausages made by Cauldron.

The hotdog sausages that somebody mentioned are useful to have in the freezer and make quite a nice sausage casserole -
fry onion, diced carrot, green pepper.
Add a spoon of honey, a spoon of grainy mustard, some paprika, a bit of cayenne and lots of pepper. Add sliced hotdog sausages, a tub of passata, a tin of butter beans (drained) and some frozen sweetcorn and cook until the sweetcorn is done.

Omelettes are always a success and my dd will also eat lentils and chickpeas so I do a lot of curries, soups, casseroles using these with various veggies.

Hoummus and pitta is good for an easy snack or light "picky meal".

janeite · 01/01/2007 20:40

Oh and tofu is nice if you dip it in oil and soy then fry it to serve with stir fry and noodles or rice. I sometimes do omelette strips with stir fries too, to add protein; or cashew nuts sprinkled over.

Posey · 01/01/2007 21:00

Thank you so much everyone. Enough suggestions to keep us going until she either gives it up (don't think she will, at least for a while) or to keep plenty of variety in her diet.

OP posts:
New posts on this thread. Refresh page