So lately we are doing a lot of vegetarian meals to help expand our 5 year old's eating palate. I have notice alot of issues in trying to help him with him being a vegetarian by choice. There are not lot of options that appeal to children his age or most meals are beyond his food palate.
Why is so hard to make meals that are appealing to children that are vegetarian? I understand that most vegetarians are adults but 60% of vegetarians in the United States are children and I also found out that his new school doesn't provide adequate vegetarian meals except a salad bar...a SALAD BAR??? Where's the protein they need??? Doesn't the school understand that children ages 5-8 years of age need 20-30 grams of protein a DAY, more if they are very active.
So with that said and done our menu for the past 3 weeks have been vegetarian and to my surprise some of them have been very good and some could use some tweaking. I hope that the few recipes I can remember to post will help other parents who have a vegetarian child when they might not be vegetarian themselves.
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