Mom Wants to Raise Twin Babies On Vegetarian Diet
Posted By Savvy Veg On May 12, 2010 @ 3:10 pm In Children,Veg Advice Blog | 2 Comments
Mom with twin babies needs advice on where to find baby food recipes and baby food mills.
Hello, I have a set of six month old twin babies and have just started introducing solid foods.
They have been on soy milk formula and breast milk to date and I would like to raise them on a vegetarian diet.
Do you have any advice, articles, recipes, or good web sites I can check out? It seems like there is mostly junk out there which tells you to still give them dairy. I would appreciate it! - J.K.
Savvy Vegetarian Advice:
Congratulations on becoming the mother of twins! Double the joy - and double the work. Hope you’re managing to get some sleep!
It boggles my mind that medical people still tell Moms to give their babies dairy milk, and I also get pretty exercised about the low level of support for breastfeeding! But that’s a whole ‘nother topic [1]!
As far as baby food recipes go, Homemade Baby Food Recipes [2] has some good ones, and they also sell baby food mills [3]. Those are Mom’s best friend, because then your babies can eat what you eat. For older babies, just mash things up with a fork, or give them finger foods.
Generally, bland food, non-acidic, is best for babies - you could start them off with potato, sweet potato or butternut squash, for example. Avocado or banana is usually a hit, or cream of rice cereal with breast milk or non-dairy milk.
Babies are pretty decided in what they like to eat, actually. I recommend Cathe Olson’s website, Simply Natural Books [4], about feeding your vegetarian kids. She has a baby food recipe book, and there are two of her articles in the list below.
I also highly recommend the vegetarian nutrition bibles, ‘Becoming Vegan’, or ‘Becoming Vegetarian’ [5], by Vesanto Melina and Brenda Davis. They cover the topic of child vegetarian nutrition pretty thoroughly. As an intro to vegetarian nutrition, download the Savvy Vegetarian nutrition report [6].
Savvy Veg Articles and advice, related to your question:
How to Get Enough Protein in Your Vegetarian Diet [7]
Vegetarian Protein Sample Menus [8]
Feeding a Lactose Intolerant Child [9]
Eight Ways to Get Your Family to Eat Vegetables [10]
Feeding Your Independent Toddler [11]
Going Veg With a 4 Year Old [12]
All the best, Judith Kingsbury, Savvy Vegetarian
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[1] whole ‘nother topic: http://www.savvyvegetarian.com/articles/vegetarian-pregnancy-3.php
[2] Homemade Baby Food Recipes: http://www.homemade-baby-food-recipes.com/
[3] baby food mills: http://www.homemade-baby-food-recipes.com/baby-food-processors.html
[4] Simply Natural Books: http://www.simplynaturalbooks.com
[5] ‘Becoming Vegetarian’: http://www.savvyvegetarian.com/articles/new-becoming-veg-review.php
[6] Savvy Vegetarian nutrition report: http://www.savvyvegetarian.com/nutrition-report.php
[7] How to Get Enough Protein in Your Vegetarian Diet: http://savvyvegetarian.com/articles/get-enough-protein-veg-diet.php
[8] Vegetarian Protein Sample Menus: http://savvyvegetarian.com/vegetarian-cooking/protein-sample-menus.php
[9] Feeding a Lactose Intolerant Child: http://savvyvegetarian.com/vegetarian-advice/feeding-lactose-intolerant-child.php
[10] Eight Ways to Get Your Family to Eat Vegetables: http://savvyvegetarian.com/articles/eight-ways-eat-veg.php
[11] Feeding Your Independent Toddler: http://savvyvegetarian.com/articles/feeding-toddler.php
[12] Going Veg With a 4 Year Old: http://savvyvegetarian.com/vegetarian-advice/go-veg-with-4-yr-old.php
[13] Image: http://www.savvyvegetarian.com/blog/advice/a-week-of-menus-for-vegetarian-kid-friendly-meals/
[14] Image: http://www.savvyvegetarian.com/blog/advice/give-baby-complete-protein-without-meat/
[15] Image: http://www.savvyvegetarian.com/blog/advice/7-yr-old-vegetarian-boy-has-behavior-issues/
[16] Image: http://www.savvyvegetarian.com/blog/advice/non-veg-feeding-new-vegan-mom/
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