Vegetarian baby?

[tinselcat]

Hi

Just wondered if anyone else out there is raising a vegetarian baby, and if so, what kind of foods you are giving from the second stage of weaning onwards.

My recipe books which are good for the first stage purees then seem to have lots of meat/fish dishes.

 

[Dotty_woman]

We eat a lot of vegetarian food but do also eat fish. However We do quite a lot of vegetarian pastas, homemade veggie burgers, bean chilli (with not so much of the chilli), sandwiches, toasties, veggie sausage, Yorkshire puddings, Soup and bread. Xxx

 

[Maud]

We're vegetarian. Our daughter eats everything we do. We just don't add salt to anything and don't make anything overly spicy (although she does love spicy food). In the last few days she has had homemade hummus on pittas, homemade cheese & herb sausages with homemade oven chips and baked beans, cheese & rice salad, pesto pasta, homemade butterbean pate with ryvita and lentil & vegetable chilli with rice.

We did BLW but I would imagine most of our favourite meals would've pureed fine. I guess it depends on what sorts of foods you usually eat though, as you (presumably) won't want to be cooking totally different foods for baby?

 

[tinselcat]

I'm allergic to cheese and have been vegan for the past 15 years so finding it a bit hard to know what to cook.. Although if baby isn't allergic to dairy or eggs then I want him to eat em

 

[JD.Deedee]

Just go by what you eat and make it suitable for little one to eat too by mashing it up or making purree out of some of the ingredients! Aside from chicken my little boy hardly eats meat, especially because the texture he doesn't seem to be able to chew yet. Oh and I don't eat any fish at all so the odd time he has fish it's white or tuna from his dad's or his nanna's... Beans and greens are my favourite and I'm sure if you yourself only eat the vegetarian diet you know what you substitute it with.. I always got my boy to eat vegs like cauliflower and courgettes things like that in soups with bread