Kid-friendly vegetarian recipes?

drusillaslittleboot @drusillaslittleboot

May 2021 9 42 Report

Kid-friendly vegetarian recipes?

I babysit my friend's two boys (2 and 4). I'm a vegetarian; they don't eat any veg except broccoli and potatoes.

What should I cook them for dinner? Anything that the 4 year old could help with would be awesome... but not necessary.

Update:

I will be in their house, and no, I'm not gonna feed them what their mother feeds them. She'd deliver them to my door with six cupcakes and a bottle of Coca Cola. Nasty.

Food & Drink / Vegetarian & Vegan

chereshnya

Verified answer

Pasta, vegetarian lasagna, fried potatoes, veggie or cheese pizza, rice, potato salad.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipes/Salad/Potato-Salads/...

http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn...

^(Don't HAVE to include the tofu)

http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn...

A really delicious snack that I love is white bread (French or Italian, maybe ciabatta bread) with some mayonnaise and fresh tomato....I'm telling you, if you haven't tried it, its AMAZING and soooo simple! I bet the kids would love it too (even if they don't eat tomatoes in other cases).

Another snack that I love consists of:

-tortilla (like the one they use in Chipotle for the burritos)

-mayonnaise

-chopped tomatoes (tiny little cubes)

-lettuce (I prefer iceberg)

-cheese (optional)

-salt

-any kind of seasoning u have/like (I use Italian seasoning or Mrs. Dash) (also optional)

So you just put a layer of mayo on the tortilla, put all the other ingredients in, and make a wrap/roll. Then you can cut the tortilla roll into several smaller pieces (about bite size or just a little bigger)....so simple and healthy and sooooo good!

For a really simple and quick dessert you could get strawberries and whipped cream! If you don't have whipped cream u could also use sour cream and sugar. Just mix with any kind of berries (strawberries, blueberries, etc) and its a quick and easy dessert that has always been liked by kids I've babysitted.

Anonymous

There are also some good kids recipe books: Better Than Peanut Butter & Jelly: Quick Vegetarian Meals Your Kids Will Love by Marty Mattare Vegan Lunch Box by Jennifer McCann The Vegetarian Family Cookbook by Nava Atlas And some books on raising vegetarian children that offers info on nutrition: Raising Vegetarian Children : A Guide to Good Health and Family Harmony by Joanne Stepaniak

Anonymous

beans on toast is a good old stand by with kids but it doesn't have to be boring. Mixing in a selection of (bean-sized for disguise) chopped veg and leftovers serving on crusty bread and cover in toasted cheese can be made quite exciting and is simple enough for the youngster to have a hand in.

Soups with lumps in are very nutritious, child friendly and easy to make whilst yo watch over your charges

Of course you could always make a broccoli and potato oven baked top it off with a sprinkling of grated cheese and cornflakes.

Broccoli lasagne?

You could try this site http://www.youngveggie.org/recipes/template.html

Anonymous

There is no one single Paleo Diet, as our ancestors from all over the world ate dramatically different diets depending on the climate where they lived, their landscape, accessibility to water bodies, and the latitude that they lived. This is a detailed meal plan for the paleo diet https://tr.im/1ncfl

In some cases, a Paleo Diet may be 90% plant foods and 10% animal foods, and in other cases, a Paleo Diet may be 90% animal foods and 10% plant foods.

For example, our ancestors that lived near the equator had year long access to more plant materials such as root vegetables and various fruits, veggies, and nuts.

On the other hand, our ancestors that lived at higher latitudes further away from the equator only had access to fruits and vegetables seasonally at one specific time period per year, and had larger periods of the year where they ate a higher % of meats, organ meats, fish, and other animal-based foods, or fermented foods that could be stored for winter.