How to get your kids to eat more veggies has always been a great challenge for parents, but an even greater challenge for vegan/vegetarian parents. And there is always the dilemma of deciding if you should force your kids to eat plant based or not? There is the problem of having your children hanging out with friends who eat fast food or go on field trips and miss out on what their friends are eating. Should you or shouldn’t you choose for them. I guess that would be a personal choice. For me, I told my children why I was eating the way I did, which was mainly for health reasons. I didn’t want to scare them with all the animal cruelty information because I don’t think they should be subject to that at a young age. I told them that they can choose to eat however they wanted. They ate happy meals and other fast food without me discouraging them. Surprisingly through my example they decided on their own that they didn’t want to eat meat anymore. This made me quite proud that they were able to arrive at their own conclusions without needing pressure from me, which is how it should be. If it’s a matter of taste, start to make things your kids would normally eat like Mac n cheese or nachos, it’s easier to get a child to eat something that is familiar than to try something they’ve never thought of having, like kale chips. Take this approach and it will be easy to have your children choose for themselves without having to feel guilty about forcing your preferences on them. It’s important to let children find their own identity and make their own choices, unless of course it’s a disastrous one that we made in our past!😱
Vegan Mac and cheese
Vegan nachos
