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Ways kids can show vegan pride
Encourage your child’s pride in his or her vegan lifestyle. Here are some fun ways you can support that: 1) Buy her a cool veg-message T-shirt or bag from PETA’s catalog online. 2) Offer a great vegan snack he can take to call. 3) Visit a farm sanctuary, and help your child create a class report about it. 4) Volunteer together at an animal shelter. 5) Help her write a le
Snacks Attack Kids
There’s a new cloud hanging over The Snack. A new study suggests that too many kids are eating too many snacks comprised of the wrong kinds of foods.  In our book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Vegan Eating for Kids we recommend that vegan kids eat healthy snacks often, especially after school or when they’re on the go in between sports and other
Hey, Vegan Easter Bunny
It’s almost Easter for Christians around the world, a time that celebrates new life by coloring dead eggs and eating pigs and lamb. There’s an irony there (my husband says I’m being too harsh and he’s going to stop sending my blog out to his non-vegan friends if I rain on too many people’s Easter parades, so I won’t explore that train of thought any fu
Salt shakes kids’ health
It’s easy to let too much salt creep into our kids’ daily diets without even noticing. Too much salt can contribute to high blood pressure and obesity, even in childhood. But more than that, kids who eat a high sodium diet may expect all food to taste unnaturally highly flavored, thereby predisposing them to want all the foods that are high in salt (like fast food, chips and other ju
Carb crazy kids?
Many kids go through phases where they will eat pasta, bread, crackers, rice, tortillas and cereal in abundance, but turn up their noses at nearly anything else — even anything in, on or over those beloved carbs. Solution: Begin to put small amounts of healthful toppings, spreads and vegetables on or in those favorite carb-based meals — and I mean small(barely noticeable) a
You’re vegan, your child’s not?
Wouldn’t it be nice if families ate perfectly healthy food in perfect harmony, together, every day? Yeah, right. Back in the land of reality some meat-eating families have one child who comes home and announces that she’s not eating anything made by or out of animals anymore. In others, it’s the parent or parents who have a change of heart and go vegetarian or vegan&
Keep ‘em in the nest
My family and I just finished watching the strangely sweet documentary Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill. It’s about a flock of escapee parrots in San Francisco and the eccentric man who has befriended them. There’s a similar flock of roving parrots in the Florida metro area where we live and it was fun to hear about another community that has a similar once-cau
Cure for Veg Kids Who Hate Vegetables
Do you have a vegetarian or vegan kid who hates most vegetables? Sounds like an unmanageable paradox, but I’m here to tell you it’s not. I have one daughter who loves all veggies and fruits. All of them. I have another who is strictly the most-common-fruits-and-veggies-only type: Give her anything but bananas, apples, grapes, carrots, peas and corn, and I’m out of
Wear your heart on your sleeve
I have one certain shirt that always gets stares and comments from my kids and any of their friends who happen to be around when I’m wearing it. It shows a comic-like drawing of a full-size cow impaled on a giant fork with the words: “It tastes OK as long as I don’t think about it” under the picture. Pretty much sums up eating meat, doesn&rsqu
Creative Kids Draw their Veggies
My eight-year-old daughter drew this picture of happy veggies and fruits because she honestly LOVES them all. Not eating meat or eggs (and rarely eating dairy) doesn’t seem like deprivation to her at all because she really gets why fruits, veggies, grains, nuts and other plant-based foods are healthier, taste better and are kinder to her body, to animals and t
Can kids choose to be vegan…or carnivorous?
If your child declares herself vegan or vegetarian and you are carnivorous, would you support her choice? What about if you’re vegan and your child decides he wants to eat meat? Do you let him? Do you buy meat for him? These are the questions many parents on both the meat no-meat side of the equation find themselves grappling, as more kids want to go meatless, or as more parents want their
Vegan celebs kids can admire
While researching my new book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Vegan Eating for Kids (available for pre-order now on amazon.com, on store shelves in February), I was surprised by how many vegan and vegetarian celebrities there are that teens, tweens and other kids seem to naturally like and see as role models. Some examples include: actor Elijah Wood, country singer Carri
Help Haiti via Veg Food
It’s my hope that the tragic earthquake in Haiti will somehow remind the world that the people, especially the children, of this island nation have been and continue to be in desperate trouble — with or without a natural disaster. My family and I lived in the Caribbean for five years and so we know first-hand what a wonderful culture, people and natural world exists in that regio