by amgmmg » Wed Jan 25, 2017 2:41 am
I have been following this diet for 4 years.
y son who is 12 eats mostly my food. But I would say he is a vegetarian. He will eat pizza once a week, and he will eat ice cream at school or if my husband buys it.
For lunch, he has vegan butter and jam sandwiches. I know I should do my own butter Today I gave him tahini and jam sandwiches. But the bread is the regular white bread.
Even if I bake bread they will not eat it, and I have not been successful at baking a good loaf
bread that I can slice for sandwiches.
We do not get oil free bread here, except for Lebanese bread, which is more like a wrap.
At night he eats whatever I cook. For snacks sometimes he has toasted cheese and tomato (moxarella homemade cheese). or smoothies.
But I have noticed that he had put on weight. He is a big boy, broad shoulders, and big structure, and the last two months he has not done much exercise. He started again.
What can I feed him? When he does sports, which he started again, he plays one or two hours and he is hungry.
If we are out of the house and he gets hungry then I do not have many options here, so he would eat something vegetarian. Unless I buy fruit.
There are some vegan places, but not where I usually shop, I really would like him to lose some weight, but I do not want to make him feel bad about his weight.
But on the other hand, I have my daughter, who is 8, slim , but she does not eat anything I cook, except for some pasta with tomato sauce, and she is getting tired of it, and some rice.
She eats meat when she goes to friends or if my husband buys her something. At home I buy vegan sausages. not ideal, but she will not eat the ones I make. She takes sausages to school.
She will not eat homemade pizza but will gladly eat a regular pizza. She eats perhaps one fruit a day. and then if we are out I have no option than to buy some regular food. I do buy sometimes baby food for her (the fruit ones, but she chooses the one with yogurt), or sometimes I force her to eat banana.
I feel bad because then I need to buy her regular food. The only thing she might drink is a banana milkshake (banana, water and soy milk). Other than that she does not eat anything. She has cereal in the morning (and it is not compliant cereal). with soya milk.
We bought a Yonanas type of appliance, to make ice cream. FIrst two times she had them. Now she eats a teaspoon and says she does not want any more.
She loves animal but she says animals are already dead. She does not want to hear anything I say.
I get so frustrated when it comes supper time. I cannot feed her vegan sausages every day because I do not know what it is inside, and they are expensive.
Thank you