We made the switch to Vegan this summer. My 5 year old daughter was used to chicken, beef and milk in abundance. It took a few months, but she is now completely converted to soy milk and actually perfers it. I just continued to introduce it and have her try it again and again. It is perfectly normal for kids and adults to try something new several times before accepting it.

Using this technique of try try again my daughter’s favorite food is now squash as opposed to chicken nuggets and french fries. We recently ate out at a pizza place with vegan options and when our vegan soy cheese, spinach, olive, onion and artichoke heart pizza came she exclaimed “WOW that looks good!”

If you decieve your children in one area of life that leaves them open to doubt you on other areas - parenting is hard enough without bringing in deception and doubt into the equation.

I read this to my boyfriend and we’ve been giggling spontaneously for the past five minutes. Then we’ll stop. And then one of us will start again.

I’m waiting on a gift certificate for Amazon.com so I can order my copy of Veganomicon. Any day now….

It’d be more interesting to have a cookbook with hidden goodies but also creative ways to feed kids veggies that are noticeable.

But my 6 year old seems to like it, and I always ask him if he can guess what the secret ingredients are. The more unusual or unexpected, the better. For us, it isn’t that he doesn’t like vegetables — he’ll graze on kale right out of the garden, no problem — it’s that he tends to fixate on one favourite vegetable to the exclusion of everything else, so I need to add the missing foods back into his diet. He knows that’s what I’m doing, and it’s a workable compromise — he learns about his nutritional needs, and I get to keep potatoes in the house. (He’d eat nothing but potatoes forever if he had his way.)