Go Veg – Plant-Based Bambino

Do you struggle to find a balance and worry that your child isn’t meeting daily nutritional recommendations?

To say the very least, the standard Western diet is overly processed, laden with dangerous additives such as artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives, loaded with refined sugar, and high in fat and cholesterol.

In fact, the next time you’re in the supermarket, I challenge you to pay attention to the products marketed to your child and you. I mean, really take a look at these foods and the mile-long list of undecipherable ingredients marching across each package.

There’s no denying that as a society we’ve moved away from feeding our children real food, and, instead, are offering food-like substances. The thought of these processed foods being consumed by children should evoke sheer terror.

When my daughter was ready to take on solid foods, deciding what to feed her was often a tremendous struggle. I’d read so much conflicting information about which foods were helpful – and which were potentially harmful – to a developing child, and I wanted to ensure I was giving her the best start I possibly could while instilling healthy eating habits from day one.

I knew I wanted to nourish my daughter’s developing mind and body with a rainbow of whole foods, entirely skipping processed infant cereals and other foods marketed for babies and children, yet, I also needed these foods to be budget-friendly and relatively simple for me to single-handedly prepare as my husband worked long hours, and I often cared for our daughter independently.

In addition, it was important to me that the bulk of these real whole foods be plant-based (meaning foods that contained no animal products or animal byproducts).

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