Eating NO Meat

Gabrielle now eats no meat what-so-ever. No red meat, no chicken, no fish...none. The only veg she will eat are peas and carrots (I hide grated carrot and courgette in everything I can). She does eat eggs.

Do you think I need to talk to the doc about iron supplements again or can someone eat no meat, and very few iron rich foods and still maintain iron levels?

I treat her as I would a vegetarian and try to get in non-meat sources of iron but sadly very few make it past the finger test (if she touches it and doens't like the feel she won't eat it).

What do those of you who are vegetarians do?

We have this liquid supplement called incremin, has a giraffe on the packet and " a great cherry taste" according to the packet. Neither of my 2 eat much meat at all, so I give it to them. They seem to like it, although jake can be picky, so if he won't take it, I squirt it (when he's not looking) into some juice,
I also make sure he eats eggs for protien (he's worse than she is) and lots of greens.

From memory she has been low in iron before, hasn't she? If so or if you think she is anaemic, check her out with the GP.

My older two girls are very fussy about meat. They refuse to eat all red meat, I don't think they eat bacon, they will however each fish fingers, chicken, sausages and luncheon. They don't have as much iron in them and I don't really serve them up extra of them. I figure we will get there with meat in the end, once they get a bit bigger and the texture is not so important to them.

Anyway, they still have things like marmite and eggs (not often) and a generally otherwise balanced diet. When it comes to dinner time, I serve them up a small amount of meat every time to see if they will try it, but I don't push it. However if they want seconds, they do need to finish everything on their plate and then can choose from whatever is left. I probably introduced that rule at around 2 or 2 1/2 - I'm more flexible with Kryssi. (Kryssi though, eats her meat and leaves her veges. Sometimes I just swap their plates over!!)

I figure it won't hurt them in the long run.

Not eating meat is ok. I'm fine and it's been 21 years and counting for me

lol that ain't the end of the world either. Until I was 17 (when I moved out of home) I basically lived on junk food, potato, bread and cheese. And that's not exagerating. It was only once I moved out of home I started eating real food

I served up peas and carrots every single day, day after day and now she will eat a few. Her usual dinner is about 2 teaspoons of food! Mad.

LOL - tried that. She won't go there. She seems to do better if I serve the same thing every single day.

She doesn't even eat chicken nuggets or potato (unless it is shoe string chips from a pack...if I make my own she won't touch them even though they look the same and virtually taste the same).

She does her own touch test... if it is slightly slimey or she doesn't like the feel of it on her fingers she won't even try it.

Talk about miss high maintenance! DH and I love to eat :)

Does she watch you when you make the food? Like if you cut up the chips when shes not around and then put them in the packet would that trick her? lol

lol I tried that with my mates daughter and it worked great. She wouldn't eat home made chips but when she stayed here one night I cut them up when she was having a nap and put them in the bag and she ate them happy as

She may still be at the stage where she is too tired to eat properly at dinner and prefers a big breakfast not a big dinner. My girls switched over (to bigger dinners) at about 2 yrs.

And will she eat things off a fork (herself)? They might pass the slimy etc test that way lol - just a random thought but not much confidence in that one!!