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Vegetarians - if you have kids, are you raising them in a strictly vegetarian household, or cooking meat on occasion for them / allowing them to eat it outside of the home?

-Al

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We are raising our child vegetarian.

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My sister and my girlfriend have been vegetarians in the past, but they stopped because it was too difficult to get all of the nutrients they needed on a regular basis.

Is there a higher risk that a child raised on a vegetarian diet won't get all the nutrients he or she needs?

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Well it isn't really "chance". You have to educate yourself a bit and make sure you are feeding your kid properly. This is true of non-vegetarian parents too.

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I'm not trying to give you a hard time. I have no problems with people who choose not to eat meet and I'm sure you'll be a great parent, but I'm not sure that raising a child as a vegetarian doesn't have risks associated with it no matter how knowledgeable the parents are.

Kids don't always eat everything their parents tell them to. If a kid is eating a diet with redundant sources of a given nutrient, then if he or she doesn't eat enough of one food, it's not that big of a deal. If a kid is eating a diet where some food items are the only sources for essential nutrients, then it stands to reason that there would be a greater chance that the kid would choose not to eat something important.

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