Resources to Help You Feed Your Plant-Based Toddler
This is a comprehensive list of resources to help parents raise healthy vegan babies, toddlers and children. This list will be updated and expanded regularly.
The more high quality information and support you have, the more successful you’ll be at raising plant-based kids!
This Directory includes:
Books About Plant-Based Nutrition
Vegan-Themed Children’s Books
You Tube Cooking Channels—Plant-Based Family-Friendly
Plant-Based/Vegan Family-Friendly Cookbooks
Plant-Based Medical Providers
Podcasts About the Plant-Based Lifestyle for Parents & Families
Handouts on Plant-Based Nutrition
Helpful Instagram Accounts to Follow
Documentaries
Helpful Websites
Support & Connection with Other Plant-Based Toddler Moms
How to Get Started
Apps
Books About Plant-Based Nutrition
A Parent’s Guide to Intuitive Eating; How to Raise Kids Who Love to Eat Healthy by Dr. Yami Cazorla-Lancaster, board-certified Pediatrician. You’ll learn how to eliminate stress, reduce anxiety, end food battles, and enjoy feeding your confident eater.
Jumpstart Guide to Plant-Based Living by Dr Melissa Mondala, AKA Dr Lifestyle. this JUMP START GUIDE will help you step by step. You and your family can be healthier and enjoy the process at the same time! Dr. Melissa is a family medicine and lifestyle medicine specialist who is passionate about teaching others how to eat healthier.
Becoming Vegan by Brenda Davis, RD & Vesanto Melina, MS, RD. A complete reference to plant-based nutrition for all ages. Includes thorough chapters on plant-based nutrition for pregnancy, infants, toddlers, and children.
Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating: A Step-by-Step Guide for Overcoming Selective Eating, Food Aversion, and Feeding Disorders by Katja Rowell, MD & Jenny McGlothlin, MS, SLP a family doctor specializing in childhood feeding joins forces with a speech pathologist to help you support your child’s nutrition, healthy growth, and end meal-time anxiety (for your child and you) once and for all. This book is for much more than just the average picky eater.
The Vegan Kids E-Cookbook and Meal Plan by Karla Moreno-Bryce who is a vegan registered dietician and toddler mom. Cookbook and meal plan for vegan kids age 6 months and up.
Disease-Proof Your Child; Feeding Kids Right by Joel Fuhrman, MD. Reduce asthma, ear infections, allergies, and for the future protect against diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. Includes nutrition info and kid-friendly recipe.
2. Vegan-Themes Children’s Books
Download the clickable list of Vegan-Themed Children’s Books
3. You Tube Cooking Channels with Plant-Based Family-Friendly Plant-Recipes
Sweet Potato Soul Jenne’s food is always tasty,healthy and not complicated. She’s a professional vegan chef and YouTuber. One of my favorites!
Garbanzo Girl I love her videos on how to MEAL PREP for the week and excellent simple recipes. All whole food plant-based.
Nini Girl Cook with her she prepares whole food plant-based meals for her family from some of the most popular plant-based cookbooks. Fun, easy tutorials.
Vegan Richa OMG her vegan recipes always turn out so good! She is my favorite!
Cooking With Plants Anja prepare simple, delicious, whole food plant-based recipes. Very family-friendly.
Cheap Lazy Vegan Just as the name states, cheap and easy. Yummy. Mostly healthy vegan recipes.
4. My Favorite Plant-Based Vegan, Family-Friendly Cookbooks
Plant-Based on a Budget Plant-Based on a Budget: Toni Okamoto, Delicious Vegan Recipes for Under $30 a Week, in Less Than 30 Minutes a Meal
Supermarket Vegan: 225 Meat-Free, Egg-Free, Dairy-Free Recipes for Real People in the Real World
Forks Over Knives―The Cookbook: Over 300 Recipes for Plant-Based Eating All Through the Year by Del Sroufe, Hundreds of affordable, delicious recipes
5. Plant-Based Medical Providers
6. Podcasts
Veggie Doctor Radio focused on plant-based nutrition, habit formation, behavior change and motivation
Plant-Powered People Podcast great ideas and tips for being plant-based on a budget
Plant-Based Superpower Mom Podcast for moms making the transition to a more plant-based lifestyle for themselves and their families
7. Handouts on Plant-Based Nutrition
Vegetarian Nutrition for Infants
Vegetarian Nutrition for Toddlers and Preschoolers
Vegetarian Nutrition for School-Aged Children
Milk Comparison Chart by Dr. Jackie Busse, Plant-Based Pediatrician
Recommended Servings for Plant-Based Kids by Dr. Jackie Busse, Plant-Based Pediatrician
EBook: Eating Well: Infants & Children Under 5
EBook: Plant-Based Diet for Infants, Children and Teens by Physicians Commitee for Responsible Medicine
EBook: New Plant-Based Diet Booklet: A Healthier Way to Eat by Kaiser Permanente
Free Checklists and Ebooks from Leafy Vibe to help with feeding plant-based toddlers
8. Instagram Accounts to Follow
Leafy Vibe Heidi, Pediatric Nurse shares fun nutrition tips and recipes to feed plant-based vegan toddlers.
Planted Families Catrina shares family-friendly plant-based recipes and gorgeous food photos.
Baby Food Ideas Alyssa, mom of 4 shares her little one’s plant-based toddler meals and tons of helpful tips for raising healthy toddlers. (see her below)
Plant-Based Kids Foundation Doing great things by provide more plant-based meal options for schools and daycares. Rosy will inspire you with the simple healthy meals she feeds her toddlers.
Plant-Based Pediatrician Dr. Jackie Busse teaches about plant-based nutrition for children (she has two plant-based kiddos herself)
Grazing Greens Karen, Registered Dietitian in Sweden🇸🇪 shares practical tips and evidence based nutrition on how to raise plant-based kids.
Qadira Huff MD. She’s a plant-based pediatrician, toddler mom with tons of tips for plant-based child health and wellness. Look for her new website coming soon www.sproutingwellness.com
9. Documentaries
Forks Over Knives examines how the popularity of processed foods has led to epidemic rates of obesity, diabetes and other diseases.
What the Health examines the link between diet and disease and the billions of dollars at stake in the healthcare, pharmaceutical and food industries.
The Game Changers showcases the effects of a plant-based diet on elite athletes
Cowspiracy all about the impacts of animal agriculture.
Earthlings a difficult film about the mistreatment of animals by humans
10. Websites
Leafyvibe.com Pediatric Nurse, mom and grandma with evidence-based educational information, recipes and helpful ideas for raising healthy toddlers on a plant-based vegan way of eating.
Nutritious Vida Vegan Registered Dietician who supports kids with a healthy vegan diet. Vegan nutrition tips and advice for kids.
Nutrition Facts.org non-commercial, science-based public service provided by Dr. Michael Greger, providing free updates on the latest in nutrition research via bite-sized videos. There are more than a thousand videos on nearly every aspect of healthy eating.
Forks Over Knives empowers people to live healthier lives by changing the way the world understands nutrition.
Switch 4 Good Informative website that educates why dairy isn’t healthy, and how it negatively effects communities of color.
Plant-Based Juniors Registered Dietician moms shares nutrition advice and feeding tips for plant-based kiddos.
Veggie Fit Kids a plant-based pediatrician helping your kids to live their healthiest life by eating more fruits and vegetables.
Raised on Veggies vegan mama with a Masters in Nutritional Science shares her love of vegan family cooking plus nutrition info.
11. Support & Connection with Other Plant-Based Toddler Moms
12. How to Get Started
How to Transition Kids to a Plant-Based Diet without a Battle (from a mom who’s actually done it) article by Heidi Masanga, RN, BSN from Leafy Vibe
Jumpstart Guide to Plant-Based Living by Dr Melissa Mondala, AKA Dr Lifestyle. this JUMP START GUIDE will help you step by step. You and your family can be healthier and enjoy the process at the same time! Dr. Melissa is a family medicine and lifestyle medicine specialist who is passionate about teaching others how to eat healthier.
The Forks Over Knives Plan: How to Transition to the Life-Saving, Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet Excellent classic book
4 Leaf Guide to Vibrant Health; Using the Power of Food to Heal Ourselves and Our Planet by Kerry Graff, MD and J. Morris Hicks Thorough how-to guide to transitioning to a plant-based diet.
13. Apps
Mealime recipe and meal-planning app. It actually makes the shopping list for you as you choose recipes (my favorite part). Includes plant-based vegan meal options.
Forks Over Knives recipe app. Family-friendly plant-based recipes, they are constantly adding more recipes! This app costs 4.99 one time fee, but totally worth it.
Cronometer app that tracks nutrition. I don’t recommend tracking every detail of your child’s nutrition. But it can be helpful in certain circumstances.