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Easy, Healthy Recipes for Toddlers and Young Kids

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HomeVegetarian Meals (Page 2)

Vegetarian Meals

Nourish your little one with simple, plant-based recipes made for toddler appetites. These vegetarian meals skip the meat but never the flavor — featuring creamy pastas, veggie-packed patties, and satisfying egg and cheese dishes. Perfect for families reducing meat or raising vegetarian kids, this collection makes it easy to serve wholesome, protein-rich meals your toddler will actually eat.

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Vegetarian Meals

Nourish your little one with simple, plant-based recipes made for toddler appetites. These vegetarian meals skip the meat but never the flavor — featuring creamy pastas, veggie-packed patties, and satisfying egg and cheese dishes. Perfect for families reducing meat or raising vegetarian kids, this collection makes it easy to serve wholesome, protein-rich meals your toddler will actually eat.

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Cheese pull shown on a grilled cheese sandwich stuffed with apples. pinit Easy to Make quick-meals Quick Meals plant-based Vegetarian Meals

Easy Apple and Cheddar Grilled Cheese Sandwich for Kids

12 mins Beginner
cucumber and avocado salad, topped with soy and mayo dressings and seaweed snacks. pinit Easy to Make Eat your Veggies plant-based Vegetarian Meals

Easy Cucumber and Avocado Salad for Kids

25 mins Beginner
A fresh new take on pasta with butternut squash sauce features miso and coconut milk--and is sure to please your toddler!. pinit Eat your Veggies Sour Good for Picky Eaters plant-based Vegetarian Meals

A Better Pasta With Butternut Squash Sauce

1 hr 15 mins Beginner
A platter of roasted carrot slices that sit atop a green avocado hummus dip. pinit Easy to Make Eat your Veggies Sour Good for Picky Eaters plant-based Vegetarian Meals

Cooking Carrots For Toddlers: A Salad Your Kid Will Actually Eat

25 mins Beginner
pinit Easy to Make cup Toddler Favorite plant-based Vegetarian Meals

The World’s Best (And Easiest) Tomato Sauce For Kids

50 mins Beginner
A split-top bun filled with an egg salad sandwich for toddlers is shown on a plate that also includes berries and tomatoes. pinit Easy to Make high-protein High Protein plant-based Vegetarian Meals

The Best Toddler Egg Salad Sandwich Recipe

30 mins Beginner
An infant and toddler vegetable soup, Ribollita, with grated parmesan and cracked pepper grazing the top of the bowl. pinit Easy to Make Eat your Veggies Plate Good for Infants plant-based Vegetarian Meals

The Hearty Toddler Vegetable Soup With Everything (Ribollita)

Beginner
spaetzle, our preferred toddler pasta shape, is shown here covered in a cacio y pepe sauce mixed with kale. pinit Easy to Make Eat your Veggies plant-based Vegetarian Meals

A New Pasta Shape For Your Toddler To Love: Spaetzle

30 mins Beginner
toddler noodle dish pinit Easy to Make quick-meals Quick Meals plant-based Vegetarian Meals

How To Move Your Toddler Noodle Game Beyond Mac n Cheese

11 mins Beginner
veggie donuts pinit Eat your Veggies Sour Good for Picky Eaters plant-based Vegetarian Meals

How To Turn Vegetables Into Dessert: The Veggie Donut (Picarones)

2 hrs 5 mins Intermediate
A bowl of broccoli cheddar soup, topped with Goldfish, is shown. pinit Easy to Make Eat your Veggies Sour Good for Picky Eaters plant-based Vegetarian Meals

How To Make Broccoli Cheese Soup Even Better For Kids

20 mins Beginner
cookies pinit Easy to Make Eat your Veggies cup Toddler Favorite plant-based Vegetarian Meals

Chocolate Zucchini Pumpkin Cookies Prove That Veggies Are Treats

1 hr 10 mins Beginner
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