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Easy, Healthy Recipes for Toddlers and Young Kids

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Easy, Healthy Recipes for Toddlers and Young Kids

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Easy, Healthy Recipes for Toddlers and Young Kids

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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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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.

25 - 36 of 48 Recipes
toddler protein muffins pinit Easy to Make Sour Good for Picky Eaters high-protein High Protein plant-based Vegetarian Meals

A Kid Friendly Protein Muffin To Serve With Soups And Stews

22 mins Beginner
Boxed mac n cheese gets upgraded thanks to the inclusion of butternut squash and cauliflower into the sauce. pinit Easy to Make Eat your Veggies Sour Good for Picky Eaters plant-based Vegetarian Meals

How To Make Boxed Mac And Cheese A Vegetable

25 mins Beginner
Planks of tofu pinit Easy to Make Sour Good for Picky Eaters plant-based Vegetarian Meals

The Tofu To Make When All Else Fails

22 mins Beginner
Cubes of tofu, cooked and sauced like orange chicken, are displayed on a plate that also includes brown rice and broccoli. pinit Easy to Make high-protein High Protein cup Toddler Favorite plant-based Vegetarian Meals

Why Tofu Makes For A Better Toddler Orange Chicken

30 mins Beginner
Spirals of toddler eggplant pinit Eat your Veggies Sour Good for Picky Eaters plant-based Vegetarian Meals

How Toddler Eggplant Gets Made–And Eaten

Beginner
Lentils for infants pinit Eat your Veggies Plate Good for Infants happy Starting Solids plant-based Vegetarian Meals

Lentils For Infants (and Toddlers) Recipe: Curry or Soup

40 mins Beginner
A trio of carrot-rice balls pinit Easy to Make Eat your Veggies plant-based Vegetarian Meals

Toddler Arancini (with Vegetables!) Is Crispy Perfection

30 mins Beginner
peanut butter stew pinit Eat your Veggies Sour Good for Picky Eaters high-protein High Protein plant-based Vegetarian Meals

Peanut Butter Stew Is An Unexpectedly Great Toddler Dinner

50 mins Beginner
fried vegetable pancake pinit Easy to Make Eat your Veggies quick-meals Quick Meals plant-based Vegetarian Meals

A Vegetable Pancake For Kids Who Hate Vegetables (but love pancakes)

15 mins Beginner
Healthy chocolate brownies, made with sweet potatoes and black beans, are shown stacked on top of one another. pinit Easy to Make cup Toddler Favorite plant-based Vegetarian Meals

A Healthy Chocolate Brownie for Kids: Sweet Potato + Black Bean Magic

35 mins Beginner
Two halves of a taco filled with plantains, avocado, and mashed black beans are shown standing up on a plate. pinit Easy to Make Plate Good for Infants quick-meals Quick Meals plant-based Vegetarian Meals

How To Make a Taco for Infants (and Toddlers)

11 mins Beginner
A stack of root vegetable waffles, with a drizzle of maple syrup pinit Easy to Make Eat your Veggies Plate Good for Infants plant-based Vegetarian Meals

Turn Leftovers Into A Great Breakfast With These Root Vegetable Waffles

17 mins Beginner
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