Comments on: Feeding The Bonzai Baby: Vegan Baby Dinner

By: Ebby's Mama

Ebby's Mama — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:30:00 +0000

Love these posts. I know your little one has grown past this phase but can you do a finger foods retro post :)

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:10:10 +0000

thanks for the yogourt help!
i am now off to try it sans sweetener!
have a great weekend!
love your blog as always!
xo

By: Rachael

Rachael — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:58:52 +0000

Hi Sayward!

Thank you so much for all of your articles. I thoroughly enjoy reading them. You’ve become a household name in our family and you’ve helped us on our path to conscience living. Just wanted to say thank you for all that you do and we love you!

By: tara

tara — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 07:51:35 +0000

you have GOT to write a cookbook

By: Sunday Link Love - Alternative Housewife

Sunday Link Love - Alternative Housewife — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 06:05:10 +0000

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By: Gretchen

Gretchen — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 03:33:48 +0000

My baby’s first food was hummus! She is a very adventurous eater and loves almost everything. I think the only thing that she didn’t care too much for was kalamata tapenade, which I can understand as it is an acquired taste. We practice Baby Lead Weaning for the most part and I don’t fret too much about salt. Then again, we don’t use much salt in our food to begin with- just a dash of sea salt here and there.

We have renamed nutritional yeast to yummy flakes! I am glad to see that it is appreciated in other households.

By: Sayward

Sayward — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:47:52 +0000

@ Steph – Meghan said it beautifully. It’s so disappointing the way that the media portrays veganism, but it’s true that if you Google “baby malnourish” or some variation, you’ll see that these cases happen to omnivores all the time. It’s just that when the parents are vegan, the story becomes (unfairly) about veganism.

If 1% of the population is vegan, then it follows that 1% of FRIGGIN’ IDIOTS are vegan, too. Unfortunate, but true. ;-)

By: Meghan

Meghan — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 04:45:52 +0000

@Steph

In the handful of cases that I have read about, the children weren’t malnourished because they were vegan, the children were malnourished because the parents just were not smart about feeding their kids. That can happen to any underinformed parent, vegan or no. The Swintons, for example, decided to forgo breastfeeding, and fed their newborn tea and juice. Not smart, but not a form of not smart that is restricted to vegans. If you do a google news search for malnourished child or baby or newborn or infant, you’ll find several cases just in the past few weeks, where, because the parent’s dietary choices aren’t mentioned, are presumably omnivores. The few vegan cases just got more media attention because it is easy to point the finger at our otherness.

By: Steph

Steph — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 02:59:36 +0000

Awesome post, at a particularly good time. Vegan parents recently had there children taking away in my city since they were so badly malnourished and were in the hospital for weeks and arent sure how good there eyesight will be. Since this story I’ve been of the opinion that it’s probably impossible to raise a healthy child on a vegan diet. You seem to know what you’re doing and very knowledgeable with the issues of fats, proteins, and iron, and Waits looks healthy. :)Keep up the good work and please keep posting advice for other parents so there are no more sad stories of malnourished vegan children. :(

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:14:08 +0000

Thanks! I’ve got Crazy Sexy Diet on hold at the library – I’ll let you know how it goes ; )