Living on the Veg: A kids’ guide to life without meat
£2.80
The perfect kids’ guide to being a vegetarian.
Are you thinking about giving up meat, but don’t know how to go about it? With both practical information and mouth-watering recipes, this book is the perfect place for young people aged 8 plus to start. It outlines why people give up meat and how you can change your diet and live healthily. It examines the different terms: vegetarian/pescatarian/vegan etc, has a very practical Q&A section and explains how to read and understand food labels.
The book takes you through the costs and benefits of this change in lifestyle. It includes a section on food groups and information about how you can adapt your diet to get all the right nutrients (such as iron).
The book goes on to give tasty and easy-to-follow recipes for the whole family, specially created by vegetarian blogger Jacqueline Meldrum of www.tinnedtomatoes.com. The recipes include dairy, but not fish or meat.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Wayland (24 May 2018) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| File size | 43599 KB |
| Text-to-Speech | Not enabled |
| Enhanced typesetting | Not Enabled |
| X-Ray | Not Enabled |
| Word Wise | Not Enabled |
| Sticky notes | Not Enabled |
| Print length | 80 pages |
by Kate
This book arms kids with all the info they need to successfully transition to vegetarian. It’s written in a kid-friendly, but not patronising way with an engaging design. It answers many questions they might have and provides information from famous historical veggies, discusses reasons for not eating meat, how to have a healthy vegetarian diet and so much more. There are also 12 recipes including sweet potato soup, 10 minute bean burgers, puff pastry pizzas and chocolate brownies.
I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend this book to anyone with children who want to go veggie.
by Mrs Lynne Christina Collins
Excellent for vegetarian children. Explains all about food.
by JMB1779
I am seemingly surrounded by vegetarians, vegans and gluten and dairy free people as I’m a keen hiker and in the LGBT community – two big providers of vegetarians. I have to say that I have not taken the step and am not intending to at the moment, but I found this intro interesting and with only few moments of irritation
The book is well illustrated and pleasantly laid out with simple text boxes/bubbles and photos and drawings.
It starts with an introduction to the authors who have both been vegetarian for 25 years. They then take us through the history of famous vegetarians and a short introduction to people’s reasoning for going vegetarian. They define what is a flexitarian, pescetarian and a vegan and then answer the most common questions that vegetarians face when first starting (and likely for the rest of their lives) so new vegetarians can feel comfortable answering whether they will get enough proteins, whether vegetables feel pain as well, whether we as humans were born to eat meat or not etc. They move on to explain some of the many reasons people have for going vegetarian whether it’s religious, animal cruelty, environmental issues sucha as climate change and pollution and waste or if it’s to live healthier.
They then get into information about food groups and foodstuffs that can replace meats to provide a healthy and varied diet and they warn against certain products that might sneakily contain animal-stuff e.g. certain chewing gums.
Once the reader has decided to try it out, there is advice on how to stay the course as well as encouragement when times are hard and then they have added some recipes from pp 52 – 75 followed by websites with further information, research and assistance.
This is all very logical and clearly explained and I think a very good book for any kid – or adult – who considers going vegetarian. They don’t complicate things, but do make sure that people are aware that it is a change of life style and it’s not as easy as simply just switching off the meat intake one day.
The only thing I really disliked about the book is the unnecessary quotes about vegetarianism from famous current or historical persons. But at least they didn’t include a quote from Morissey….
by NC
Okay.
Not many recipes.
Colourful
by Margaret7
This is a super book for any young person thinking of becoming a vegetarian. It is full of superb information about the various reasons anyone might want to consider vegetarianism, whether personal, religious or ecological. It also has a very practical Q&A section, another section on the health aspects around becoming a vegetarian, and details on every aspect you need to consider when changing your diet – from meat replacement to how to cope and find solutions in a meat-eating world. And then there are the recipes. They are lush… This is definitely a vegetarian, not a vegan book, by the way. There are eggs and cheese included in the recipes. It is all about ‘without meat’. And it’s very good.
by Ali Bongo
Ideal for explaining to my 9 year old daughter how to tell her friends and family that she’s vegetarian, and also to how to explain her reasons for becoming vegetarian. Love the recipes too
by Amazon Customer
This book is aimed at kids who are new to or thinking about becoming vegetarian. It includes a good amount of information in bite size, age appropriate portions, including types of vegetarian, reasons to be vegetarian, answers to common questions and information of healthy nutrition. It then introduces some less well known vegetarian ingredients such as Quorn, tempeh and TVP plus warns of some non-vegetarian ingredients often hiding in otherwise seemingly suitable foods and gives tips for eating out. There are then a handful of simple but tasty recipes to try out. There is also a helpful list of websites for further research.
I enjoyed reading this book and the content and style should suit children beyond the rather small 9-11 suggested age range, although probably no younger. There is one mention of slaughter in the section on animal welfare but it doesn’t go into any depth on the more upsetting farming practices. The book should also reassure parents of children wanting to become vegetarian and give them plenty of useful information. Unlike a lot of books which squeeze a few pages of information into a cookbook, this one is definitely an informative book first and foremost.