Vegetarian eating can meet your toddler's nutrition needs for growth and development. Most healthy children will eat when they are hungry. Your child's appetite may change from day to day.Toddlers decide what they want to eat and how much they want to eat. Offer only pasteurized 100% fruit or vegetable juice.Limit juice to 125-175 mL (½ - ¾ cup) per day.Offer water between meals and snacks to quench thirst.These beverages do not have enough calories, fat and often protein. Plant-based beverages such as rice, almond soy, hemp or coconut should not replace breastmilk, cow's milk, formula or fortified soy beverage.Drinking too much fluid is filling and leaves less room for food. Limit cow's milk, formula or fortified soy beverage to 500-750 mL (2-3 cups) throughout each day.Lower fat milks or fortified soy beverage can be offered after 2 years of age.Offer store-bought soy formula for vegan toddlers under 2 years of age who are not breastfed.Offer 2 cups of 3.25% homogenized whole milk each day for toddlers under 2 years of age who are not breastfed.Continue to offer breastmilk on cue until 2 years of age and beyond.Only offer your toddler ground nuts and seeds and their thinly spread butters. For example, whole nuts and seeds are a choking hazard. Some foods need to be modified in texture. Offer your vegetarian toddler the same healthy foods that you and the rest of your family enjoy.Try to serve meals and snacks at about the same time each day.At snacks, include at least 2 food groups.Offer your child up to 3 small meals a day. At meals, include at least 3 food groups.Each of the 4 food groups has choices suitable for a vegetarian diet. Canada's Food Guide can be used to plan a healthy diet.Parents and caregivers decide what food and drinks are served and when they served. With special planning a vegetarian diet can be healthy for all ages including toddlers. Vegans are vegetarians who avoid all animal foods. Lacto-ovo vegetarians don't eat meat, fish, seafood and poultry, but will have dairy products and eggs. The word vegetarian means different things to different people.
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