Oh yum..., we also buy almond and hazelnut milk sometimes, and I have recently tasted something called Oatly (Swedish I think?) oat milk. Really nice. That's one thing I found out from this thread that you can have a litre of almond milk as your HeA. Sounds good.
We are also going to bake in a minute with my daughter! :-D I will eat one slice, guesstimating the calories, it shold be about 15 syns, a choc marble madeira cake.
I haven't used any sweeteners yet, we have some Stevia, but I dont know how to... is it tablespoon for tablespoon? That's one thing I still have to learn.
I think you are right about not forcing anything on your little one. They are still growing and I would worry about missing out on something. Mine is 10, and she is quite happy to eat healthy SW things, but she complains about the lack of meat after a few days. Like she asks me to make lasagne with beef rather than vegetables. So I feel a little guilty sometimes. But as I say, she eats meat or fish at school every day, and I tell her it's enough to eat meat once a day. And there is always ham for her in the fridge!
I'm trying to be vegetarian mainly for health reasons - some problems that run in my family can be prevented or even reversed with a low-fat vegetarian diet, doctors say. (Bowel cancer eg, killed my dad at the age of 51, and eating red meat, processed meat, lack of fibre probably contributed to it. Also high blood-pressure.) But it's better for the environment, and I have found it to be a lot cheaper, as well! Good quality meat costs a fortune.
Have a nice rest of the weekend then,
Martha
if you take anything containing iron make sure you up your fluids to avoid constipation
