Introduction of a vegetarian diet in developmental age (kids 0-18 years) requires advance notice, very precise programming. Generally, doctors recommend that children eat as varied as possible (meat, dairy, vegetables, fruit), because only this type of nutrition provides all the ingredients needed to build a growing organism.
Lactic diet–vegetarian In developmental age, it is necessary to introduce eggs and dairy products to the menu (lacto-ovo-vegetarian diet). This type of nutrition ensures that children are provided with the substances necessary for growth and development. For infants and toddlers (0-2 patch) babies are breastfed anyway, followed by dairy and plant products. Giving up meat would not be a huge nutritional revolution here. However, it is necessary to program a plant-based diet, very varied (especially be careful about the presence of amino acids and iron, which are in good proportions in meat). Counting calories Around school age (5-14 years), except for the aforementioned reservations, you should also count calories very carefully (children are mobile, they grow fast, the body is focused on storage), especially when resigning from high-energy animal fats. In the recent period (puberty) giving up meat products is the least debatable. It generally caught on, that in developmental age it is necessary to eat meat. This is not true. The baby can develop properly without animal foods, however, vegetarianism must be "cultivated” in a strict qualitative and quantitative regime. The choice of parents must be very conscious; a child cannot eat anything and anything.