Veggie babies get great start in life with new guide
A WEALTH of practical information for veggie mums and babies can be found in a fantastic new guide by Viva! and Viva!Health.
Authored by nutritional therapist and VIva!Health founder &; director, Juliet Gellatley, and leading cookery writer, Rose Elliot, the Vegetarian and Vegan Mother and Baby Guide brings together everything you need to know about what foods provide the correct nutritional balance so babies can thrive on a plant-based diet.
The guide contains information on:
– Fabulous foods for fertility and pregnancy
– Food and drinks to avoid
– Why breast is best
– Foods for weaning and how to prepare them
– Foods for babies from six-eight months, then eight-twelve months
– Survival tips for baby and you.
Juliet says: “Choosing a veggie pregnancy and birth really is a fantastic decision which you should celebrate and really embrace! It’s a chance to explore cooking and eating many new foods – which not only taste amazing – but give you and your baby a brilliant health boost. The Vegetarian and Vegan Mother and Baby Guide shows you how.”
Now in its third edition, the very popular Vegetarian and Vegan Mother and Baby Guide also features a two week menu plan for toddlers’ lunches and dinners and special recipes for both toddler and mother. Recipes include: tofu potato cakes with parsley, very quick lentil soup and borlotti beans in coconut milk – to name just three from Rose Elliot. The second week’s recipes are from Viva! and Viva!Health food &; cookery manager, Helen Rossiter. These include baby spinach pancakes with vegan cream cheese, soft vegetable lasagne with tofu and mini pizza bites. Juliet adds: “Bringing up your baby on a plant-based diet really can give them the best start in life – promoting healthy eating patterns in childhood while reducing their risk of developing some chronic diseases of adulthood in later life. “The guide shows you how to feed you and your baby a well-balanced vegetarian or vegan diet, complete with all the vitamins, minerals, protein, fibre, complex carbohydrates and essential fats the body needs without the harmful saturated fat and cholesterol that animal products provide.” To order the Vegetarian and Vegan Mother and Baby Guide (now 56 pages) for £2.95 plus p+p, please call 0117 944 1000, or visit https://www.vivashop.org.uk/books/new-vegetarian-and-vegan-mother-and-baby-guide
For more information please call press officer Helen Rossiter or Juliet Gellatley on 0117 944 1000 or email vvfpress@vegetarian.org.uk or visit www.vegetarian.org.uk. The Vegetarian and Vegan Mother and Baby Guide is one of 30 guides by Viva! and the Viva!Health. Viva!Health also produces sheets on nutrition. For lists of guides available, please refer to the contact details above.
About the author
Dr. Justine Butler
Justine joined Viva! in 2005 after graduating from Bristol University with a PhD in molecular biology. After working as a campaigner, then researcher and writer, she is now Viva!’s head of research and her work focuses on animals, the environment and health. Justine’s scientific training helps her research and write both in-depth scientific reports, such as White Lies and the Meat Report, as well as easy-to-read factsheets and myth-busting articles for consumer magazines and updates on the latest research. Justine also recently wrote the Vegan for the Planet guide for Viva!’s Vegan Now campaign.
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