First Day of My Daughter Trying to Become a Vegetarian

Today was the first day all I cooked with non meat meals. I wanted to make sure we would eat very balanced meals and have a good amount of protein due to the lack of meat. After much research I found a great Web site where it shows how much protein a person should consume depending on age and weight. Do check out this site where I found this chart from. So for my daughter I had to make sure she would have about 40 grams of protein.

Age	Protein RDA (grams per kilo of body weight)
0-6 months	2.2
6-12 months	2.0
1-3 years	1.8
4-6 years	1.5
7-10 years	1.2
11-14 years	1.0
15-18 years	0.9
19 + years	0.8

We started breakfast with coffee, scrambled eggs and MorningStar Bacon which means 15 grams.

For lunch I made a veggie curry with firm tofu and rice, another 12 gr of protein. As she had friends over we all decided to make a pumpkin bread that is very similar to Starbuck's. Each of the kids of course ate such for snack time so there would be about 3 more grams of protein.

We finished the night with whole wheat pasta with a tomato based sauce with  Boca ground crumbles and white beans. Here we were able to achieve the final 10 grams of protein plus a bit more!

Pretty good start of this venture. We all loved the meals and was real surprised how both my daughter and her friends LOVED it all!