Life can be a challenge as a vegan parent and I’m not talking about dinner, for once. It is becoming increasingly easy to provide healthy, delicious and tempting meals thanks to the ease of internet research — especially social media (Vegan Mum of Boys on Facebook is my ‘go-to’ for inspiration) — and clearly it is working. My little boy is thriving and is at the top end of many of the percentile charts, so I actually love it when other parents and childcare settings find out that he’s vegan. He’s such a good advert for veganism and at the tender age of 14 months is already unwittingly changing people’s perceptions.
No, I’m talking about the deeply entrenched attitudes and ignorance in general society. At last week’s Baby Sensory class after singing a French song about plucking a little bird, messy play involved spaghetti and jelly — the stuff with gelatine in it!