Veggie Mama

Book excerpt: Veggie Mama is a manual for elevating your family's diet to incorporate more whole, plant-based foods. The book features over 100 vegan recipes --including many raw options, using whole grains, legumes, nuts, seeds, fruits, and vegetables, along with superfoods --for growing kids of all ages. Veggie Mamas Doreen Virtue and Chef Jenny Ross discuss food allergies and present a program free of inflammatory agents that can that can create anxiety in sensitive kids, as well as worsen allergy symptoms. With menu-planning guides, brown-bag school lunches, and snack and dessert favorites, you'll have everything you need to feed your entire family wholesome and delicious meals. Using these tasty, 100 percent plant-ingredient recipes --such as the Avocado Citrus Parfait, Pumpkin Seed Cheese Wraps, Veggi-wiches, and Nut Butter Bites --you will be pleasing your children's palates and doing their bodies good . . . setting them up for a lifetime of wellness!