Okay, I want to go vegan, but with my son, it is really hard.

He is okay with octo-lavo vegetarian stuff which I make at home, cheese and veggie pizza, macaroni and cheese, etc.

But getting my son to eat vegan is  hard.  It seems the only thing he will eat vegan is recipes similar to general taos tofu with rice.  

I tried to make vegan mac n uncheese but he doesn't care for that.  He even seems to be loosing interestin soymilk

Problem is I work full time and he goes to daycare full time.  So he gets probably 60% of his food (more like 80% during the week) from the daycare.  They don't server vegetarian.  I tried to pack his lunch, but that is so hard to do.  And before he was born I decided that I didn't want to force him to be vegetarian if he doesn't want to so while he was away from home he could eat whatever but while at home he eats what I cook.

So what is beginning to happen is he barely eats at home.  He usually will only  eat a few bites for dinner, literally, only abuot 2 or 3 bites, unless I give him fruit, then he eats a bunch.  For breakfast it is the same, half a cup of soymilk and a few bites of bread or whatever, again, unless it is fruit, then he eats a bunch.  Then when I drop him off they give him breakfast and I see him tearing into it, eating like crazy!  And for lunch I just know he is doing the same thing.

And on the weekends, he barely eats anything!  He will just sit in his high chair with whatever I cooked in front of him and cry.  I just am so frustrated!  

Do you think he is eating less at the daycare then I think?  I used to think I was a pretty good cook but now I am not so sure.  And the things he used to love he doesn't like anymore.  His tastes keep changing!  He used to like blackbeans, but now he won't touch a black bean burrito.

I guess I should just stick with it.  But packing lunch for the daycare really isn't an option, there are too many issues with that.  I guess I just need to learn not to take his criticism so personal.  But how would you feel if everytime you made something you thought was delicious and you proudly served it to your kid, but everytime you did this, your kid would just sit there and cry.  It is really dis-hartening.  I am giving up to tell the truth.  The other day I went to the store and bought a cheese pizza and he ate that.  I just don't know what to do.  I don't want to cook him seperate meals.  Should I just give him fruit for dinner, let him try what I am eating, if he doesn't like, then just fruit, and nothing else?  He won't EAT anything else at home!  

I read on another thread about L2A's son who at the time was 17 months old (same age my son is now) and she said that her son was going through a "bland stage". 

I wonder if Mikey is going through the same thing?  The other day to get him to eat I made pasta with cream of mushroom soup and broccoli, nothing else but salt and pepper and he seemed to really like it!  I couldn't stand it to tell the truth, it was terribly bland.  Maybe that is it? He did not like the spring rolls I made (which were awesome by the way!), or the black bean burritos, or even the tofu nuggets I made last night.  I just can't seem to get it right with him!  Bland, yes, I will try that tonight I think.  Bland.