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No experience myself since LO isn't here yet, but my niece was a self-imposed vegetarian until she was about six. She'd occasionally eat hotdogs but wouldn't touch any other kind of meat. She eventually she grew out of it though.

Going through the same with our 15 month old son...He will still eat eggs and corn dogs (sometimes) but more than 1 bite of chicken? No. UGH! I find that if I mix meat into things, like pasta or soft tacos, he is more willing to eat it (covered in sauce, etc).

Yes, my son is like this! The only meat he'll eat is bacon.

Yep, LO is doing the same thing. He loves his veggies and fruit. Getting meat in his diet has been tough the past few days. He wakes up everyday saying "Apple" and "Cheese." I'm convinced that my LO dreams about cheese plates at night.

I understand this to be totally normal!

if your kid is vegetarian, mine is vegan!

This was me as a child!! My parents struggled to get me to eat meat but I would almost always spit it out. When I was 4 I learned that meat was animals and became a vegetarian for real-- my parents went along with it bc it was easier to get me to eat a balanced diet without pushing meat. I'm fairly certain it started as a texture thing though-- I actually have experimented as I've gotten older (since for me it's more about texture aversions than ethics) and some things have textures that don't bother me: seafood, some fish, salami, bacon. Just in case you haven't tried those I thought I'd throw that out there!

DD was the same way. It was a constant struggle to get her to eat meat. But we kept trying and now's finally starting to eat meat.