This Dietary Food Guide can be a helpful start in planning a healthy vegetarian lifestyle.
Foods printed in italic type are good sources of calcium.
For more information see Soy Made Easy 2. When well-planned and implemented, a vegetarian lifestyle can be nutritionally sound, healthy and delicious. Do not restrict dietary fat in children younger than 2 years old. I thought vegetarian diets were chock full of vitamins. Vitamin B12 is found abundantly in meat, eggs, cheese, milk, poultry, fish and other foods of animal origin.