Plant Based Juniors

Two Registered Dietitian Nutritionist helping you raise your plant-based babies, toddlers, children and teens.

Helping ALL parents get MORE plants on the plate- right from the start!

Whether you’re vegan, vegetarian, flexitarian, or cheese-and-eggs-on-the-weekend-atarian, this book has something for you.

Alex and Whitney Discuss:

  • The life-long benefits of a plant-rich diet

  • How to get your toddler to eat their veggies (without starting a war)

  • Proper supplementation techniques and doses

  • 50+ delicious, kid-friendly plant-based recipes for the whole family

  • Starting solids with baby-led weaning or traditional purees

  • How to get more protein, iron, zinc, calcium, vitamin A, and more into your child’s diet using the colorful, kid-friendly “PB3 Plate Model”

  • Structure vs. restriction: how confident parents handle sweets and treats

This one-of-a-kind guide teaches parents how to fill babies’ and toddlers’ plates with foods to support optimal nutrition right from the start.

Meet the Moms behind the book

Plant-Based Juniors (PBJs), is a community for parents and educators interested in properly implementing plant-based diets for children. Created by Alexandra Caspero MA, RDN and Whitney English MS, RDN – both moms and registered dietitian nutritionists – PBJs is dedicated to filling the gap in credible pediatric nutrition information for plant-based infants and children.

PBJs promotes an all-inclusive “predominantly plant-based” approach, supporting all families from vegan to vegetarian to flexitarian. Basically, if parents want to get more plants on the plate, PBJs wants to help!

From nutrition 101 to meal prep to proper supplementation, this unique book has everything parents need to help plant-conscious kids thrive.

What others are saying:

  • While never too late to invite the great advantages of lifestyle as medicine into our lives, the earlier the better. In this thorough, thoughtful, careful, engaging, and altogether delightful book, Whitney and Alexandra provide everything needed to make optimal diet a birthright—to the benefit of mother, baby, and family alike. The balanced, evidence-based guidance here should be a standard of prenatal care.

    David L. Katz, MD, MPH
    Past President, American College of Lifestyle Medicine

  • Let’s face it: feeding little ones is a challenge… and confusing! I wish The Plant-Based Baby and Toddler was around when my kids were little because I had endless questions. I love that Alex and Whitney share the answers to oodles of baby and toddler feeding questions (including some I didn’t even know I had), in a warm and non-judgmental way, while offering a variety of choices for parents’ unique needs. Packed with fun recipes like Cheezy Broccoli Trees and Red Lentil Pizza Strips, along with nutritional information, FAQs, tips, and a plant-based plate visualizer, you’ll feel empowered and confident while navigating nutrition choices for your little ones. Even though my kids are now school-age, we’ve already marked a bunch of fun recipes to cook together.

    Angela Liddon
    New York Times bestselling author of The Oh She Glows Cookbook

  • An absolutely essential read for anyone wanting to feed their little ones a plant-based diet. With a thoughtful layout from building your baby’s first plate to sample feeding schedules for toddlers, this book prepares you for the whole journey. The authors, both RDNs, equip you with trusted guidelines for how to adequately present meals to your baby and toddlers, with clever reference materials like the Nutrients of Importance quick guide. Before you go, you’re left with yummy and approachable recipes to get you started, like Pumpkin Oat Cookie Drops and Tex-Mex Millet Meatballs. I can’t wait to learn more—and dig in!

    Ali Maffucci
    New York Times bestselling author and founder of Inspiralized