Yes, it is safe to feed your children the vegetarian diet.
I have grown up as a vegetarian. Most of the meals would include
- Stir-fried vegetables
- Freshly made Chapati/Indian bread (from the wheat/chickpea/Bajra,Jowar and Soya ground into flour at home)
- Enough pulses or lentils (Yellow pigeon lentil, Green gram, redlentils to name a few)
- Beans (Mung beans, kidney beans, Chickpeas, Black-eyed peas, Dew grambeans)
- For sweets, we never had anything made up of food-grade gelatin(whose preparation requires animal fat). It was mostly Dates with Ghee/ clarified butter, sweet buckwheat halwa with jaggery and clarified butter.
- Nuts like overnight water-soaked peanuts, cashews, and almonds wereamongst the first things that we ate in the morning.
- Seeds like Linseeds and roasted coriander seeds were eaten afterevery meal
- Milk, Yogurt and Cheese were also included in daily meals
- Spices like Kurkuma, Coriander, and Cumin powder, Black pepper, Rocksalt, black salt, Cinnamon, Cardamom, Nutmeg were also added to mostof my daily meals.
Let me include one more thing. Please please test your children for all possible deficiencies and accordingly add supplements to their diet. (Remember that supplements cannot replace the diet itself)I have grown to be a healthy person and so are many people living around me. I think it is completely safe to feed children with a vegetarian diet. :)