The Plant Milk Project is the internet’s most entertaining resource for moms who want science-backed strategies for how + what to feed their kids.
You care a lot about what your kid eats but wish someone else would help you make some decisions about food.
You want to end the dinner drama—cut them off at the first complaint—in a pediatrician-approved way that definitely does not include starving your child.
You want to ditch the marketed-to-kids snacks and feed everyone the same thing because there is no more space in your pantry for another box of cartoon-endorsed, iron-fortified, popcorn packs.
You want to cook more without complicating life.
Your kids are always sick, have allergies, are constipated, have diarrhea, struggle to pay attention, and have severe mood swings (not that you can blame them because who does not want to lie on the living room floor and cry every day at 3pm?)—and you just want to do SOMETHING other than pumping them full of pediatrician-approved medication their entire childhood
Your kids are perfectly healthy, and you’d like to keep it that way
Your husband and your buckling bookshelf would like you to be a little more selective about the food + nutrition literature you bring home.
Laura (Diaz) Freeland: Writer, blogger, and the founder of and voice behind The Plant Milk Project. She started The Plant Milk Project newsletter because a plant-based diet and homemade oat milk (in partnership with many, many real and actual doctors) helped me give my extremely premature twin daughters a quality of life no medical professional ever expected for them.
Feeding Vivienne and Margot became—and remains—her most important job. We live an admittedly privileged life full of hearty tempeh chili, lentil pasta with cashew alfredo, jackfruit tacos, and rich curries. The sills of her floor-to-ceiling bookshelves are full of vegan cookbooks and gut health nonfiction that reads like med school text books.
She started The Plant Milk Project for moms who love science and vegetables, and who want to raise their spawn into healthy adults who have great taste in plants, and she started it for the new mom with tiny, sick twins who advocated her face off to get where she is today.
Nicole Queliz: Pediatric + NICU dietitian, feeding specialist, mama to a toddler + a bonus big kid, and Cuban red beans enthusiast. She has over a decade of experience in clinical settings, and she joined The Plant Milk project because food can be the difference between diarrhea and no diarrhea. It can be the difference between ADHD and no ADHD. Food can improve eye health and brain development. Food changes outcomes.
In the world of sick babies and kids, we use the word outcomes when we talk about survival and quality life. Outcomes are better for micro preemies who get physical, occupational, and speech therapy from the start. And outcomes are better when parents are educated and understand that glasses, hearing aids, and GI’s ban on sugar exist to give their kids the best quality of life in the long-term.
Nicole is here to continue the good work done to save babies and big kids in NICUs, children’s hospitals, and pediatric GI clinics around the world, and our my backyards. (Fun fact: Nicole’s husband is the neonatologist who treated Laura’s twins.)