Vegetarian parents with non vegetarian partner - what do your kids eat?

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I've been vegetarian for over 12 years and will never go back to eating meat. My partner is non vegetarian. I'm not the type of vegetarian to force my opinions on other people, I very rarely mention it. It's just personal choice. So just wondering if anyone else in in this situation then do you feed your children vegetarian meals or meat? My children will never be forced and will be able to decide when they are old enough what they would like to eat, but I'm often alone mon-fri as partner works away so I cook myself vegetarian meals. Would you give your kids the same as your eating or give them a meat version? Advice from people in this situation would be appreciated

Thanks for all your comments it's good to get ideas on what other people do. I think the best idea for me (and easiest) would be to give them veggie meals that I cook during the week but let them eat the meat meals that partner cooks on the weekend to make sure they're getting everything they need and a variety.

I'm vegetarian, DH isn't. Brought up the children as vegetarian because although I didn't intend to, I couldn't bring myself to give them meat in the end. When they went to Uni I thought that they would take up eating meat but they struggled with the idea of eating animals. DD has recently had to eat meat sometimes because she is now Coeliac and has found it too difficult to eat out sometimes because of the lack of gluten-free options.

I was veggie when DS was weaned, I never cooked meat for DH so I never cooked meat for DS either... now I eat meat and we're all omnivores, but DS doesn't like a lot of meat. OI think that's more due to his autism than anything else though (texture thing) and actually think weaning was less stressful without meat.

I'm pescetarian, DH eats meat but isn't fussed about going without. DD is 2 years. He cooks most days and meals at home tend to be veggie, but sometimes fish fingers, tinned tuna, occasionally fresh fish. When eating out we all order what we like and DD may have sausages or similar. Her childminder serves meat - we don't interfere with her meal planning. When DD is older she can decide für herself.

Veggie over 30 years, was married to omni ex when I had dd, we agreed dd would be fed a mix.

She's now 18 and I split with her dad when she was quite young, she's always been able to choose but honestly at home it was mostly, but not always veggie food which she liked/likes well enough and I rarely cook meat as I'm not confident doing so especially stuff that's high risk for food poisoning, but also because I can't taste it/don't know when it tastes best.

When eating out she will sometimes eat veggie sometimes meat she doesn't decide on that basis just on what she fancies eating but she will notice if a place has crap offerings for veggies and tends to roll eyes/comment as she recognised it's a pain for me.

DP is vegi, I’m not. I have always done most of the cooking for the kids & they ate meat when I weaned them. DS is 17 & became vegi at least 10 years ago. His choice. DD aged 14 tried to be vegi for a month and drastically failed. So we’re a polarised family 😬.

I'm veggie, my kids eat a mixture of meat and alternatives. I don't mind cooking meat for them but if I did oh would do it (and does). I try to give them variety and let them make up their own mind. I have 1 child with arfid though and I would feed him anything that kept him going.

I'm vegan and DS is vegetarian but eats a lot of vegan with me. He's never tried meat but he's knows he could,

He doesn't want to because he doesn't want to eat animals.

I don't understand ethical veggies who feed their kids meat.

People often say to me 'why don't you let him decide for himself?' - I am! He can try it if he wants as he understands what it is now but I wasn't going to start his life off feeding him dead animals. The veggie rather than vegan thing was the compromise with DH.

I haven't eaten meat for over 30years and resent that I was ever made to!