@FrancesHaHa genuinely interested roughly what age you are as your experience is more akin to my dds (almost 20) whereas the experience I posted earlier is mine (aged 48 been veggie over 30 years)
It is getting slightly better but I generally find it's the over 35's and especially over 50's who are most critical of a veggie or vegan diet
Also mostly men so are you mixing with mainly women?
@14ScottsRoad Yes I've often had the experience where Omni's have questioned me/STARTED the conversation then later I've been accused of "banging on about it" when all I did was answer THEIR questions
@Ginfordinner My mum is very much a good but plain "meat and 2 veg" type cook but she's also observed the hard time I had off certain relatives and stepped in on occasion. Weirdly the person who was most supportive of me going veggie was my dad! Who very much enjoys his meat. However upon me discussing with him my experience of many of my stomach issues vanishing after giving up meat and he had similar problems he gave up red meat and found he too was feeling much better. It was only a few years after this that the research on red meat, processed meat and bowel damage came to light and our family based on dads and I experience were totally unsurprised.
The few dickhead veggies/vegans I've come across are the types to just be dickheads anyway! Inc the one who harangued me for "only" being veggie when they'd been vegan all of a month (and within 6 months was back to being omni!)
@feelingdizzy Where do you live? I'm in a quite rural location in west Scotland and there's still a few restaurants here don't do ANYTHING vegetarian even the chips cooked in lard!
@Thisusernameistakenagain Yes UNDER catering for veggies at buffets is annoying. Good caterers/hosts either provide enough for all to have the veggie options or hold some back so the veggies don't miss out
@whiteroseredrose My ex when I first met him although omni was ridiculously fussy! You could count the items he ate on 2 hands!
@OhNoItsADalek Thanks for the meme I've screenshot it for the next time the one claiming vegans tell you without asking one appears
Also loving the patience one. So true.
@Blufandango well said!
I'm not fussed about meat being cooked in my home in my pots and on my plates etc I chose to allow dd to make her own decisions re diet
As it turned out (didn't know this when weaning her etc) she has a disability which affects what, how much in one go and when she can eat. I ended up with a child who hated potatoes inc chips, deep fried food generally, chocolate, not that keen on ice cream and who was very much a savoury child rather than sweet - raw broccoli and cauli would regularly vanish from my stores! She also seems to have inherited dad and i's difficulty with red meat so she doesn't eat that either which a lot of people have "blamed" my vegetarianism for when that's not the case. I also got blamed for much of the rest as people who didn't know us well assumed that she didn't have chips, chocolate etc because I wouldn't allow unhealthy food - my and her life especially as a child would have been SO much easier if she HAD liked those things! The number of McDonald's based birthday parties where I had to explain no she really does personally prefer to have the salad, carrot batons and fruit instead of the burger chips and ice cream! Pizza based parties were much better for her she loves pizza! When she reached the ages where the parents didn't stay and the host parents were like "but your mums not here you can have chips!" And dd was like "but I hate chips!" That the parents of her friends started to "get" it wasn't about me being Uber healthy and strict!