To have asked her not to tell dcs?

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Dsis has recently become a vegetarian after apparently seeing some horrific films about animals not stunned before slaughter. She is also very vocal about standards being high for animals etc ( eg she won't eat barn eggs only free range-more on that later...)

She started today to tell my dcs that she is vegetarian and I had to stop her explaining why as I don't want them saying they want to be as well (hard enough to get them to eat as it is and I don't want another food issue or have to cook different meals).
I also didnt want them upset about the stunning/slaughtering that she was just about to mention.

As far as I'm concerned all they need to know is that auntie doesn't eat meat, not the exact reasons why.
She started talking about chickens and how only free range eggs will do and dd1 checked our ones and said they were barn eggs and dsis shook her head and explained how unhappy the chickens would have been.

I have no issue with dsis being vegetarian, if she comes to our house I'm happy to provide the right food for her and I understand what led her to make her decision but I don't want her 'lecturing' my dcs about it, and it really does seem like a lecture when she starts talking about it .
She even went through the cupboard to see which sweets have gelatine in and ds1 asked why and she started to explain but I stopped her again as I didn't want dd2 put off any of them.

carmine, you're right, it's a minefield.

I gave up buying free-range some time ago when it was clear all was not as it seemed. I changed to organic only - sometimes more expensive, sometimes not, but as a vegetarian not having the expense of meat to contend with, I felt it was an expense I could justify.

Now, though, I buy them from a colleague who has ducks and chickens, so if you know or hear of anyone with eggs to sell from their own chickens, I would go for those - not sure whether there are any issues with your being pregnant, though

Thanks, Suburban... I buy all my meat from organic and ethical local farms (we live out in the country, so that's not too hard) and have plenty of neighbours whom we could buy eggs from, it's just that pesky lion-mark! Oh well, only 5 more months to go...

What does the lion mark mean?

Before I switched to eggs from my colleague, I bought my eggs from Waitrose and the tastiest ones were these. The yolks are almost orange and they are just delicious. No lion mark, but they do have a crown, which has got to count for something, hasn't it?

The lionmark means the hens have been vaccinated against salmonella - salmonella can cause food poisoning which is obviously more dangerous when you're pregnant.

God, those Burford Brown eggs look good! I want an omelette now.

Looks like they have been vaccinated too www.clarencecourt.co.uk/recipes-main/egg-safety/ - I must go to Waitrose!

Thanks, Suburban.

Or you can order from Ocado if your family budget can stretch to it!

just check with a local egg person (farm gate sales) if they've been vaccinated.
we get our hens from a reputable farm that vaccinate all their hens against prevalent diseases.

or get some hens of your own if you have a garden. they nake great pets

you don't need a lot of space - minimum run size is 1sq metre per hen and coop size is 1sq ft per hen.
they're great for taking food scraps too (defra states you can't give kitchen scraps to hens, so what we do is remove outer leaves etc from the veg as soon as we unpack it and give them straight to thrnsens)

Haven't read the thread, but my sister asked me not to tell her children that meat was from animals. Was so bemused and surprised!