for everyone to accept my son is a healthy 2yr old VEGETARIAN??? [angry]

[MrsKat]

Why can't ANYONE in my husband's family accept that our 2yr old is being brought up as a vegetarian? And that whenever he has a runny nose, it DOESN'T mean he isn't healthy because he doesn't eat meat.
Is there anyone else out there who is veggie but their husband and entire family aren't?

I have never eaten meat (when I could help it), not since I was old enough to make my views known. So I suppose I'm not really a vegetarian either, in that it's not an ethical or political choice, just an instinctive aversion. But using that label is the easiest way I know to avoid getting served prawns at a dinner party.

My dd loves processed pork in all its forms. It's hard to get her to eat anything else. I can't WAIT till she gets all sensitive and My Little Ponyish and decides she can't bear to eat baby piggywiggies any more (I reckon about age 7?)

And before I get jumped, I hasten to assure you that I will not consciously do anything to move her to that position.

That's the trouble, DH is a meat eater :-(

Unfortunately because everyone is so obviously against me bringing DS up veggie, I do see it as a battle, and if I 'back down' they are going to turn around and say 'Told you so'; 'You were wrong to even consider it' and 'You should have given him meat from the start'.

I'm only 'backing' down as my hubbie is obviously upset he can't feed his own son what he eats. It's for THAT reason and that alone that our son will be veggie around me, but carnivore with Daddy, and when he gets older, he can decide one way or the other.
BUT...it will only ever be Free-range organic, and because of that I don't think we'll be telling IL about the change, as they will rush to take him to Maccie D's AAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
(Other really bad fast unethical food outlets are available!)

lol - meant to read...
really bad unethical fast food outlets lol!

Let the meat-eaters chase the vegetarians with dogs. The dogs - carnivores - will get the satisfying taste of blood and meat, then perhaps the veggie could have a six-foot skewer threaded through them the most convenient way to facilitate their turning on a spit.

dogs are omnivores, though. Scavengers. Admittedly they do like a bit of meat but most dogs of my acquaintance have been pretty happy to eat anything, really.

You could try hunting vegetarians with true carnivores. But I don't think cats would co-operate. Well, mine wouldn't, not unless your targets were smeared with salmon/crab stick/marmite/butter.

(And if you fancy training a pride of lions to go after veggies, good luck to you but I suspect you'll be first on the menu!)

pmsl edam. does meat-eating really reduce your energy levels, a la xmas, or is that just any blow-out?

ROFL at the idea that vegetarianism could cause a runny nose! Cause kids never pick up bugs, ever!

guess it's any blow out - I felt positively ill the year I decided to issue a serious challege to my sister about who could eat more of my mother's cripsy onion rings (essential part of veggie Christmas Dinner).

Mind you, I had forgotten I was p/g and had less room for, um, stuffing (which was also scrummy).

And I should point out my poor mother is terribly disappointed in having vegetarian daughters - she likes cooking cordon bleu and only puts up with her sons in law because it makes it worth her while cooking a whole joint.