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Vegetarian parents, carnivorous kids....

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Catherinedeneuve · 08/12/2008 13:00

Would love some advice on this from any kind people out there. Me and dh are long standing vegetarian (plus fish) eaters. Was always determined not to force views on the children when they were old enough to make a choice, and used to let them eat whatever at friends' houses, but wasn;t going to cook it.
That's kind of fallen by the wayside in recent times, and although I don;t (can't...literally, am sure I would poison them) cook meat as such, I do heat up cooked chicken and sausages for them. Eldest son has now become extremely difficult about wating any veg substitutes and younger won;t eat cheese. is getting very hard to find a non-fish protein we can all eat!

I have seriously considered eating chicken again (which I really don;t want to do - has been 25 years) because I'm worn out with trying to please anyone and reckon I could make casseroles and healthy stuff, but Dh wouldn;t do this, ever. Does anyone else have this situation and do you have any nice recipes that can be easily adapted, so chucking some quorn in one lot and chicken in another? This is harder than it sounds unless it is a sort of quorn cutlet/piece of chicken plus veg meal.
Would be so grateful for advice, especially if anyone else in this situation.
Thank you.
PS We eat together, so I try to avoid cooking different meals if poss...

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noiamnot · 10/12/2008 11:35

yes. they do. at least most of the ones I've seen do.

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