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Sorry. I laughed out loud. My son is a dedicated carnivore who hunts, fishes, raises and butchers his own meat. The thought of him with a vegetarian is pretty amusing.
But, if he ends up with a vegetarian, that will be fine. I don't mind adding a vegetarian dish to the meal if they come to dinner. I could figure out what to feed a vegan; there are recipes online. I really don't care what other people eat and it doesn't hurt my felling if a dinner guest doesn't want to eat some of everything or doesn't clean their plate.
My mother had a few vegetarian friends and they just ate what they could eat and left the rest of us to eat the roast or turkey or whatever it was that they couldn't eat.
Did your son or daughter date or marry a vegetarian?
We're you supportive and accommodating?
How has it affected family gatherings?
My son and DIL are both vegetarians (although, my son does occasionally eat meat). Plus there are numerous vegetarians among my nieces and nephews. It certainly has not effected family gatherings at all. As long as there are a couple of side dishes that are vegetarian everyone in happy. Who cares if they don't eat the turkey or the stuffing that was baked inside the turkey? IMHO, it would be like inviting friends who are Jewish to dinner and getting upset that they did not eat the ham.
Now the many years that our daughter was a strict vegan were more difficult but we still never had a problem at family gatherings (at other people's homes). Sometimes all that she ate was a lettuce salad, plain baked potato or an apple but she never actually starved. And, at our home she made vegan dishes to share.
I think it shouldn't matter because if you love your child, you should not have a problem of supporting whatever he or she decided to do in life. Of course, I am not talking about supporting wrong doing, but in this case, I don't see why parents don't support or accommodate.
My youngest son and his various girlfriends have, at various times, been vegan, vegetarian, and pescatarian. It's never been an issue for us, in fact, we discovered new foods and recipes that we enjoyed.
Did your son or daughter date or marry a vegetarian?
We're you supportive and accommodating?
How has it affected family gatherings?
I expect to be supportive and accommodating regarding any number of things. I don't see anything alarming about vegetarianism.. You adapt family meals on the occasions you host/participate in those meals. *shrugs*
This made me laugh because my mother is very southern and is a great cook--in part because she puts pork/pork fat/duck fat in everything. One of my brothers has a new girlfriend who is vegan. My mother is trying to be supportive but it's like she has a mental block. As we were planning Christmas dinner she keeps asking my sister and me: "But I can use cheese, and K will eat it, right?" "No, mama" "So I can make [recipe with a pound of butter] and she will eat that, right?" "No, mama".
It was all fine and it isn't as if we felt like every dish had to be vegan but we wanted the girl to have something to eat!
And my mother will have to adjust better because they got engaged on Christmas day. Now we are all planning a vegan wedding for July...
My son’s friend married a vegetarian girl. She and their two babies are vegetarian, so he only eats meat in restaurants.
The few times I’ve had her over for dinner, she just ate all the side dishes...no big deal. If they go to a potluck, she brings a vegetarian dish.
Vegan would be A LOT harder, but I could still manage.
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