Icarus

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Moving out on your own is one way to deal with the problem.

 

Im guessing they just dont want to go thru the trouble of fixing your

veggies and their

 

meat dinner too.

 

Maybe see if they have some tv dinners with veggies only.

 

 

or else youll have to shop for yourself and fix your own meals.

 

Becky

 

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icarus_imbued

1/28/2007 7:28:47 PM

 

I need some advice

 

When I decided to go vegetarian (as a new years resolution) I resolved

to eat meat only once a month if at all. It seemed like a good goal

and my reason for that was just in case I found myself in a situation

where it would be a bad move to kick up a stink about being vegetarian

(dinner parties, being invited over to dinner, or if my family was

having something REALLY GOOD for dinner that involved meat).

Unfortunately, I've had to consent to eat meat 4 times this month due

to the fact that my family is not beening very supportive. I'll come

home from a nice, long 8 hour shift at work absolutely ravenous and

dinner's all ready, but it's a meat-based casserole, and I'll be told,

" Oh, you can have a potato or a bowl of cereal. " And because the

vegetarian foods I'm requesting to be purchased when groceries are

done aren't getting bought, I really have nothing to fall back on when

something like this happened. Sometimes I'll have a vegetarian

alternative planned out for myself, but if I'm not personally there to

make it, it doesn't get made and when I ask why I'm told they forgot

in a tone that makes me think they didn't want to go to the trouble

rather than they forgot. I'm really getting tired of baked potatoes,

macaroni and cheese, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches; and I'm

pretty sure that's not a healthy diet anyway. Also when I have to

consent to eat meat I feel like I'm not keeping my commitment to

myself, and that really bothers me.

Can anyone give me some advice? Am I not taking an active enough roll

in food preparations? Am I being too passive about wanting to be

vegetarian? Is my family just not wanting to help or being passive

aggressive? The more this kind of thing occurs the better the option

of moving out on my own again looks. (I'm 23 and living with my

family, still; not married) Can anyone give me some input on the issue?

 

--Icarus