Kids

[Guest guest]

I don't have any of my own, but the bf has 3, ages 16, 4 and 2.5. He's

getting surprisingly interested in vegetarian cooking, even when I'm not

around. Last nite was lamenting the difficulties he has getting his

kids to eat any of the new vegetarian alternatives he's starting to

prepare though.

 

They think its fun to try to cook for me when I'm coming over, and they

make it into sort of a game (what can we make for Sherri that didn't

have a face?), but when he's just cooking for them they're not nearly so

agreeable to trying new things. It seems to me that its more an issue

of the foods being unfamiliar to their palates than anything else, but I

have no idea how to deal with that. They want their old favourites that

he has always made for them.

 

I've suggested some of the " fake " meat substitutes, but they weren't

thrilled with them. When he cooks dinner and doesn't make meat they

think there's something missing though. Any suggestions? What do those

of you with kids who aren't vegetarian do? Do you cook meat for them?

He's not trying to make them into vegetarians, but since he's enjoying

eating meatless more and more, its becoming an difficult to keep

everyone happy without preparing 3 or 4 different meals each evening.

 

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Sherri

 

I think---therefore I'm single. -Lizz Winstead-