Carnivorous spouse, was, No fail kids recipes?

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Morgan wrote:

 

> I am open to either for the kids. They are not vegetarians - my husband

does not allow it, but I feed them vegetarian foods most of the time since

I'm the one who makes the meals around here Even at dinnertime I serve

vegetarian or vegan meals a lot of time time - unless dh insists on

barbecuing or something like that. Does anyone else wish they could convert

their carnivorous spouse???

 

Not convert, that's never been my intention* but just maintaining a

satisfactory co-existence can be a problem especially if they don't grok the

idea of vegetarianism. Easier if you do the cooking yourself, but the veto

is a powerful weapon by refusing to eat something e.g. a soup or vegetable

dish into which secretly beef or chicken stock have been added. And slowly

but surely arrangements have been reached about e.g. not frying vegetarian

products in oil in which meat has been fried. Or am I being too much of a

perfectionist here? (I can hear all the voices saying, why don't you get

into the kitchen yourself? Well I do, quite often)

 

I think in the long run we have the upper hand - we used to make a veggy and

non-veggy version of Dutch green pea soup and ditto nasi goreng, but this

has been found too labour-intensive and now everyone is trained to eat the

veggy one.

 

Piers

 

* I did read something about people in some blood groups, A and AB I think,

being more predisposed to vegetarian diets, and group O definitely not - in

which case it may be unwise to attempt conversion :-)