Help veg mom!

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To Jen, and other veg parents who might be able to shed light on this...

Am on the vegparents discussion list, and read that you home school, cook for

your family, etc. You have my total and complete admiration. I really want to

know how you and other home schoolers manage. I don't work outside the home,

nor do I home school, but with keeping the household running, and getting our

two sons to their extra-curricular activities, supervising homework, I can

barely get simple meals on the table. I'd love to home school, too. One

important factor is that we live in Brazil--lots of great vegan products are

unavailable, and school days are four hours of just straight academics, with one

son in the morning session, and one in the afternoon, lunch at home, and we have

to provide them with the sports, music, and art, which means lots of chaufering.

When you can manage a few minutes in your busy schedule, I'd love to know:

what's your typical weekday like?

what is your source for homeschooling material and guidance?

cost of homeschooling?

is there any time left over for just hanging out with the family?

time for husband?

how many kids?

We are vegan, and have two lifetime vegan sons, ages 12 and 9.

I have many times been tempted to go ovo-lacto, to make life easier, but my

husband is totally opposed to this, so relying on his conviction, we remain

vegan.

I really appreciate thoughts on this...

Warm regards from the tropics,

Lynnea

 

 

Jen <thefourlakes wrote: Hi Steph,

I'm in Ohio and I'm a home schooler too.

I don't know how everyone else will answer this question, but I have found that

eating healthy, including removing meat from our meals does cost more. We spend

so much more on food now that it's surprising, even though I expected it.

The bonus though, besides the long term benefits of longer life, lower cancer,

heart disease and diabetes risks, etc., is that we have not been to the doctor

or bought any type of medicine since we went veg. My children haven't even had

colds in that time. We do still include dairy and some eggs, but we have cut

down on our intake of those foods, and we are much pickier about which we buy.

So, although the food costs more, the medical costs are less, which is great.

 

I am still learning about vegetarian meals, and there are ways to cut costs,

just as I knew there were when I was cooking meat. The only place I can't cut

costs is in fresh foods. My family does not like frozen veg, so we have to buy

it all fresh. Not so bad in the summer, but tough in the winter. Fresh veg also

require more time to prepare, so I spend a decent amount of time in the kitchen.

I developed a " sous chef " callous on my first finger within the first month of

going veg from all the chopping. If I were smart, and better prepared, I would

make up the veg ahead of time; cut all the veg up for a few days' supply and

keep it in the fridge, ready to eat or cook. I'll get around to that soon. :-)

The best part of it all is that I feel really good about what I feed my family.

I know that they will be healthier and happier because of it, and that makes me

happy.

Soooo, I guess you CAN buy happiness, or at least, you can buy vegetables, and

that makes us happy. Not rich, but happy.

 

Jen in NE Ohio

 

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