"I have been married to my vegetarian husband for more than 10 years, and we have two school-aged children. He has been a vegetarian for more than 20 years and has never pressured me or anyone else to adopt his diet. I enjoy cooking and grocery shopping, and make it a personal priority to continue to learn and improve my skills."
"I do 80 percent of the cooking (MY CHOICE), and recently, my husband said that he wants me to stop making a flex-type menu because I am "othering" his portion of the meal. He thinks it's offensive and a waste of time. I was taken aback by this, and honestly, a little hurt/confused. Is it offensive to make something like pasta that has a meatball and a veggie meatball? Is it wrong to offer one dish that has bacon and one that doesn't?"
"I have no interest in becoming a vegetarian. I think that fake sausage and meat substitutes are a major downgrade from the real thing, and I am not interested in eating them myself. I also think that it would be challenging to achieve my health goals without animal protein. I don't have a problem cooking these things and regularly encourage my children to try them as part of their meal (they enjoy some of his food, but not all of it)."
A married couple with two school-aged children has differing approaches to meal preparation. The husband has been vegetarian for over 20 years and cooks only vegetarian food. The wife, who does about 80 percent of the cooking by choice, often prepares meals offering both meat and vegetarian options. The husband recently requested that she stop making mixed meals, calling it "othering" and saying it is offensive and wasteful. The wife declines to adopt vegetarianism, dislikes meat substitutes, cites health goals tied to animal protein, and encourages the children to try both types of dishes. Tension over fairness and feeding the family remains unresolved.
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