| Most parents with growing families these days | | | | same dishes as I did for her. But, it didn't work! |
| get it at one time or another; "I don't wanna eat | | | | One by one, he refused to eat my creations. I |
| meat!" Most couples I know, were raised in a | | | | tried and tried again.But he didn't like swede. He |
| carnivorous environment, when anyone inclined | | | | wouldn't eat turnips.Parsnips no! Green beans, |
| towards vegetarianism kept it quiet.They were | | | | cauliflower, lentils, chickpeas.... no! He didn't like this. |
| looked upon as eccentric, to say the least. So | | | | He didn't like that! Turned out, he didn't like |
| what do you do when you hear this? | | | | vegetables! "You can't be a vegetarian and not |
| When it first happened to me, it was my 10 year | | | | eat vegetables," I told him. But he would eat only |
| old daughter. So I fed her as best I could while I | | | | chips and beans! |
| researched the subject. I found out how to | | | | Over five years now, of chips and beans, he's |
| combine foods to make sure she got sufficient | | | | also thriving. Somehow, there must be great |
| protein, vitamins, etc. I got cookery books on the | | | | nutritional value in that little meal. Always a clean |
| subject, and after much experimentation, was | | | | bill of health! And I've managed to persuade him, |
| even able to invent my own recipes. Yeah, I | | | | labouriously, to eat quorn, and vegetable |
| became, for a man, an accomplished vegetarian | | | | hamburgers. It's a slow process. But I'm getting |
| cook. And she thrived. And all went well until one | | | | there, and keeping him healthy. And it's funny |
| day, my son, younger than her, said it.."Dad I | | | | really, the looks on people's faces when I tell |
| don't wanna eat meat!" | | | | them I have a vegetarian kid who won't eat |
| Well, no problem, I thought, and felt smug! I was | | | | vegetables! |
| ready this time. I began to cook for him the | | | | |