I'm a newbie here and hoping for some love and advice.
I've been a vegetarian for, wow, I guess about 14 years now, since I was 17. For about the past 5+ years, I've been totally grossed out by eggs but haven't been able to figure out how to do away with them all together. I don't eat anything that tastes like eggs, but I haven't been able to eliminate them completely. While I would love to be a vegan, I have a meat-eating husband and two kids who eat meat (please, no flames!). Just my personal beliefs: I want their diet to be their choice. Please don't hate me for that. I also live in a very small town. There is a very small Vitamin Cottage about 30 minutes away from my house, but that's it, and they are pretty limited on vegan food. Grocery store doesn't have much at all as far as substitutes, and even their produce section is pretty sparse.
I recently saw the Oprah about veganism and got to thinking long and hard about my diet. I went to Vitamin Cottage today and got lots of vegan staples (vegan cheese, vegan sour cream, vegan butter, some vegan frozen meals, etc.), and by the way my vegan lunch was delicious! My plan is to try it for at least a week and see how I feel and whether I think I can do it. I'm really excited about it.
My question is, are there any of you out there that have a meat-eating family and if so what do you do? I really feel that I need to cook meat for them, although I really don't want to get into the morality of that. As a vegetarian, I've been cooking about half and half, full-on vegetarian meals some nights and meat meals other nights when I just eat left-overs or a salad or some frozen veggie pizza or something along those lines. My kids really love tofu and veggie meals and I feel that I'm at least exposing them to both diets. Hubbie will eat veggie meals that I cook as long as that's not what I cook every night.
Are there any vegan moms out there with advice? Maybe in the same position as me or maybe your family only eats vegan? Many times I am able to find a recipe that can be vegetarian but I can have meat available to add for those who want it. How hard would that be to cook that way as a vegan? Do you have any recipe book ideas for me? Please give me some kind advice. I've hesitated to go on a message board like this in fear of being hated on and scared away.
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