Hello! I'm a new vegetarian who eats about 95% vegan, and who will probably be there in a few months (not willing to give my my Morningstar Farms with it's stupid last ingredient of milk powder just yet, heh heh). My question is about having guests who aren't vegan over for dinner, specifically with their kids. In general, we will be picking and choosing who we can have over, obviously people with open minds about not having to have their meat and potatoes but there's one couple who have a couple kids and we (I'm) aren't sure what to do. When we went over to their house, the mom made dinner for the grownups and popped a couple pizzas in the oven for them. We could do the same thing but I'm not sure about making them vegan or not. Kids can be notoriously picky about anything new and I'd feel deceitful if I either made them one from scratch (or went the easy route and did something commercial) but didn't tell them it wasn't really cheese and pepperoni...I don't want to trick them.
Part of me feels like, vegan food is amazing and I want to share that. It's also an amazing opportunity to have these kids see how good food can be, open their horizons. But I'm not their mom, it's not my place to do that and if making them eat or alternatively not eat what we are serving means the evening is cut short or ruined, I'm not sure anyone benefits.
Thoughts?
Elyse
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