I'm thinking I've done all my child rearing and veganism and approach to life generally all wrong.
Both my children were vegan from birth, boy now nearly 14 and girl 18. We slipped into being veggie rather than vegan with them both as they went into the world and discovered what their friends had. My boy had a spell of 10 months in hospital with mental health issues and ate more and more cheese and eggs there - and ready made foods containing them. He has Asperger's syndrome and cannot cope well with change and eats very badly and a very limited diet as it is and I've been buying organic milk and cheese and free range eggs for the young people.
Now, I've re-discovered my vegan conscience and am going back on what I had allowed before and have banned all eggs from the house - even to the extent of being very angry with my daughter when she has bought products containing eggs into the house. Cheese is harder to ban, my boy is addicted to it and has more mental health problems that will be made worse if we (my husband is vegan and onboard with this too) take all dairy out of the house at the moment.
Now, I've had a big tearful, on her part, argument with my daughter. She and her boyfriend (an omni by upbringing but moving away from it) are at college doing some very physical stuff most days. They are advised to eat eggs and chicken, stuff like that. I've urged her to investigate the vegan body building world but really, she strongly resents me being vegan and having forced her to be vegan as a child. She is angry I wouldn't let her and her brother eat what other children ate and says that if I had been more liberal with them, and just let her see that we don't eat that stuff and given reasons, she might have been vegan as an adult.
This all arose because I wouldn't allow eggs for her to make her sandwiches for college. She said I care more for chickens than I do my own daughter. That hurt. But my response was that the chickens have no choice in their lives, us lucky humans do have the choice and I choose not to buy eggs.
The trouble is that she hates tofu, seitan, redwood etc slices, nuts, pulses, all the classic high protein vegan foods. We are on a limited budget particularly as her boyfriend is staying here so we can't buy limitless ready made foods. Hence her making sarnies rather than giving her cash to make her own decisions with food out of the house.
So, why am I posting this here? I suppose because I want to let off steam with people who will understand, and I'm also looking for ideas for high protein easy eat packed lunches. So far I've thought of bhajiis, don't know if I can cook anything that will taste like the ready made ones, and she likes falafel too - ready made ones though.
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