It's been a very long time since I have eaten red meat. I announced to my Mum when I was thirteen that I was becoming a vegetarian and she told me that I wasn't. She was worried that as a teen age girl a vegetarian diet would not provide me with enough iron or protein, it was the 1980's, she probably wasn't wrong. We came to the compromise that I wasn't going to eat red meat, but I would still eat chicken and fish.
This has been the status quo for almost 30 years. However, I find that I am increasingly adding vegetarian meals to the weekly menu and cutting down on the meat and this is not always going down well with my Mum. I made the cover recipe from "Vegetarian Living" for Sunday lunch this week, a Borlotti Bean and Chestnut Stew and Mum's initial reaction was to ask why we weren't having Chicken or Salmon.
The are several reasons that I am switching to more vegetarian meals, it's cheaper, it's healthier, it's also more exciting for me to cook, I love trying new things. Is it unreasonable for me to expect my Mum to eat this food? I don't mean to give the impression that Mum is a whinger, most of the time she happily eats the food I put in front of her. I am just being too sensitive about any negative comments? Maybe I just need to chill a bit and cut back on the Celeriac.
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