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[carvedwood]

You know how opinons are like assholes and everyone's got one?

Despite the fact that I'm quite fluent in Idiotspeak and have successfully translated conversations between Idiots and Rationals before, there are times when my mind is boggled.
There are at least two people in my office who think (and worse, have said aloud) that they don't believe

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[air_n_darkness]

Wow, I remember you mentioning this before when you were looking for veggie recipes, but didn't realize she was only nine. It sounds like she actually did quite a bit of research. Good for her!

The only concern I personally have with kids still in development stages going vegetarian or vegan is that too often people do not know how to cook/combine foods so that the child still gets the proper combination to create the complete proteins the body needs. Yes, there are a few complete non-meat proteins, but too much soy, for example, can actually do more harm than good, as it affects estrogen production.

So long as she does the research as to what she needs to be eating for a balanced diet, and has someone adult to help her with that, then I say more power to her.

Which reminds me...did you ever try that veggie curry recipe out?

[air_n_darkness]

and I totally missed "fish" when you listed her food. So she's more a pescatarian then. So that's one of my own worries down, right there. :)

[carvedwood]

I haven't made it yet, no. I'm not the main cook in the house. However, I still have the recipe and the intention of trying it.
It's a pain in the butt trying new things with her, because she is still a kid, which means she still has the kid's POV when it comes to new, "weird" looking food.

[eroticjames]

And the complete utter side of that asshattery is if you'd said, she's such a picky eater I can't get her to touch anything that's not fish...you'd have likely had thier sympathy.

It's not the food, it's that you're allowing a nine year old to make a life choice. And that terifies them. They don't have trust in kids to make life choices at 20 (google "heliocopter parent" and be floored)

[carvedwood]

One of the asshats wouldn't even accept "picky eater," actually, because she's such a complete asshat that she would still expect us to starve the kid to make her toe the line.
I cannot comprehend the mindset of those kinds of people. I've tried, and it baffles me.

[soriano76]

You're a great mum, with a great child, don't worry too much about people. Contact a good nutritionalist (not sure this is the right word) and ask for meat substitutes, she's eating fish so it's not going to be really hard. Is she eating egg too?

[carvedwood]

I'm not actually her mum, I'm her auntie, but thanks for saying so, anyway.