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[quote=Anonymous]Can you tell me if I'm being unreasonable about this?

We have a large household, including four teenagers, three of whom are boy athletes.  As you can imagine, they eat a huge amount of food.  Like most people, we live on a budget, and the combination of inflation, and increasing appetites as kids grow, means that we watch our budget carefully.

We have one vegetarian, and the rest of the kids like meat and seafood, so I often prepare two proteins.  The vegetarian one is usually a lot cheaper.  So, I might serve salmon on a bed of lentils, or carne asada and vegetarian charro beans.

When I do this, I make enough of the vegetarian food for multiple portions, and leftovers, but I might make one or two servings of the meat or seafood per person.  At dinner the kids can eat their fill of the vegetarian protein, and of whatever carbs and vegetables I serve, and drink as much milk as they want, but at some point the meat/seafood runs out.

We have meat and seafood available for them to eat at other times, along with the plant proteins, but it tends to be cheaper ingredients.  At any given time, I might have a bunch of chicken drumsticks in the fridge, breakfast burritos in the freezer, tuna they can make into tuna salad, etc . . . .  Plus fruit, veggies, baked goods etc . . . My kids aren't hungry.

One of our kids feels this is unfair.  That if his vegetarian sister can eat as much lentils as she likes, he should be able to eat as much shrimp as he likes.  I thought I'd ask what other people think.  [/quote]

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