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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 12 yo DD two weeks ago stopped eating meat, for animal welfare reasons. She is a big eater and a food lover, so I know this is really hard for her. I am so proud of her and would like to support her as much as I can. [b]Unfortunately we still cook with meat at least once a week [/b]and even though I try to plan an appealing vegetarian/pescatarian option for her, it is often haphazard and poorly cooked. I guess because I work full-time I haven’t been able to dedicate enough attention to rethinking our grocery shopping and meal plan. Anyway, to others who have been through this, what should I be doing to support her? Any specific tips for making the shift, any books we can buy, any reward system that might help? Thanks![/quote]

So you have a discussion with your daughter about family dining.  Explain that as a working mother, you only have a limited time to devote to shopping, meal planning and cooking.  You can handle making 5 dinners a week that fit her new diet.  She has a choice what to do those 2 days a week that you can't.  Either you can buy easy to prepare meals that she can substitute (frozen microwave meals, meals like pho that you can just add hot water, etc) or she can learn to cook a few meals that she likes, and you can keep the components so that on days that you make an easy meal that includes meat, she can prepare her own meal.  Or she can learn to cook for the family once or twice a week.  But include her in the problem solving.  Tell her the issue and have her help with the solution.[/quote]

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