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All my kids take turns cooking or helping to cook.  DCUM loves to propose that the kid who is vegan makes their own completely separate meal, but that's not how we operate.  Family dinners, where one or two people cook for everyone and we eat mostly the same things together is what works for us.  This particular meal, one of her siblings and I cooked together.

As to why not pasta? We eat plenty of pasta, but this particular night we were having salmon burgers with condiments on buns, and sweet potato fries.  Vegan kid had avocado and condiments on a bun and fries.  There wasn't a need for pasta too, but there was a need, or at least a desire, for more protein.  So, we found a menu that we thought sounded good, and modified it to increase the protein and leave out the pasta.

Could we have done it a different way?  Sure.  If the goal was just to get protein into her, I could have pulled one of the black bean burgers vegan kid and I had made and frozen out of the freezer, or made a side of plain edamame, or figured she'd get her protein from some plant milk.

But this particular day we had time to cook, which we like to do, and we had other goals.  Cooking kid and I like to learn new recipes.  I like all my kids to try new foods.  Serving the beans as a side, rather than as a replacement, led to most of the family trying it, and leftovers, most of which got eaten last night as a snack by hungry teenagers.  So, we improved everyone's nutrition in a way that a substitute just for the vegan kid wouldn't have.

We actually ended up changing the recipe more substantially, so we didn't need a pasta water sub, but I will keep the suggestions for the next time. [/quote]

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