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[quote=Anonymous]OP- please try to compromise. Have some, maybe 2-3 entirely vegan dinners for the whole family each week. The other nights she can either eat a veganized version of the main dish, if it's not easy, or an acceptable alternative. A meal should contain a protein, a few servings of vegetables, and a starch. Plenty to choose from. You, or you and she together, could make a big batch of something easy and vegan that she likes at the beginning of the week she can eat on those nights. I have tons of easy ideas: spaghetti and many other pastas, beans and rice, bean salads, fajitas, quinoa salad, pasta salad with vinaigrette and chickpeas, etc. Let her fend for herself 1-2 nights a week.

For what it's worth - I have the opposite situation in my house. I'm not vegan, I'm lacto-ovo vegetarian, but my teen is not. The compromise is that he buys lunch at school or when we eat out he can choose meats. I've recently started letting him have some meats that don't need to be cooked, like lunchmeat, smoked salmon, frozen pizza with pepperoni, etc. in the house to accommodate him. He chooses to eat vegetarian at home probably 75% of the time because that's how he was raised. But I've compromised with him as well. I will not allow raw meat to be prepared in my kitchen though, that's where I draw the line. This works for us; try to find a reasonable compromise that that works for your family.

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