Anonymous wrote:I've been vegetarian all my life (37 years!). Don't make meat, don't serve it and never will. My stomach is no grave for dead animals.

Um...congratulations? I don't see how your post is relevant to this thread.

I've been vegetarian all my life (37 years!). Don't make meat, don't serve it and never will. My stomach is no grave for dead animals.

Can your husband be in charge of cooking the meat? I do the majority of cooking in the house but DH cooks his own meat. I've been a vegetarian since I was a teenager and never really learned how! I'm always like, "why would you want a vegetarian cooking you meat?!" LOL. I do know that it would be good to learn though, once DC is old enough to eat it, for times DH is away. He'll only buy the local organic stuff anyway- the only thing that grosses be out per se is cutting bones.

But anyway, just a thought- not sure what the division of labor is in your household....

I am a vegetarian. I make my family fish and chicken. I wear disposable gloves. Red meat is only on special occasions. Like DH grills steak for birthdays if that is what they request. I try to make mire veggie meals when I can like I never put meat in Lasagne.

I am not vegetarian, but used to be totally grossed out by raw meat. I learned to adjust after my som was born, but still have certain things I cannot cook. So I feel for you.

Can your husband cook the meat part. I think what my one friend did was have her husband precook some meat for the week. Then she only had to handle cooked meat. You may even be sable to freeze cooked chicken, so you can pull out of the freezer as needed.

A compromise might be that you are vegetarian at home but she can be an omnivore out. With so many vegetarian and vegan meat substitute products readily and cheaply available, she might not even notice that you have her tempeh rather than ground beef.

My boys (4 and 19 mo.) LOVE chicken. I buy a big old family pack of chicken drumsticks and freeze them into twos. Each day, I defrost a bag of two drumsticks and bake them at 350-375 for an hour and they devour it. Grosses me out too, but it's a good protein boost for them. I pull all of the meat off for them and let them go to town.

It doesn't cost much to buy couple chicken tenders from the supermarket pre-made food counter (they sell buy weight). Make all her other food at home but buy precooked chicken tenders or chicken drum sticks for the meat? I eat meat but don't like handling it either - I don't feel like eating much of it if I am the one that made it.

Anonymous wrote:Get over it. Jesus Christ.

OP here. This made me chuckle. Not using the Lords name in vain, but the "get over it"part.LOL

I'm in the same boat. I'm vegetarian but cook meat for DH periodically because it just makes him so damn happy. We get the sustainable, humane meat from whole foods so I don't have a philosophical problem with it... it just grosses me out on a basic level to be handling bloody chunks of some poor innocent dead critter. Oh well, I consider it an investment in my marriage since few things make DH happier than a dinner of lamb stew (yes, he is a simple creature) and it builds up so much goodwill with him.

Anonymous wrote:she eats what you eat even if it's vegetarian until she can afford to buy her own.

Bad mommy alert!

she eats what you eat even if it's vegetarian until she can afford to buy her own.

Welcome! I can't give you any solutions. But You aren't alone. Factory farmed meat is unsustainable.

Get over it. Jesus Christ.

I'm slowly transitioning to vegetarian,but DC is a big meat eater. I'm starting to get grossed out with handling raw meat/fish/eggs. Have to feed the child though. Just a vent, not really a question. I already give her mostly veggies,pasta, rice, but when I skip the meat for a few days she def notices. sigh.. Not really in the budget to buy her prepared foods, plus I do majority organic foods and she happens to like home cooked food.