So my 17 year old daughter made the choice to become a raw vegan a couple of weeks ago.
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I have no problem with her choosing whatever dietary path she feels is best for her but she now requests that I cook separate dinners for her and find a way to accommodate her in all family meals. I told her that while I respect her food choices, it would be a lot of work for me to have to make two separate sets of food all the time.
I told her she’s welcome to cook them herself or wait until she moves out to be a raw vegan. My husband doesn’t think it was considerate of me to say that to her.
Is it my fault?
Here are what netizens think:
- Exactly! Learning to cook would only be setting her up for success, vegan or not.
- I’m always surprised by parents who will bend over backwards to accommodate their kids eating preferences versus having them cook themselves. I learned to cook because I’d ask my mom, “what’s for dinner” and if she responded with something I didn’t like and I said “ew,” she’d say, “well, you cook then.” So I did.
- Yep, I was 11 when I started to ask my parents to leave a piece of fish for me to cook myself because I didn’t like how they made it (it was a nasty fad, baking it under a layer of mayonnaise – I hated it and preferred to pan-fry it). A 17 year old is perfectly capable of accommodating her own food choices – especially raw vegan ones, since that involves no difficult cooking techniques.
- Her Mom isn’t going to be there to navigate her food choices in the future when She leaves home, so she might as well learn now. Her diet choice shouldn’t be another chore for Mom.