vegetarian/vegan June mommas here?

Turtle143

The question comes up more often now, and I feel like I really should start thinking about this. After all, December will be here before you know it.

Will you be serving meats to your child? Why or why not?

What does your H think about this?

Is he vegetarian/vegan as well?

IdigDirt

We will not be feeding our child meat. When they are old enough to decide on their own (around 7) they can choose for themselves if they want to eat meat or not. I am not feeding them meat because of health and animal rights reasons.

DH is not vegan/vegetraian, actually the opposite but he was pursuaded by my argument and pretty much the fact I told him he didn't have a choice. 

folkfemme

We don't eat red meat, but we will occasionally eat organic chicken. We are big fish eaters too. Our child probably won't eat red meat either, just through default. (It's really more of a personal preference for us...)

Turtle143

samara826:

We will not be feeding our child meat. When they are old enough to decide on their own (around 7) they can choose for themselves if they want to eat meat or not. I am not feeding them meat because of health and animal rights reasons.

DH is not vegan/vegetraian, actually the opposite but he was pursuaded by my argument and pretty much the fact I told him he didn't have a choice. 

That's how I feel about this whole thing but DH feels it should be the other way around. That is, feed them meat and they can decide when they are old enough to not eat anymore meat or continue. I don't want to give them meat more for health reasons.

DH doesn't get to eat a lot of meat since I don't really cook them much, esp the last 3 months. He seems fine when eating vegetarian foods but tells me he just isn't satisfied with them.

Why do I feel like this situation could get tricky once the LO is here and able to eat? DH isn't a jerk and he probably won't do this if we agree to do it my way, but I keep imagining him sneaking a piece of meat to give to LO and that makes me mad already. Ugh. It's probably not him I should worry about. It's my own carnivore of a family!

Birdies08

I told MH that if he wants to give LO meat, he'll have to prepare it. I'm fine with our child eating meat, but MH was actually raised vegetarian, so he doesn't feel it's necessary. I've left it up to him just with the stipulation that I not be asked to handle/prepare meat.

barefoot barista

I don't cook or prepare meat.

H wants our future kids to eat meat, I don't mind as much anymore as I did.  The stipulation will be that it is organic, free range, etc. 

And H will prepare it.

Galena99

I am the only vegetarian in the house, but DS won't really eat meat and refused any of it for the first year and a half of his life.  Since I'm vegetarian the only meat that DH can get in the house is chicken and it's organic/free range and if local is available that's what I get.  He finds red meat is to hard for him to have because it is impossible make a steak for just one person.  I have no problem with that! 

New baby will probably get chicken also, but it is really only eaten by DH and DS once a week and the rest is vegetarian for them too. 

Turtle143

Birdies08:

I told MH that if he wants to give LO meat, he'll have to prepare it. I'm fine with our child eating meat, but MH was actually raised vegetarian, so he doesn't feel it's necessary. I've left it up to him just with the stipulation that I not be asked to handle/prepare meat.

It seems there's a couple at least who does not handle or prepare meat for your Hs. DH doesn't have it too bad then. lol I've prepared meat for him on occassions but no slicing or dicing for me. I get them handled and ready to cook by the butcher. No steaks in the house either. But sautees, baked/broiled I can do for him. Last year, I made him turkey meatballs and if you can imagine what kind of meat-handling I had to do there I'd give me a pat on the shoulder! Kidding. Anyway, somehow I don't have quite an aversion to handling poultry like I do with red meats. I still wouldn't want my child to eat them though.

DH reasons he wants LO to have a complete balanced diet. But he knows better than that. I think he feels he might be left out if he's the only one to eat meat in the house. I never thought to ask him how he would feel if we have a son who is vegetarian. He's by no means sexist but my brother for example would say something stupid like "real men eat steaks!"  

Ok hehe. I'm just rambling now.

MommaA117

People ask me this a lot too. DH eats meat. We will be feeding our LO meat. If she decides she wants to be like Momma later on, that's her choice

MommaA117

I will add. I never cook meat for DH so if she had meat it will be elsewhere (restaurants/families homes) or if Dj happens to prepare it for her. That's the only time Dj gets it...not when we eat together at home. He actually prefers veggie burgers/dogs and does like non meat stuff.

mesr

i've been vegan for as long as i've known dh (since 1999).  he eats meat.  we each cook our own food and have been raising dd as vegan, with me preparing most of her food.  i agree with some of the other posters that there may be a time when dd decides that she wants to eat meat, but i'm not sure when that will be.  dh has been very supportive of the whole thing. 

Sazhrah

barefoot barista:

I don't cook or prepare meat.

H wants our future kids to eat meat, I don't mind as much anymore as I did.  The stipulation will be that it is organic, free range, etc. 

And H will prepare it.

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My kids only eat meat when they are away from home. School, In laws, restaurants, friends house, etc.  I do not prepare it but if I did it would have to be organic, free range.

nowayamyrae

Hubby and I were both vegan for 8 years, until August when we went back to being just vegetarian. Ironically, it's one of the reasons we had never planned to have kids, because we disagreed on how to raise a child diet-wise. 

We plan to not feed the baby any meat, and very very limited dairy (we eat eggs but I don't eat much cheese and neither of us drinks milk). When the babe is a bit older, I have no problem with it trying meat when at family gatherings or events, school or otherwise but I have no intention of cooking it. Since we're in NYC we typically only go to vegetarian restaurants anyway, so I don't think it would come up much when we eat out, either.