Desi Moms

My wife and I were brought up by our parents on vegetarian diets, purely in the name of religion. I, however started eating meat (mostly white meat) in my teenage years but never at family mealtimes or at extended family gatherings. Also, my meat consumption has been fairly sporadic, restricted to restaurants or while on business travel. My wife of the other hand has never ever tried meat in her diet and it averse to bringing any meat products into the home we share. Consequently, she is very keen to raise my daughter vegetarian and I'm perfectly ok with that. My rationale being, we expose my daughter to the religious values we were exposed to growing up. My concern though, is that my daughter gets exposed to meat on a regular basis - at her preschool, at friends' parties and ME eating at friends parties. Wife thinks we should explain that "we" dont eat meat period - but the hypocrisy comes when I eat the stuff that my wife thinks is "yukky". We are challenged in ways that one party thinks its ok to eat while the other is Hell bent to not eat. I'm afraid these mixed messages may cause my daughter to be totally confused on what her direction may be? Anyone else have similar issues? Chime in.

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