Non-Understanding Parents

I find that's the reason for most complaints! They can't handle their own guilt (it's subconcious of course).

Ahem, I don't mind the odd HJ Veggie Burger w/o cheese.

sorry double post.

Haha, love it!

I know I've told this story before but love it! My grandma kept asking me every year if I was still vegetarian (it's been 13 years). A few years ago I said" No". She looked so relieved (poor thing!). I finished with "I'm now vegan". Lol!

Thanks for all your replies, made me feel so much better!

Since becoming Vegan (just about 4 months, yay!) I've eaten better and healthier than I ever have and I've never felt this healthy before! When I became vegetarian I felt really good too but now I feel peaceful inside because I know I'm not harming animals in any way. The flu I had is apparently going around my department - I work in a hospital so it's not hard to catch lol. She knows I eat healthy so I think she just needed an excuse to get to me - she really knows how! Don't get me wrong, she accepts that I'm vegan and has for the past 5-6 years, I think she knows I'm serious about it. Maybe she herself felt bad for getting junk food since she's 'dieting' and tried to twist it on me?

I've never 'preached' it before because I know how annoying that is, but when they just plain choose to ignore me, it's very hard to hold back. I'm not looking forward to the day I do preach to someone...if I do.

I ended up bringing it up over another argument we had (obviously not a good day for us) and she said she never remembered saying that and she'd never become vegetarian. Hearing that broke my heart because I know what she said and so do the 7 other people sitting with us for lunch that day. I feel like such a failure but at the same time I figure it's their loss and karma will come and bite them in the butt!

Matt.Y: that's a brilliant idea! I have done that in the past but if I make it more frequent she might realise that meat isn't the only or best way to get my nutrients and maybe she'll incorporate that and hopefully change her mindset.

My grandparents from my dad's side are the typical French - butter, cream, meat, desserty kind of people, they love their food so I get a bit of slack from them but I rarely see them and even then I know they're okay with it and it doesn't bother them. The only thing I get is from my dad and pop who think that I can eat fish/seafood, that's when my cousin steps in and tells them it's meat and that's the point of being vegetarian lol. I really feel good when she does that!

Littlemisstofu: I love that!

ckimana: sounds like something I'd say

I think the thing to remember is that they've grown up with that, back then it wasn't so exposed and no-one knew the side affects of animal products. They'd find it hard to transition. I know if my nanna was still alive she'd support me and maybe even try to be vegetarian with me! She's the one who basically brought me up and taught me to love animals as much as they love me.

OMG im sooo stealing your "im not vego anymore.... im now vegan!" when i go see my dad sometime. I will have been vege for a year on the 15th of nov 2009 and plan on becoming vegan on that day

my parents are divorced so me probly thinks my mum brainwashed me or forced me or something stupid lol. oh well i don't really care what anyone thinks  

Pretty sure people like that are just far too scared of something different :/ ugh. I have people at my work telling me that I'm unhealthy and they think I'm wrong for being vegetarian but I don't really listen to them.

To be honest, my parents and grandparents were really positive about me going vegetarian. They already had to cook vegetarian meals for my boyfriend so it was helpful for them to find more meals to cook. I went vegetarian whilst my parents were in New Zealand and the first thing my mum said when I told her was "did you eat the curry I made you first? I made it especially for you!"
and that was about the only problem. go figure.

I know what you mean. at first my mum was all like "oh i feel so sorry for you, are you sure you want to be a vegetarian" but after a while she got that i cared more for the animals suffering than eating a yummy carcass. .. i do think she tried the "i made it just for you" trick though...

My dad even took me to a doctor who was going to take a blood test but he said it might scare me off coming again (I guess he didn't know i already hated doctors!), he said as long as i eat eggs and had milk that i should be fine..

He also mentioned something about teenagers and their 'forever changing diets' or something and that I would probably just grow out of it... I felt a bit offended by that. I wonder if ill have to go back when i become vegan? I hope its the same guy...
I'd just be like "hey, you know how you said i would just get sick of being a vegetarian?.. well i did but hey i'm a vegan now! hah!!!"
not that he would remember me..

surprisingly, when I mentioned becoming a vegan earlier today, my parents didn't even complain... well until i started telling my mum how they grind live baby chickens and how milk has puss in it, opps

I cook for myself 99% of the time but its good skills I guess, plus i don't just get the side dishes they make like salad and mash every night... i'm even starting to like tofu! i found out that if you fry it in marg. with a heap of crushed garlic until crispy, that it tastes just like chicken schnitzel with lemon!.. i know, most cooked meat still smells good when i'm hungry   but at least i have never given in to the temptation.