Anyone else have a teenager trying out new things? As I recently shared on social media (with the reminder note my daughter gave me … I wouldn’t really believe it until it was in writing, LOL), my 13-year-old daughter has decided she wants to try out being a vegetarian. She will still eat fish though, so technically a “pescatarian” it is!
This honestly came out of nowhere; she is my child who LOVES meat, but I understand this is a time in their lives to try and figure out who they are. Can anyone else relate?
Sooooo, while I am not drastically changing the way the rest of us eat, I am trying to accommodate her request. We already eat a mostly flexitarian diet (meat sometimes), so now on those nights when we do eat meat I just make sure the side items are hearty enough to be eaten on their own. And we’ve also gone from eating seafood roughly once a week to twice a week (or…