Re: Toning it down?!

"enigma" <enigma@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:Xns946E887F034C8enigmaempirenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  i guess you're in England?  i personally loathe McDonald's,
> but it appears that it's *the place* to hold kid's birthday
> parties around here :p  fortunately Boo isn't much on eating
> junk, & is far more interested in the play areas there, so he
> doesn't actually eat at the parties... hopefully the
> McDonald's birthday party doesn't catch on there.

<laughs sarcastically> wishful thinking! McDonald's and its clones reign
supreme here too. You can't escape them. I hate them too, not because I'm
a
vegetarian because that's a personal choice of mine, but because those
places promote a fattening and bad eating culture we could do without. If
my
girls will grow that way inclined, we will try to treat McDonald meals as
a
'once-in-a while' occasion... and try to have their parties at the Leisure
Centre up the road!


>  as far as raising vegetarian kids, it's not really a big
> deal. i have a friend that raised 2 great boys on a
> macrobiotic diet (which i think is somewhat more extreme than
> being vegetarian). it's probably healthier to raise vegetarian
> kids unless you have access to good grassfed beef &
> organically raised chickens, etc. of course, your food
> standards are higher than ours anyway... i'm primarily
> vegetarian, but the SO & the kid are carnivores :) at least i
> can say my 3.5 year old is NOT a picky eater. the only thing
> he refuses to try is shrimp. he's not crazy about a few
> things, but he will almost always at least eat one bite of
> something unless he's just not hungry at all. 3 year olds live
> on air sometimes...
>
LOL how true!
I'm a vegetarian (but occasionally suc***b to the temptation of fish...
mmmm, can't beat a good patriotic Fish And Chips from the local chippie!
I don't try to impose my veggie choice to my daughters (plus, my husband
loves a bit of good meat) but I only buy very good cuts of meat and lean
mince, nothing cheap and nasty, well at least I try. And no chicken
nuggets
or the like, my hubby worked in a turkey factory as a student and told me
a
few of the awful things that go on in those places, uuuurgh!

> >I don't think that many people will
> > stop their kids coming over. And if they do are they the
> > sort of people you want your kid mixing with anyway?

I see your point, but I've given up on the teenage dream of changing the
society! I mean, I'm living here. I want to meet people, socialize,
interact. And I don't want my kids to be involved into pettiness between
parents. Example: There was this woman I met at playgroup, her daughter
and
mine are very good friends. This woman's husband is a dentist and
obviously
rich, and she made quite a few comments like she thought we were skint and
couldn't afford anything (how she got that idea is beyond me!). Obviously
I
took offence and started avoiding her, but the little girls really like
one
another and I felt it would have been unfair to keep them from playing
together.
>
>  exactly. Boo gets invited to birthday parties & such all the
> time now that he's in preschool. i don't really know any of
> the parents well, but they aren't refusing to invite him
> because his parents always wear black.
>
Yes, you're right, I am paranoid!
Thanks for your useful comments Lee. Take care you and Boo.
xx Victoria
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