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What My Family Does Different: Vegetarian
You don't eat what they're serving and explaining it is its own job.
Your family doesn't eat meat. That is one rule. Here is everything else about your family.
For the Children in vegetarian families who navigate the questions at school lunch, birthday parties, and any meal where their food is different from what everyone else is eating
The Name It First Experience
Your family is vegetarian. That means at pizza parties you check the toppings, at school lunch you explain again, and at someone else's house you sometimes have to say you don't eat that. It is a lot of explaining. This book helps you do it on your terms — and also gives you a page about everything else that is true about your family, so the food is not the only thing. You will write and draw all the things that make your family yours.
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Sample questions
- What is it like to be vegetarian in a world that often treats meat as the default — and what has that shaped in your family?
- What has the choice to be vegetarian given your family — and what do you want to document about why you made it?
- What do you want your children to understand about why your family eats this way and what it means?
- What does vegetarianism mean in your household — ethical, cultural, health-based, or something else — and how did you arrive at it?
Research basis
Grounded in food identity and family values research / dietary identity in children (Stead et al.) / Erikson (1968) identity development / and moral identity formation through family food practices.
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