Well to start with it was animal welfare reasons and nvCJD but it's more health reasons now. DD's are vegetarian because he is and he'd turn me into a burger myself if he found out I fed dd4 meat! - only joking.
DD1 is a really strict vegetarian, by her own choice. She can't stand cows milk ('I'm not drinking something that comes out of a cow's boobies!' - lol) and she insists on having soya milk on her breakfast.
She will only have milk if it's disguised in food or as milkshake because then she can't taste it. As a toddler she refused anything that even looked like meat, so I guess it was in built in her, and she refused to eat any 'junk' food until she was 2 (we offered her ice cream and she spat that out till age 2) - chocolates she refused until age 3. She always wanted fruit like raisins and pieces of chopped apple.
I think dd4 is the same way as I offered her fish a few times and she spat it out. She also hates sweets and says 'yuck' and 'I don't like that' when I have offered them. Her favourite thing is also apples. I now keep her vegetarian as her father wrote to me and asked if I would, when I was 'going dark' on him.
I actually used to be vegetarian (from age 12) and it was me that got him into it. I broke my 13 year diet when we first went to court and I went over the road to a shopping mall afterwards, and bought chocolate and a bacon sandwich to allivate the stress.
Then I just started eating bacon sandwiches every time we went to court.
I am mainly vegetarian now as I eat what dd eats, but I do still have the odd bit of fish, which I am going to give up before we move back in together as it would be a source of conflict.
I still believe in all the reasons why I was vegetarian, but I couldn't handle the elavated stress levels at the time and it was my 'fix'.
I still use chocolate as a 'fix'
Feeling better now, thank you, still achey and tired, but I slept a few hours this afternoon so that helped. I have managed to eat something for my dinner and will go to bed again soon.
- only joking.