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Post-baby delivery meat eating?
Dan Stromberg wrote: > Hello / Ni Hao > > My wife is pregnant, and due to deliver a boy in mid July. That's > terrific news. > > What's less good news, is that although I'm a dedicated vegetarian, my > wife very much wants to eat meat regularly for a month after the delivery, > and she doesn't want to leave our home for a month afterward either (it's > apparently a sort of Chinese tradition?). Beyond that, 3 of her friends > have decided that they are going to "teach Dan to cook meat" this weekend. > > I'm perhaps obviously not especially comfortable with the idea of buying > or cooking meat anymore, but I'd be pleased if I could learn to prepare > some vegetarian dishes that my wife would enjoy, and that would be very > good at restoring the nutrients her body has lost through the pregnancy. > > How might I handle the diplomacy end of this, and does anyone know of > vegetarian dishes that a > > 1) Delicious - she likes to "taste the ingredients" without a lot of > spices, but we use ginger and garlic and green onions a lot, and sometimes > a small amount of hot peppers. > > 2) Very restorative for my wife (she'll be taking "nursing mother" > vitamins, and is now taking prenatal vitamins) > > 3) Simple enough for a decidedly unsophisticated chef to prepare? > I have repeated this post. it IS at Google so did go somewhere! The follow up was also incorrect. Congrats on your news. Have you got a local chinese take away you could use and pretend you cooked it? Mine do some awesome tofu dishes. |
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