I was staying with my dad and his wife to finish up my junior year of high school and when I went there, I was vegetarian. They said they'd respect it when I went vegan (most dairy products were making me sick, anyway, so I had already cut out a lot of dairy from my diet by then), but my dad and his wife refused to see to it that I had food that I could eat - they provided me with soy milk - only because regular milk made me sick - but other than that, their attitude was that if I didn't like what was in the kitchen, too bad for me (and they weren't big on fruits and vegetables, so we didn't have much of those). Even when I began dropping a lot of weight (135 to 115 lbs in 2 weeks) from living off of little more than soy milk and oatmeal, they didn't care. On top of things, I'm hypoglycemic (low-blood sugar; opposite of diabetes, for those who don't know) and they still refused to buy anything I could eat, even though it wouldn't have added much to their grocery bill. Was that right?
2007-07-27
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Vegetarian & Vegan