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Eggs for our toddler, when the person who cooks for her has never made one

moss_moon_3419

Our daughter's food at home is my mother's department, and my mother is vegetarian. She has never cooked an egg in her life, and our kitchen hasn't seen one either. My partner and I eat eggs when we're out, and our paediatrician suggested adding them since our daughter is fussy about most proteins. My mother hasn't said no. She's said 'you do it', which in our house means no. Has anyone sorted this out without it turning into a whole issue? A separate small pan? Only boiled ones that I make on weekends?

4 comments

  • rose_moon_5722

    Not quite the same, but close. My partner's parents are vegetarian and visit often. What has worked is that I make the egg, in a pan kept separately, on mornings when I am at home, and nobody else has to handle it. Our daughter is younger, so for now it is mostly yolk mixed into something else.

  • basil_lantern_3574

    We started our son on egg recently, and I went through the same thing with my mother-in-law at weekends. What helped was keeping it entirely mine: my pan, my plate, washed by me. Once it stopped being something she had to touch, she stopped minding. She now asks whether he's 'had his egg'.

    • fern_drum_2888

      The 'you do it' line is so familiar 🙂 In our house it was chicken, and it was my in-laws. Years later my partner still cooks it on an induction plate on the balcony.

    • lemon_notebook_6586

      balcony induction is the real answer here. we did the same for fish 🤷

  • saffron_kettle_6098

    My parents do three days a week with our daughter and they're vegetarian too. Their days are veg, our days have egg. Took a while to settle, but nobody feels lectured this way 🙂

    • fig_wave_3229

      We managed it the same way when our son was small. Grandparents' kitchen, grandparents' rules. Ours became the egg kitchen on weekends. He's in primary now and still thinks of Sunday omelettes as a treat.

  • willow_lantern_1079

    boiled egg is the least smelly option if smell is part of it. peel it outside the kitchen and the whole thing is done in two minutes

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