I am a Vegetarian and have been for about 15 years now. Hubby is not but happily eats vegetarian food (he's not one of these 'must have meat' men). We do serve meat in the house at times, he will have a meat curry or meat and 3 veg type meal and i will have similar in a vegetarian form, it just works for us. We will not raise our children as vegetarians, I want them to make up their own minds and i want them to be able to go out to a birthday party and join in in eating little sausage rolls etc, I mean they wont really understand 'why' they cant eat meat. I figure in our household and eating out they will experiance a range of foods and can make up their own mind on how they want to eat when they are old enough to understand both sides and make that decision for themselves.