Does a Vegan Eat Ice Cream...??? ;)

[alyrthia]

All bets are off at my Mom's house.  Husband and I went last week to spend a few days.  My mom is in her seventies and still kind of beautiful.

But I always know what comes first. First is a not-to-be-rushed  tour of the food.  Because my husband and I are vegetarians (mostly vegan), mom likes to point out what she has bought for us. Unfortunately

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[mechtild]

I've never heard of this sort of food-hoarding fetish, Alyon. My mom hoards food, though not as bad as she did when she could drive herself to stores better, but not of a particular sort. She went through rationing in WWII (England), and hard times during the Depression. But her packed pantries are not specific to candy or ice cream or smoked salmon. It's mostly filled with what's "on sale" ("Ooooh! What a tremendous bargain! I *must* get that!").

[alyrthia]

OH, my mother loves a food sale and just buys more than she will ever eat. OH, yes, it is food in general--and food on sale Mom is drawn to.
She likes going through the newspapers and looking for deals--and she enjoys ambling through the grocery store aisles. I don't relate, as I really don't enjoy grocery shopping (not clothes shopping, either)--in our house, luckily my husband and my daughter like the food shopping tasks.

I have another friend whose mother moved towards a heavy ice cream diet as she aged. I think it's easy to eat, and pretty addictive. Mom recently got dentures and she finds certain foods harder to eat. She eats a lot of ice cream, but is actually losing weight because she isn't able to chew other foods properly. I hope that changes. But maybe that's the future for us all: ice cream for breakfast, ice cream for lunch and dinner will be no surprise, either.

[mechtild]

Your Mom loves a bargain in the food aisle, too, ey? Mine has the food section of the paper-specifically the flyers of the stores she goes to, set aside each week to bring with her when she shops--when she shops. Her level of disability has increased and driving is a lot harder for her than it was. And once she gets home, she often has to leave it in the car until the nice neighbor is available to bring it in for her. She should come here.

She hasn't got to the ice cream stage yet, though, especially since she doesn't care that much for it. Unfortunately, like her daughter, many of her favourite things are crunchy and chewy. She's missing teeth and has worn partial dentures for years, but there are always problems with them, more as she ages and her gums and so forth change. Our poor mums! We'll be there next; they are the pioneers, I guess, going into old age like no other generation has gone into it before: not wanting to die, but not wanting to live a life that's worse than dying.

[wendylady1]

Alyon,
I reckon that it's fine to put your veganism on the back burner while you visit your dear old Mum...sometimes it's worth just going with the flow, as you say - she will probably never understand your "weird eating habits" just like you may never understand her need to hoard food that she will never get around to actually eating !!

It's an odd behaviour pattern, a form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder...so I googled it to find out whether there is anything you can do about it, but it seems that the change must come from within her really...

Here's some info anyway :-

http://understanding_ocd.tripod.com/hoarding7_groceriesfood.html

[alyrthia]

Thanks, Wendy

[citibyrd]

So mom, really, anything won't really do, right? What you really want is exactly what you the first time.

*pictures this* Heeee! ;)

[alyrthia]

*heeing you back!* ♥