If you are not financially dependent on your folks, maybe you shouldn't go down to see them until they are ready to accommodate you a little,
I don't expect my parents to change their eating habits to suit me. I really don't. It's so radically different from them. I also wouldn't skip visiting them just from something like that.
I did go by the store there and I got miso soup packets, Mom already had brown rice, and I got some canned beans. I was mainly referring to the Christmas dinner food for the most part, maybe I should have been more specific. Mom knows its important to me and its not like I was being forced, but I didn't expect my entire family to agree to change the traditional Christmas dinner on my behalf. That would be really extreme. I don't push vegetarianism on them either. My Dad just doesn't think I'm being smart not eating meat, and was constantly asking me why and when we were cooking lunch and stuff he kept asking me if meat grossed me out now, he just didn't want to accept a sudden change in his one daughter. Since then he's off my case about it, Mom told him how ridiculous he was being.
Make some rice balls with umeboshi plum centers to eat, every day and make some brown rice norimaki to eat and also show sushi chefs in Texas (what town [s] are those?).
T_T' Are you saying make food and bring it to chefs in Houston's fine sushi establishments and tell them to change their menu which is based on their cultural heritage????
As for wheat gluten, I have that here. I actually made a fresh batch of seitan last night. Also I prefer quinoa in my home made sushi
