Stop. Throwing. Out. My. Food.

Last night we went out to eat, and I found a really delicious-looking veggie burger on the menu. It came out with cheese on it, so I ended up sending it back and waiting on it. By the time it finally comes out everyone else is pretty much done eating and I'm pretty full on fries anyway, so I just say it's fine, I'll take it to go and eat it later.

We get home, I take a look at it, decide it looks absolutely delicious but I'm still way too stuffed to tackle it right now, put it up for the next morning.

...This morning my mom comes up to me and goes "It's too bad restaurants can never make a decent vegan meal, huh? Only gross, processed veggie burgers." I'm a little confused but kind of laugh and agree with her, then I realize what she was getting at... "Do you mean my burger from last night?" "Yeah! I saw you didn't eat it and tossed it. It was really bad, wasn't it?"

Why. I know it's just a burger and I shouldn't be upset, but I was looking forward to it, dammit, especially after that whole fiasco ordering it and waiting all night. All I've really been eating lately is the same old frozen dinner every day, and I was really happy to getting something from a restaurant for a change...

This isn't a one-off thing, either. If I turn my back on my food for more than a few minutes she'll just assume I'm not eating it because it's "Gross" or "Bland" or something, and toss it or feed it to the dogs.

I almost feel like she's trying to connect with me over it somehow?? Like she's trying to be all supportive and make a show of how much she hates it when restaurants make lousy vegan meals. Except to her, all vegan food is lousy, apparently. And it doesn't help that she's the sort of person that would rather just not eat at all than eat something maybe a little sub-standard...

I try to call her out on it but she just says "oh" and shrugs and walks off on me. :/

This is probably dumb but I'm having a really rough time lately and don't have any friends to vent to... this was just the straw that broke the camel's back I guess. I dunno.