Pretty much the same thing before and after the change. Fresh vegetables, rice dishes, fresh fish, little pasta, some red meat but mostly white, all home-cooked

Pretty much the same thing before and after the change. Fresh vegetables, rice dishes, fresh fish, little pasta, some red meat but mostly white, all home-cooked evening meals with some pre-made shop bought fresh soups and some fresh 'ready-meals'for lunches. The point I'm making in the section you quoted, and which agrees with your other comment about social mimicry, is that the pressure she faces from herself and others to continue to perform this 'traditional' role means now she is the one who said I'm going to do this, you're not going to. That's not a position she has to be in, it's one shes chosen and actively maintains precisely because of those pressures, not from necessity.