I'm tearing my hair out with meal options for our family:
DH - veggie, eats goat's cheese, mozerella and red leicester but no other cheese and only on things (pizza fine, mac n cheese not fine). Prefers quorn etc. meat substitutes but also eats pulses.
Me - meat eater - loves cheese and will eat some veggie meals (no pepper / aubergine though). Prefer veggie based meals - tofu, mushrooms, 3-bean chilli etc. to meat replacement
DS - will eat chicken, smoked fish, ham and sausage. No other meat. Also won't eat onion or any sauces except gravy. Will eat cheese sprinkled on top of pasta but no mac n cheese etc. but does a decent range of usual weg - cabbage, brocolli, carrots etc.
At the moment DH makes his own thing and a seperate meal for DS, then I either eat the same as DS when I get home or have a ready meal as I'm last one in. On Sunday I suggested we go out for Sunday lunch so I could have a decent roast dinner that wasn't chicken but DH suggested I get some TV roast dinners to eat . I'm sick of eating DS's beige meals and ready meals. What veggie meals I've made I've enjoyed more than DH - portobello mushroom burgers, 3-bean chilli etc. and I don't like the texture of quorn so I'd rather not eat his meals.
DH also doesn't like the smell of meat cooking so complains if we bring cooked rotiserie chicken home in the car from the supermarket, or if I use the slow cooker. He also complains about meat being wasted if any is left over, as an animal died to provide it, but DS especially tends not to eat all the meat on his plate.
DH was veggie before about 5 years ago and gave up in part because we hit this last time, where meals are just a bloody mess. He doesn't want to give up again this time, which I understand, but I need some meal options where I don't always come last. Dinner last night was tinned ravioli because DS would definitely eat it and it could be prepared quickly. DS has after school clubs 3 nights a week that we need to work around.
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Meal ideas for the family who cannot all eat the same meal please
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CryingShame · 08/11/2017 09:28
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