I'll try to summarise briefly without outing myself/new lodger...
New lodger (gap year student) has Asperger's and is absolutely lovely and very high-functioning, however food causes her real anxiety. Part of the deal of us hosting her is that we provide meals (for various reasons, asking her to cook for herself wouldn't work).
When she first arrived I tried to accommodate her food preferences (mostly meat & beige oven food, though she does also like fish) and I was just about managing to balance that with a fairly picky DS, vegetarian DD and DH & I on Slimming World.
However, she has just told me that she needs to lose weight and wants to eat more healthily. Trouble is, she likes very few fruits/vegs/grains/rice/noodles so I'm fairly stuck with pasta & potatoes. I have asked her to Google SW recipes & find some she likes, which she has, but they all contain meat so I'm still stuck with needing a second option for veggie DD.
To ease the stress of meal planning & cooking I have tried to devise a weekly menu:
Monday: meatballs & spaghetti (Quorn balls for DH, DD & I, meat for DS & lodger) same tomato sauce for everyone.
Tuesday: veg chilli (DH, DD & I) with jackets potatoes, cheese & beans/tuna etc for DS & lodger.
Wednesday....what the badger can I cook that isn't pasta or potatoes?!?! PLEASE HELP :)
Thursday: pasta bake (various recipes)
Friday: various fish recipes (DH, DS, lodger & I) veggie burger for DD
Saturday: meat & veggie curries
Sunday: roast dinner with veggie option.
I'm looking for a 'category' that I can vary recipes within but still have some structure to ease my troubled brow (like pizza or fajitas - but not those as neither are great on SW.) Also trying to balance it against Tuesday's potatoes & Thursday's pasta...
Any ideas please?
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Please help me to plan a weekly menu incorporating all these food preferences (before I boil my own head!)
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LadyBumps · 29/04/2019 21:20
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