Self catering holiday with a veggie for a week

That's a daft example - if you're making 4 pizzas (or 2, one for you & your DH, one for DB and his girlfriend), you can easily make one vegetarian!

But why would you need to do that? While you're cooking your lovely homemade meal with a meat dish included, make her something lovely and homemade too. It's simple enough.

*I'd rather everyone was well fed and felt included tbh."

100% this. I don't understand some people's attitudes at all.

Why should they have to. It's a holiday. My diet is meat heavy because I love meat and because I am very low energy without it. I don't feel good without meat and while I'm happy to accommodate a vegetarian or vegan, I'm not happy to go without it myself for more than a meal or two.

I don't think in the OP's case this has happened, nut there are plenty of posters here who have said that the OP should be entirely vegetarian for the whole week.

It's not so much the GF in the OP's case but the posters replying here.

There is more and more evidence to support that the ability to eat vegetarian is largely genetic

Lol what?

Omg 😂😂 there is no reason whatsoever you can't have your precious beef wellington.

She isn't stopping you from eating anything, or forbidding the use of meat in her presence.

Some people don't half love to make mountains out of molehills.

I’d just eat veggie for the week. But we eat quite a lot of veggie anyway.

Man, you'd struggle with our family holidays where the shared food needs to be both veggie and gluten free. Luckily we all appreciate being together more than we do missing out on the odd steak.

I think everyone is right, you just have some meals with an optional meat component. And then maybe you take yourself out for a fry-up breakfast or a bistro lunch or whatever one day. Everyone doesn't need to eat together all the time. The way we usually play it is everyone sorts their own breakfast from options we have in, lunch depends on the activity of the day, and dinner is when everyone definitely joins - and that's the meal we make sure suits all dietary requirements. I don't really think about it any more. I'd rather everyone was well fed and felt included tbh.

I’m the vegetarian at our family salt catered holidays and I we eat communally and everyone is happy with how it goes. We’re not a family of big breakfast eaters and so breakfast is a fend for yourself meal, with fruit, yogurt, crumpets, muffins, toast. We generally have one main meal a day with the other other being leftovers, quiche, salad bits, soup etc. We also tend to bring along most the meals we make frozen, to make it easier and because self catering kitchens can be unpredictable. Meals also tend to be communal family style, with everyone (other than me) eating both the meat and vegetarian options. Theres no reason you can’t have your beef wellington as part of a spread.

Meals which have worked have been Indian food with meat and vegetable curries, rice and salad; Mexican food with bean chilli, pulled beef, salsas and rice; spicy mushroom lasagna and aubergine and ragú parmigiana with salad; root vegetable tagine, chicken stew.

No, eating meat is the choice.

I'm vegetarian , haven been for over 30 years. I'm the only one in my family & friendship group, I wouldn't expect people to not eat meat around me , however I prob
Wouldn't cook it on behalf of anyone else .
You shouldn't go without your English breakfast if that's what you'd like .
She can eat similar with no meat or meat alternative

Eating meat is also a choice, but most meat eaters also eat food that is vegetarian.

It's very easy to accommodate, and only selfish asshats would point blank refuse to make the small adjustments needed to cater for friends and family that don't eat meat.

There is more and more evidence to support that the ability to eat vegetarian is largely genetic and I although eating veggie for a week won't kill anyone it can feel to some highly unpleasant/ difficult / like you're missing something. Definitely a pain on holiday.

But here indeed I'd just crack on and have veggie options. Having a cooked breakfast at least once on holiday is something I value!

I’m an omnivore and that’s my choice.

I was married to a veggie for 18 years. Mostly I ate veggie too, or separated whatever sauce was cooking into two and added meat to mine. It was never an issue. You don't eat meat at every meal or every day anyway presumably?

I'm a Monday to Friday vegetarian, so that's no problem for me.
I would do a few dishes like pasta potato or lentil bakes as veggie and then serve some fish/ chicken/ steak on the side for meat eaters.

So example: a simple Italian Pasta Bake & Salad then add chicken breast wrapped in ham for meat eaters.

Being vegan or veggie is a choice.
It's up to the person to accommodate themselves.

I'm a veggie. I'd be offering to cook a couple of veggie meals for the whole group, and then cope with meat substitutes for a couple more. Then eating out/take away for the rest?

There are some pretty good veggie ready made but loaf type things you can shove in the oven alongside your beef wellington. It doesn't "impact" anyone else unless you cook every single item in beef dripping

I’m a vegetarian of over 30 years and my family would have the beef welly and I’d have the trimmings with an alternative such as roast butternut squash or a veg pie (or just extra trimmings). I never know why there is such angst over vegetarian food!

I'd do vegetarian based dish(es) and do a meat element as well for those who want it.

Unless you are near a supermarket then everyone can eat veggie almost alll week. It'll make life easier.

@Lorey Do you usually have a fry up for breakfast each day of the holidays? Why do you think you couldn't do that with a vegetarian present? You can do whatever you normally have on a full english, and she can have veggie sausages and all the other already vegetarian components. I really don't understand why you think that there would be a problem with breakfasts?