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Family friendly vegetarian menu for a week

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PlatoAteMySnozcumber · 30/06/2019 08:19

I have vegetarian family visiting for a week. I don’t want to cook different dinners but want to find dishes that will suit the veggie requirement but also appeal to a few fussy toddlers. Any ideas great MN minds?

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SpaceCadet4000 · 30/06/2019 13:48

My favourites for a crowd with mixed preferences:

Bean chilli topped jacket potatoes, but do a topping buffet alongside with guacamole, sour cream, cheese, jalapenos, chopped onion or spring onion.

Salad bar/picnic dinner- basically, make as much as you like from scratch and buy whatever else. Most of it can be finished for lunch the next day.

Falafel pitas- like with the above, just add all the topping options to the table.

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 30/06/2019 14:55

Good idea re the Quorn nuggets. Sainsburys also do vegetable fingers, which my two used to like when little.

Gottoloveabagel · 30/06/2019 15:50

We make this with quorn chicken cubes
www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1897680/light-chicken-korma%3famp

And veggie stock. We never make it with meat now, it's delicious!

The other thing we do is HFW north African stew, it's a great hit.

Veggie chilli goes down well too

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Gottoloveabagel · 30/06/2019 15:54

This is the stew

www.rivercottage.net/recipes/north-african-squash-and-chickpea-stew

I use carrots, sweet potato and parsnip instead of squash, never have saffron and add a bit more pasta.
Serve with giant couscous and Jamie Oliver's yogurt flat breads

BeyondMyWits · 30/06/2019 19:24

Unfortunately one of mine is Quorn sensitive - her 2 days of raging diarrhoea was not fun after a party mum decided to serve Quorn nuggets calling them chicken nuggets... would always ask them, or try to go for the vegetable/pulse option over quorn... just in case...

JustTheCrowsAndTheBeef · 30/06/2019 19:40

You will need to swap out the Parmesan but the Smitten Kitchen ‘pizza beans’ are always a big hit in our house: smittenkitchen.com/2017/09/pizza-beans-cookbook-preview/

BeyondMyWits · 30/06/2019 19:50

We do pizza beans - did not know there was a recipe for them! - we fry some mediterranean veg, garlic + onions, add a couple of drained tins of cooked beans, tin of tomatoes, knobs of mozzarella, cover with cheddar/double gloucester and sliced tomatoes... lush...

we usually have it at the end of a shopping week - you can add any leftover veg before the cheesy top, so we cook up what's left at the bottom of the fridge and add it - leeks, carrots, mushrooms, kale, anything really.

PlatoAteMySnozcumber · 30/06/2019 20:48

Oh I am genuinely excited by the pizza beans, what a great idea. I will even give that a go for normal dinner before the veggies arrive.

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EvaHarknessRose · 30/06/2019 21:29

Wow this is my summer menus sorted

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