Vegetarian meal plans

[Blackandwhitehorse]

So I’m trying to eat around 4/5 meals a week vegetarian or vegan but am struggling to find a variety that are healthy and easy to cook after a full day at work.

So far successes have been Anna Jones dhal, veggie green Thai curry and veggie fajitas.

Please people inspire me with your easy healthy veggie meals 😀

I’ve just made a lovely black bean and sweet potato stew from my hello fresh box.

Chop sweet potatoes, toss them in oil and roast in the oven for about 20 minutes

Meanwhile fry onion till soft, add a clove of garlic and Harrisa paste, tin of chopped tomatoes, veg stock cube and 200mls water.

Simmer for 7/8 minutes

Add tin of black beans and a couple of handfuls of kale

Simmer for 10 minutes

Add the roasted sweet potato

Serve with a dollop of Greek yoghurt, sprinkled with toasted almonds and spring onions

It was bloody lovely

(If you want a discount code to try the hello fresh boxes PM me but you can get the recipes online anyway, Gousto also do some good veggie recipes, I tend to go back and forth between the two)

This week:
Sunday - Greek giant butter beans, roasted garlic potatoes, tsatziki
Monday - black bean soup & nachos
Tuesday - Jamaican pasties (bought) with rice and peas and mango salsa
Weds - veggie haggis with roasted potatoes, carrots and onions, plus sprouts
Thursday - out
Friday - probably either veggie pizzas or veggie burgers (the Sainsbo's frozen spicy bean burgers are nice)

Mixed bean, pepper & avocado wraps - Fry a handful of onions and 2 cloves of garlic for a few minutes, add a tin of mixed beans, sliced red peppers and half a packet of fajita seasoning. When when heated through place mix in wraps and add sliced avocado and salsa, with or without grated cheese.

Jacket potatoes with beans / coleslaw made with vegan mayo

Bean chilli and rice

Green shepherd's pie - the 'meat' is green lentils, leek, carrots, onion, whatever else you have hanging around, then top with potato

'Orzotto' - tray bake with orzo and veg, very little prep - the green roasting tin book has lots of good recipes along these lines.

Pasta with pesto / homemade tomato sauce

Potato and leek hash - fry up in a pan with any other veg, plus mustard and Henderson's relish - and chuck in grated cheese if you're eating dairy.

Jack Monroe has some great ideas

cookingonabootstrap.com/2019/11/04/ultimate-lasagne-recipe/

This week we’ve had:
Green lentil and vegetable shepherds pie
Roasted vegetables and pasta with pesto
Tonight was homemade pizza
Tomorrow is www.theendlessmeal.com/creamy-coconut-lentil-curry/
Thursday is caramelised onion quiche
Friday will be vegetarian burgers
Saturday probably vegetarian moussaka
Sunday... not sure 😂

These all sound delicious thank you, and especially like the sound of the black bean and sweet potato stew and orzotto

Easy curry- roast some cauliflower florets, carrots, chunks of onions and red peppers.
Mix curry paste and coconut milk in a pan and add a drained tin of chickpeas and the roasted vege. Warm through and stir in some spinach leaves at the last minute.

A current favourite is paneer and black bean stuffed naan breads from hello fresh (recipe will be online) even the fussy meat loving veg hating boys love it!

Roasted veg pasta bake
Falafel wraps
Linda McCartney burger and oven chips + peas
Vegetarian haggis beeps and tatties
Goats cheese omelette
Tofu stir fry with soba noodles

Hi op, this is what I've ended up doing. We eat veggie most of the week. So I decided that while I got used to coming this way we'd follow a set week. One day we'd have jacket potatoes, one day a curry or pot, one day beans E.g. Mexican style, one day eggs, one day pasta, Saturday could be more flexible and Sunday is a roast. I then got myself a nice notebook and wrote a list of all the veggie jacket potato toppings I could think of, trawled the Internet and recipe books adding to it. I did the same for curry. Beans. Eggs. Pasta. Now all I have to do is pick one thing from each list to have each week, have a meal plan for the week and shop for that. As I've got more used to veggie cooking I have been able to be a bit more flexible :)

My favourite discoveries are shakshuka and also Buddha bowls - check out the recipes for these on hurrythefoodup

The hello fresh naan recipe sounds so good! And yesss shakshuka I had forgotten I used to have that for breakfast but that would make a good light dinner too!

Veggie quesadillas! With cannelloni beans and peppers instead of chicken
Veggie lasagne (red lentils)
Feta, chilli, rosemary and butternut squash pie (Mildred’s recipe)
Halloumi and courgette fritters

Vegetable pasta bake (can be made in advance)

Veggie bolognese pasta bake (as above)

Veggie fajitas

Veggie pizza and homemade wedges

Vegetable cottage pie

Sweet potato Dahl

Veggie curry

Tortellini and veg

Veggie sausages, mash and veg

Meatless roast

Vegetable pie, mash and veg

@Indecisivelurcher that sounds like a good plan and you are getting a range of food that way too, which is what I was struggling with

I’m vegan
This week is
Monday: Penang tofu curry
Tonight: chilli with bulgar wheat in place of mince
Tomorrow: jambalaya
Thursday: spicy veggie sausage pasta
Friday : going out for a curry