Would you consider cauliflower cheese a meal?

[dudsville]

So, I'm steaming veg (cauliflower, carrots and brocolli) and sauteing mushrooms, and I'll add some frozen peas and spinach. But this is just veg in a cheese sauce. WOuld you consider this a meal in itself?

Yes. 4 of us have cauli & broccoli cheese a lot, with crusty bread to mop up the excess sauce. Love it.

I meant I would eat that. That'll teach me to put the cup of tea down and use two hands!

Ratatouille, on the other hand, is not dinner (looking at you dm 😒)

we add jacket potatoes then yes!

I’d hoover it down and consider it a standard vegetarian meal but lacking in protein I think.

That isn't cauliflower cheese though. Cauliflower cheese is just cauliflower.
You are making some kind of random cheesy vegetable dish.

To be more helpful and answer your question. Yes, I do consider cauliflower cheese to be a meal. I'll usually have it with a side salad.

It's always a main for me. With salad normally. I have seen it as a side dish at restaurants though

Yes if served with carbs (jacket potatoes) or it won’t be filling enough. That meets all food groups
carb, veg, protein and dairy

Yes.

what you’re suggesting is also a meal but it’s not cauliflower cheese!

Need protein & a stodge to be a meal.

I'm not a big meat eater though so that's probably why. I can eat loads of it in one sitting

It can either be a main or a side, depending on portion sze

Yes

I'm happy with just the protein, but then I grew up on a combination of beige oven food and vegetarian food that was often just vegetables, cauliflower cheese was the best we got unless dad was cooking.

No. Unless you forgot to have pancakes yesterday and are having those after.

Throw in a few bits of ham or crispy bacon and I'd say yes.

As long as it came with garlic bread!

Whole meal for us with green vegetables. Smaller portion with some meat & vegs also a meal.

Horrified by the PP who eat cauliflower cheese with a salad. Bleurgh.

Yes, with a green salad. Delicious, in fact.

If there’s a lot and it’s served with a jacket potato, yes.
We often have that - a favourite in this house.

Yes, I think so. Yum!

We have the Ottolenghi cauliflower cheese filo pie quite often, its definitely a main served with salad

Yes - you're basically making a vegetable gratin with all those extra vegetables. So perfectly fine for a vegetarian main course.

Of course!