If you are not vegetarian/ vegan and don't have to cater for them have to cater for veggies/ vegans

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How often do you use things like tofu and tempeh.
How many veggie meals do you have deliberately, ( rather than a veggie meal by default such as beans on toast cauliflower cheese for example)

No reason apart from being curious following on from aconversation with my friend this afternoon.

Sorry I couldn't edit my title!!!

Tofu/Tempeh every 2/3 weeks maybe. Not sure what you mean as deliberately veggie. We probably eat vegetarian about 3/7 days.

We have a meat free evening meal once a week - but we're not fond of meat substitutes, so it will be veg lasagne or veg fajitas or something, not tofu.

So I guess the answer to your question is - never.

Never use meat subs and rarely have meat free meals. We try to eat low carb high protein so meat and dairy are usually heavily involved.

I only eat meat so I wouldn’t be able to cater for them and Before anyone comments my health has improved hugely

Never.

I eat veggie dinners 2/3 times a week but Quorn disagrees with my stomach and I'm not a huge fan of tofu so it tends to be vegetable and/or bean/lentil based. I also love mushrooms so they feature heavily.

Tofu is not a meat substitute though.

i mainly eat vegetarian food at bine because my teen dd is vegetarian but have always eaten lots of tofu even when i ate meat. But I have spent time living in south-east Asia so love tofu.

We have vegetarian food probably 2-3 meals a week.
Like cheese omelette or red lentil and tomato soup or halloumi wraps, other veggie stuff we have is camembert, chickpeas, lentil dhal, bean chilli.

Don't use things like Quorn or fake meats

You can eat high protein and high low card without eating meat. Tofu, eggs, dairy, all sorts of legumes, nuts, etc.

We are veggie and we don't use meat substitutes. We do use tofu and tempeh, though, as we eat a lot of Asian food. Lots of beans and lentils too.

My dsis and family aren't veggie but probably eat veggie food around 3-4 days a week.

Tofu is not a meat substitute.

I’ve been vegetarian for over 20 years and never cooked with tofu or tempeh!! I tend to just use vegetables, lentils and beans

We have meat about 2-3 times per week.

We eat everything. In a week of dinners, we would have omelette either plain or with mushrooms, at least one pasta dish with tomato and pepper, at least one pizza with vegetable toppings, often vegetable lasagne (whatever’s leftover) and sometimes baked aubergines and courgettes with rice. Occasionally something like vegetable fajitas. We have fish twice a week and chicken once most weeks but other than that is all vegetarian, but rarely vegan (apart from soup and the baked veg.) as there are often eggs and sometimes cheese of some sort.

For lunch in the week, I have some sort of salad, often with hummus, but sometimes a tin of mackerel or tuna for variety. DH will have a sandwich with meat or fish and crudites( less keen on hummus and not bothered about making a salad just for himself) and the DC eat at the canteen…which pretty much has to have meat, fish or at least egg otherwise there are complaints (not from us!)

We never cook tofu or meat substitutes, I wouldn’t know how to and am not keen on the latter.

@User 4578
Not sure what you mean as deliberately veggie,
I meant deliberately chosing to go meat free rather than thinking ' oh we'll have cheese on toast or mac and cheese for tea,'

As a household, we never use "fake meat".

DH buys tofu if he goes to the Chinese supermarket, but I hate the stuff. Never heard of Tempeh.

We don't "decide" to eat veggie meals, but a number of meals we cook are meat free.

I don't understand the distinction. I'm not vegetarian but eat lots of foods that are vegetarian or vegan because its just food.

It doesn't make a difference to the outcome if I have tofu or falafels because I like it or because I want to pat myself on the back for 'choosing' to eat a meal that happens to be vegetarian.

Almost never. Maybe a couple of times per year.

I tried tofu once.

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Breakfast is usually vegetarian by default, but I do try to have salmon at least once a week for breakfast.

It's probably been a few years since we have had a vegetarian meal intentionally for lunch or dinner.

Tofu and tempeh - never eaten either.

Often eat vegetarian meals because they're what I fancy, especially when I go out to eat. No idea what it would work out at over a week - maybe twice a week? I don't intentionally eat meat free, I just eat what I'm in the mood for. Just realised I've eaten no meat today, hadn't thought about it till now.

Tofu about once a month.

Quorn and tempeh - never. Can't bear them.

Vege meals at least three days a week.

We have loads of meat free meals, dhal, chick pea and spinach curry, roast veg tart, things involving halloumi, veggie pasta sauces etc.

But not tofu - don’t like it, Quorn and other manufactured meat substitutes, no thank you!

I try and eat veggie/fish main meals 2-3 times a week, and my lunches are often meat free by default.

My two closest friends are vegetarian so I will nearly always cook veggie for both of us if one of them comes round.

Often choose a veg curry over a meat one and same for filled pasta which I usually take on the nights I work late. Prefer veggie sausages to meat one on the whole as well.

All that said, I'm not a fan of tofu, tempeh or pulses and I wouldn't want to give up meat completely.