Meals that it's easy to do with one vegetarian portion and one meat portion?

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I'm already dealing with sorting 2 different meals every evening because autistic DC with ARFID has such a tiny range of food they will eat but DH & I want to eat proper food that is flavourful and varied.

DH is vegetarian, I eat fish & chicken but not red meat.

I have been having vegetarian dinners with DH - I like veggie food and used to be vegetarian. DH dislikes most high-protien vegetables like bean and lentils so we don't have those much. I am overweight with a bmi of 40 and have asked my GP for help trying to get my weight down. In our trust's policy, I can't go on the waiting lists for any of the more expensive (and effective) ways that they can help me until I have engaged with and followed the advice of one of their health, wellbeing & lifestyle advisers for 6 months. So I had my first session with the adviser and we had a long talk about what I eat and when. One of the biggest changes she wants me to make is to increase the protien in my dinners. Certainly when we make a big veggie curry or chilli etc, I would have a quite hefty portion, and the adviser thinks if I have half as much of the chilli/curry as I might have, and instead add some meat, that will hopefully fill me up better and help me eat less overall.

So yes last night we had curry and I took half as much as DH took and added some prawns, and this evening I did similarly with the Moroccan spiced butternut squash thingummy we had, adding some smoked haddock. In both cases this was something we had already made a big batch of earlier in the week and we were just reheating some of it for our dinner.

I don't want to go down the route of cooking entirely different things for me and DH, I don't have the energy or the time, so I was wondering if there's any other dishes that any of you recommend for an easy way to make a smaller higher protein version for me. There must be plenty of other families who for different reasons want to make meaty and nonmeaty versions of the same thing so just hoping for some ideas so that I can ring the changes and not get stuck in a rut.

Stirfry - just remove the veggie portion & add chicken/beef.

Jacket potatoes with different fillings e.g. one tuna, one cheese.

Having baked chicken in the fridge is handy. You can tear it into strips and add to a chilli, curry, salad etc.

sausages (veggie or meat) with chips and veg or beans
quorn burgers vs mean burgers and salad

omlettes. One with mean one without

Tacos/Burritos/Wraps are easy to do with a veggie and a meat option.

Anything that isn't 'mixed', roast dinner, sausage and mash, salmon/veggie option with rice and veg, chicken/veggie option with boiled potatoes and veg etc. etc.

Or batch cook a meat and veggie version of curry/chilli/Bolognese etc. and then just take one portion of each out of the freezer and cook the carb element.

I do a risotto with peas and mushrooms, add defrosted prawns for the last few mins after separating DH’s portion.

For a few years DD was veggie and the test of us were not.

i would either make something veggie and add meat on the side eg a veggie risotto and then have a chicken breast roasted and added afterwards ornif we had a roast chicken just do her a quorn fillet.
The other thing i did was make double portions eg if making a veggie chilli i would make extra and freeze. Meant that next time i could just make a meat chilli and get out a veggie portion to defrost for DD. Likewise that time I would make extra of the meat version and freeze. That way you are not making 2 dishes each time.
Meals that you put in the middle of the table and everyone helps themselves like fajitas - cook meat and veg separately and everyone makes their own wrap also worked.