To challenge you to think of 7 veggie family meals...

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That don’t involve meat substitutes?

Hugh fearnley-whittingstall’s veg book is a good one op, no meat substitutes in it at all, there are some really good hearty salads in it, there’s one with puy lentils and parsnips that is amazing.

Lots of good suggestions on here, i like doing veg kebabs with halloumi, mushrooms, aubergines, tomatoes, onions, pepper etc with hughF-W’s home made flatbreads recipe, then if you google ‘kebab shop cabbage’ there’s loads of recipes for an authentic side salad.

Soup
Omelettes
Fritatta
Veg pasta or lasagne
Quiche
Veg pizza
Baked potato or sweet potato with baked beans/coleslaw/cheese
Chickpea or butternut squash curry
Spanakopita
Veg and feta tray bake
Vegetable gratin
Pho
Stir fry
Risotto
Vegetable and goats cheese tart
Grilled veg and goats cheese stack
Panzanella
Bruschetta or crostini
Salads of all descriptions
Onion or beetroot Tarte tartin
Veggie burgers
Potato and cheese croquettes

oooh we need a mumsnet vegetarian cookbook. i'd buy it!

Roasted butternut squash with rosemary and garlic and goats cheese. I’ve just had it and it was delicious.

Not read the other posts so apologies for reputation.

Bean chilli
Veg stir fry & egg fried rice
Chickpea and butternut squash tangine
Veg and lentil bolognese and pasta
Veg lesagne
Ratatouille
Mushroom risotto

Yes YABU op. How lazy.

There are about 40 hellofresh vegetarian recipes on their website that have step-by-step illustrated instructions. Maybe some less family-friendly than others but plenty of choice.

• mushroom risotto

- noodles and vegetable stir fry - lentil curry and rice - bean chilli con carne with a side of potato wedges - egg, chips and beans

there's five for starters

Stuff we eat regularly in our house:
Chilli
Curry
Mexican black beans
Noodles with stir fried vegetables
Summer rolls
Banh mi
Kimchi fired rice
Salad with jacket potatoes
Veggie burgers
Pizza

Vegetable:
Tagine
Curries
Moussaka
Pad Thai
Stir fry
Risotto
A million types of pasta

Pasta paepponata
Mexican bean burgers
Falafel pittas and grilled veg
Jacket potatoes with anything except meat
All the soups!
Curry, curry, curry....

Veg In The Hole. It's just like Toad ITH, but instead of sausages I use coarsely chopped vegetables - it's up to you what you use.

My choice is onions, leeks, red green & yellow peppers and mushrooms - sometimes brussel sprouts too! Give the veg a short stir-fry in a wok, or similar, before adding them to a deep baking pan and pour in the batter. Then just cook in the oven. You could also add Parmesan to the batter mixture.

Vegetable soups (leek and potato, pea and mint, fresh tomato), lentil soups/stews.
Pasta with pesto
Umpteen different ways to cook pasta without meat substitutes
Chilli
Nachos
Risotto with various combinations of veg
Omelettes, frittatas, quiches
Potato wedges with whichever dips you fancy
Jacket potato with beans/cheese/chilli

We have
roasted vegetable lasagna
Pasta bake
Butternut squash curry
3 bean chilli
macaroni cheese (usually add brocolli and cauliflower
risotto (mushroom or butternut squash)
Soup and bread
Pesto Pasta
Spinach and Riccotta Torteloni
Pizza
Omelette
Veggie Burgers

I love a Buddha bowl, great way of using leftovers/random bits and kids love it because there is a dip

• Leek & mushroom risotto - I use a few strands of saffron or a pinch of tarragon, & a small glass of white wine to give it lovely depth of flavour.
• Quiche with broccoli, garlicky leeks, and/or sweet potato in. With salad.
• Pasta with basil pesto, broccoli or peas & mozzarella.
• Pasta with sundried tomato pesto, halved cherry tomatoes & a green salad.
• Minestrone with basil pesto - I can't find the recipe I use anywhere online, I copied it from a book years ago & can't remember which it was. But it's distinctly tomatoey, similar to this one.
• Fasolakia, I just have it with crusty bead & butter. I like to add carrot, handful of peas, a couple of shallots or some red onion, & do it in the oven on low to get all thick & rich, but light for summer.
• This stuffed tomato dish. TBH I've had this one twice in the past two weeks. Sometimes I change it a bit; I use risi pasta, or giant couscous. Sometimes I experiment with the fillings a bit - I add pine nuts or a touch of pecorino if I am having 2 beef tomatoes, & leave out the potatoes (although they are very nice with it).

I used to be vegetarian, for many years. These were some of my favourite & most frequently eaten meals. Still are, actually.

Pizza
Veg curry
Chillied sweetcorn
Quesadillas
Mushroom stroganoff
Soup & bread/sandwiches
Quiche
Broccoli and cauliflower cheese with a nut cutlet and some new potatoes
Eggy bread and mushrooms
Stuffed peppers with cous cous and Med veg

Vedge lasagne with aubergine ect

Cauliflower cheese bake

Jacket potatoe and cheese and coleslaw

Stirfry with ginger ect

Mushroom and cheese risotto

Fajitas with peppers and cheese and kidney beans

Roast dinner but with no meat. Lots of sides

Ratatouille with pasta and cheese
www.deliaonline.com/recipes/international/european/french/provencal-vegetable-stew-ratatouille
I don’t bother to salt the veg

Chickpea and veg curry
www.shoestringcottage.com/chick-pea-curry/

Halloumi kebabs
realfood.tesco.com/recipes/grilled-halloumi-and-sweet-pepper-kebabs.html

Spanish Omelette
scrummylane.com/spanish-omelette-tortilla-de-patatas/

More to follow...

Some of these have probably been mentioned but we often have

• a Greek meze so humus, tsatsiki, rice, bread, vegetables and lots and lots of halloumi.
• macaroni cheese
• omelette
• pasta with pesto
• jacket potato with veggie fillings
• little cheese and egg / filo pastries (although sometimes I add ham or bacon)
• pizza

I have also tried soups which my children hated!

If I was trying to go veggie I'd also try veggie fajitas by not putting in the chicken. The children would get their protein from refried beans and cheese.

Red/ green Thai curry.

I find using usual recipes but just going mad with the amount of veg/beans/ pulses works.

I haven't read the thread because well, I'm lazy, but as a veggie myself these are my suggestions:

Tagliatelle with green pesto and peas
Vegetable chili and rice
Greek meal with pitta bread, hummus, Greek salad, tzatziki and grilled halloumi
Baked potatoes with coleslaw and grated cheddar
Home made veggie pizza
Vegetable fajitas made with colourful peppers and beans, with sour cream
In this weather, a cold collation - cold boiled eggs, green salad, pasta salad, wholemeal rolls and a cheese board

Lentil chilli with the usual kidney beans, mushrooms etc with rice/potato/pasta
Vegetable curry (could be chickpeas, any vegetable, sweet potato, butternut squash etc etc) poppadoms, samosas
Pasta with tomato & veg or lentil sauce
Pizza with variety of toppings
Roast dinner (nut roast)
Tofu stir fry with cashew nuts
Falafel, houmous, salad, bread, baba ganoush
Lentil shepherd's pie

PanPanPanPing - for veg in the hole I like a nice onion or two. I'm no longer vegetarian but I dont eat sausages. An onion about the size of a russet apple is just perfect, IMHO.

Butternut squash soup
Mushroom risotto
Lentil chilli enchiladas
Broccoli and butter bean gratin
Quiche
Cauliflower Mac and cheese
Eggy bread and beans

My two are rubbish at eating veg and are very into eating meat (I'm veggie), so any shared veggie meals in this house are fairly non challenging!
Stuff they'll eat without thinking includes:
Jacket potatoes, cheese and beans
Eggs, homemade oven chips, beans
Tin of mixed beans, tin of sweetcorn, a little passata and cheese, wrapped in a tortilla and baked (cheesy beany enchiladas!)
Homemade tomato sauce in a pasta and veg bake
Risotto with onions, peas, sweetcorn, asparagus, carrots
Mostly balanced meals, some of that is a little light on protein, but I'd worry about that more if they were eating mainly veggie food.