To only buy bread and ham?

[IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads]

DH and the dc eat meat. I don't. Family cooking has always been a bit fractious. I am bored to tears of cooking the same 3 or 4 meals that we either agree on, or are adaptable. I hate this situation, and I can't even remember how we got into it. The DC were weaned veggie. I work 4 long days and don't have time to be flapping about meals during the week. I like planning and shopping, but it is really beginning to stress me out.

A good 50% of new meals I try are met with suspicion.

The dc are 11 and 14. I ask them frequently for new ideas for meals they'd like to eat, and wave at the pile of recipe books for ideas.

I also ask them to throw away empty packets and put things we've run out of on the shopping list.

They do neither.

I'm fed up of this, and the associated food waste.

I've just done a Tesco order and bought mostly bread, salad veg and cereal. As far as I am concerned they can live off ham sandwiches until they engage a bit more with food.

Blimey this had taken off.

I can assure you I am not about to start eating meat. I've not eaten meat since I left primary school, and even then it was just school dinners/tea at friends. We ate veggie at home.

This week I bought and cooked for what the DC's ideas were-
Beef stew
(Chestnut and mushroom stew)
DD made dumplings.

Tagliatelle carbonara
The dc actually chopped an onion, grated cheese (painfully slowly), fried bacon, beat eggs as I told them what to do.
(I actually did have a sandwich instead as I was going to an exercise class)

Baked gnocchi - which dd had always loved, but declared she now hates and didn't touch it.

Then we ran out of ideas and have had wraps for 2 days. DS made a calzone at school, but ate it on the bus home. I've suggested he might want to cook some more for us tommorow night.

Maybe I'm falsely expecting that might family might want something more substantial than sandwhiches for their evening me?

DD 2 likes to cook veggie and Nagi’s (recipe tin eats) veggie curry recipe is enjoyed by the whole family. Bit of a challenge if they don’t like to chop though. Husband just steamed a piece of fish to go with his as he does not do veggie.
We went with cooking 1 night a week each.

Sausages ( veggie and chicken) and chips in Airfryer, fettuccine Alfredo ( Take out a portion before adding chicken, again Nagi recipe), fried rice (leave out ham or bacon), soba noodle salad with marinated tofu/ chicken.
Mine did try to get out of their night on occasion, but I asked them to swap with someone else so it all did not default to me.
Good luck

Wouldn’t mind trying the chestnut and mushroom stew