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Cooking for a veg friendly me and meat friendly DH and DD

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philbee · 20/01/2012 14:52

I'm not veggie but have gone off meat a bit and would rather eat veg things. DH loves his meat and often abandons the meal plan when he gets carried away at the butchers, so I end up eating more meat based meals than I'd like really. We usually do pasta with sauces, or all in one type meals. Does anyone have any tips about how we can make stuff that we'll both like? I don't mind eating something that meat's been cooked in.

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FootprintsInTheSnow · 20/01/2012 15:42

Lentils and sausages go down well here. The veggie skips the sausages or replaces them with veggie sausages.

deaconblue · 20/01/2012 18:28

I used to do mushroom risotto with bacon for the meat eaters to add and pasta with tomato and chilli plus bacon when I was vegetarian. Do you all like fish? There are lots of brilliant one pot fish meals on the good food website. I'm making cod with roasted veg and butter beans next week.

anthonytrollopesrevenge · 20/01/2012 22:12

Spicy wraps? Veggie can have beans and onions and peppers but put bit of chorizo or chicken or beef in for meat eaters too?

Spanish omelette, add ham or meat to one half during cooking and keep the other half vegetarian.

I do roasts and make sure I make a big variety of veggies, some bolied and some roasted and perhaps Yorkshire puddings (whether beef or not) or cauliflower cheese and my veggie ish SIL is always happy, or at least she says she is. Though she likes and eats gravy which helps, she just doesn't eat meat cos she doesn't like the texture.

I also make a lentil shepards pie one time and a meat one the next. I freeze half of each batch so veggies can always have the lentil one and meat eaters the beef one.

SquigglePigs · 21/01/2012 08:21

Risotto. They can be mostly veg based with a little chicken, bacon, chorizo or smoked salmon on top to keep your DH happy.

Fajitas. Can be heavy on the peppers, onions and other veg (courgettes, mushrooms etc) and have a little chicken in, or add the chicken at the end for your DH.

Paella can be mostly vegetarian. Cook off some prawns and chorizo to add at the end. Same with jambalaya.

Veggie currys (cauliflower, potato and pea is particularly yummy) and then put a piece of marinated (tikka or tandoori) chicken under the grill to go with it for the meat eaters.

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