Can anyone share their vegetarian/pescetarian meal plan?

[GauchitaOlimpica]

I'm out of ideas, bored to death of cooking the same things all the time.

DS (11mo) eats anything you put in front of him , but DD (3y2m) is quite picky; she's got much better these past six months but she'll still only touch certain vegetables, for example.

Does anyone have a weekly meal plan they could share?

TIA

Argh, pescetarian, no idea what I did up there.

what veg does your dd eat?

I'm having spinach lasagne for dinner btw.

I had aubergine parmagiana yesterday.

Will be having mh pizza fiorentiana tomorrow.

Marking my place

(waves at Gauchita and Nino Gauchito)

Not really a meal plan as such, but these are my most made suppers:

Veg risotto - courgette, brocolli, spinach + pea. Add quinoa to the rice for extra protein.
Pizza
Pasta / pasta bake
Stir fry (food for friends recipe)
Omelette
Puff pastry tart with whatever veg + cheese
Baked potatoes with quorn sausages + beans.

Ethelb, that changes with the week but these days it's peas, potato, carrots... yep, that's all. She's getting much better at trying things if you ask her, though, so I'm willing to try anything and everything.

She doesn't like pizza, for example. She won't try it. I think it has to do with the tomato base. She doesn't like tomato.

D says hi!

Poppy, we do a veg risotto, yes. Quinoa is a great idea! and stir fry as well. I think from your list the only thing she would be hesitant to try is the pizza and the beans, but I'll try again. Thanks!

I feel that if I have a meal plan per se it'll help me organise the shopping and actually make the recipes, instead of falling back to making the "safe" choices.

Birds, that's v exciting actually, I won't share my meal plan

We don't really have a meal plan but here's a few of the dishes i cook...

Mushroom risotto
Veggie chilli & potato wedges
Gardeners Pie (from HFW mum's book The Good Granny Cookbook)
Quorn bolognese with pasta
Dahl with peas pilau rice
Veggie pasta bake
Mushroom stroganoff with rice
Quorn sausages with steamed veg

DD has only been veggie since April and i made the decision that it was easier to cook one meal for all of us so we're pretty much all on a meat free diet. She does still eat some fish though so i sometimes cook salmon & pea risotto instead of mushroom.

Haven't got a meal plan, as it's holidays so I can be more chilled. However, these are meals we eat most regularly in The House Of Remus at the mo:

• baked vegetable risotto (leeks, asparagus, peas, artichokes)
• The Mother of All veggie chillis with either rice or tortillas, soured cream, mango salsa
• chickpea curry with naan bread and fresh chutneys etc
• dhal and rice with spiced paneer
• cheese and leek quiche with roasted garlic and rosemary potatoes and salad
• veggie lasagne and salad
• veggie sausage casserole with hassleback potatoes
• pasta with chilli pesto and roasted vege
• Quorn mince shepherd's pie with vege
• falafel and salad and minty yoghurt in pitta bread
• asparagus and cheese tart with salad
• stir fry with rice or noodles, with tofu or cashews or omelette strips for protein

Oh and homemade wedges, eggs and peas when dp is in charge! :)

Wow, Beanbagz and RumusLupins, thank you very much!

Working now but this evening I'll go through the ideas again and will write down my new meal plan!

DD1 went through a refusing to eat lots of things stage. If I was cooking something that I knew she really didn't like, rather than just being fussy, I'd often just do her a quick omelette and lots of raw salad/veggies, or peanut butter on wholemeal toast with a banana and apple on the side. That way, it meant that the rest of us could eat a broader diet than if we just stuck with what she'd eat!

We eat an awful lot of Quorn (I have no idea if that's a good thing or bad, but it makes me feel better that my DD(10) eats some protien). It is only DD who is a vegitarian (I make her eat fish at the moment because I'm paranoid about calcium and good protien). We eat home made fishcakes and a smoked salmon and pea pasta. We also have couscous which goes down very well with some hummous and home made guacomole. Neither DD or DS would eat guacomole until they made it now they love it!

you can do a pizza without tomato sauce base.
use something like pesto instead.

then make the rest of the pizza as normal.

I'm v fussy about tomatoes myself, so I often do pizzas using red pepper pesto, or even ordinary pesto, instead of the tomato stuff. You can make really quick easy pizzas using pitta breads as a base.

Gauchita - we'll have to introduce her to ds (7) as when she sees things disappearing into him she might fancy a tiny try of things.

On a different track, by the time he was 3, ds really enjoyed 'helping' to make supper - and, with some care this can be funnelled into actually doing something that's almost useful towards preparation of food - I've got a knife that you can't cut yourself with and he would love to cut things up with it (with great determination) and they would go into the pot with the rest of the things I had done and it meant that he was much more likely to give it a try. He particularly liked making pizza - normally done from scratch, but if you need a fast easy version, get the inexpensive small margheritas form the supermarket and 'top' them (that takes a nice long time too).

At this time of the year dips are quite nice - homemade humous, guacamole (go easy on the chile for children) tzastiki (can't spell that one) etc.

Mistlethrush, she sort of has one just like that here what with DS hoovering eating whatever you put in front of him. She just looks at him but doesn't seem tempted...

She loves cooking with me, but only things she "likes". If she sees I'm making a bean casserole, for example, she's not interested. She's much better than she used to be, though, so I'm hopeful.

Right, I've made two weekly plans to alternate in the next few months Now I'm off to look for recipes for mushroom stroganoff, chilly pesto and vegetable chilly.

Thanks again for all the ideas, ladies; you've been my saviours!

I buy the chilli pesto in a jar . hang on - will see if I've got any, to check the brand.

Tis Sacla.

Good tip, thanks!

I'm neither vegetarian nor sectarian but quite often go without meat, last weeks meal plan was
Monday- peppers stuffed with new potatoes and feta (i think it's hfw)
Tuesday-Swede and carrot pasties with thyme(def hfw)
Wednesday- minestrone soup with homemade rolls
Thursday- potato and rosemary pizza bread
Friday- curried salmon with jasmine rice
Saturday- New potato, green bean and olive salad (hfw again- there's a theme here isn't there?)
And today we're having canneloni stuffed with spinach aubergine mushroom and cream cheese. (I will have without tomato sauce as I like your dd do not like tomato)

Lunches were carrot and cheese pittas, egg mayo lettuce wraps, baked eggs with spinach and cream, banana bran muffins, spinach , pepper and cheese mini pasties and smoked salmon and cream cheese bagels.

A gorgeous way of doing pizzas is to make white pizza, either get them to ,make their own bases, or buy them then brush on good olive oil that has lovely fresh herbs and chopped garlic in it and grate on goats cheese (or parmesan or whatever) then brush with the oil again, very Yummy

Thanks for the suggestions re. tomatoless pizzas. DD loves bread and cheese so they should go down well!? Couldn't start meal plan properly this week after online delivery managed to bring some bonkers substitutions... will try again tomorrow!