Catering for a veggie and none veggie

[Mostlyjustaluker]

My DH is veggie but living on a high carb veggie diet is making me fat.

I always end up doing the cooking, I know I should not but I think that is a thread for relationships. I need to find a way to feed us both but I refuse to cook two meal. What can we eat?

Hmmm tricky one!

How about doing a big veggie stir fry with noodles for him and fish or chicken for you?

Or fajitas with strips of egg tortilla for him and you could have without the wrap part with lots of mixed peppers, guacamole etc?

Big veggie salads eg Greek salad, salad with tomatoes mozzarella and basil? Nicoise but without the tuna for him?

Lentil chilli with salad/veg?

Stuffed peppers with a little cous cous and lots of veg and some cheese on top

Veggie burgers eg bean burgers - you could have without the bun...

Summery veggie soups eg spring veg, fresh tomato and basil, gazpacho...

Will keep thinking

I would grill yourself a steak/chicken/fish or whatever, bake him a spud and serve both with a selection of steamed veggies or salad. He can put cheese in the spud.

Make a veggie Thai curry, with lots of vege and some tofu or omelette strips or cashew nuts. He can have it with lots of rice and you can have just a bit, or none.

Veggie chilli - he can have it with rice or a baked potato and you could just have it with salad/salsa/guacamole.

Veggie curries - ditto.

Stuffed peppers - easy to shove some meat into yours, if you want it.

I don't know why you and your DH have a high carb diet - the problem is what you are eating not that it is mostly veggie.
Aim for

1. lots of protein - beans, lentils, tofu, nuts these things fill you up
2. Lots of vegetables.
3. less carbs.

There are loads of websites with specific menus but as other said for quick and easy and delicious and filling you can do many different types of stir fry, using different veg, different sauces, sometimes nuts & seeds, sometimes tofu.

Thanks for the ideas. I think it is time we have another chat about him. Pulling his weight in the kitchen.

I already eat lots of veggie but I find non meat protein does not statisy my hunger in the way meat does. I don't like Quorn or tofu and I think the high fat content in nuts will not help me lose weight.

Where people go wrong with nuts - is that they eat too much!
Roughly a small handfull might be the right quantity. Then they are not so much high fat as full of good nutrients.
Try more beans, lentils, pulses.

They now sell frozen soya beans in the supermarkets which you can use like frozen peas - through them into that stir fry.

I am veggie and I don't eat quorn and I eat very little of those ready made processed "veggie foods" such as Linda mcCartney.
I think those things are OK for now and again but not to be eaten on a weekly basis.

good luck x

I think the easy way is to find recipes that are easily adapted and cook both versions. Doing them both at the same time doesn't really add more work.

So the other night I made sticky roast veg and sausages.
Chopped onion, carrot, new potatoes, butternut squash and red pepper and put in bottom of roasting tray and tossed a little oil through it. You'd need to put into two small trays. No extra work. Shoved in oven for 15 minutes. Took out, put sausages on top. Meat ones on your dish, veggie ones on his. Dabbed a little honey and mustard on each sausage. Back in oven for 35 mins. Done. Delicious!

Make two smaller trays of macaroni cheese and chuck some snipped up bacon or chicken or chorizo in yours.

Make a veggie curry and then stir some precooked chicken through your portion.