Really bland veggies or veggie convertible recipes

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I'm really getting fed up of being creative. I make nice interesting food that tastes great and gets eaten with no comment. Clean plates but only feedback is when its bad.

So I'd like to do is just do an experiment on the family of a few weeks of really bland ( no herbs, no spices) meals and see if there is any reaction.

Trouble is DD is now vegetarian so needs to include some kind of veggie protein.

All ideas welcome! I will be repeating lots of them as part of the boring experiment. Extra points if they are incredibly low effort to make.

They like veg. So lots of veg is good. But just very bland.

One person's bland is another one's comfort food, My first thought was macaroni cheese, which I've never understood as a main dish. Or you could make a badly seasoned risotto. Or serve up frozen veggie burgers, unadorned, with undercooked oven chips. If you can cook well, you'll find it hard to make vegetable dishes properly dull without deliberately sabotaging them, to be honest. I presume you plan to eat it too.

Bland food is basically all my MIL‘s likes. When she comes over we have:

• roast chicken, roast potatoes and steamed veg (I guess I could poach the chicken and boil the potatoes but that would be a step too far for my DC who want flavourful food)
• baked fish (cod or salmon) with new potatoes and steamed vegetables
• Shepard’s pie or cottage pie with peas
• sausage and mash (but when I think about it she only ever has one sausage so maybe they have too much seasoning for her taste)
• fish and chips from the chippie

Lunch is Heinz tomato soup, or a cheese or ham roll.