What veggie meals do your kids eat?

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We are not veggie but I want to reduce our meat eating and also for cost it makes sense.

My kids eat really quite well but when it comes to veggie...not so much. What do your kids eat that is vegetarian? Currently mine will eat:

Mac n Cheese
Pasta and veg / tomato sauce
Veg lasagna (they complain)
Cheese & Tomato pizza (but they will request salami!)
Bakes potato with various things
Quiche (one will, one wont)

Anyone got any good ideas? They eat quite adventurously but do not like sweet potato as a rule. We can't have quorn as they are both gluten free.

Ideas welcome...

Try veggie curry, coconut dal, add roti for distraction, kids love building wraps and things, will eat foods that way that they resist on a fork

Moroccan Bissara, they go mad for it. Its a split pea soup with olive oil and cumin on top.

Veggie English breakfast for dinner.

All the pasta bakes you can handle, tomato, mac cheese, broccoli...

Potato tortilla

Jacket potatoes with cheese and beans

Risotto with tiny oven roasted garlic courgettes,sage and Tallegio cheese

Risotto as above but with any roasted squash,mushrooms etc

Jacket potatoes with baked beans and cheese

Creamy pesto pasta with tenderstem broccoli,peas and baby spinach

Couscous with roasted vegetables and grilled halloumi

Burnt aubergine chilli

Mushroom and spinach lasagna

Tomato,garlic and chilli pasta

Lentil bolognaise sauce

Roasted peppers with garlic,basil and tomatoes with feta or goats cheese

Any homemade vegetable quiche

Cheese and mushroom or any variety of veg quesadillas

Fajitas with halloumi

Homemade Vegetable Soup (any variety)with croutons,cheese and bread

Veg sausage tray bake with veggies and chickpeas

Falafel,houmous,wraps and salads.

Eggs: omelettes, fried eggs , scrambled, baked, shakshouka, kedgeree without the fish.

Tofu stir-fry.

Cauliflower cheese with garlic bread.

Soup: lentil/broccoli & cheddar /cauliflower /minestrone /vegetable /leek & potato tomato) with bread and cheese.

Pizza. Various types of vegetable and cheese tart or pie (spinach and feta, caramelised onion, thyme and cheddar, roast veg and goats' cheese etc)

Risotto. Last week we had roast butternut squash and sage which was popular.

Pasta with tomato-based sauce and cheese, or creamy mushroom sauce, or broccoli with chilli and garlic. Lasagne and other types of pasta bake.

Curry.

Jacket potatoes.

Roast veg with pulses and or halloumi/feta/ other cheese.

Noodle soup with tofu and/or eggs.

Okonomiyaki.

Felafel in pitta bread.

Vegetarian chilli except one of my children won't eat it, but I'm including it in case yours do. Vegetable and bean straws with various types of spice.

Stews, not straws.

Anything with red lentils in, oddly enough. I do a red lentil, tomato and cheese bake that goes down very well. And dal. And sambal.

Savoury pancakes with ratatouille and cheese.

Veggie toad in the hole.

Plus lots and lots and lots of things that one likes but not the other 🤦‍♀️

For stir fry's use rice noodles and make satay sauce with peanut butter.

Omelette
Veggie fritters
Pancakes
Egg beans and toast/chips

Also Just Roll do a gf puff pastry which open up the possibilities for all sorts of tarts. I made harrisa roasted carrot and feta one recently, it was really good.

I’m coeliac so generally all tend to eat gf at home or occasionally swap out bread.

Tonight the old el paso tortilla gf wraps with HM hummus, grated carrots, cucumber, lettuce.

Dhal and rice/ gf roti (eurostar gf roti flour - best flour for flatbreads)

Beans (random eg black eyed/kidney etc) cooked like dhal and rice.

thai wide rice noodles in pho (dc likes less soup)

Gf Pasta with HM sauce

Haloumi is a hit, normally with carrot apple salad and bread

Random soup with HM gf baguette using eurostar flour

Peanut 'quorn' chicken noodles. (Peanut butter coated quorn pieces, with noodles and veg.

Bloody delicious 😋

Thank you! So many great ideas here, feeling much more motivated.

I did stuffed pittas with air fry halloumi last night and they loved it. Made an easy garlic sauce too with salads.

Some ideas I’ve had that I already make (or used to make!) for others to know:

aubergine parmigiana
tricolore salad and wedges
ratatouille and feta wraps
cheese on toast with extra toppings
goats cheese salad with garlic bread (not so good in winter)
Jamie’s veg burrito (they loved this but no way it took 30 mins) and GF wraps aren’t great.

I liked the idea of toasties -
so easy and I’d never think to make this for dinner but I’m realising I can make paninis and they would love those. Also some nights we have very little time between activities so that’s a perfect meal.

I’m also going to try more rice and noodle dishes too for variety.

@crackofdoom could you share the recipe for the red lentil tomato and cheese bake please

Sure, it's very easy- but isn't that typical of the things kids like?! 😆
So, cooked red lentils (I add some veg stock for flavour, and some chopped sage- at least I did before the sage plant died).
Simple tomato sauce- as for pasta- olive oil, onions, tomatoes. Alternate layers of lentils, sauce and grated cheddar (about 2 of each, normally). Bake until top is bubbling. We have that with Sunday roast trimmings- I like a red wine and onion gravy, but the kids don't.

DD 20m is very fussy about veg but will eat veggie curries or chilli if there are no big lumps of veg or beans so I tend to give the sauce a little mash. She likes them mixed with rice. We regularly do chickpea curry, slow cooker Dahl,
She loves eggs so omelette and scrambled eggs on toast are great options- she will accept mushrooms mixed in.
Beans on toast is an absolute favourite as is a vegan sausage roll- only vegan because she is dairy free. She loves baked beans generally so baked bean jacket potato is acceptable too.
She likes the risotto texture so will eat some veg in that.
We have also had limited success with lentil cottage pie as she likes mashed potato.
She wont touch pasta but I keep trying! I like a macaroni ratatouille dish but haven't had any luck with her eating it!