Feeding a man is different to eating alone

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Eating alone my cooking is quick and easy most of the time. My partner likes to eat meat with every meal but I don’t! I would often be happy with an easy pasta dish and veg.

What are your quick mid week meals that involve some sort of meat?

my easy ones are:
Spaghetti bolognaise
enchiladas/ fajitas
meatball pasta bake

i like things like paella and risotto but cook them without meat so I’m thinking maybe cook some chicken on the side.

Any other ideas?

Feeding a man? Jesus. I wonder how many men are currently posting on forums asking about the complexities of feeding a woman, and getting it right. Zero.

I've got a great idea, the person that's cooking cooks what they fancy and the other person can eat it, or not.

''Feeding a big dog'' made me really laugh!

I do the cooking in our house and feeding a big dog is exactly how it feels to cook for DH sometimes. He eats 3 times what the rest of us do as he has a v physical job. (He's fit and muscly) I'm happy cooking for him and DCs tho. I don't like doing separate meals but Occasionally i'll do me and the kids a nice salad and just do a massive bowl of chilli con carne and rice for him to chow down on!

I hang out occasionally on other, male-dominated, fora & often the only reference to women is how to hide the latest expensive "hobby" purchase.

Yeah, his post would more likely be - 'When I eat alone, I have a Pot Noodle, but whaddayareckon I can get my new girlfriend to cook me slap-up meaty dinners every night? She seems keen and it's no bother for her to keep me happy, is it?'

Sainsburys do amazing thin cut steaks.

They are much thinner than the ones labelled “quick fry steaks” - they take 2-3 mins and come out nice and tender.

I try to do a big joint at the weekend - like a big chicken, beef or ham joint and then just add slices for DP on his plate.

Stir fries are great as well.

Tray bakes are brilliant as mentioned by PP.

Burgers - if I buy a pack of 4 i cook all of them; I have 1 with a side salad and DH has 3 🙈.

Big batches of curry / stew are brilliant as well because I can have my smaller portion and he can serve himself as much of the rice (rice cooker pot is far more than i could ever eat in one sitting) and have as much curry / stew as he wants. Leftovers are for my lunch the next day if there are any.

Left over rice I make fried rice with lots of veg and add shredded chicken / beef or prawns for the protein.

Fajitas are good or any wraps - I can have 1, he can have 3 if he wants to.

Minced based foods are easy - chilli, meat loaf, etc

Feeding a man is no different to feeding a woman except they usually need more calories

id be quickly turned off any bloke that had to have meat with his dinner - insecure in his masculinity

Oh wow, I wasn’t expecting so many replies to say he should cook for himself.

well for all those that suggested this, I really don’t mind cooking for him but I just don’t want to eat meat with every meal.

Every time we go out (which is often) he pays. If we get a take away he pays. He also cooks but not as often as me as he works longer hours so that would mean he would start dinner later than I could, so I just get started. But whenever I am cooking he always helps.

I’m simply just asking for easy meal ideas 🤣

I like meat with my dinner - just a smaller portion size. I don't think this makes me fragile in my femininity.

There’s liking and insisting on - it’s different
if my partner didn’t like to eat much meat I would not expect her to change her eating and cooking habits to suit me - OP says she does not like to eat meat with every meal

Ask him to cook for you half the week

@cambiodenombre123

thank you for the suggestions, I never really do traybakes either meat and veg together. I usually cook them separately

If he doesn't cook for you as much as you cook for him then never mind putting meat in his dinner. You have bigger problems ahead. If you're planning to have kids with him then you don't want to turn into the default cook (who does the healthy meals) while he provides the take-aways.

He can cook for the freezer for midweek same as you can (the steak stir-fry mix freezes nicely, so does bol sauce etc) He can make four helpings at the weekend, two for the freezer, one midweek meal sorted.

Neither DH nor I are brilliant cooks but we can both feed each other. We cook different things, it's nice and make a change, and we each have different "easy meals" we do. I hadn't realised how few women expect that.

Whoever gets home first usuallycooks in our house.

Anyway if we are doing something like fajitas I'll do a black bean, avocado etc salsa to go on the side and have a bigger serving of that and he'll have more chicken or steak.

Same with a curry - there's usually a dal in the freezer and I'll have or that than the 'meaty' curry. Though the other curry will have veg in too.

Or we'll do a bean chilli type thing and he'll have fish with it.

Our weekday meals are things like sea bass with lemon and herbs, new potatoes and two veg, chicken and veg casserole (when I WFH) Sausages, mash and beans, Tuna and veg pasta, Veggie chilli and baked potatoes. Mostly things that take half an hour or less.

More veggie meals when DD1 was/is at home, now we tend to have a balance for two x meat (only one red/processed), 2 x fish, 1 x veggie. We have one take away a week and the other weekend meal might be roast chicken dinner or cheese and onion pie or lentil Shepherd's pie.

I cook, he washes up.

"Whoever gets home first usuallycooks in our house."

I'd be loitering somewhere every day if I had that system :)

I'd invest in a dual drawer air fryer, cook eg your risotto and add his meat on the side (I only say dual as with you could then use one drawer for some veggies to add for you, too).

Through the winter, slow cookers are also a big help. You could leave him a stew/tagine/chilli/curry on and then freeze leftover for future meals for him.

I am veggie but my DH eats meat. He is happy to eat vegetarian much of the time but I will usually make a veggie dish and then he can make a lamb steak, salmon, prawns and so on to go with it or on the side. For example If I do a veggie noodle soup with tofu for myself he will have the same soup but we take a little of the broth out and he will heat up some king prawns in that. If I do a veggie tagine he has the same but will cook some lamb and just put it on the side. We do burgers, I have a veggie burger, he has a meat burger. I make a tofu shawarma with all the salad and trimmings and he has lamb but we share all the other bits. Salmon is easy to do in the oven and can be added to almost anything on the side or flaked and mixed in to his dish.

Feeding a man... Poor guy doesn't have any brains or hands...

Maybe he's sort of like a sea anemone that just sways armlessly with open mouth at the bottom of a rockpool, swallowing plankton that floats past.

Meat with every meal isn't particularly healthy. I don't really know what to say because a) my DP and I both like to keep our meat consumption down and b) in our house whoever cooks chooses what to cook, and the other person says thank you and eats it.

And does he cook for you? I would hate this if it meant I was doing all the basic cooking and he just did the extra bits for himself.

I am veggie, my partner a meat fan. I cook 95% of the time - he eats what's given tbh. On occasion he says 'that would've been better with a chunk of meat with it' in a joking manner, I remind him where the kitchen is in same smiley way.

Job done! I will on occasion cook him some meat, such a Sunday roast but loads of dishes out there just don't need it.

Its not unhealthy at all

Yeah he does, we usually work together to make dinner, he's my sous chef but I am just a way better cook than him! Also I work from home so I can get stuff going before he gets in as I don't have a commute. He does a great breakfast on the weekends as well.

Also not everything has to be equal down the middle though, equitable yes but not equal for every little job if you see what I mean? Me doing the cooking is just my strong point, he also gets home made sourdough bread and cake most weeks!