Very very very very limited diet - help!

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Ok so am vegetarian so no meat or fish.

I dont like spicy food or nuts.

I cant eat ANY cheese or pasta because whilst Im pregnant for some reason it gives me horrendous stomach pains.

I am avoiding the usual not allowed in pregnancy things quite strictly as am paranoid.

I am soooooooooo bored of eating potatoes and bread and thats pretty much it (aside from fruit etc obv) - can you help inspire me?

I would happily live on salads but what can I have that fit all the requirements above that isnt just lettuce, tomatoes, onion and erm - what else?

Would really appreciate any help...

Stir fry with rice noodles
Quinoa stew
Veg casserole
Risotto
Quorn chilli (non spicy)
veggie burger and chips
Veggie moussaka

?

Thanks for the ideas - will have proper read later - just remembered should've said dont eat rice either (am nto normally so fussy I promise - pregnancy makes eating a nigthmare for me!)

Lentil soup?
Roast veg and rice?
red dragon pie? (this version has chillies but I never use them)
As a snack, pear dipped in houmous is weirdly delicious.

Sorry x-post on the rice.

eat some meat or fish

Quessiladas look LOVELy but cant do cheese

Lentil burgers look good - will try those thanks..

Soup looks lovely but am bit unsure about soup as cant keep tea down most of the time...

God feel like such a pain!!! IBS + pregnancy + vegetarianism = fussiest person ever!

Meg - thanks for all the suggestions. Been doing veggie burger quite a lot already. Fancy the moussaka though - hadnt thought of that - veg casserole too - yum! Any recipe for those??

Any ideas for nice salads?

Gordian - hmmm its an idea but dont fancy it, not after not eating it for 20 years for ethical reasons....

Red dragon pie loks nice - had that once in a restaurant - thanks!

Hi, I became a vegetariarian at 16, and stayed so for 15 yrs, probably not what you will want to hear but I started back on meat before becoming pregnant! Now I realise that I was hungry for 15 years.

To answer your question, I suppose it's beans and lentils, assuming you have the time. I decided to approach my issues with meat by eating only organic (actually less expensive than the stuff in the supermarket cause I live in the sticks and rely on a german farmer) so I ate plenty of vension stew while pregnant. I have a fast system and I know I needed meat to produce a whole new human being. I also started to eat fish, chicken again.

You could try Indian cooking, pick up a good cookbook.

You need tofu, but more than 2/3 amounts of soya are linked to brain degenerate disorders in later life.

It's really hard, people eat too much meat these days, I had the best of intentions but looking back, I held myself back in college by simply being hungry.

You could try Hijiki, a Japanese sea vegetable, full of iron, etc I'm having it for dins today. It's really good for you skin and hair also!

You can still eat eggs.

eat some farmed nicely stuff then
or fish at least
horribel slimey things
you are starving yourself fort he feelings of a few chieckens

sounds all wrong to me

Yeah Ive had eggs in salad occasionally coldtits but am nto most imaginative person hence the thread

pulses
quorn
you need protein

why not rice? not contraindicated in pg

Gordianknot - I am not starving myself. I will nto eat meat or fish. I am not judging you on your eating habits, dont judge me on mine please. I find it fairly offensive.

you cna judge away
im on a diet
god vegetaraisn get all cats bum mouth

wait till they are on a desert island..
fair eat their own arm then

MrsBadger - just hate rice - I do eat quorn but am bored!

whats being on a diet got to do with anything?

Oops! sorry, I meant 2/3 amounts of soya a week, not 2/3 amounts ever.

I really shouldn't laugh but pmsl at Gordian

lol @ 2/3 amounts ever - poisonous stuff!!

you need a decent vegan cookbook. vegan with a vengeance is good

any pasta could be swapped for rice or other grains (pearl barley, quinoa etc) or for rice or buckwheat noodles

i think nuts are incredibly important for a healthy veggie/vegan diet, so if i were you i think i'd be experimenting to see if therre are any i like/tolerate, or different ways of eating them
ie, i make pesto with walnuts in instead of pine nuts (and no cheese) and it's really delicious. i love it spread on toast with humous and tomato, or over pasta, or on a vegan pizza

beans are pulses are your friends!add them to soups and stews. aldo tofu- good source of both protein and calcium

Thefoosa

my sister is a veggie, she eats

mars bars
beans on toast
ciggies

not ethical, just vv lazy