Meal ideas please!

Moominmamma

Hello,

Wondering if any of you can inspire me ~ we currently have a Swiss student staying with us, she doesn't eat meat apart from chicken and doesn't like cooked vegetables. Today is day 4 of 14 and I think I've exhausted my extensive repertoire of salad, salad, and errrr, more salad...

Any ideas would be hugely appreciated!!

Thanks

boredjellybean

chicken fajitas
couscous with chopped raw veg, saltanas & grilled couscous
stuffed tomatoes (could stuff with rice or couscous)
mac & cheese
veggie pizza

peb

to add

omellette - with mushroom (or is this too cooked?) and cheese
quiche to prepare and leave
risotto with veg stock - presumably you can't therefore add peas, or mushrooms?
I was going to suggest stuffed peppers - I can't eat peppers so don't know what they would be like raw?
pasta coated with olive oil and chilli or/and garlic - for some carbs
pasta salad with raw veg, ditto rice

I'd be tempted to let her sort herself out! - does she eat fish...

newlywed

Can you make a veggie bolog/lasagna? Or does tomato sauce count as veg?

Skint_Catt

Depending on her age ask her what she eats at home & if she could teach you some new receipes?

Chicken risotto (add mushrooms if she'll eat them)
Chicken Enchilada's/Fajitas
Quorn Spag Bol/Quorn Lasagne & garlic bread/Quorn Chilli & rice
Pasta in tomato sauce?
Soup & pud night?
Macaroni & cheese/spaghetti carbonara/veg raviloi
Chicken Curry
Chicken Chasseur & rice
Pizza (chicken or cheese/tomato)

Will she eat cooked potato's?
Quorn cottage pie with salad

Mushroom strogonoff if she'll eat them? Not sure if you can make this with chicken?

Give her plenty of fruit as snacks/puds to fill her up!

To be honest if you weren't given warning of her 'dietry' needs I'd be so mad! I'd also be tempted to serve up your 'normal' meals - we had to eat what our host families gave us when we went abroad - I'd never had spag bol until I went to Germany but I guess you can't let her starve!

SailorSam

This is a good site, type in the ingredients, a list of what you have in your cupboards and fridge/freezer, and it will come up with a list of menus and how to make them.

Supercook: recipe search by ingredients you have at home

Moominmamma

Thanks everybody

To be fair the language school did tell me she wouldn't eat fish or meat apart from chicken, but I don't think they were aware she didn't eat cooked vegetables!

I just want to make sure she doesn't go hungry, she doesn't eat breakfast (apparently she doesn't eat it at home either) she's at school all day so sorts her own lunch out, therefore I'm not sure that she's eating anything very substantial then either, and she doesn't eat any snacks at all!

It's a bit of a PITA to be honest, but she's a lovely girl and I want her stay with yus to be a happy one.

Anyway, thanks loads for all of your suggestions, should see me through to the end of her stay with a salad or two thrown in :rotfl:

cat_smith

Chicken stuffed with cheese and herbs
Roast chicken
Chicken and apricot couscous with peppers/sp onions/raisins etc

Good luck.

squeaky

This might help...

The Complete Cooking Collection

babyshoes

You could always do what my brother threatened to do when a vegan friend visited him (he is a complete carnivore, not sure he even knows how to cook a vegetable) and throw her a big bag of carrots...

lizzyb1812

Lots and lots of coleslaw or coleslaw type salads - I eat loads of the stuff myself and it goes particularly well with chicken. People seem to miss the fact that it's vegetables and it's not cooked anyway.

I'm torn between agreeing with the advice to ask her what she eats at home (and of course she may exaggerate just a teeny little bit in her reply - her family may not agree with her no cooked veg stance and this could be her opportunity to have her say) and the advice to serve up what you normally would. I think I'd serve up my normal stuff but have - wait for it - coleslaw type stuff - and salad - as well :rotfl:. Crudites and dips like hummus should be a good and nutritional bet as well.

If she will eat salad and chicken she won't suffer nutritionally in the relatively short time she is with you.

Oh, and when I was in similar circumstances in France I ate what I was given and found I actually liked several things I thought I hated so a bit of a challenge to her likes and dislikes might actually have a good outcome for her and you as well.