Feeding a difficult vegetarian

Fruball

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Check if it isn't an anti-nightshade vegetable diet, as that discounts tomatoes as well.


Potatoes?

Sweet Potatoes?

Steamed squash?

Pasta filled with squash/pumpkin?

Pasta and pesto?

Pizza without cheese?


Green salad, walnuts and dairy free dressing?

Tofu stirfry?

Vegetable Tempura, rice and vegetarian miso soup (use veg stock, sake, mirin and soy instead of dashi stock)?



Fruit? Melon? Pineapple, strawberry and grape?



There's lots around. It's just not the things we would necessarily think of first.

Potatoes are part of the nightshade family too. And aubergines and peppers and chillis.

Found this website - I am surprised by how much food/plants are nightshade! I had no idea! Even morning glory (flowering garden plant) and paprika!!! You learn something every day.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Fruball wrote: »

Potatoes are part of the nightshade family too. And aubergines and peppers and chillis.

Found this website - I am surprised by how much food/plants are nightshade! I had no idea! Even morning glory (flowering garden plant) and paprika!!! You learn something every day.

Oh, I know. I put spuds in, just in case it's just a fussy thing and not the taken-in-by-the-nightshades-cause-arthritis nonsense.

ska_lover

A few ideas I use are:-

spagetti carbonara, made with fake bacon

Lasagne/cottage pie (with quorn mince)

Chicken curry/chicken tonight/sweet and sour chicken (made with quorn fake chicken)

Toad in the hole (quorn sausages) or a fry up full english

Meatballs and spagetti (quorn again lol)

Jacket potatoes

I live with a fussy vegetarian(20 year old son) and a OH who loves his meat (I am also a meat eater) so I tend to replicate ''meat' dinners cos it is easier if you have got to feed veggies and meat eaters in one dinner time. eg make two lasagnes at once one meat one veggie etc, rather than having to think up new and exotic nut roast type thingys lol. There is never any waste cos if I do a veggie lasgagne, im only cooking it for one, so the other half goes in the freezer

If I am doing a fry up, throw my son a few veggie sausages and veggie bacon under the grill, etc. This might not be the most MSE way of doing things, but it is how I have got by and not managed to loose my marbles.

When i first started cooking like this i used to make life very difficult for myself by looking up vegetarian recepies and buying all sorts of exotic ingrediants - when that just isn't my style at all, im more of a store cupboard kinda girl.

I think when you are used to using meat as a base for most meals it does seem like a big deal (well it did to me..) but ive got a grip now lol

sonastin

daisiegg wrote: »

I did ask both her and her husband when I saw them at the weekend - they told me what she DIDN'T eat but they didn't make any suggestions as to what she does eat! Despite me pressing them for an answer!

ETA actually she did say she likes fake bacon.......that was all she gave me!

Now me, I'm kinda vindictive. So if you've pushed them for help in making it easier for them to enjoy your cooking, and they weren't prepared to be helpful, then s*d her. Provided you can think of something which avoids the things they were prepared to say she DIDN'T eat, you are allowed to conclude she'll eat anything and everything else. And if she's sniffy about that she can go hungry. After all, you did ask, you're not a mind-reader. But as I said, I'm kinda vindictive - I'd probably go out of my way to find something she'd hate, as long as it wasn't mentioned on the banned list

Boodle

daisiegg wrote: »

I did ask both her and her husband when I saw them at the weekend - they told me what she DIDN'T eat but they didn't make any suggestions as to what she does eat! Despite me pressing them for an answer!

Then I would assume that makes everything else (what wasn't included in her list of "no"s) is ok. She might have thought it was quicker and more efficient to list what she didn't eat if that was a shorter list than everything she does eat...?

snowleopard61

Um, if I were you I think I'd pretend to have come down with something very infectious and let them bed down in a B&B!

I'm with Carcluster on this. I think you can only afford to be either vegetarian or fussy.

Any

I personally think if she is a fussy eater, then either they will cooperate or she will go hungry.
Put few suggestions in and see the reaction.

I agree with spag carbonara with fake bacon
quorn spag
quorn chilli
baked potato with choices of fillings & salad
fry up with quorn
quiche with veg she does eat and fake bacon/sausssage
lasagne with minced veg

I think that some people don't "eat" this and that in one form because of bad experience and if you mince it/use as stuffing they won't know and actually enjoy it - as per Lostinrates.
For example courgette - my OH sees no point of that, I love it, but when chopped up into sauce for pasta or lasagne he doesn't mind it at all. It doesn't have exactly strong taste, does it.
I absolutely hate celeriac, but I do eat celeariac puree. Often when it is in different form it changes taste, or it is the substance of it that is the problem.

If she gets really fussy, give her a bus fare and send her to supermarket. No better then a spoiled child. I get one makes their choices, but don't just expect other people to read your mind and run around you like slaves.

Any

lostinrates wrote: »

One of my best friends has a partner just like this. Aubergine, I am told is an absolute no no. But he sat and ate all the filling out of stuffed aubergines at a dinner party a coue of years ago while I tried hard not to smirk......he kept saying how delicious it was and what a shame I had put them in the aubergine shells......they were stuffed with aubergine.

To ease the week......any good vegetarian restaurants near you?

I hope you did tell him what he just eat!!
Some people discounts something because of bad experience and it takes for ever to make them try again.. and often if they know in advance, they will not like it just because their mind set is set not to like it.
I can't deal with fussy eaters.. I will try what is put in front of me and if I don't like it I don't eat it. But don't discount something just because "when I was little I was once sick" - quite possibly from jumping straight after eating, nothing to do with the food you eat..

Edit-my OH doesn't eat ghurkins. At all. Makes faces everytime he sees them. Is really dramatic about them when he sees them or someone mentions them.
Well, I chop them up real small into tartar sauce or into potato salad easter european style... 2 of his favourite things.
Worked for 7 years. Until he saw friend making her salad and got a glimpse of the ghurkins... Salad is now off the menu.. Don't tell him about the tartar sauce though.. :-)))

the-mango

I'm a fussy vegetarian but I will ALWAYS offer to either bring something my else or just tell them something specific but easy like tomato or carrot soup or something.

You could maybe make vegan mac and cheese which actually has no dairy in it. the nuts replace dairy there's a recipe here but you could also google it
http://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/2012/12/09/vegan-macaroni-and-cheese/

Kathy535

How about a nice veggie curry? With cauliflower and chickpeas it would be tasty and filling? Or this carrot and cashew nut loaf

http://www.food.com/recipe/carrot-and-cashew-nut-roast-429706

Would she eat pasta in a tomato sauce with veggie sausages or perhaps a veggie stew with dumplings?