Have you any lovely Veggie meals for non veggies?

FrenchMaid_2

Below a list for ideas - DS stands for Delia Smith recipe

Cheese and potato pie with baked beans
Vegetable moussaka and green beans.
Courgette, feta and mint cakes with sweet chilli sauce, mixed salad (DS recipe)
Baked red peppers, stuffed mushroom and salad
Peppers stuffed with risotto, baked mushrooms, salad
Peppers with halloumi cheese, potato wedges, grilled courgettes
Root vegetable stew and dumplings
Pepper and bean hotpot and broccoli
Roasted veg with rice, Quinoa or couscous
Veg stirfry (mangetout, sugar snaps, courgettes, green beans, carrots, peppers, mushrooms) with smoked tofu, or marinated tofu, or cashew nuts
Cheesey baked potatoes, garlic mushrooms, home made coleslaw
Veggie sausages, mashed potato, fried savoy cabbage, onion gravy
Cheese and leek pie, potato wedges, peas and sweetcorn
Cauliflower cheese, new potatoes, carrots
Root vegetable crumble with broccoli
Mushroom/butternut squash/asparagus risotto
Pitta breads with falafel, hoummous and salad
Bean and sausage bake
Shepherds pie (Beanfeast mix, with added veg, or Quorn mince)
Chilli and rice (Quorn mince)
Tortilla with eggs, potatoes, onion, or peppers, or mushrooms
Lentil and mushroom cakes with mushroom sauce, potato wedges, stirfried sugarsnaps and red peppers
Cheese and leek sausage rolls, jacket slices, peas and sweetcorn

Homemade pizza bases (make dough in breadmaker) with fresh tom sauce, mozzarella and basil leaves plus topping e.g mushrooms, artichoke hearts, olives, onions, peppers, sweetcorn

Jacket potatoes with
Cheese and beans
Mushroom pate
Roasted vegetables
Baked or mixed beans with curry paste or fruity sauce
Sour cream and chives
Refried beans and salsa and sour cream

Roasts – all with roast potato, parsnips, and a green veg, gravy and bread/mint/cranberry sauce
Quorn Roast
Quorn and mushroom pie
Pumpkin seed and cashew nut roast
Vegetable suet roll

Soups (make soup in advance, put breadmaker on for bread)
French onion soup and cheesey toast
Roast pumpkin soup with melting cheese and seeded bread
Stilton soup and multigrain bread
Thick lentil soup and white bread
Root vegetable soup and cheese and onion bread

Pasta
Penne Pasta with pesto and pine nuts
Buccati pasta with cherry tomatoes, garlic and olive oil
Linguine with homemade tomato sauce and parmesan
Pasta bake with – roast veg and tom sauce
Mushroom sauce, mushrooms and courgettes
Cheese sauce, asparagus, peas and artichokes
Vegetable lasagne and garlic bread
Spaghetti bolognaise (with Quorn mince)
Penne pasta with gorgonzola sauce

Salads
Halloumi, rocket, cherry toms, spinach and foccacia bread
Mozzarella, avocado, spinach, tomatoes, basil with ciabatta bread
Tunisian salad with pitta bread (Delia Smith recipe)
Kidney beans, lightly cooked green beans, cooked broad beans with a wholegrain mustard dressing
Boiled egg, new potatoes and cress - Jamie Oliver recipe
Grilled courgettes and feta cheese with a lemon

Mexican
Nachos with guacamole, sour cream and salsa
Tacos or tortillas with refried beans, salad, cheese, guacamole, sour cream and salsa
Enchiladas with tom sauce and guacamole, sour cream and salsa
Quesadillas (layered tortillas with cheese, onion, mushroom, baked till cheese melts) with guacamole, sour cream and salsa
Tortilla wraps with avocado, rocket, pine nuts and sour cream

Spendless

kimberley- what about you all having a veggie meal once or twice a week, a fish meal another night a week. Let your daughter prepare her own meal another night (since she offered). That would leave you with 3 or 4 days and I'd do meals that you can both have different versions of eg pizza, wedges and salad. You can both have wedges and salad, do a larger pizza with meat on for you and other kids but a smaller veg one just for your daughter.

Caterina

Kimberley wrote: »

Shes 15 and yes with us everynight, although she has just said after watching me write this thread that she can cook her dinners herself, now i feel guilty

Please don't feel guilty, in fact it would be great if you could encourage her to cook her own meals, it is a great education for a teenager to be able to cook and it is also great fun!

I always had my children in the kitchen with me ever since they were tiny, and even at age 2 they were helping, chopping mushrooms with a blunt knife etc., making fruit salad...

I don't know many teenage males who can make a pizza from scratch, but my son can, much to the amazement and surprise of all his friends! And my daughter and her boyfriend, I won't even start, all I say is that we call them Mr and Mrs Jamie Oliver!

Sometimes DH and I call home from out if we are late and ask one of them to cook for us too, and we find a splendid (if a trifle over-elaborate) 3 course meal waiting for us.

The only problem with teenagers and food is that they really like to go over the top with ingredients, my son will have a sandwich filled with fried mushrooms, avocado, cheese, mayonaise and bacon - it makes me shudder, I am a 'steamed veg, sauteed tofu, brown rice and splash of soy sauce' person for the most part.

Overall, though, even with having to clear up after them - the kitchen always looks like a bomb has hit it after the teens cook - I am really proud of their culinary skills, and they are also very aware of healthy eating.

Hope this encourages you to encourage your daughter to cook some meals. Don't forget how resourceful and enthusiastic a teenager is, she might even find some new recipe and cook for the family, you'll be surprised!

Best of luck

Caterina

lil_me

**packs bags & moves in with Caterina!!** I don't mind having too many ingredients, kids who would cook for me would be great!

French Maid, thanks for that list, definately given me some ideas aswell, my DP is a MEAT person but hoping to persuade him...

Yategirl

That is ace Caterina! My two are 5 and 3 and my youngest cooks with me everyday and my eldest at least 3 times a week - I am determined to have them cooking like your teenagers! (I was brought up the same way)

For OP - recipes like Bean pesto stew - can be done with sausages for meat eaters and baked potato for veggies, Mushroom stroganoff - if you grill sausages then chop them up and keep warm - make the meal veggie, put the veggie serving out and then stir in the sausages with the rest of the meal for everyone else. Pizza - make 2 - one veggie and one meat etc etc etc. Think I would have complete veggie meals for 3-4 nights a week and then only cook "combined" dishes for the other nights. Could even double up on some veggie meals so your dd can have a "freezer meal" when you want a special meat meal.

Kimberley

Thank you for all your replies, i will be saving and will file some of it

hk_chick

I'm not veggie, but I don't eat meat every day. Strange as it sounds, it's worth checking out the slimming world website, as they have loads of meat free, healthy recepies for 'green' days

I've just had a lovely cheap dinner - I bung a Jacket spud in the oven, when skin is crispy, cut in half, scoop out contents, mix with a can of sardines, some tabasco, salt & pepper (or whatever you want to do to taste) spoon filling back into shells & voila!

have just polished mine off with some side salad & a nice glass of red (though obviously not the wine for 15 yr old!!)

anonymousie

We are not veggie, but eat veggie a lot as it is tasty and cheap!

Mostly "cook ahead" meals that are easy as we are so busy in evenings, don't forget a hearty soup is a main meal (DD2 is 8 and loves "peas and beans and barley grow soup" as she calls it:rotfl: This is soup mix- the peas and beans and barley, with stock and veggies, slow cooked/pressured cooked and enjoyed).

We also love dahl with vegies in it served with rice, veggie curry (what ever veggies plus quorn and or pulses we esp like chick peas or butter beans) .

Tomato based pasta dishes are of course great (sometimes lentils added to make lentil bolognese- green lentils are good and don't cook to a pulp), either just served on pasta or made into a bake with a cheesy top.

You should be having fish a couple of times a week (salmon dead easy- goes well with a creamy pasta sauce too) too, so that would be fine.

If the kids ever go veggie then we would too at the drop of a hat- but at the moment they are happy to be "veggie ish" but enjoying a lovely beef roast dinner like today:rotfl:

buxtonrabbitgreen

As a non veggie with a veggie teen too my favourite is aubergine lasagne. Just subtitute 3 aubergines, fried in slices for the mince.