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[sirensdiamond]

For once I'm not asking for recipe ideas! But I am asking about food.  (I've noticed a theme here...there's a lot of posts about food and cat piss. Hrmmm

Comments

[tisiphone]

The easiest way to do this that I've found is to split meals so half are fully vegetarian and half are things I can add either meat or veggie protein to. For example, stir fries you can just add browned meat or seitan or tofu to individual portions. If you make marinara sauce with only veggies, you can split half of it off and add browned meat.

[deemocore]

Tacos! You can either have delicious veggie tacos, or add some browned veg protein if you really want it, and he can put some ground beef or chicken or whatever in his.

Pasta dishes, too. Pasta with peas or spinach or whatever veggie that he can throw meat in if he desires.

[onelargecat]

Does he have to eat meat with every meal? I'd say if you're the one who cooks, then you cook veggie meals at home, and he can make himself lunches that have meat or eat meat when you go out to restaurants.

As far as good vegetarian cookbooks, any of the Moosewood cookbooks are good. Also Enchanted Broccoli Forest.

[mahasin]

This is what we do.

Most dinners that we share are vegetarian, but if we eat out, or he's on his own, he eats meat.

[sarahinajar]

This is what we do as well.

[sirensdiamond]

No, he doesn't. He usually makes peanutbutter for lunch (he won't eat leftovers for lunch for some reason) and he doesn't mind eating some vegetarian meals for dinner, but he would miss meat at dinnertime sometimes. So it's more those nights when he's worked out and wants some meat that I was kind of like okay, what can I make that won't require too much effort to make him something with meat and me something veggie?

[bercilakslady]

I love my copy of How to Cook Everything Vegetarian. Try Almost Vegetarian (http://www.amazon.com/Almost-Vegetarian-Primer-Chicken-Altogether/dp/051788206X), which has options for both veg and non-veg versions of the same meals.

You can make a veggie stew with beans, and he can have it as a side with some chicken or something. Same deal with pastas, do something with lots of veg, and then have meat and tofu on the side. Homemade pizza can have meat on one half but not the other. Also, I find that lots of my meat eating friends like when I put Seitan in dishes. I fry it first so it's a little brown and crispy.

[jabber]

I like steaks, my wife likes mashed potatoes. We make a steak for me and mashed potatoes for her.

Stews might pose a problem, but other than that I don't see any difficulty in prepping for both tastes. Maybe I'm just not that big on mixed-food dishes.