Help Vegetarian Recipe?

Question

So i want to make my fiancee a vegetarian recipee that he would enjoy...he is an extream meat eater..but he has been slowly cutting back the meat to only 3-4 meals a week containing meat..and i am slowly in the transition to vegan...but anyone have some good tasty recipees that i could feed him ,and he wont look at me like at it the food like its disgusting...thanks!!

or anyone have any tricks to show him how nasty and horrible meat really is?

Answer 1

Aside from the nutritional & medical aspects of changing your diet to a more healthy one, you may also want to open your fiancee's eyes about the meat processing industry by having him read "Meat Market: Animals, Ethics, and Money" by Erik Marcus.  It's currently available in paperback.

As for switching to a non-meat diet, try adapting current favorite recipes by substituting tofu/soy-based products or high-protein beans, like black beans or garbanzo beans, for meat.  At first, you may want to disguise tofu as most people don't like its texture.  So try using it in lasagna.  As for beans, a very hearty, thick, spicy chili...so substitute more beans in place of the meat.

Remember, men need more protein in their diets than women do.  The key is to make sure recipes fulfill this need as well as be visually appealing & taste great.  If he gives switching to a vegetariian diet an honest effort, be sure to encourage him with positive reinforcement.  However, if he decides he'd rather have a diet with meat, that's his choice....as is yours to be a vegetarian.  It's not an easy lifestyle change.  And the urge to quell the craving for a really big, juicy burger is tough.  Bottom line:  to each his own.  A very good friend of mine is vegetarian & her husband is a die-hard beef man.  They've been able to make it work because they've been flexible.  He's not opposed to eating vegetarian dishes but doesn't want a steady diet of vegan only.

Check out the internet, your local library or head to your local bookstore to do some research on suitable vegetarian recipe books.  Look for those with ingredients lists that you can handle (items you can find in your local grocery store) & with lots of pictures so that you can see the finished product.

Good luck!

Answer 2

Pasta with tomato sauce and cheese

Pizza with tomato sauce, goats cheese and mozarella cheese

Macaroni Cheese

Pizza with tomato, cheese and olives

Fish and Chips

Vegetable Soup (home made) with noodles or parsley dumplings