Vegetarian Dinner - balanced enough?

Question

Mozzarella and tomato salad with green pesto dressing (thinned down with extra virgin olive oil)

Mixed Wild Mushrooms in a cream and brandy sauce with angel hair pasta

Key Lime Pie (with a gingernut biscuit base - trust me, delish!!)

Everything is homemade, they are vegetarian NOT vegan and have no allergies

Answer 1

No, I'm sorry but it really isn't. I see no raw vegetables in there... and tomato does not count as it is fruit. For dinner, I make myself a very big raw salad, using Kakame seaweed, avocados & cucumbers (yes, those can be classified as fruit), red cabbage, romaine, arugula leaves, green peppers, yellow onion, zucchini, olives, chopped cauliflower, and I like to sprinkle some sunflower seeds on top, along with pumpkin seed oil and lemon juice. Now, THAT is a complete meal.

Answer 2

well it sounds great, and if you're making it for someone else as a one off, then there's nothing wrong with it. Whatever else they need for the day they'll get in their other meals.

Answer 3

I think it's pretty alright. Sounds tasty, too.

I mean, it's not like you're getting a whole day's worth of fruits and veggies into a meal like Alice is, are you?

Answer 4

Unless you're having wholegrain pasta (can you get wholegrain angel hair?) then it isn't balanced. Serve with some brown bread and it should be fine.

The menu looks ok for your average veggie. Personally and maybe for those health-conscience veggies, I'd want something healthier (although I wouldn't expect it if it were being cooked for me). Because of the cheese and cream, the only healthy things on the menu would be the salad and mushrooms. Maybe you could have a small bowl of seeds mixed with pinenuts and sultanas that they can add to their salad if they wanted to. Personally I'd add cashew nuts or pinenuts to the cream sauce and make it by heating unsweetened soy milk, nutritional yeast flakes, onion powder, a small bit of garlic and corn starch. If you're going to use normal cream though then adding some cashew nuts may make it more interesting and would make it healthier.

Answer 5

That sounds great! =] I'm comin over your house for dinner tonight ok? lol, Good choices!

Answer 6

Taste wise, seems fine

Texture wise no. It's all the same texture: soft, creamy minimum crunch

pesto already has olive oil

Nutrition, for a meal, good enough

Answer 7

yup sounds great to me!!