Like I said the other day in the post about changes that I am starting to make in my life I mentioned the meal plans… I have been making meal plans each week so that I don’t have to go to the store as much… I can try to save a bit of money…. I know what we can eat and that we have everything for those meals, we waste less and it just makes my life a bit easier and less of a hassle…
Well… last week I was checking out some really cool vegetarian and Vegan blogs and got some good ideas for meals… Something that I have wanted to do for a long time is eat a more vegetarian diet… I don’t want to become vegetarian because… well.. I like meat! and I just love the BBQ season that is coming…. however, I would like to eat a lot less meat so that I get more whole grains and veggies in my diet and I happen to do that more when I cook less meat…
One little problem is that Simon doesn’t eat Tofu… won’t even try it anymore… It is not a “Taste thing” but a “texture thing” (at least that is what he says 🙂 ) but I think it is more of a “mental” thing cause I grated some tofu into a soup and he ate it and then when he found out that there was Tofu in it he wouldn’t eat it anymore…
Anyways… this week is a veggie week in my meal plan and I want to try new meals and get more ideas (also great to get the kids to try more things) After this week I want to make each week have more veggie meals then meat based meals…and I want to try something new at least once a week…
Anyways… I need some good ideas….What’s your Fav meal?
BTW… these are the meals for the week in our home…
- Veggie Burgers
- Vege Pate (prolly in a wrap with a sauce, sprouts and grilled veggies)
- Grilled Veggie pressed sandwiches
- Pizza with veggies, sun dried tomatoes etc…
- Chile
- Toasted Pitas with a bean dip
- Stir Fry with Peanut sauce
Good lineup! After about 1 year of trying to start and stick with meal planning we are beginning to have some success. I don’t know what is different but maybe having a new baby just makes going to the grocery store more than once or twice a week impractical. I am a vegetarian and my wife is not but we cook all vegetarian meals in the house. We have a number of vegetarian cookbooks and know of many sites on the web but usually end up just getting stuff from vegweb.com. They have tons of great recipes and many that are very kid-friendly.
I’ve started referring to myself as the “pretend” vegetarian, I’ve cut meat out of my diet, but milk, milk products and eggs are still around. Through my journey, I’ve discovered that I like veggie dogs more than I liked hot dogs (I was a weird one and didn’t mind the odd barbequed hot dog).
I have a recipe for a vegetarian soup (with no tofu) if you are interested.
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Butternut squash soup! I love this because I take the squash, bake it for an hour and then puree it. I take half of it and thin it with breastmilk or water and then put in ice cube trays to make portions I can defrost for my 7 month old. With the other half I make soup for hubby and I. I dont have a set recipe – usually just saute onion and apple, mix it in with the squash along with stock (veggie or chicken), add some cream, sage, salt and pepper. Very healthy and filling!
yumm…. sounds good… thanks for the suggestion…
I am largely vegetarian as well, (meaning I am vegetarian until I visit my extended family, who doesn’t care if I am or not) and I have to say that one of my all-time favorites is falafels.
A great recipe book for this kind of this is The Moosewood Cookbook. They mostly use vegetables, but have some recipes for fish. I have never used a cookbook so much as that one. Highly recommended.
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Thanks! We love Falafels.. I actually made some last week! they are also a big hit with the kids which is a good thing since Xavier is a picky little man…