Tips for Mixed Households?

[Guest guest]

Looking through the surveys, as I'm sure you've all done too, I see a number of

new members who live in 'mixed' households, where they need to cook for

omnivores while being vegetarian or vegan themselves - or even where some other

people are also veggie and the rest are not. This might be a good time to ask

for the kinds of menu ideas that would provide good vegetarian or vegan food for

the veg*ns in a household and be palatable to the omnis, whether as a meal in

itself or as an accompaniment to, er, those non-veg items which omnis eat

 

I was thinking of things like veg casseroles, ratatouille, etc. etc. (I'm short

on ideas except for what I get from you guys because I don't have that kind of

household)to which can be added the usual potatoes or grain AND if necessary the

quickly cooked and separate non-veg stuff. But I'm sure there are better ideas

than this?

 

Best, Pat

[Guest guest]

I really like " Something For Everyone " by Carol Gelles. The recipes have a

common base which is usually split in half, with then a vegetarian application

and a carnivor application to each half. Recipes cover the range from Breakfast

to Dinner.

 

+ John

 

 

 

Looking through the surveys, as I'm sure you've all done too, I see a number

of new members who live in 'mixed' households, where they need to cook for

omnivores while being vegetarian or vegan themselves - or even where some other

people are also veggie and the rest are not. This might be a good time to ask

for the kinds of menu ideas that would provide good vegetarian or vegan food for

the veg*ns in a household and be palatable to the omnis, whether as a meal in

itself or as an accompaniment to, er, those non-veg items which omnis eat

 

I was thinking of things like veg casseroles, ratatouille, etc. etc. (I'm

short on ideas except for what I get from you guys because I don't have that

kind of household)to which can be added the usual potatoes or grain AND if

necessary the quickly cooked and separate non-veg stuff. But I'm sure there are

better ideas than this?

 

 

.

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Thanks for that, John! I see it isn't particularly expensive either

 

http://www.amazon.com/Something-Everyone-Recipes-Families-Vegetarians/dp/0028609\

964/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8 & s=books & qid=1249499375 & sr=1-1

 

and for Canadians

 

http://www.amazon.ca/Something-Everyone-Main-Dish-Vegetarians-Meat-Eaters/dp/002\

8609964/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8 & s=books & qid=1249499525 & sr=1-1

 

and for those in the UK

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Something-Everyone-Main-Dish-Vegetarians-Meat-Eaters/dp/\

0028609964/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8 & s=books & qid=1249499615 & sr=1-2

 

There ya go.

 

Of course, It'd still be handy if interested persons on this group could discuss

these kinds of things on the list

 

Best,

 

Pat

 

, " John Daleske " <john wrote:

>

> I really like " Something For Everyone " by Carol Gelles. The recipes have a

common base which is usually split in half, with then a vegetarian application

and a carnivor application to each half. Recipes cover the range from Breakfast

to Dinner.

>

> + John

[Guest guest]

Hi Pat and all,

 

I've been thinking a while about this one, having shared my life for almost 34

years with a resolute non-vegetarian. Not so much in the area of recipes - we

eat mostly Oriental-style where various dishes are set on the table and one

makes one's selection from what is available - but more in that of attitudes.

 

The vegetarian attitude - and this applies to most of the reasons people have

given for choosing that way of eating - is IMO based on respect, the respect for

that life force which one recognizes in oneself and can feel to be present in

all sentient beings. Nowhere is this respect more felt than in an interpersonal

relationship, so whilst we (well, some of us) would like to convert the world to

vegetarianism, we have to respect the self-determination of the partner who has

a right to make their own decisions about life style questions.

 

So as in many interpersonal matters it's a question of give and take, with more

giving than taking. But it's important to give in the right way, for experience

has learnt that even one minor departure from one's vegetarian principles will

be remembered till the end of time and undermine every effort to maintain these

principles in day to day life. For me the giving is in the small things, in

occasionally turning a blind eye to some minor and possibly unintended deviation

from the principles - a dish fried in some oil which might have been used for

other purposes, an unverified soup or other ready made product. And taking? Hard

to say really, perhaps a carefully prepared dish to one's own taste with an eye

to convincing anyone who samples it that vegetarian food doesn't have to be

dull. And where better to find ideas for this than in the vegetarian spice group

archives!

 

Best, Piers

 

, " drpatsant " <drpatsant wrote:

>

> Looking through the surveys, as I'm sure you've all done too, I see a number

of new members who live in 'mixed' households, where they need to cook for

omnivores while being vegetarian or vegan themselves - or even where some other

people are also veggie and the rest are not. This might be a good time to ask

for the kinds of menu ideas that would provide good vegetarian or vegan food for

the veg*ns in a household and be palatable to the omnis, whether as a meal in

itself or as an accompaniment to, er, those non-veg items which omnis eat

>

> I was thinking of things like veg casseroles, ratatouille, etc. etc. (I'm

short on ideas except for what I get from you guys because I don't have that

kind of household)to which can be added the usual potatoes or grain AND if

necessary the quickly cooked and separate non-veg stuff. But I'm sure there are

better ideas than this?

>

> Best, Pat

>