How to incorporate meat in with "vegan" dishes for the meat eaters of the family?!
What is the best way to cook meat on the side so my family can still have a great dinner and I can have mine?
I have no intention of forcing my eating habits on them--thanks.
Answers: I am the only vegan in the family and am also the main cook. My husband and father (who we take care of) loves meat and has to have it every meal. They usually want the meat in whatever I cook so I end up eating a little of it even though I don't want to.
What is the best way to cook meat on the side so my family can still have a great dinner and I can have mine?
I have no intention of forcing my eating habits on them--thanks.
"It is not "forcing you eating habits on them" to refuse to cook it for them."
It's good to see some people put their beliefs above their family. Get a life, November!
I think you're making it too hard. Cook what you and your hubby are eating and then cook meat on the side. You don't have to mix it in to what you're eating. Make the meal that you are both eating and then make a side of meat for him. Simple :-)
For example if you're making spaghetti and meatballs, then cook the noodles and sauce and leave the meatballs separate so he can have his meat but you don't have to incorporate it into your food.
I am married to a meat eater. I make up main dishes for us to share then a side of Meat, Poultry etc for him. Many times I make up things that can be eaten more than once during the week. Meatloaf, double the amount of baked Chicken, Extra large batch of Chili or Pasta Sauce. etc. Then I I don't always have to cook a fresh meat dish every night.
If I do something like a stir-fry I do the veggies up then cook a protien to top his.
It's simple once you start thinking about it this way.
It is not "forcing you eating habits on them" to refuse to cook it for them. You shouldn't have to go out of your way and against your ethics to apease your family. If they want meat than fine, but you shouldn't have to prepare it for them.
AD
What I mean to say is if they want meat then they can cook it themselves. It seems that it is more like them forcing their eating habits on to her.
Cowboy has a good idea.
My mother cooks the meatballs like that, and we are all omnivores.
Other ideas: try and reuse a pan: cook the veggies first, dump them, and then cook the meats.
The leftovers idea is pretty good. Just, try not to serve chicken more than two or three nights in a row. Chicken gets boring fast.
I'm the cook in our house. I generally just make things that the meat wont be missed in or make everything but the meat first and cook it last. If you make things like stew , you can replace the broth with a darker veg broth ( can't tell the difference) and cook the meat seperately in the meat broth.
When anybody comes to my house and wants to eat meat, they get to fix it themselves and clean up the mess.
You say you're the main cook, but you don't say you're the only cook. Let your husband cook his own meat.
The only person I would cook meat for was my grandpa and he died a few years ago.
You're not forcing your eating habits on them, you're letting them be responsible for their own food--we're long past the time when women had to do all the cooking!
simple. put meats and other food items on the side for them to add in or stick with foods that require them to make it themselves.
143 million pounds of beef recalled....and they still want meat?
if they want you to cook meat for them then they need to sign over their life insurance...keep eating meat they will not live long....
they want it they can cook it...
I would make what I want and fix meat on the side,
such as: sloppy joes
pork chops
chicken
Hamburgers/cheeseburgers
Or whatever kind of meat they like.
You don't have to eat meat if you don't want to.