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Madge

Joined: 15 Jan 2007
Posts: 97
Location: Rugby, Warks

Posted: Sat Dec 20, 08 5:04 pm Post subject: Christmas for a veggie that doesn't like veg?
Hi, Do you have any recipes for vegetarian children? My 10 year old is veggie (as am I) by choice, but is not a great fan of vegetables. Hmmm. Want something Christmassy but not mushroom based. Heeeelp!

woodsprite

Joined: 20 Mar 2006
Posts: 2943
Location: North Herefordshire

Posted: Sat Dec 20, 08 5:05 pm Post subject:
How does a veggie that doesn't eat veg survive? Honestly interested in what your little 'uns diet is made up of.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45468
Location: yes

Posted: Sat Dec 20, 08 5:06 pm Post subject:
our beef is vegetarian

frewen

Joined: 08 Sep 2005
Posts: 11405

Posted: Sat Dec 20, 08 5:10 pm Post subject:
How about this onion and lentil wellington? https://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/516620

nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk

Posted: Sat Dec 20, 08 5:14 pm Post subject:
What about a nut roast?

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Sat Dec 20, 08 5:22 pm Post subject:

woodsprite wrote:

How does a veggie that doesn't eat veg survive?
Honestly interested in what your little 'uns diet is made up of.

I'd be interested too, as a once-vegetarian who absolutely loves veg, I couldn't have imagined even considering it without veg. Soya & nut roasts. Urgh

lily

Joined: 07 Oct 2005
Posts: 105

Posted: Sat Dec 20, 08 5:36 pm Post subject:
How about a pizza shaped like a christmas tree or star

Mr O

Joined: 13 Feb 2005
Posts: 5512
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada

Posted: Sat Dec 20, 08 5:48 pm Post subject:
Wall's sausages, there is not much meat in them.

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Sat Dec 20, 08 6:04 pm Post subject:
I believe you can get cranberry flavoured Wensleydale cheese. Though I prefer cheese-flavoured cheese myself .

otatop

Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Posts: 1425
Location: North London

Posted: Sat Dec 20, 08 9:26 pm Post subject:

I've done this, been there, and got the tee-shirt. (My daughter, in restaurants) used to order vegetarian pizzas with extra ham topping. Later, my son was also a vegetarian when his friends came round. My best meal on these occasions was a cheesey potato pie baked in flakey pastry. The pie filling also contained onions, carrots, herbs, and other vegetables. Very tasty for meat-eaters too. Which both daughter and son are now.

But I still do the potato pie.

woodsprite

Joined: 20 Mar 2006
Posts: 2943
Location: North Herefordshire

Posted: Sun Dec 21, 08 12:17 pm Post subject:
Oh yes! I love hommity pie and cheese and onion pie.

Madge

Joined: 15 Jan 2007
Posts: 97
Location: Rugby, Warks

Posted: Sun Dec 21, 08 1:19 pm Post subject:

They eat things like veggie spagh bol, pasta, pizza, veggie pie, egg based stuff, jacket potatoes, rice and vegetable bake, rice, cous cous, etc. If the others have a roast, we eat all the vegetables and yorkshire pud - but I want to do something different for Christmas. The trouble is, most chunky tasting food is mushroom based - and that's a no go area. She will eat carrots, sweetcorn, cheese, veggie mince, courgette. I like the Cranks nut loaf en croute, but we've had that for about 10 years running - although last year I forgot to buy the ingredients and made a complete mess of it. Even though two of us are veggie and two meat eaters, the meat eaters are happy to eat veggie - but not tofu and it has to be something that is not just soya with other stuff (like the spagh bol). So, I was hoping for a recipe with loads of disguised veg in it. Enough info?

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Sun Dec 21, 08 1:33 pm Post subject:

I once had some vegetarian haggis on Christmas day (just a taste of what the veggies were eating) and it wasn't bad at all, considering it's nothing like a real haggis. Probably too late to buy one, but there's a recipe here https://haggishunt.scotsman.com/recipe.cfm?recipe=10 (I guess you could leave out the mushrooms and add extra nuts or some finely chopped sprouts or courgettes). I'd use butter rather than marge myself. Another recipe - https://thefoody.com/vegetable/bakedonionswithvegetarianhaggis.html

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Sun Dec 21, 08 3:03 pm Post subject:
Scobies haggis mix is good & easy with meat, I imagine it is probably easy with veg too, a bit short notice now, but might be useful in the future.

Fee

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 15922
Location: Earth

Posted: Sun Dec 21, 08 3:21 pm Post subject:
How about a polenta with sundried tomatoes and rosemary? Looks Christmassy with the red and green of the toms and rosemary. Olives are nice in there too, but probably not for a fussy ten year old

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