Picky person looking for meatless meals

If you look online at the Forks over Knives website, you may find their version of a minestrone soup. I made it last night and it's very delicious. You can always omit certain veggies (such as onions) if you don't like them, possible replace them with something else.

When I was vegetarian, I ate a lot of rice. I often ate "salsa rice" with beans, corn, lime and cheese in a tortilla or lettuce wrap. "Omurice" which is basically cooking whatever veggies you like with rice and ketchup and putting an omelette on top. Sounds unappealing, tastes good! Chinese fried rice with soy sauce, your choice of veggies and a scrambled egg mixed inside if you want it. Alfredo bake with penne noodles, mushrooms, spinach or broccoli (or neither lol) and a crumb topping. You can do the same with a red sauce, mushrooms and mozzarella cheese. Homemade macaroni.. Baked spaghetti squash with parmesan and butter.. Quicker meals were grilled cheese and soup, cheese quesadilla, bagel and fruit, nut butter sandwich. Hope you find something you enjoy!

krazy1sbk wrote: »

I am a fairly picky person and I'm having trouble coming up with meatless meals that aren't just "eat a salad" (my dh's suggestion).

My calorie goal is around 1600. I'm not looking for a debate on why I should or shouldn't eat less meat, and no I'm not going vegetarian.

Here are some of the foods I don't like so you can see my problem:
Avocados
Bell peppers (or any peppers)
Onions
Cauliflower as rice
Uncooked zucchini (I've had good zoodles though)
Raw tomatoes (though I do like baby tomatoes)

I love mushrooms and potatoes and most beans, so hopefully that helps!

Make a list of all the meatless foods you like. Use a tool like supercook or pinterest to find recipes with those ingredients.
Take a recipe you like with meat and leave out the meat or replace it with beans, lentils, a meat substitute or mushrooms. https://ohmyveggies.com/how-to-make-almost-any-recipe-meatless/

Salads- there are a lot of ways to salad https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10270725/things-to-go-in-salads/p1
Soup or stew- bean, lentil, potato, tomato, minestrone, mushroom soup, vegetable soup, dals https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=Meatless soup or stew
Stuffed potatoes, Black bean potato nachos, other forms of potato white or sweet
Pasta/noodles
Rice, beans and rice, eggs and rice, lentils and rice, vegetables and rice
Barley
Stuffed mushrooms... other mushroom recipes https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=Mushroom vegetarian
Bean burritos or wraps
Roasted or grilled vegetables- sweet potato, broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, asparagus, mushrooms
Buffalo cauliflower
Veggie burger
Pancakes or waffles
Eggs- omelets, hard boiled
Hummus
Peanut butter
Oatmeal
Quinoa
Polenta
Cereal
Grilled cheese sandwich

http://www.lentils.org/recipes-cooking/recipes/
http://www.sixsistersstuff.com/2013/03/35-meatless-meals.html
http://www.meatlessmonday.com/favorite-recipes/
https://www.budgetbytes.com/category/recipes/vegetarian/
https://www.skinnytaste.com/recipes/vegetarian/
http://ohsheglows.com

Eggplant Parmesan is my go-to meatless meal. There's a frozen foods section offering that is pretty reasonable tasting from Michael Angelo if you feel the from scratch recipes are too many steps/too much work.

If you want a "complete meal"? With a salad that's more other vegetables than lettuce. Maybe a piece of garlic bread.

Have you tried making Navrattan Korma? It's an easy 30-minute meal to fix and you can use whatever veggies you'd like, including non-riced cauliflower if you want. Traditionally, there are also cashews and golden raisins included in addition to the veggies. I use this recipe although I use a can of coconut milk in place of the milk and heavy cream because I'm lactose intolerant. I also omit the cayenne pepper.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/86602/navratan-korma/

Mushroom lasagna
Black bean, yellow pepper, and pumpkin chili
All kinds of stir-fry with tofu and peanuts

I'm having Artichoke Salad for dinner tonight with a side of homemade seitan turkey. http://cookingwithmaryplantbased.weebly.com/seitan-smoked-turkey-log.html http://cookingwithmaryplantbased.weebly.com/artichoke-salad.html

Go to publix apron's site and look up "Spicy Taco Chili" and just make it without the meat. Easy, cheap, lots of flavor, can be made in a crockpot if u like/need dinner ready for u when u get home, and makes several bowls worth if you like having leftovers for lunch or dinner the next day.