Vegetarians with Non-Veggie Spouses

My husband wasn't a vegetarian until just last year. Well if he wanted meat he had to do it himself, cook, buy it or order it out when we went out for dinner. He was happy to eat my vegetarian meals as I didn't cook with meat at all.

My bf is omni, and I'm vegan, but it works just fine. A lot of the time it's easy enough to have the same base food, and add little bits that you want to it. For instance, if I make a curry I make it vegan, and then throw in a few bits of chicken or sausage or something for him on days when he fancies meat (he is quite happy to eat vegetarian a lot of the time too), and maybe mushrooms in mine (something my bf would never eat)

It needs to be said though that my bf is wonderfully open to trying things, but then again I would never try to "make" him eat stuff he doesn't like. It's a lot about mutual respect - you respect that your husband wants to eat meat, and he respects that you don't. Lecturing on either part is never a good idea.

Food is one of the things you have more or less complete control over in your life, and if you have a conviction you should stick with it. He might get more open minded if he sees that you are being serious about your choice.

I'm a pescatarian and I LOVE to cook! I cook dishes with meat in them all the time for my hubby. Sometimes I just eat the side dishes he eats and eat my own meatless main dish. I like to eat much earlier than he does and will often eat a light dinner (like a smoothie or some hummus with crackers and veggies) so sometimes I eat at 5:30 and then make a big meal for him at 7:30 or 8:00. He does like to eat seafood occasionally so once in a blue moon we actually eat the same thing for dinner.

My partner's a meat eater. He's happy to mostly eat with me and has meat a few times a week. He loves my cooking, which helps, and is a good cook himself, which also helps!

There's an old Australian book called 'Almost Vegetarian', which is probably a bit dated, but really useful for thinking through ways of cooking multi-purpose meat / vege meals.

I don't mind cooking meat for my partner or for guests, but he's also quite happy to cook it too. We just muddle by, depending on what's happening.

My hub likes to eat out for a reason: i am not cooking 2 meals. Though I have made 2 meat options on multiple occasions, especially when we have guests over. For special days, like when he comes back from a weeklong underway, I'll make something like beef stroganoff and a. Huge salad for myself with a veggie burger cut up into it for protein.

Not currently, but I was for a while, and my then hubbie was a meat eater.

This was pre weight loss days, so we'd eat out once a week, and have a takeaway once a week (so no issues with getting different meals there)

He'd eat the odd veggie meal (omelette say), and as someone said, it's pretty easy to slap a bit of meat on the grill to go alongside a vegetarian meal. Mix and match meals like salad, sandwiches, baked potatoes with a selection of toppings would cover another couple of nights, and there'd be evenings when we cooked for ourselves.