Vegetarian cooking
January 24 2011
While no one at my house is a vegetarian, we do make it a point of eating a vegetarian meal at least once a week. Initially some members of the household (
my wife) were not too keen on the idea of a meatless dinner but now everyone enjoys it.
Like many raised on a diet of meat and potatoes, my wife’s reticence for trying anything tofu goes way back. Not that vegetarian means there has to be tofu, or that tofu has to taste like mush, but like most non vegetarians, that was what she thought being meatless was all about.
Now that we have vegetarian meals on a regular basis and she has seen the variety of options out there, she has fully embraced our meatless dinners.
Eating vegetarian meals is tricky at first. You’ve got to make sure you’re getting the proper nutrients and protein. There’s more to it than replacing your meat with tofu. On the MealEasy site, we’ve made sure that there is a great variety of healthy and nutritious vegetarian meals using all kinds of beans, lentils, fruits, vegetables and yes tofu.
I’ve introduced my wife to a whole range of vegetables that she would avoid before, either because she’d never had them or in most cases because she’d never had them cooked properly (mushy grey beans anyone?).
