i feel at a loss

so like ive said before ive been a vegetarian for 5 years. but i feel like my vegetarianism and now veganism is at a loss because of the crap i cook for my husband. he eats meat dairy etc. and i hate cooking it but i dont want to try to force him into not eating meat or anything...any help from u guys on this one would be great

 

thanks alot! that made me feel so much better. yeah i have to say eating my food might not be what they want but if im the one cooking then yeah they can eat whati make....also quick funny story involving roomie....i made vegan and non vegan sloppy joes(messy mikes for me...lol) and so i made my husbands and ranout of hamburger, so i made one for roomie real quick with mine,....funny thing is he thought it was the best sloppy joe hed ever eaten....

 

When my husband and I married we were both omni's. 7 mos. ago I went vegetarian....with minimal dairy, eggs, and cheese....if any at all. My husband will never change his diet and I'm not going to force the issue. That has to be a personal choice. But after so many years, I can't just tell him I'm no longer going to cook dinner for him because I'm no longer eating meat. So I continue to cook meals for him....as well as me.
Luckily he works 7&7, so I'm not cooking every night. What I do is when he's gone I'll cook meals for me and freeze meal- size portions for later for work or when he's home and I don't feel like making anything for myself. Sometimes when he's home I'll also prepare dishes for myself, as well as him, and freeze leftovers....if I have the energy after work to tackle both! LOL Which reminds me, my supply is getting low, so I'll to cook some more meals. Unfortunately, cooking is not my favorite passtime, so I'll get out of it every chance I get. It's just the two of us, so it's easy for me to do it this way. It's a lot easier than trying to cook two different meals every night.

Preparing meals for yourself and an omni may be a little challenging, but it can be done.....just a little extra planning.
Heck....order a pizza for him one night and prepare a meal for yourself instead.
It's not bad enough for me to ever go back to eating meat.

 

tell him to cook for himself then...

 

I think its good that you respect him. Although I can see both sides of the issue.. Being a vegetarian has kind of made me a meat-phobe. But my boyfriend eats meat and I am realizing that I have to respect that. I will gladly cook for him because otherwise he would eat crap food and I want him to eat well - not force my ways of life on him.

But I think your guy should cook too, as long as you're not always cooking his meat then you're being respectful and he would be too.

 

he would gladly cook if he really knew how

 

Exactly! Ive been veg for 5 years and vegan for a few months, now...and me and my boyfriend cook for eachother all the time. When we first got together he was omni, but quickly realised, half on his own, half with me explaining why I was veg, that he wanted to be veg too. It was also after hed tried some of my veg cooking!
Now were both vegan and i personally think our food rocks. He says he feels much, much better in himself

 

not a bad idea....although he has zero patience with most cooking..lol..i have a george foreman grill and i have a feeling he would probably use it if i taught him how.

 

I cook for two omni's. I've only been veggie myself for about 5 months and I still use eggs and dairy in cooking. We eat a lot of pasta; spaghetti, manicotti, cheese stuffed shells, lasagna. I make stir fry, take some out for me and stir in precooked chicken for them. I make an awesome veggie chili. We have tacos. Just put all the makings in bowls on the table and you fill your own. Potato soup, DH adds the bacon bits and cheese to his. I make bread three or four times a week so we always have plenty of fresh bread. (I love my bread machine.) You can make it work without a lot of extra effort. If he really wants to eat meat, let him learn to cook it. It doesn't take much to throw a steak on a grill.

Kathi

 

aahh i will make some for dinner tomorrow night and let u know drumminmama

 

It's tough when you live with multiple diets in the house. I went vegetarian and did most of the cooking, and it only took my boyfriend about six months of delicious vegetarian meals and doing his own research before he went veg too. I'm a bit stubborn and never cooked meat for him, but he got it when we went out or he'd have to cook it himself. It wasn't long before he was a dedicated vegetarian as grossed out by meat as I was. It definitely helped that I became a lot more adventurous in my cooking and have tried all kinds of wonderful vegetarian recipes I otherwise wouldn't have.

That's awesome that you respect his diet and have the patience to cook separate meals. If it were me, I'd cook veg and tell him to cook his own damn dead animal if he wants it (hehe!). Try cooking veg meals at least some of the time for both of you, and hopefully he'll eat it without complaining. If he wants meat, keep some frozen, prepared meat in the fridge and let him prepare it himself. Less work for you, and hopefully it will gently nudge him in the right direction... good luck!

 

wow..it turned out awesome! definitly the best opart of my meal last night..it was wonderful.

and bartermama thanks for the tips/...my only prob, every meal i make he asks me if theres any of my gross food in it...olol..funny thing is i eat what he does without the dairy and meat...silly boy i dunno i think some guys are just raised that men eat meat and potatoes

 

Silly boys! I hate it when people think something is gross automatically just because it's vegan. And then they won't try it, it's so frustrating... I couldn't get everyone to try Tofurky on Thanksgiving but at least a few people in my family tried it. Ya can't knock it till you try it, ya know...

 

very true...and some people actually end up liking it better than real turkey...my roomate ate some of mt sausage not knowing it wasnt real sausage and raved about how good it tasted, until i told him what it was, he then spit it out....people can be dumb i swear..lol