LPT: Even if no one in your family is a vegetarian, practice making a vegetarian meal that your family likes. When someone comes over who is a vegetarian, you can make this meal, and everyone will be happy.

Most people should be able to find delicious vegetarian meals and they probably eat more vegetation foods than they realize. Pasta and pizza are naturally vegetarian as long as you're not adding meat! If you don't have to worry about cooking meat through all the way you can sometimes make cooking quicker. Tofu cubed up and tossed into a simmering sauce cooks quicker than chicken thighs do.

My friend went vegan for allergies and another friend joined her so she wouldn't be at it alone, and I went gluten free the same month for autoimmune disease, plus I eat high-ish protein (mostly non meat protein, lots of dairy, plenty of veg protein). Between those and accommodating some food allergies I still cooked so many delicious meals for us to share. Rice-based dishes with tofu or lentils or beans were the basis for most of them, but you can do a lot with that. There were greek veggie wraps with hummus (my wraps were gf), lots of Asian dishes with tofu, wild rice meat(less) balls, great Indian dishes, buffalo cauliflower, bean tacos, onigiri, pastas and even one lasagna, japchae, chickpea stews. Nobody ever left hungry or wanting for something else. It's really hard to do vegan + gf all the time, but you can do so many delicious things even within those restrictions. Eating less meat and widening your cooking arsenal is within reach for a lot of people, but it takes some learning and trial and error.

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