A couple of weeks ago, I posted a list of my favourite meat free meals. As a result, someone challenged me to find meat free meal for every week of the year.  So, I asked the generous contributors on British Mummy Bloggers if they would share theirs. Here’s the result. A fine example of generosity and willingness to share if ever you saw one.

Thank you everyone for your contributions, I’m off to make macaroni cheese with pasta shells left over from yesterday, the recipe came courtesy of C Bailey.Who wrote “Hi We love Home made macaroni cheese, its really easy and cheap and tastes gorgeous, although we have been known to add a bit of gammon or tuna to give it a bit more ooomph “

Superlittlemen replied: ” Hi have you tried Quinoa? You can buy it in healthfood shops, I think Sainsbury’s do it as well. I like the red quinoa (as do my 2 boys, its full of protein and also very filling which is a plus). Follow the instructions on the packet to make the quinoa, and then I fry up some onions with garlic in a small amount of olive oil, chopped tomatoes, I also use a food chopper to chop tiny bits of carrots and pepper in it, and mix it all up together, season it and also add some herbs, either parsley or mixed, bit of worceter sauce or chilli, and mix it in with the quinoa, its really tasty. As a variety I have also used quorn pieces and it works well with chicken for meat eaters as well.Liz Jarvis told us  “I spent so many years as a veggie there’s nothing I can’t do with lentils. I can offer a veggie chilli recipe, veggie moussaka, leek and potato soup… but they’re not posts… do you need them to be posts, or do you just want the recipes?

Then Andrea Daly said ” I’ve been veggie for over 25 years and this has got to to be the easiest recipe ever! In fact we had it last night.

I roll out one sheet of ready made puff pastry and cut into squares, one for each person eating. using a knife to score a smaller square within the square I’ve just cut. Finely chop carrots, red onion and garlic and stick this in a pan with olive oil. Cook through and then fill the smaller square. Top with sun dried tomatoes and grated cheese and bake for 20mins at 200 in a fan oven. (Don’t know gas setting) The outer square will puff up and the mixture stays in the middle. It tastes great and looks like you spent hours on it!” If you’re interested, she’s right – and the teenagers here loved it.

Mummyzen wrote This is very quick and easy: Veggie Enchiladas:

Can of mixed beans in spicy sauce (or make your own spicy sauce with tomato, chilli pepper, seasoning)
Flour tortillas
Tomato sauce (make your own by reducing canned or fresh tomatoes with some salt, basil)
Cheese, grated

Heat up beans, put a serving into a tortilla and wrap. Place in an oven dish. Continue with the other tortillas until you’ve used up bean mixture.
Cover tortillas with thin layer of tomato sauce, sprinkle cheese on top and put in moderately hot oven for 15 mins.

Other suggestions:
Veggie lasagne
Vegetable egg-fried rice
Risotto (mushroom/leek/broccoli/squash are all good)

So, there you are an eclectic and tasty selection that will certainly see me through the year.

If you try any of the suggestions here, let me know how you get on.