Menu ideas for vegetarians
Hi
I am chef for a sorority house in NC and am able to pretty much satisfy 95% of the girls eating in our facility. My problem is with vegetarians (not per se but with certain ones). I make an effort to have a variety of options for the girls that do not eat meat including things like tempeh, tofu, "Gardenburger" and like products, extra vegetables and grains not cooked with meat but with vegetable stock, vegetarian entrees like vegetable lasagna, mac and cheese, pasta sauces without meat, and on salad bar things like hard boiled eggs, chick peas or other legume, multiple cheeses, seeds, etc... and that's not even mentioning the fish we do which most of my vegetarians claim they will eat. Doing all of that I've still got a few who say I am not meeting their need for more non carb based proteins ( I don't know what that means - vegetables are mostly carbs!!). I was taught about complementation and supplementation as the way to get protein as a vegetarian, but that doesn't seem to be how these girls look at it. Any suggestions?
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