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[quote=Anonymous]Search for cookbooks that have the word "flexitarian" in the title. They will give you a lot of recipe ideas for a family with various degrees of meat-eating and many likes/dislikes.

You don't have to jump right into food that is usually associated with vegetarians/vegans like tofu and nutritional yeast. Just reduce the amount of meat in each meal. I'm a lifelong vegetarian who cooks for my meat-eating family. My approach to the issue is to still give them meat, but less of it. For example, I make a lot of stir-fry dishes with a high proportion of vegetables to meat. Each person only ends up eating about 3-4 oz. of meat since they are eating so many vegetables and some rice. Another thing I do is when I make a dish that requires ground beef, I use half a pound of ground beef and half a pound of vegan "beef-like" crumbles. They don't notice the difference and they still get plenty of protein.  I also make fresh vegetable dishes and/or salads with interesting combos of spices to accompany every dinner so that takes up a lot of the space on the plate and allows me to serve smaller portions of meat. [/quote]

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