70 Vegan Family Dinners: Dinners Everyone Will Actually Eat.
Family vegan cooking has two challenges that individual vegan cooking does not: the mixed-eater table, and the picky eater. This book addresses both directly. The build-your-own dinners — taco night, pizza night, Buddha bowl bar, nacho night — eliminate the mixed-eater problem because everyone assembles their own plate from shared components. The hidden vegetable pasta sauce eliminates the picky-eater problem because the courgette and carrot are blended completely smooth and undetectable. The rest of the book is 66 recipes that are genuinely delicious on their own terms.70 original vegan family dinner recipes across five chapters — pasta and noodles, one-pot dinners, tacos and crowd-pleasers, vegetable-centred dinners, and comfort food — plus a complete family cooking guide covering the build-your-own strategy, protein for growing children, affordable family vegan cooking with cost-per-serving comparisons, the freezer strategy, and managing mixed dietary preferences at the table.Every recipe includes: ✔ Protein, carbs, fat, and calories per serving ✔ Realistic prep and cook times ✔ Serving sizes — most recipes feed 4-6 ✔ Notes on picky eater tactics, freezing, and batch cookingWhat's inside: → Pasta & Noodle Family Dinners (10 recipes) — Lentil bolognese for 6: the most-made recipe in the book, 18g protein per serving, better on day two. One-pot pasta in 15 minutes with everything added raw and the pasta starch thickening the sauce. Pasta al forno, baked pasta that can be assembled ahead and baked when needed. Cashew mac and cheese — the book notes it has been tested on children with zero vegan disclosure (14g protein). Pesto pasta with roasted cherry tomatoes and wilted spinach. Noodle stir-fry with tofu in 12 minutes. Creamy tomato vodka-style pasta with cashew cream. Pasta e fagioli with two types of bean (16g protein). Hidden vegetable pasta sauce — two carrots and two courgettes sauteed until very soft, blended completely smooth with tomatoes, and entirely invisible to children who refuse both vegetables. Butter noodles with garlic and nutritional yeast, the simplest dinner in the book. → One-Pot Family Dinners (10 recipes) — Black bean chili for 6-8, better the next day, freezes perfectly (18g protein). Lentil soup, the family go-to (16g protein). Vegetable curry for 6. Bean and vegetable stew with crusty bread. Chickpea tikka masala — identified in the book as the most crowd-pleasing vegan dinner, because the sauce is the recipe and the chickpeas are texturally compelling regardless of whether you eat meat. Minestrone that lasts 3 days in the fridge. Dal and rice (16g protein). Stuffed pepper pot baked in one pan. Butternut squash and lentil soup. Family-size shakshuka with silken tofu and kala namak. → Tacos, Burgers & Crowd Pleasers (10 recipes) — Build-your-own black bean tacos: the interactive format eliminates fussy-eater complaints because everyone builds their own plate. Jackfruit pulled pork tacos — the most convincing pulled pork substitute in the book. Lentil and walnut taco meat — closest texture to ground meat in the vegan taco world (14g protein). Black bean burgers for 6 (14g protein). Chickpea shawarma wraps. Make-your-own pizza night. Tempeh fajitas (22g protein — the highest-protein dinner in the chapter). Family-size loaded nachos with cashew nacho cheese. Cauliflower buffalo wings. Vegan sausage and mash with onion gravy. → Vegetable-Centred Family Dinners (10 recipes) — Sheet pan roasted vegetables and chickpeas, everything on one tray. Vegan cauliflower cheese. Stuffed sweet potatoes with a choice of fillings — black beans and salsa, chickpeas and tahini, or lentils and roasted veg. Vegetable fried rice for 6 using day-old rice. Roasted tomato soup with vegan grilled cheese sandwiches. Ratatouille, naturally vegan. Mild vegetable korma, gentle enough for children. Sweet and sour tofu recreating a takeaway favourite (18g protein). Vegan shepherd's pie (18g protein — among the most universally loved recipes in the book). Buddha bowl bar: cook one grain, roast three trays of vegetables, warm two proteins, set out four sauces, and every family member builds their own. → Comfort Food Vegan Family Dinners (10 recipes) — Vegan lasagne for 8 with lentil bolognese and vegan bechamel — the showstopper dinner. Vegan bangers and mash. Vegan fish and chips with tofu marinated in nori for oceanic flavour (20g protein). Vegan cottage pie (18g protein). Vegan bolognese bake with bechamel and cheese topping — make double and freeze one. Stuffed portobello mushrooms as a main course. Vegan moussaka with cashew bechamel. Potato and leek bake with cashew cream. Vegan roast dinner with a herby whole roasted cauliflower as the centrepiece and aquafaba Yorkshire puddings. Savoury sweet potato pie for 6-8. → The Vegan Family Dinner Guide — The build-your-own strategy: why interactive dinners eliminate mixed-eater and picky-eater problems simultaneously. The hidden vegetable approach: which vegetables blend completely smooth into which sauces and how to use this technique across other recipes. Protein for growing children: daily requirements by age, which dinners provide the most protein, and the most economical protein sources for family cooking. Affordable family vegan cooking: dried lentils at approximately £1.20 per 500g produce 6+ servings; cost-per-serving comparisons for the cheapest dinners in the book. The freezer strategy: six dinners worth making in double batches with notes on which freeze best baked versus unbaked. Managing mixed dietary preferences without making the vegan member feel catered-to separately. Weeknight versus weekend dinner planning. Introducing children to new ingredients. Nutrition summary including the one mandatory note: vitamin B12 is not present in any whole plant food and must come from fortified foods or a supplement. 48-page PDF. Instant download. Yours forever.
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