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We eat vegetarian most days, and I'm lactose intolerant so while it can occasionally be frustrating, it's not that big a deal. Our typical meals include:
vegetarian fried rice (with seitan, egg and vegetables)
sesame noodles
breakfast burritos (soy chorizo and eggs, plus guacamole)
pizza with vegetarian sausage (either I take a lactaid, or only but the cheese on his side)
pasta with vegetarian meatballs
frittata with lots of veggies (parmesan or asiago, but mostly on one side of the frittata)
tofu (pan-seared so it gets a nice crust, with either an asian sauce or tomato/olive/parsley sauce)
risotto (I can tolerate the butter fine, and only add a little parmesan)
rice and beans (cheese for him, none for me)

Everyone's mileage with regard to lactose tolerance varies. I know a guy who cannot have a hint of butter and there are people who are OK with everything short of a big glass of milk. It's really up to his comfort level / digestive system, but pretty much everything I've listed can be taken down to 0 dairy.

In general, looking for any type of Asian recipes and vegan recipes is a good way to find some ideas. Also - all of the above can be served with a side of salad or roasted or steamed vegetables - my favorite is baked broccoli.

I'm the same as you. Though sometimes (less often with Indian buffets than with really fancy ones with good lox, lobster, crab plus good cooked meals) I'll make one plate with small tastes of the fishy stuff, then one plate with small tastes of other stuff.

Also - the person who stopped you? WTF, serious manners issues there.

Um... I'm with Sarahdlr. Your gym is highly exaggerating the standards, here. 18-22% is not normal/healthy, it's athletic/highly fit. But that doesn't mean you need to be there to be healthy. Where the healthy range ends depends on age, but 24% body fat for a woman is WELL within the range of healthy. Now, the inability to last on the bike isn't a good sign, but that's about getting some practice and working out more for its own sake.

That said, goat curry sounds excellent. I ought to make more of an effort to find goat, too, as my partner and I can rarely find proteins we agree on.

waxeater - I echo those sentiments 100%.

If I'm hungry, absolutely. I have what I call DOOM hunger - a painful ache in the stomach sweaty palms, faintness, headaches, serious grouchiness, inability to concentrate (had tests to rule out that this is blood sugar related and it's not). Once the DOOM hunger hits, the priority is making it stop, even if dinner's not as tasty as usual. I try to avoid food I know I won't like much, but when I'm driving and starting to get dizzy, that stale trail mix in the console feels like the difference between life and death.

We only had two of us, so we made duck breast, stuffing (ok dressing, can't really stuff duck breasts) and roasted brussels sprouts. It was all great, but the stuffing was the biggest victory. We used some of the duck fat from the breasts, rendered, in place of half the butter, and both dried porcini and fresh button mushrooms. Amazing. It was also the only thing we had as leftovers, so we pretty much ate it the next three meals.

I am not vegetarian (though I was vegan for a few years, I've been eating meat for the past four years or so), but I LOVE fake meat. Loved it when vegan, love it now. We used to make tofurkey in college and I remember enjoying it. Though I agree that it's not necessary for Thanksgiving - one year I made some sort of lentil casserole which I remember being pretty good. though I was 15 or something at the time, so maybe it was terrible by adult standards.

I really don't like Michael. His food is impressive, but I rarely actually want to eat it. I find a lot of his winning dishes kind of gross - parmesan jelly, liquid nitrogen treated soup. I get what he's doing, but between finding it generally unappetizing, so his attitude seems really out of place. Also, I was offended at his attributing buffalo wings to New York city. That might have just been me, though.

Kevin just seems like he's on a different level than everyone else. His food's not really that simple, but it's always so well-executed that it seems that way. It seems like he's #1 or #2 on almost every challenge. Last night's salmon and the vegetarian dish show that he can do more than just hearty pork fare - it's just that it feels like he's never taking risks because he's so low-drama and so high-quality.

Try new things! Different cuisines. We make a lot of veggie burritos, rice and beans, fried rice with seitan, risotto with veggies. Vegetarian proteins like tofu and seitan (and veggie sausages, burgers and the like if that's your thing - it's definitely mine) keep much longer than meat, so they're easy to throw in the fridge for pantry meals. Beans keep even longer. There's great meals based around eggs - frittatas, eggs in purgatory, breakfast burritos.

Also, if there's multiple members of your family and some are less enthusiastic than others (or less willing to go cold turkey), you can try a "kosher kitchen" type approach. Make and stock vegetarian food around the house, but don't enforce rules outside of the house.

Neither me nor my partner is vegetarian, but we're both former longtime vegetarians (20+ years in his case, veganism in my case). We're at the point where most of our weekday meals are vegetarian simply because it's easier.

made pesto yesterday with pasta. putting the rest of it on a pizza today with veggie sausage and veggies. it's the boy's favorite. well, i suppose if I used real sausage it would be even favoriter, but that's not what's in the fridge.

I stopped having milk in my cereal at age 3 - decided it was gross. I tried juice for a bit when I was 4, but then found dry cereal. I've been eating it that way for over 20 years and I can't understand why people put liquid in their dry cereal no matter what liquid. I'll add fruit sometimes - berries or chopped apples or stone fruit, but that's for taste not moisture.

I'm a big fan of Shipyard and Dogfish Head as well. Generally I am pretty pro-pumpkin in my beer, though I did recently buy Mad River's pumpkin and found it very disappointing. Very artificial tasting, bleh.

I don't know... some of those big bagels are a bit excessive, but if I eat a mini bagel for breakfast there is no way I am making it to lunch unless I eat a second one, too.

Though maybe I am just feeling grouchy because my last two meals have been on the small side and now I'm kind of hungry.