Vegetarians & Meat-Lovers: Split Table Recipes

Vegetarians & Meat-Lovers: Split Table Recipes

Is your family composed of vegetarians and meat-eaters? Do some of those in your family only go for meatless portions while others love meat? Do you want to feed both vegetarians and meat-eaters easily at the same time? Well, if so, your situation is just like my family's. My name is Julie Hoag, and yep, I'm the vegetarian in a family of meat-lovers. I've had to learn to cook for both types of diets for every meal for the last 27 years so I've had a lot of experience. It's not as hard as you'd think to cook to accommodate both types of diets, but it does take paying attention to detail, thinking outside the box, and a bit of extra work, but less work than being a short-order cook. But the good news is that it's very possible to do! In this podcast, I will share tips, advice, and recipes to help you feed your varied diet family better with less time, with one recipe. Copyright starting 2022 and all rights reserved Julie A Hoag Julie Hoag Writer LLC NO AI TRAINING OF THIS PODCAST IS ALLOWED WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM THE PUBLISHER.

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September 27, 2026 • 19 mins

Season 4, Episode 28: Southwest Buffalo Chicken and Cauliflower Salad, A Split Table Recipe. This is so good and the cauliflower MAKES the recipe! If you hate cauliflower, but love spice, you will love this recipe because the cauliflower doesn't even taste like cauliflower! It really is the key ingredient in the recipe making it spectacular! It's a bowl type of recipe, which in our house means you customize your bowl to your own ta...

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Season 4, Episode 27: Hybrid 3 Cheese Mostaccioli Bake with Vegetarian Portion and Turkey Portion and family update about the high school marching band day at the U of M Gophers game!

This recipe is very tasty and can be modified easily, in fact I created three different sections to meet everyone's wants and desires! And it was just one recipe to make one dish! Ditch being a short order cook and cook in a hybrid spilt table way! #s...

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Season 4, Episode 26: Hybrid Ceasar Cold Pasta Salad for Vegetarians and Meat Eaters. This is a very tasty pasta salad full of good for you veggies and pasta, plus two cheeses. You can make it a hybrid dish easily by splitting the final salad in half (or as desired) and add pieces of cooked chicken. This is a family favorite and a crowd-pleaser!

Ingredients:

  • 16 oz bowtie pasta or penne (regular size or mini)
  • 12 oz frozen sweet...
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Season 4, Episode 25: Grandma's Homemade Mustard Sauce and my son's wedding! This mustard sauce is easy to make, but beware of the chunks! The key is to keep things all a similar temp and to constantly whisk it. The tasty sauce is so good on ham, bread, with pretzels as a dipping sauce, both crunchy and soft, and fabulous on sandwiches as well. Dip it, pour it, however you do it, it's so delish! 

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July 22, 2026 • 16 mins

Season 4, Episode 24: Tomato Spaghetti Cold Pasta Salad, perfect for summertime and picnics, or as a side dish for an entree, OR as the entree for a vegetarian because this pasta salad is meatless. This is a super easy recipe that yhou can whip up really quickly! It's super tasty and you may already have all the ingredients in your pantry. If you have leftover cooked spaghetti noodles, this is a great way to use them!

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Season 4, Episdoe 23: Dill Pickle Pasta Salad and Air Fryer Seasoned Chicken Thighs Hybrid Meal. This meal feels like a summer vibe! Any pickle salad screams summertime and with this tasty combo you can feed both the vegetarians and the meat lovers at your table! There are several versions for how to cook the chicken with this seasoning sauce mix, one for chicken thighs, one for drumsticks, and also one to cook chicken breasts in t...

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Season 4, Episode 22: Fajita Marinade For Peppers and Chicken, A Hybrid Meal Recipe. This is a very tasty marinade recipe for veggies and/or chicken. You can easily make this a combo meal of vegetarian portions and meat portions. It can be eaten as a fajita bowl over rice, or in a tortilla.  It's a fabulous build your own plate meal that can easily accommodate both meatless and meat eating diets.

Ingredients:

  • 1 onion, cho...
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June 15, 2026 • 16 mins

Season 4, Episode 21; Split Table Jambalaya recipe. This is an easy one to keep the meat and rice with veggies separate to easily be able to create both meat containing portions and meatless portions for vegetarians from one recipe. Get One Dish, Two Diets covered with this hybrid recipe and feed people of both diets from one recipe! Don't be a short order cook, just cook smarter! Create this meal for your family composed of vegeta...

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Season 4, Episode 20: Hybrid Spinach and 3 Cheese Vegetarian and Meat Big Pasta Bake Dinner. 

Cooking for a larger group where some people are vegetarians and others are meat eaters? This is your solution! This is a super easy and yummy baked pasta dish. This recipe uses two pans and will feed 8-10 people. It's similar to a spinach lasagna, but easier to make because you stir the ingredients together rathe...

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Season 4, Episode 19: Hybrid Southwest Black Bean, Sweet Potato, and Optional Chicken Bowls. This is a fantastic split table meal! It's very versatile and can work to create vegan, vegetarians, and also meat containing bowls in a very easy, and doable, manner. Feeding mutliple diets in one meal is a challenge, but not when you are armed with lots of recipes that work for just this situation! This is a tasty meal that is so customiz...

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Season 4, Episode 18: Zesty Veggie Italian Pasta Salad. This salad is simple to make and so tasty! It's a great one for hot summer days and picnics, but also works fabulous as a side dish to any meal. The prep is pretty simple and quick, which I love being a busy mom who runs her own business.

This recipe uses cheese, but it's very good without the cheese as well. So you have options!

Ingredients:

  • Italian Dressing and Recipe d...
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Season 4, Episode 17: Monte Cristo Hybrid Vegetarian and Meat Breakfast Casserole. Make one dish work for two diets with this super easy recipe! You will have happy vegetarians and happy meat eaters with this one! And get it all done in just one dish!

 This is a simple one to keep the meat separated from the non-meat section, meaning there's very little chance of the dreaded meat drift! The sandiwch meat stays put very nicely ...

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Season 4, Episode 16: Baked Tomato and Feta Eggs Vegetarian Side Dish. This is a tasty Greek influenced side dish with extra protein, which is fabulous for vegetarians, and meat-eaters, alike! It's very tasty and unique!

Ingredients:

2 cups cherry tomatoes

1 red pepper dice...

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April 11, 2026 • 12 mins

Season 4, Episode 15: Healthy Spinach Protein Greek Salad. This is a very tasty salad, a new favorite for us! It's simple but oh so good!

Ingredients

  • 5 oz. fresh spinach
  • 1 can chickpeas drained and rinsed
  • 1 container of grape tomatoes, halved
  • 1 green pepper chopped, OR 1 cucumber chopped
  • 4 oz. feta cheese
  • 1 small red onion chopped, or half of a medium/large one
  • 1/4 c. fresh parsely chopped (or 1 Tbsp dried parsely)
  • 1 c. pepita...
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Season 4, Episode 14: Super Tasty Hybrid Two Dish Veggie Pasta Bake, One Vegetarian Pan and One with Meatballs. This recipe is easy and super tasty! Even my new daughter-in-law-to-be says so! She's a vegetarian like me! Do you cook for more than one diet in your home? If you do, this is one example of how I do it so I don't end up being a short order cook. Plan it ahead and split it before adding in the meat.

Ingredients:

  • 16 o...
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Season 4, Episode 13:

Huevos Rancheros Meatless Casserole with meat on the side, make it a hybrid meal! Feed vegetarians and meat-eaters easily in one meal with this recipe. It's so good and a hearty meal! It works great for breakfast, brunch, lunch, or dinner.

Ingredients:

  • 2 ½ c. mild s...
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February 28, 2026 • 11 mins

Season  4, Episode 12: Easy Banana Yogurt Bread Recipe using zero added yogurt. This is a super easy yogurt based bread that you can change the flavor of by using different flavored yogurt cups. This is quick to make and works great as a breakfast/brunch item, as a dessert, or as a snack.

Ingredients:

  • 2 6.7 oz flavored Chobani (or other) zero added sugar yogurt cups
  • 1 6.7 oz vanilla Chobani (or other) zero added sugar yog...
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Season 4, Episode 11: Meatless and Ground Been Burger Bowls Hybrid Recipe, a Split Table Meal Option. 

Hi, I'm Julie Hoag and I'm a vegetarian, but my family eats meat. How do I prepare meals to fit all our varied diets? I create hybrid meals, or split table recipe meals to accommodate both ways of eating. I create recipes and I also modify recipes to make them work for my family, like this one. Don't be a short order cook, ju...

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January 31, 2026 • 11 mins

Season 4, Episode 10: Simple Tasty Homemade Air Fryer Croutons. This is so simple! Forgot to buy croutons but have bread? Make your own! I wish I had thought of this before! But my son tried it and then I was hooked on finding a yummy recipe. This is an easy recipe, and the herbs and spices, and kind of bread, could easily be swapped out for different flavors. This is a delicious way to dress up your salad in a new way.

Ingredients...

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Veggie Lover's Hybrid Spaghetti Hotdish, Make it Meatless and Vegetarian in One Dish. You can cook for both vegetarians and meat-eaters in one dish! This recipe is one way that you can easily do it so you don't have to be a short order cook.

Ingredients:

  • About 1 1/2 c. broccoli, cut into florets and steamed
  • 1 red pepper, cut up into pieces
  • big container of white mushrooms, sliced
  • 1 medium onion, cut up into pieces
  • 6 medium tom...
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