Male insight please!

[Primrose]

We currently have ready for picking in the garden tomatoes, carrots, runner beans, French beans, courgettes, Cavalo Nero and Swiss chard.
This morning my husband had to pop out to the supermarket and returned home with calabrese, sugar snap peas, an aubergine and a cauliflower,
When I asked him In exasperation why on earth he'd bought extra vegetables when we had so much from the garden to eat he responded "Well, I like variety!"
How many different vegetables do you eat with your average meal? I would rather have just one or two vegetables in sufficient quantity to enjoy their flavour than about six different veg piled on a plate. At this rate we will never eat our way through what I grow! How many different vegetables do you all eat in an average meal?

[Diane]

Two - usually. Whatever is in season and mostly from the garden if possible.

[oldherbaceous]

Dear Primrose, we normally have two or three vegetables, plus potatoes.

I was just wondering if it was a diversionary tactic, for something else he has done wrong.

[Beryl]

I usually have more veg on my plate than meat or fish. 3 plus potatoes and always from the allotment, I never buy except mushrooms and sometimes a caulli as I don't grow them any more.

Beryl.

[WestHamRon]

We currently have ready for picking in the garden tomatoes, carrots, runner beans, French beans, courgettes, Cavalo Nero and Swiss chard.
This morning my husband had to pop out to the supermarket and returned home with calabrese, sugar snap peas, an aubergine and a cauliflower,
When I asked him In exasperation why on earth he'd bought extra vegetables when we had so much from the garden to eat he responded "Well, I like variety!"
How many different vegetables do you eat with your average meal? I would rather have just one or two vegetables in sufficient quantity to enjoy their flavour than about six different veg piled on a plate. At this rate we will never eat our way through what I grow! How many different vegetables do you all eat in an average meal?

That's husband speak for "These are the veg I prefer but you have never asked."

[Monika]

We only have one 'conventional' meal a week, that is meat, potatoes and two or possibly three vegetables, usually for Sunday lunch. The remaining meals are mostly fish with one or two veggies or just vegetables or pasta.

We very rarely buy vegetables and make do with what we have grown, either fresh or frozen. The only exceptions are tomatoes in the colder months and sweet peppers all the year round (we do grow peppers but very, very few).

[Elaine]

We have potatoes and two or three vegetables, depending on what we have available from our allotment. Today, we had mashed potatoes, carrots, cabbage and runner beans. I do enjoy a variety of vegetables and so does my husband...fortunately.

[retropants]

we had a sunday roast, but I didn't roast the potatoes, just cooked all the veg, then made bubble and squeak with it. potatoes, leeks, carrots and cabbage, all from the plot. had the rest yesterday (I always make double)

[Redfox]

Usually 2 veg with sunday dinner, today I have made a mince and pasta bake, in the mince there's onions, celery, carrots and runner beans, all nice and finely chopped. there's so much veg you can barely see the mince meat

[PLUMPUDDING]

Yesterday we had carrots, broccoli, French beans and four types of small potatoes with lamb and had blackberry and apple crumble and custard for pud. Today we had onions, garlic, celery, courgette' beans, sweet red peppers and cavalo nero kale cooked in sieved tomatoes topped with feta cheese with pasta, and had some peaches from the greenhouse for afters. The only things not home produced were the lamb, feta and celery.

We don't always have so much, but I love making meals out of whatever is ready - just a few of this and a few of that and there is such variety at this time of year you don't need much if any meat. We usually have fish, seafood or chicken rather than red meat, and always lots more veg.

I know what you mean about your husband bringing back more veg from the shop when you already have lots in the garden. My partner brings back punnets of plums or peaches when we already have mountains of them.