Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.
He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.
There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
I find that vegetables like butternut squash, which I feel unexcited about as a side dish, I'm thrilled to eat in a soup.
you're just a side dish not the main course!