I'd fully agree it's really easy to eat veggie and well in India, when I was there in the 70s I thought the food absolutely magnificent, unlike many of my compatriots

How can anyone not like masala dhosas
The problem here is that culturally our food has been meat first, and the rest as an afterthought. Hence the myriad of mostly rather horrible "meat substitutes". In the 70s and early 80s, yes, mostly all a veggie could get eating out was omelette and salad. This has certainly been changing over the years though, and it is now perfectly possible to eat well and veggie. Pretty much impossible in Germany and pretty hard in the US though (hence your ex-wife's mistaken idea that potatoes are vegetables - before you apoplex, as far as food values go, they are carbohydrate, and one needs vegetable to go with the protein and carbohydrate).
Most veggies in the UK, in my experience, are great cooks too. They can do far more than salad
