❓Sharing an apartment with a meat-eating roommate — how do we split kitchen use and grocery shopping?

The most practical approach is to each buy and store your own groceries separately (split the fridge into sections or use labels), and either stagger your cooking times or share the stove but keep separate cookware. That way neither of you interferes with the other's food and you avoid arguments about 'who should be paying for what.' It helps to nail down a few small things with your roommate up front: whether cutting boards should be kept separate, whether shared pots and pans need special cleaning after use, and anything to watch out for when it comes to trash disposal (like meat packaging). Spelling it out once beats running into friction repeatedly later. Most roommate conflicts don't actually come from 'vegetarian or not' itself — they come from unclear expectations about who does what. Laying it out with a checklist or a shared agreement up front makes living together go a lot more smoothly.