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>>4793919
Invest in TVP, nutritional yeast (gives a meaty flavour to any meal, try it in everything), gluten flour, chickpeas (or other beans) and lentils.

Use TVP as a substitute for ground meat in any dish.

Gluten flour is for your new, delicious veggie burgers (3 parts legumes, 2 parts grains (such as gluten flour and oats), 2 parts veggies = great blend). Remember to use lots of spices, a bit of oil and a bit of lemon juice/vinegar. Mash the ingredients and form burgers. Bake them in the oven for 15 min before you grill/fry them (or just eat them straight), so they cook all the way through. Make a huge portion and freeze them down for convenience.

Lentil soups are delicious and you can vary them endlessly with different vegetables. Use vegetarian stock.

Chickpeas are great in salads, theyre full of proteins and they fill you up.

Tofu is great in dishes where you would use diced meat, such as in woks and stews.

Oats with soy milk for breakfast gives you lots of protein. Add bananas/other fruit and/or raisins as a sweetener.

On your (healthy coarse) bread: hummus, other bean spreads (use your imagination, i like mashed soybeans with jalapenos and garam masala. Can also be made with lentils), nut butters, jams, jellies and marmelade (make it yourself and sweeten it with stevia), tomatoes and avocado with salt and pepper, green capsicum, herbs of all kinds, raisins, chopped up olives. Remember to use a healthy light margarine type with vegetable fats.

Not eating meat may seem like a restriction to you now, but it will probably open your eyes up to the endless world of vegetarian goodness. Welcome to a new culinary adventure.