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    Well, folks, in the interest of improving my diet, I'm looking into eating less meat. At present, the only options that I can think of offhand are lasagna, tofu, and curry. Does anyone have more ideas for ways that I can feel as full as I normally do after downing a burger?

    As an aside, this thread is not for debating the merits of the vegetarian lifestyle. There are people on both sides of the issue with little intent to budge on it. My hope is to create a useful resource for myself, and, hopefully, a few other people.

    I realize that there's a similar thread somewhere in the back of this forum, but I wasn't able to find it in the first three pages, so I decided to avoid risking threadomancy.
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    I'm personally fond of almost any pasta with mushrooms. Particularly ravioli.

    Samosas, though I've never made them myself. Many soups--split pea soup comes to mind. Falafel. Almost any vegetable can be cooked on its own. Some favorite are creamed corn, fried okra, lima beans (Yes, I was raised in the south). Some people like fried tomato slices. Bell peppers can be roasted, and are good on bread. Fried plantains.

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    Pasta and lentils are good. I highly suggest you pick up a vegetarian or vegan cook book.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RS14
    I'm personally fond of almost any pasta with mushrooms. Particularly ravioli.

    Samosas, though I've never made them myself. Many soups--split pea soup comes to mind. Falafel. Almost any vegetable can be cooked on its own. Some favorite are creamed corn, fried okra, lima beans (Yes, I was raised in the south). Some people like fried tomato slices. Bell peppers can be roasted, and are good on bread. Fried plantains.
    Good point about the soups, and I'll have to try the fried veggies idea to see if it grants me satiety. After looking up the Samosas, I agree that they could serve pretty well.

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    Pasta and lentils are good. I highly suggest you pick up a vegetarian or vegan cook book.
    That would also be a good idea. Regrettably, I'm an impoverished college student, so my aim is to get as many ideas as possible, and try to rip recipes for them from the web. I do hope that my local grocery store has lentils. It seems as though a few of the better recipes require them.
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    I always liked porrdige from Fagopyrum (?).

    Or from millet. With mushrooms.
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    Look up Indian recipes in general. Some involve meat, but there are plenty which are vegetarian/vegan.

    Like spicy chickpeas in a tomato based sauce with jasmine rice. And pepper (not the spicy kind, the green and yellow kind), cucumber, and olices in a vingerette thing. And all sorts of vegetable medley type things (those I fell in love with at Krishna lunch).

    Spaghetti is also vegetarian. Many pasta dishes are/can be.



    But yeah...Indian food. Most American vegetarian cuisine I've had is fairly bland, but I have never had a bad experience with Indian vegetarian food.

    Checking out Krishna recipes in particular are good for veggie food. You'll likely have a lot of religious stuff come along with looking it up, but it's worth it for the food!
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    The porridge option seems pretty straightforward, and can presumably be improved by adding whatever flavors one wishes to it, like fruit and such.

    Thank you for the general indication toward Indian recipes, Syka. After looking at a few, it seems as though some of them have rather esoteric ingredients. How necessary are things like coconut shavings and coriander leaves? Are most of the flavors preserved so long as I use the right base and spices?
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    I'm really not sure. I know most of the spices should be available at a local supermarket, and some of the more obscure ingrediants should have substitutions or be available at ethnic supermarkets. Indian food shares a lot of ingrediants with Chinese food, so if you have a Chinese market, they should have some of the stuff. I live in a fairly small area and I know of a few ethnic markets around me, but I'm sure this varies by area.

    Really...you may want to look to Asian cuisine in general.


    Question- are you avoiding all meats, or just red meat, or land-based animals, or what?

    ETA: I'll try and find my Krishna Recipe book and PM you the recipes in there. There's everything from Indian, to Mexican, to Mediterranean in there. A LOT of the stuff is fresh made, though. Like there are a few bread recipes which are basically make-it-from-scratch stuff.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Syka View Post
    I'm really not sure. I know most of the spices should be available at a local supermarket, and some of the more obscure ingrediants should have substitutions or be available at ethnic supermarkets. Indian food shares a lot of ingrediants with Chinese food, so if you have a Chinese market, they should have some of the stuff. I live in a fairly small area and I know of a few ethnic markets around me, but I'm sure this varies by area.

    Really...you may want to look to Asian cuisine in general.


    Question- are you avoiding all meats, or just red meat, or land-based animals, or what?
    I'm mostly avoiding red meat, given that it's generally the least healthy, but even that isn't a hard and fast rule. Mostly, I'm just trying to cut down on all of my meat consumption at once.

    Edit: That sounds fantastic! I'll grant that I may not have the patience to bake my own bread, though...
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    I myself am not vegetarian, but my house-mates all are, and operate on student budgets. Tortillas, with peppers, onions, mushrooms, cheese and the spices/sauces always go down well. Veggy chilli also always goes down a spot. The afore mentioned soup is often good value.

    Just remember not to simply stop eating meat and leave the rest of your diet the same. You need to replace the stuff your dropping - beans and stuff for protein etc. I should mention, that if you're only doing this for health reasons, not ethical ones, you should consider carrying on with fish. It's the hardest thing to replace.

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    Have you looked at quorn?
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    Yeah, do your research to make sure you're getting everything you need. Much of the stuff we get from meat (protein, iron, etc.) we can also get from other methods; I spoke with the Krishna's and they make sure the lunches they serve have all the needed nutrients.


    As for the recipes, I'll warn that I haven't tried them myself, but most look fantastic. The lack of attempt on my part was more laziness and not having time more than lack of desire.
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    As for soups, I learnt this extremely simple cauliflower one from my brother (who's a chef).

    Chop up the cauliflower and simmer it in a bit of good oil. Olive oil or rapeseed oil is what I usually use. Then cover it in vegetable stock (chicken stock works fine too, if you don't mind this non-vegetarian aspect) and add salt and pepper to taste. Boil until the cauliflower is tender, and use an immersion blender to liquify it while it's still hot. Optionally, cream can be added before blending, but it's not really necessary.

    Serve with bread. I'm suprised how good this is every time I make it.

    Edit: Just to chime in on the nutrition aspect: as long as you eat meat once in a while and keep a varied diet you should be fine. It's only straight vegetarians and vegans that need to take special precautions. It doesn't hurt to read a bit, of course
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    How many vegetarian thread have we had now?

    Anyway, I don't really see how a vegetarian diet is a healthier option then many other diets, but good luck. Also, DON'T have quorn. If you want to keep your taste buds safe... don't. I do recommend those corn things with bread crumbs. OwO
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    You need to find which foods have protein. That's why you feel so full after eating a burger and not after eating a salad.

    Beans and quinoa are my favorite protein additions.

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    Chickpeas are your friends when it comes to non-animalistic proteins. They're great in soups and salad alike and of course in hummus and falafel.

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    Try experimenting with Rice and see what you like .

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    So quite rightly you see a lot of gestures towards various pulses, Sucrose. If you're starting out on the wide and wonderful road of bean cookery I suggest you start with two particularly easy favourites that you can find for about $1/pound (any more is gouging) that goes a long way: split and peeled red lentils, and split and peeled moong dal. The former look like little bright orange flat circles, the latter like little bright yellow grains.

    A soup with these dudes is the easiest thing in the world and contains immense room to play and improvise. Saute an onion in some grease, then add a cup of the lentils, five cups of water, and salt (2 teaspoons is about what I'd add I think, but I never measure salt), bring to a boil, and simmer it gently for 10 minutes (red lentils) or 15 (moong dal). The soup is wide-open to add spices or vegetables in any combination your heart desires: add them to the onion and saute them for a few minutes just before the water and lentils. Diced sweet potatoes are especially nice.

    Serve the soup with some toast or a bun or some rice, and you've got yourself a really nutritious and cheap and fast meal. I eat this pretty much every day, although I have an elaborate formula of many spices that goes in. Cumin, black mustard seeds, and black cardamom (popped in the hot oil before the onion goes in), coriander, turmeric, cayenne, sweet paprika, red chile flakes, hing, black salt, black pepper, ginger, garlic, a little lemon juice or vinegar, and garam masala right at the end when it's off the simmer.

    edit Personally I find that canned beans have a really gross flavour and texture and I never use them, but if you want to use chickpeas and other meatier beans, you might want to start with canned because they take time and experience to cook properly from dry.
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    Really...you may want to look to Asian cuisine in general.
    Madhur Jaffrey's Eastern Vegetarian Food is really worth checking out for general asian veggie cooking. I've probably cooked more from that than any other recipe book.

    Plus it was first published in the UK about 30 years ago, so it doesn't make too many assumptions about what sort of obscure ingredients you can get hold of - most of it will work with just a reasonable set of spices, soy sauce, garlic, ginger etc. (And does it help you to know that coriander leaves are the same thing as cilantro? It was a big step forward for me in using american recipes when I realized that cilantro wasn't actually something immensely obscure and hard to find.)
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    I'm in pretty much the same situation as the OP, I'm also trying to cut down on meat consumption. As has been said before, the most important thing is to remember your protein sources. Lentils, beans, chickpeas, soy products, eggs and cheese are the most popular options.

    I second the lentil soup recommendation, it's very nutritious, tasty, filling, cheap and easy. I like to make it a sort of lentil-tomato soup, spiced with curry, cumin, koreander, bay leaves, lemon juice and mango chutney. Blend and add coconut milk when it's boiled for a nice creamy consistency.

    Soups in general are great vegetarian meals - I lived as a vegetarian for the entire month of January as an experiment, and I think various soups made up the majority of my meals. Most soups benefit greatly from bread on the side.

    Here is a couple of nice soup recipes from my favourite recipe site:

    Black Bean Vegetable Soup - A surprisingly delicious soup despite the apparently few and "boring" ingredients. Very easy and cheap to make.

    Red Lentil Soup - A good example of what a lentil soup might look like.

    Ham and Potato Soup - This is a fantastic potato soup, which can easily be modified to be vegetarian. It has a very nice and creamy consistency. Replacing the ham with mushrooms could work well, for instance. Also remember to replace the chicken bouillon with vegetable bouillon.

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    If you want vegetarian recipes/info try the following list:

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    Wow, quite a few responses since I last checked on this. Thank you to everyone for the information that you've provided!

    For those of you concerned about replacing the proteins and such that one gets from meat, I personally plan to continue eating meat, just in dramatically reduced quantities.

    That way, I only get what I need, rather than the far greater than average quantity that I generally am getting at the moment. That said, since protein does encourage satiety, and is the backbone of many of my meals, I still find the recommendations for reasonable replacements quite handy.

    Thank you again! In a bit, I'll be going to the grocery store, to try to collect some of the ingredients that you've recommended.
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    http://smittenkitchen.com/ is a very good recipe blog for veggie and contains-some-meat-but-isn't-just-a-big-slab-of-beef recipes. (And cakes. Lots of cakes.)

    It's written by a new yorker, though, so it does assume that you have good access to a wide range of fresh ingredients - if you don't then you might have to pick and choose recipes a bit.

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    For those of you concerned about replacing the proteins and such that one gets from meat, I personally plan to continue eating meat, just in dramatically reduced quantities.

    That way, I only get what I need, rather than the far greater than average quantity that I generally am getting at the moment.


    That said, since protein does encourage satiety, and is the backbone of many of my meals, I still find the recommendations for reasonable replacements quite handy.
    Eggs and Milk are the best substitutes. Proteins from Dairy are the most easily absorbed, and Eggs are close. On the vegetable side, Soy and nuts have the most protein.

    DISCLAIMER: I'm sorry if I missed any vegetable that has more protein than soy or nuts or if there's some other protein that's more easily absorbed, resist the urge to prove me wrong please.

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    Lentils and rice combine to make a full protein in your body. A great meal is lentils cooked with spinach and tomato, on rice. (even if the flavour is much improved by the addition of salt pork, but considering this is a vegetarian thread)
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    There are countless ways to cook potatoes, and they are highly nutritious and ridiculously cheap.

    Lentils are much of the same, but in my opinion don't taste nearly as good and are not nearly as satisfying.
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    Default Re: Vegetarian Meals

    Quote Originally Posted by Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll View Post
    Lentils and rice combine to make a full protein in your body.
    This is indeed the received wisdom.

    The first problem is that there's next to no protein in rice.

    The second is that it is not important to eat all essential amino acids in the same meal, so long as one's diet is varied enough overall to get all of them.

    Just sayin'. They do go well together though.

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    Default Re: Vegetarian Meals

    If you're looking for healthy as your veggie option, make sure you go for plenty of vegetables. Meat substitutes are generally poor, and not an especially healthy option.

    So - my suggestions for good simple veggie meals with health in mind.

    Caesar Salad with mozeralla chunks. No chicken. Chicken isn't vegetables.

    You know the con carne part of chilli con carne means "with meat"?
    Make a chilli without meat - just go with frying up some onions, adding baked beans, tomatoes, kidney beans, and stewing it for ages with all your favourite chilli spices.

    Get some Haloumi cheese (much tastier than bean curd), and fry chunk of it with a whole load of oriental vegetables and the sauce of your choice. Good with noodles or rice.

    Quote Originally Posted by Ponce View Post
    There are countless ways to cook potatoes, and they are highly nutritious and ridiculously cheap.
    BOIL 'EM, MASH 'EM, STICK 'EM IN A STEW!

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    I ran across The Veggie Table while looking for a vegetarian Mexican dish. It has lots of receipes of every sort, and also some info on vegetarianism in general.

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    Any eggplant based dish should be a good one to try. That, and go to the Food Network website. You can probably find just about anything you would want there.
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