this is a topic that came up a lot in the old forum. i thought we could make a thread of helpful links and tips and everything else that new (or old and uninspired) vegetarians might like to know.

• wikipedia/vegetarian - what are vegetarians, and am i one if i have carrots with my fish on wednesdays? wikipedia entry on vegetarianism.
• eCGI: vegetarian cooking for everyone - excellent introduction to vegetarian cooking from egullet.org.
• vegweb.com - this place has an enormous archive of vegetarian and vegan recipes. you'll find the good, the bad and the very ugly. don't always trust the recipe ratings, but do read the comments, they often point out corrections and improvements to the recipes.
• pjchmiel.com/vegan - vegan restaurant food photos. from the chicago area, but great inspiration for making your own delicious vegan dishes.
• lj/vegan_cookoff - the livejournal vegan cookoff community. seems to be crawling towards a slow death lately, but check out the earlier challenges.
• veganfitness.net - message board for vegan fitness, nutrition and training.
• petaeats - yes, PETA. hate 'em or love 'em, either way their site on vegetarian living is a very good resource with things like i can't believe it's vegan, lunch box tips and the shopping guide.
• goveg - goveg.com is related to the peta site. do order or download the free vegetarian starter kit.
• vegetarian resource group - veg group made up of registered dieticians. some of their dieticians helped in writing the american dietetic associations position paper on vegetarian diets.
• vegsource.com - another big site with lots of articles and what appears to be a fairly active forum. why people still use that crappy forum format is beyond me, though. annoying design, but the articles are very well compiled in the article archive.
• vegan outreach - working to expose and end cruelty to animals through distribution of pamphlets.
• viva! usa / viva! uk / viva! poland - international organization campaigning on behalf of animals killed for food.
• compassion over killing - nonprofit animal advocacy organization based in washington dc.
• molliekatzen.com - official website of mollie katzen, author of the enchanted broccoli forest and other yummy vegetarian cookbooks. site has recipes from the books.

post a reply to add yours too!

Vegetarian Resource Group - Veg group made up of registered dieticians. Some of their dieticians helped in writing the American Dietetic Associations position paper on vegetarian diets.

vegsource.com

i haven't seen that one before. it looks very informative, i'll add it to the list.
i love that they have an article on disaster planning for vegetarians

Thank you guys for posting this. this is really helpful.

Thank you for this thread! I turned vegetarian on January 1st, and funnily enough my best friend did as well and we hadn't even talked about it.

I don't find it so hard to quit meat, what's hard is to find places that don't have meat in every meal they serve and have parents who find you ridiculous for quitting meat and who don't really make special food for you.

Anyone else feels purified ever since they stopped eating meat? Because I do.

Anyway, thanks again for the thread.

Oh, I also forgot to mention Subway's veggie steack sandwiches. Delicious!

you do know they're making everything on the same counters and with the same utensils as every other one of their sandwiches....

I noticed that the last time I was in there.

I never understand why people always bring this up. Yes, you're a vegetarian/vegan, and you don't eat meat, but you're not allergic to it. You're not going to break out in hives if your sandwich is cut with the same knife as meat; and don't worry the vegan police won't arrest you either. You're not saving any animals by demanding to have your sandwich made on a different surface. I never really cared for subway, the veggies aren't very fresh, and their breads not too great either, also the stores always have a weird smell to them; and hasn't it been said that the fake meat there isn't vegan, though that might not be true.

And before someone comes at me with some ridiculous extreme, yes I would understand complaining if your food were to be cooked in bacon grease or if you were to have a meal cooked in a pan that just had steak in it. That's understandable, from that you could get the animal fat added to the meal, and we all know what too much fat does to a vegan.

i dont understand it either steph.

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i wish vegetarian sites will stop coming up with some bullshit propaganda and just give me good solid vegetarian recipes minus the politics.

There's a link to veg cooking mixed in with all the other links at the top of the page, it has a lot of recipes. Here, I'll put the link again...
http://www.vegcooking.com/

Yes, but I'm not going to demand for my sandwich not to touch anything! I mean, it's not like I'm from any silly religion and that I cannot be in contact with meat. In the end I don't eat the meat, period. My family isn't vegetarian, yet I'm not going to kill them. I'm not an extremist vegetarian.

http://www.veganoutreach.org/index.html

http://www.vivausa.org/

And this site doesn't seem to be working right now, but it's Compassion Over Killing:

http://www.cok.net/

thanks, herekitty!

(sorry about being slow to add them to the list. procrastination is me.)

No problem. I didn't even know you were going to do that!

I am not a vegetarian, but my boyfriend is and I have to admit, it really pisses me off that so many restraunts don't cater for Vegetarians.
We go out for a drink, we are abit hungry and honestly looking at the menu, he has two things to chose from. I think its disgusting.
Also the quality of the food that is on offer for you.
Its like a choice between a bean burger or veggie curry. wow, amazing. [NOT]
Why don't they use quorn and make some really nice dishes?
I just don't understand it.
Also take outs, like dominos pizza. Two pizzas out of 20. both of them with just veg. I cannot understand why more places don't use Quorn as a substitute for meat.
We went to a weatherspoons the other day [yeah, don't ask ] and they had a curry night going on, there were 36 currys on the menu, you know how many were vegetarian? ONE!! fucking ONE!! I was disgusted.

I make Nik gorgeous food in the house with Quorn, he never goes without and I never struggle to feed him, although I do find it ridiulous how hard to it to find a good vareity of food in the supermarket. It always takes me so long to find some nice things, and then once finding it, looking at the price. god, I nearly pass out.

Anyone know of any good shops to suggest? or restraunts were I know he will be able to eat properly?
Have they got a website where you can search for vegetarian restraunts?
Nik used to live in Bath, and says they had a one there...that only sold vegetarian food. How would I go about finding out if there is anything like that in the Cardiff area??

http://www.molliekatzen.com/

this website has some of the best vegetarian recipes i have ever eaten on it.
mollie katzen is fantastic & all vegetarians should own 'the enchanted broccoli forrest', one of her cookbooks.

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I was at a pizza place a few weeks back and was looking at their vegetarian pizzas. Below the menu for them it had in small letters 'c