Reddit mentions of Rose Elliot's New Complete Vegetarian

In terms of greenhouse gases emitted by sector (page 9), you'd be better off installing solar panels, and either working from home or cycling to work at a workplace that turns out the lights at night than you would stopping eating meat.

If you just want to be healthier then cutting down on red meat, eating a balanced diet, getting more exercise and stopping smoking will likely do you more good than just stopping eating meat.

Not saying you shouldn't be vegetarian or vegan†, but if your goal is either a healthier lifestyle or reducing greenhouse gas emissions then eating vegan is only one of a number of things you can do: It's not a magic ethical bullet.

† If you are, may I recommend Rose Elliott's "New Complete Vegetarian".

Start by having meat free days. Start with 2 meat free days a week, do it for a couple of weeks, increase to 4, again for a couple of weeks, then crank right up to 7 days.

Take the time to learn vegetarian recipes, there are loads out there. Get a basic soup, casserole/stew, salad, burger, curry and pasta sauce learnt and practised, then you can make anything from them.

If you can't cook already, you will need to learn. I find that most prepared vegetarian foods are a bit crap. I only ever use one brand of vege sausages and mince.

I really like Rose Elliot's Complete Vegetarian and the River Cottage Veg Everyday. I realise you probably don't live in the UK, but there may be translations available in your country.

There is also the BBC Good Food website, which has, as of this post, 2153 vegetarian recipes.

Good luck, if you need help, ask away, I'm sure there are plenty of people here who can help!

Check out Rose Elliots's New Complete Vegetarian. If you have a Waterstones nearby they might have it and you can flip through it to see if you like the recipes but it is a lot of British favourites. Not exactly pub favourites but the type of food that you can get all the ingredients from a supermarket easily and don't worry,there is only one section on salad.

I just looked and there is 7 variations of lasagne in there :)
The book is in sections like soups/pastas/grains/beans/pastries/pudding etc. Here's a link to it on Amazon but I like to look through recipes books before buying them which is why I mentioned checking waterstones (The preview on amazon only shows the soup section :/ ). There's also used copies for way cheaper on there and the book I linked is a revised copy of an older book called Complete Vegetarian by the same author which you can get for a couple of quid from ebay.

Cooking on a Bootstrap has some pretty good recipes as well which are useful as they tell you the approximate price.The beans and lentils section on the blog will help if you're worried about protein

Also check your local library or charity shops for older vegetarian cookbooks. They are less likely to have 'trendy' ingredients and more likely to be based on their 'wholesome' meat counterparts.