(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best vegetarian & vegan cookbooks

Learn to make seitan. It's quite easy and saves you a lot of money over buying it pre-made, and it can go in so many different recipes. You need vital wheat gluten, which you can buy on Amazon. (Don't be afraid to order some things, since they'll probably last you quite a while once they come. Nutritional yeast is another thing worth ordering; it comes up in a lot of recipes.) Here is one recipe, though there are many out there on the interwebs: http://www.theppk.com/2009/11/homemade-seitan/
It freezes well, so you can make it once a week or so and take out a portion every time you need to make a meal. It basically takes the place of meat in most recipes.

You need to eat legumes too—soy or other kinds of beans. I'm a big tofu eater myself. If you think you don't like tofu, make sure you're cooking it right, and that needs to start with pressing it. (To me, unpressed tofu tastes nasty and watery, and pressed tofu is totally dreamy.) There are as many ways to do that as there are cooks, but here's one guide: http://www.veggiebelly.com/2011/04/how-to-press-tofu.html
Then marinade it and bake, or stir-fry with some kind of sauce. You can save money by making your own marinades or time by buying premade ones.

Normally I would recommend buying beans and grains from bulk bins, but it sounds like that may not be an option where you live. Beans are still hella cheap (especially if you buy them dry) and there's a reason rice and beans are a dietary staple for so many people. I loooove grains, but some of them (e.g. quinoa) are not all that affordable. But see what you can find: barley and couscous, for example, can be really satisfying.

If you like hummus, you can make your own in a blender and save money over buying it premade.

I am a big cookbook fan and learned to cook from vegan cookbooks. The Post Punk Kitchen is relatively simple and delicious. There are a lot of recipes on the web site (http://www.theppk.com/), and Isa has some fantastic cookbooks out as well, with my favorite being Vegan With a Vengeance. Vegan Yum Yum is a bit more advanced, but has some of the most delicious food I've ever eaten, and that too has both a book and a web site (http://veganyumyum.com/). Vegan Dad (http://vegandad.blogspot.com/) can get complicated but is singularly wonderful: try the hot wings some time! If all that is too much to get started with, don't worry, you'll feel better soon, and look for recipes aimed at teenagers and college students. My family has taken a lot of recipes from The Teen's Vegetarian Cookbook (http://www.amazon.com/Teens-Vegetarian-Cookbook-Judy-Krizmanic/dp/0140385061), which offers vegan substitutions for all the recipes. I should reiterate that there are a huge number of recipes available online, if you don't want to drop cash on cookbooks!

I hope some of that was helpful. I've been transitioning away from premade foods myself, and also shopping on a budget, so let me know if you have any other questions. (I do have good grocery options, so my tips may falter on that front.) Good luck and enjoy!

Asian food is your friend!

There are so many curries and dishes from india that are vegetarian as around a third of their country doesn't eat meat. A personal favourite is a vegetable dhansak. There are so many options from just india, it just depends what interests you and what you feel comfortable trying to cook.

Other curry recipes that I really like are, tarka dahl, anda bhurji, and Mutter paneer.

Dont be worried if you/your partner doesn't like chilli when you make the curries yourself you can control the chilli.

Another good simple asian dish is the humble stir fry. It is as easy if not easier than pasta and in my opinion much nicer. Just do a stirfry as you would normally for a dish with meat but instead of meat you have a few options.

1. Tofu
   
2. Beancurd
   
3. Eggs
   
4. Quorn or fake meat
   
   Quorn is a personal taste thing so if he likes it then try it. Eggs are amazing and go really well in thai dishes. Tofu and beancurd work well in chinese or thai. I dont have a specific recipe for these as it depends what veg i have in my fridge. This video however does cover the general idea well.
   
   There are a wide variety of soy based products from asia, they can be hard to find unless you have a large asian population/supermarket nearby.
   
   While not asian another cuisine that can work quite well and can be easy to cook is mexican. My father has a really good recipe for burritos where he makes his own salsa, guac, roasts veggies etc and then you just make like 3 burritos over the course of the meal.
   
   If you are still stuck for ideas google and reddit really are your friends! I have a massive bookmarked folder of things I want to try cooking/making at somepoint.
   
   
5. /r/vegetarian is a bit more active than here and is usually full of ideas
   
6. http://veggieturkeys.com/ is a great place if you want recipes from anatolia and turkey.
   
7. /r/GifRecipes is a personal favourite, while they are by no means all vegetarian there are some and they are great fun.
   
   If you are really new to cooking in general I would suggest looking at both a student cookbook vegetarian or not, I personally like these two.
   Sorted food are also very easy to follow and are great for ideas both veg and non veg.

Firstly: Good luck! You're doing well already, and you'll get to where you want to be in time.

Have you got any vegan recipe books? Easy Vegan and 500 Vegan Dishes both have fairly simple but tasty dishes. I don't think they tend to need very exotic ingredients.

Easy Vegan:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vegan-Cookery-Ryland-Peters-Small/dp/1845979583

500 Vegan Dishes:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/500-Vegan-Dishes-Deborah-Gray/dp/1845434161

And do you feel that vegan meat alternatives aren't as easy to buy, or maybe aren't as good, as the vegetarian ones? You say that you eat the Linda McCartney pies, so I guess you've seen other products in that range too. But Fry's Vegetarian is great, and I've recently heard really good things about Vegusto meat alternatives - their Farmhouse sausages in particular, but also their burgers (you'll probably have to order off their website though).

Fry's Vegetarian:
http://www.frysvegetarian.co.uk/

Vegusto:
http://vegusto.co.uk/

I guess you probably know about Holland and Barrett stores? They're good for getting some of the more exotic ingredients, but they also have meat alternatives and such. Also, they have a few microwaveable meals - pasties and that sort of thing - which are quite nice. You can also often get microwaveable burritos, and probably other similar things, in the frozen section.

Also here are a couple of easy meals I like:

(1) Buy refried beans (http://www.oldelpaso.co.uk/products/refried-beans/975cedfc-f177-4eda-a689-192c4ec346af/) and put it in tacos (along with corn, lettuce, tomato, and whatever else you like). (The refried beans are seriously good.)

(2) You can make falafel easily (http://www.alfez.com/moroccan_lebanese_cuisine/products/all-products/falafel.html) and eat it with houmous, because everyone likes houmous.

If you're mainly looking for sweeter things:
Co-operative custard donuts and jam donuts are both apparently vegan (and delicious). You can buy vegan ice cream in the frozen section of Holland and Barrett (and maybe at Tesco or other supermarkets) - Swedish Glace is pretty incredible, and most people say it's as good as ordinary ice cream. You can also get vegan cheesecake in Holland and Barrett, again in the frozen section. Also buy Lotus Caramelised Biscuit Spread and put it on Tesco Oaties (well, that's a combination I like, but I guess you could mix it up...).

Or if you wanted to bake, these are three really good books:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vegan-Cupcakes-Take-Over-World/dp/1569242739

http://www.amazon.com/Vegan-Pie-Sky-Out-This-World/dp/0738212741

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vegan-Cookies-Invade-Your-Cookie/dp/160094048X

(The cookie book is by far the easiest, and uses the least exotic ingredients. On the other end of the spectrum is the pie book, which uses things like coconut oil and agar agar - the first of which you can get at Holland and Barrett but the second of which you'd have to order online.)

Also, just by the way: 'What Fat Vegans Eat', a facebook page, gives you a constant stream of delicious-looking vegan food.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/194567900666819/?fref=nf

You obviously have more than enough individual suggestions already, so I'll just recommend three books instead in case you're a cookbook collector like me!

I'm also an omnivorous meat-eater but I'm happy to endorse these excellent, full-on vegan cookbooks by Isa Chandra Moskowitz:

Veganomicon. This is one of those comprehensive, encyclopedic things that could be—if you were a vegan—the only cookbook you own. It just covers everything, and I've never made anything from it that wasn't great. It's a manageable 336 pages, but they're dense; it's a book where every page has two or three recipes, not one where every dish gets a photo. Highly recommended.

Isa Does It. So this is like the sandwich-shop version of Veganomicon. Isa Does It (get it?) is vegan on easy-mode: here are sloppy joes and mac and cheese and, generally, all the casual vegan meals you could ever eat. Vegans over at /r/mealprepsundays should mass-produce burger patties from it. Not recommended quite as highly, but highly recommended for what it is.

Isa is just a really good cook, so her flavors and vegetable & grain choices have always been on point for me. My favorite thing about her writing, and what keeps me coming back to her as a meat-eater, is that she's never interested in creating meat substitutes. The vegetables are the point, after all, so she's making dishes where the vegetables are the showstopper. When she makes a burger it always feels just a little halfhearted compared to her rock-star vegetable dishes, which is why "Isa Does It" falls just short of "Veganomicon" for me. But it's still great.

For a really great chef who does somersaults to simulate meat dishes—burgers and chili and Thanksgiving turkey—it is well worth your while to pick up The Chicago Diner Cookbook by Jo Kaucher. I could tell stories about some large-scale orphan Thanksgivings I've helped to host, where we served a hundred people over two days with meat and vegan options flying everywhere. We practically scripted the vegetarian (vegan) half of these meals from the Diner cookbook. Here is what I know: a ton of starving Chicago artists of varying omnivore, vegetarian and vegan status absolutely destroyed Jo Kaucher's tofurkey year after year after year, while my SO's actual-turkey, which is damned fucking good, always took second place and became leftovers. Shit, I prefer Jo's tofurkey to real turkey and I'm the kind of guy who makes laap from scratch at home, which means I'll spend an hour mincing intestines on a cutting board that you wet with pig blood while you chop. That is, I don't go out of my way for tofu and still I adore Jo's tofurkey.

Anyway, I hope those are fun suggestions that might be useful. :)

That's really great! Skipping ahead to your end goal, becoming vegan is, quite literally, the best thing I've ever done for myself, and I know that will likely be true for you, as well!

I highly recommend reading the book Mind If I Order the Cheeseburger?. It was SO helpful to me in fully being able to express the reasons I'm vegan, which made me feel so much more confident when speaking to (well-intentioned but clueless) family and friends.

Living a vegan lifestyle is so much easier than I ever thought it would be, and it's really fun to develop recipes and try new things. I think you'll be really pleased with the amount of energy it gives you and the way your body feels when cutting out animal products. It makes a massive difference.

I'm really excited for you. You're making an excellent choice, and it will all be worth it! The initial awkwardness fades very quickly. They'll come around. Don't worry! Soon, it'll just be something "quirky" about you, and they'll still love you just as much. :)

Glad you're enjoying it. There's a whole world of vegan cooking out there to enjoy. I love to cook and I thought going vegan would put a damper on that but I've found it's been quite the opposite.

I've heard good things about the Forks Over Knives cookbook, but I keep forgetting to pick up a copy. I don't do a ton of baking and mostly do more 'improvisational cooking', so my favorite is http://www.hotforfoodblog.com/ - I really dig their philosophy on food and how they improvise and really get into being imaginative.

I agree that lots of vegan cookbooks are basic. A lot of vegan food (at least in my experience) is pretty simple and quick, and I guess those cookbooks are trying to 'sell' veganism as a convenient thing. Here are some that I think look interesting, but I couldn't tell you if they would match your skill level.

https://www.amazon.com/Vegetarian-Cooking-Academy-California-Culinary/dp/1564260380

https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Vegetarian-Cooking-Kenneth-Bergeron/dp/0471292354

https://www.amazon.com/Vegan-Gourmet-Expanded-2nd-Delicious/dp/0761516263

I'm big on trying to make things from different culinary traditions, so I also like sites like http://veganlovlie.com/ which is Mauritian fusion cuisine (!).

Sites like http://findingvegan.com/ might lead you to some cool blogs. I've definitely gone down that rabbit hole a few times.

Anyway, welcome and good luck and happy cooking. :D

My wife is Vegan and I am not, however, ever since we started dating we have cooked exclusively Vegan at home. I have enjoyed the challenge of finding and making delicious meals that I, as a non-vegan, enjoy and even prefer to animal based fare.

The easiest hit we have had serving food to non-vegans is probably a Savory Leek Quiche recipe from the Vegetarian Times: http://www.vegetariantimes.com/recipe/savory-leek-quiche/

We have also had some great reviews from the excellent, although fairly difficult, Millennium Restaurant Cookbooks (The Rhubarb and Tempeh Cannelloni was a huge success): http://www.millenniumrestaurant.com/restaurant/cookbook.html

As the non-vegan is residence I have most enjoyed a cookbook that my wife bought for me while she was visiting Texas: http://www.amazon.com/Hearty-Vegan-Meals-Monster-Appetites/dp/1592334555

My suggestion is to avoid recipes which try to mimic traditional meat dishes using meat substitutes. In general, meat substitutes are never going to be as good as meat and those recipes are wasting time trying to be meat like rather than focusing on what makes non-animal foods taste great. Look for dishes from cultures where meat consumption is rare to non-existent; they will have perfected flavor and balance without the use of animal products and will highlight a vegetable product as the star of the dish. As far as cookbooks go The Artful Vegan from Millennium does an excellent job of putting the vegetables first. Unfortunately the recipes in the Millennium cookbooks are often time consuming and relatively difficult which tends to confine them to weekend and dinner party cooking at our house.

I hope this helps.

I'm a veggie student studying in Canterbury and, if you are living on University of Kent campus, Sainsbury's supermarket will probably be your closest supermarket although there are buses to Asda which is another large supermarket and - as someone else mentioned - there is the Goodshed store which is a food market type store next to Canterbury West railway station. For a veg-friendly shopping experience, there is also [Green Pea Wholefoods store](
http://www.greenpeawholefoods.co.uk/) where they have a cafe as well.

• Supermarkets in Canterbury
  
  As a note, many students do online deliveries so you don't have to carry heavy shopping nor waste too much time shopping if you are busy with essays etc. I doesn't cost much and you can book delivery slots.
  
  All foods sold here that are vegetarian friendly are labelled properly with a protected stamp so you can guarantee no meat products or derivatives are in your food; you just need to find the label or 'suitable for vegetarian' title on the packaging.
  
  Generally, I have found the supermarket's own vegetarian food very nice and affordable (some supermarket product links below). Quorn is available quite readily here with their mince a favourite of mine for Spaghetti Bolognese, Lasagna and Cottage Pie plus their sausages for a good Toad in the Hole. A brand called Linda McCartney is also delicious as well.
  
  
• Asda Own Vegetarian Food Brand
  
  
• Sainsburys' Own Vegetarian Food Brand
  
  Fruit and vegetables are quite affordable and easily available so shop around and take what you fancy; my favourite snacks are dried fruits generally in addition to apples and bananas. Baked beans are also cheap and make a great quick breakfast/lunch. Vegetables already cut up into stir-fry vegetables makes a nice quick dinner as well and aren't too pricey.
  
  I'd recommend grabbing a student vegetarian cookbook so you can keep making tasty interesting food and they often have a fair few British recipes. They are more than affordable as well - Example.
  
  There is a food store on Kent's campus but it is has over-priced food, is not that veg-friendly food-wise and the fresh food is never of that good quality so I wouldn't recommend shopping there, as someone else mentioned.
  
  If you have any other questions, feel free to message/comment reply back.
  
  

If you don't know how to cook, this is an awesome time to learn.

Stir-fry, soup, stew, rice & beans, sautee'd things, roasted things, etc... there's a bajillion recipes out there you can try out :)

I love trawling allrecipes.com and just veganizing stuff that sounds good.

White bean and Kale ragout is fantastic.

And this cookbook is filled with delicious vegan food

Hi. If you're interested in any particular books about the vegetarianism and veganism, I would be interested in getting you one. I can offer ~$10 through amazon for a variety of books.

My personal favorite it The Vegan Sourcebook. It's not a cook book, its a book of information (with a few recipes too). It's all of the reasons you will want to stay veg*n forever and all of the ways to help improve the life of da aminals everywhere.

http://www.amazon.com/Vegan-Sourcebook-Sourcebooks-Joanne-Stepaniak/dp/0737305061
I would love to get that for you. It's a book that I mentally refer to nearly every time I think of or talk of food politics. It's a wealth of knowledge.

Regardless, I'm hyped you've got vegetarian. Hands off the animals.

Coincidentally, PlantPure Nation Cookbook was just released and I just got it today. There is a hint about substituting chia seeds in place of xanthan gum to thicken an oil-free Italian dressing. I haven't had a chance to try any of the recipes, of course, but it looks like a great cookbook. Usually when I get a new cookbook, there are just a few recipes that catch my interest. But just about every recipe in this book looks like one I want to try.

Thank you so much! You touched on a lot there and I feel a bit better. Not sure why I've been riddled with anxiety as of late. I guess it's due to me thinking I need to be SUPER creative with cooking suddenly and try all of these super unique recipes, which are thus, pretty time consuming.

I just ordered this cook book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590560876/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Since the reviews were good and what I found nice was the fact that the recipes inside were what you would have been making before, but "veganized", much like what you suggested!

cookbook for beginners

this is a great cookbook

knowing how to make crema (cashew cheese) and other more natural substitutes will serve you well. good luck!

This is from Scott Jurek one of the best ultra runners in history. It's got stories and recipes intermixed together - good fast read. The recipes are all vegan - but some of them are pretty damn rich and tasty -- all are healthy. https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Run-Unlikely-Ultramarathon-Greatness-ebook/dp/B005OCHOZS/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1464765008&sr=1-1&keywords=eat+and+run

Might I recommend a book?

Have Your Cake and Vegan Too: 50 Dazzling and Delicious Cake Creations

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1569759200/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_pUkOAbYTTZN


I have yet to make a recipe in here I don't like. They're all pretty simple, nothing crazy ingredient wise. The carrot cake is my favorite so far :)

Last year I shared the five course dinner I made, but I decided to up the ante this year.

The seven courses and their sources:

(1) Warm roasted beets with wild arugula, balsamic maple pecans and orange vinaigrette
[Vegan Secret Supper]

(2) Fennel portobello soup with smoke-infused olive oil, cashew gruyere grilled cheese croutons, radicchio marmalade and beer-battered pearl onions
[Soup, olive oil, & marmalade: Vegan Secret Supper. Cheese: Artisan Vegan Cheese. Croutons and onions: Dirt Candy]

(3) Roasted cauliflower tossed in black vinegar with kimchi cream
[Vedge]

(4) Crisped turnips with falafel crumbs and creamy sesame
[Vedge]

(5) Butternut squash and almond gnocchi, sautéed in sage garlic butter, tossed in butternut squash sauce and topped with fried sage leaves
[Gnocchi: Vegan Secret Supper; Butter and sauce: original recipe]

(6) Hearts of palm cakes with curried lentils
[Vedge]

(7) Six-layer chocolate hazelnut cake, with chocolate hazelnut butter, ganache, and hazelnut chocolate chip brownie crumble coconut milk ice cream
[Cake, brownie, hazelnut butter and ganache: Vegan Chocolate. Ice cream: Vegan Secret Supper, modified]

Vegan Vittles should meet all of those criteria. It was my first-ever vegan cookbook, back when it was the only vegan cookbook I could find, and I used it despite living in the suburbs, far away from anything resembling a Whole Foods, and being a novice cook. I still use it because the recipes are great.

I'm pretty sure that the current edition is the same as my battered copy from the '90s (though there might be some extra recipes?), but you might want to double-check on Amazon that it still has nutritional info.

ETA: [Here] (http://www.amazon.com/Vegan-Vittles-Down-Home-Cooking-Everyone/dp/1570672008/) is the reprint, and the description say it's "expanded" from the original. However, you can get a [used copy] (http://www.amazon.com/Vegan-Vittles-Inspired-Critters-Sanctuary/dp/1570670250/) of the original edition for one cent.

PlantPure Nation is my fav cookbook - mostly because recipes are plant-based and almost all recipes have pictures.

Sarah's vegan kitchen on youtube is good too.

Are you going for a whole-foods plant-based diet or simply vegan? Have you read Greger's How Not To Die?

http://www.amazon.com/Vegan-Family-Cookbook-Brian-Mccarthy/dp/1590560876 My favorite, I cooked from this book for about 5 years before I passed it on to someone who had recently joined the club. Has all the basics and even a great mac and cheese substitute recipe. Id give it a 10.

Yes! When we get the chance, I'd like to suggest:

• Fran Costigan's Vegan Chocolate
  
  
• The Oh She Glows Cookbook

Teen's Vegetarian Cookbook

I got this book from a friend in my early years of being vegetarian. There are easy recipes in here and lots of ideas to diversify your food. I'm 23 and I still use it!

No not yet, but I've seen some food resources you might like if that's what you're into! Like this cookbook or this cookbook or this blogger's Hannibal-themed dessert and main course recipes.

I've always been a big fan of the Garden of Vegan series.

They have great recipes, and then fun arts and crafts at the end.

The Garden of Vegan: How It All Vegan Again! https://www.amazon.com/dp/1551521288/ref=cm_sw_r_other_awd_ZoF6wbST11X1W

There is also How It All Vegan, and La Dolce Vegan (and probably more, but those are the three I own.)

I always recommend The Vegan Sourcebook to new vegans. It's old now, but has tons of useful information about nutrition and advice on how to keep going. It's handy to have in the kitchen, or when you're meal planning.

The Vegan Sourcebook (Sourcebooks) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0737305061/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_l4cVDbHHQRC5B

I used the matcha blueberry recipe from this book, and I copied the decorating from Preppy Kitchen! He designs such gorgeous cakes!

Look, I'm a total atheist (obviously) (DAE Dawkins lolol) but there's literally proof in the bible that blow jobs are like the most vegan and sacred thing ever.

So, it's pretty obvious that Adam and Eve were vegans, right? They had all the vegan food they could possibly want in the garden of Eden. It wasn't called the "deli of Eden" was it?

Anyway, they were all happy and getting along with all the animals and running around naked giving each other Divine Vegan Oral Sex (because God was all like "You can eat everything you see here.")

But then Satan came along in the form of an evil snake {obvious phallic symbolism}. See, just like in today's memes, Satan likes to use snakes to confuse vegans into making hypocrites (sinners) of themselves so they'll get kicked out of the garden of Eden (veganism). {Paradoxically, his lesser-known "good" twin, Seitan, is a vegan activist who has done more for the vegan cause than even Saint Ingrid of Newkirk.}

So Eve was tricked because she thought she was talking to a big dick, and that's vegan, but it was actually a snake, which was actually Satan. And he was all like "OOoh, come on baby, eat that apple, eat that apple real good...ooh yeah, that's it...oh, it's so juicy and hard and ripe...yeah...unghhh...." and she was used to both apples and blowjobs being totes vegan so she was all over it and did things to that apple that I can't even mention here.

But, as was revealed later in the bible (Showerthoughts 18:4) some people do not know that blowjobs are vegan. This kind of ignorance is a sin. It's actually a cardinal sin and anyone who asks the question "Are blowjobs vegan?" is supposed to be struck down by lightening and their body eaten by locusts. But I digress.

So, you can see how literally the worst thing that ever happened to humans was when they got kicked out of the garden of Vegan and became ex-vegans, miserable creatures destined to wander aimlessly on the earth ranting and raving a bunch of incoherent nonsense. And ever since then, Satan-Penis-Snake has been trying to trick the remaining vegans into losing their divine and perfect state of vegan-ness. So don't fall for it!

Kurma is an awesome vegetarian cook who does lots with Indian food. my first cookbook and one i return to over and over again

While I'm sure the Hare Krishnas would appreciate it, the uber modern person in me suggests alternative methods:

I have this one. I like it.

The Higher Taste

I like Dining at the Ravens.

I shared one of the recipes (and my alterations) in this post a while back.

I know nothing of 90's skate style, BUT you could do a book on horror cinema maybe a Lovecraft Calendar or search unsolved mysteries in books and you find a bunch. I also searched horror cookbook and there were a few results.

Or you could try and find like a spooky spatula or something. But hopefully this helps. Also my Amazon recommendations are totally busted after these searches but oh well.

I always bring sloppy joes (jonis) from here - everyone loves them https://www.amazon.ca/Hearty-Vegan-Meals-Monster-Appetites/dp/1592334555

Recipe is from Dining at The Ravens: Over 150 Nourishing Vegan Recipes from the Stanford Inn by the Sea.

It's actually pretty basic carrot cake--no pineapple or raisins.

I'll never give up the tempeh 'bacon' cheeze Earth Burger from Good Karma Cafe in Red Bank, NJ (a recipe is also in You Won't Believe It's Vegan!

If everyone would just try one of those, my guess is they'd give up meat burgers forever...

Edit: I can format.

Read 'Eat and Run' -- it's by a vegan ultra running champ and he has recipes at the end of every chapter:

I have this book (but in Dutch). All cheap and easy things to make.

Vegan Vittles by Joanne Stepaniak. Everything I've made from it has been good, if not necessarily good for me.

Would you suggest the original 2002 or the new one 2013?

Vegan Planet, Tofu Cookery and 500 Vegan Dishes.

I have two copies of Big Vegan and I've made zero recipes...

I usually just back away, but there's a whole chapter responding to this question in the book Mind If I Order the Cheeseburger?: And Other Questions People Ask Vegans. It's very thorough and well-written.

http://www.amazon.com/Hearty-Vegan-Meals-Monster-Appetites/dp/1592334555

Is it this one?