After some consideration, this is what I am going to be.
No meat, no fish, no eggs, no dairy.

'Ah', you may say 'that's veganism!', but it's not, because i'm still going to wear leather and wool, just I don't want animal products inside me.

I'm a vegetarian already, so the transition shouldn't be too difficult.

i did that when i was a vegetarian. just ate fruit, vegetables, pasta,rice, beans, nuts.

Can't have pasta due to gluten intolerance/allergy.
I'll be on the pulses and the fruit and veg and tofu and miso.

Oh, and the other point of this thread was recipe posting:

Easy Lentil Stew

Ingredients (use vegan versions):

• 1 cup lentils
• 4 large carrots sliced
• 1 to 2 large onions
• 2 to 3 bunch parsley or dried parsley
• large can tomatoes or 8 to 10 fresh ones chopped
• oil - optional

Directions: Heat just enough oil to cover bottom of stew pot or use a non-stick one. Add carrots, and onions. Cook until onions are translucent. Add lentils and tomatoes. Simmer until lentils are tender. Add water as needed. This should be very thick. Add parsley about 15 minutes before its done. I cook it all about 30 minutes before adding it. 1/2 cup sherry or vegan red wine added with the parsley adds a good flavor without the alcohol. I normally serve this with sweet corn bread.

Serves: 4

Preparation time: 1 hour

Fat-free spicy lentil soup

Ingredients (use vegan versions):

• red lentils, 2 cups
• mushrooms, 1 - 3 cups
• peas, 1 - 2 cups
• 2 - 3 onions
• vegetable broth
• stewed or canned sliced tomatoes
• 4 cloves garlic
• 1 - 2 inches ginger root
• 1 bunch cillantro
• 2 teaspoon cayene pepper
• 1 teaspoon cumin, tumeric, and

Directions: Begin by cooking the lentils according to packaged directions using vegetable broth instead of water. Make a "paste" in the food processor with 1 onion, garlic, ginger root, and most of the cillantro. (I use this paste in most soups and as a substitute for oil in stir fry - you can delete garlic or ginger, substitute parsley for cillantro, add any spices). Add the paste, spices, 2 diced onions, lg can stewed tomatoes, and rest of vegetable broth to cooked lentils and simmer 1 hour or more. 20 minutes before serving, refridgerating, or freezing, add peas and mushrooms (quite frankly, you can use just about any vegetable that you like with these flavors.) This type of thick curry-ish soup is also good served over rice or pasta. Freezes great!

Serves: 10-12

Preparation time: 1 hour

French beans with Oranges

Ingredients (use vegan versions):

• French beans (yellow) - 500 g
• Oranges - 3
• Nutmeg (grounded) to taste - a little
• Cummin to taste - much more
• Salt to taste

Directions: Serves approximately 3-4.

Boil french beans with cummin in small amount of water untill almost ready. Add nutmeg, salt and sliced oranges. Boil 5-10 minutes. Serve hot or chilled.

Super Easy Lentils and Spinach

Ingredients (use vegan versions):

• 1 lb (2 1/4 cups) green lentils
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 3 cloves garlic, crushed
• 1 pkg frozen chopped spinach, can be thawed
• salt and black pepper to taste
• 2tablespoon olive oil

Directions: Saute the onion and garlic in the oil with black pepper. When the onion is clear and becoming slightly golden, add the lentils with enough water to cover plus one inch. Bring to a boil and then turn down heat to simmer. Check the lentils after 30 minutes to ensure that there is sufficient water. After 40 minutes (or 45 if the spinach is thawed), add the spinach. Ten minutes later stir the spinach thoroughly and then cook 10 minutes more for a total of 60 or 65 minutes.

Serve over brown rice. It may need a bit of salt.

Serves: 4

Preparation time: 75 minutes

Frozen Banana Ice Cream

Ingredients (use vegan versions):

• 2-4 ripe (but not overripe) bananas
• Water
• 1/2 - 1 cup other frozen fruit (raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, etc.)

Directions:

Peel bananas, slice or break into 1" rounds, and freeze 8 hours or overnight.

Place in blender with a little water and blend at high speed until smooth. Add raspberries or blueberries, etc., and blend.

Additions:

You can use a tablespoon or two of undiluted, frozen fruit juice (this will make it a little sweeter).

Serves: 2-4

Preparation time: 5-10 minutes (blending time)

Speedy the Monkey Smoothie

Ingredients (use vegan versions):

• 1/2 orange, peeled
• 1/2 papaya, peeled
• 1 banana
• Optional-3 ice cubes

Directions: If possible juice papaya and orange first.

Then blend juice with banana and ice until smooth.

Serves: 1

Preparation time: 5-7 min

Cannelini Bean Roast

Ingredients (use vegan versions):

• 1 can of canellini beans
• allspice
• salt and pepper to taste
• vegan breadcrumbs
• soy parmesan sub or nutritional yeast

Directions: This would probably serve two. This was really quick - it only took me about 5 mins to mix up.

Drain and rinse the beans. Mush up the beans in a food processor until smooth. Add about a teaspoon of All Spice (or to taste) and salt and pepper. I put about a table spoon of breadcrumbs in the mixture because it was a bit too sloppy to form.

Mix a table spoon of soy parmesan substitute with vegan breadcrumbs. Form bean mixture in a log shape and roll in breadcrumb mix. Spray with canola/bake spray and place in medium oven with roasting potatoes/veggies until brown.

Serves: 2

Preparation time: 5 mins

Quinoa, Shitake Mushrooms and Adzuki beans

Ingredients (use vegan versions):

• 1/2 cup sliced carrots
• 3 thinly sliced scallions
• 1/4 cup shitake mushrooms sliced ( slightly crushed oyster mushrooms work well too)
• 2 cups cooked adzuki beans, without the liquid
• 1 cup washed quinoa
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 2 cups veggie broth
• salt, pepper

Directions: Saute veggies until tender. Add broth, beans and quinoa. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer for c. 20 minutes, until liquid evaporates. Add salt and pepper and mix with a fork or wooden spoon. enjoy.

Preparation time: 25 minutes

I have a feeling my days will be spent slaving over a hot stove.

I just saw a flyer that a local supermarket selling meatless meatball

I've not really understood things like that. Surely if you don't want meat you wouldn' want to eat a meatball, no matter what the contents were..

I agree when I read in I say wtf if it is meatless you can't call it meatball. I ate a veggie burger once at Burger King. It actually taste good. I have not try the tofu burger in the grocery store yet.