People often ask me what I eat, since it's hard to conceive of a vegan diet when you're used to steak-and-potatoes american cooking. There are plenty of easily-prepared vegan meals, including many straightforward non-vegan recipes with the meat replaced by veggie burgers, tofu, or TVP. There's pasta, cereal (with soy or rice milk, of course), PBJ sandwiches, pancakes (if you get the right mix), bagels, Pop-Tarts (unfrosted), veggie burgers, burritos, chili, soups, falafel, chips & salsa, hummus, stir-fried stuff, and so on.
It's not too hard to find Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, Indian, or Middle Eastern food that's vegan, though you're probably out of luck at most "American" restaurants unless you like salad (which I personally find pretty boring). I highly recommend checking out Middle Eastern cuisine--there seems to be more vegan food (and tasty, high-protein vegan food at that) in Middle Eastern cooking than in any other genre I've seen. Most pizza places will make pizza without cheese if you ask for it, though some places (like Pizza Hut) use meat-based sauces. One upshot of being a vegan is that you'll avoid eating greasy fast food cholesterol bombs, since McDonalds and kin don't have much to offer besides fries and salads (yawn). Taco Bell is one exception to this, as you can get any of their bean- or rice-based stuff without cheese (and from what I've heard, they don't use lard in their refried beans).
For cookbooks, check out Ecological Cooking by Joanne Stepaniak and Kathy Hecker. Anyway, the point is that it's easy to find a healthy variety of vegan food. Alright, enough intro; enjoy the recipes. Drop me a line if you get some mileage out of these, so I don't feel like I wrote these up for nuthin'.
Some notes:
I sometimes just use canned beans, since I'm lazy. You can, of course, use dry beans and soak them ahead of time to reduce packaging waste.
You can use vegan cheese with many of the recipes. "Vegan-rella" is the only vegan stuff I've found, though there are probably others. Vegan soy cream cheese and sour cream are also available, for your information.
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