I've been a vegetarian for a while, not sure how long exactly, maybe around 5 years. I decided to become a vegan about a year or so later, however since falling pregnant I was advised to have dairy in my diet until I ceased breastfeeding, so I'm now eating dairy! I chose a vegetarian diet for...I guess you could say, philosophical reasons! Animals rights, or whatever! I was never a big meat eater anyway, so it wasn't a big sacrifice at all. I love animals

I have soup a lot - I LOVE soup! Pumpkin soup, carrot celery & paprika, potato & leek, minestrone, mixed veggie & lentil. I could live off of it, however I don't think everyone else in the household would appreciate it lol. With a side of garlic bread mmmmm.

We also have curries with rice maybe once a week...mostly with eggplant, green beans, tomatoes, sometimes potato.

Casserols/stews with carrot, beans & potato.

Noodles with stir-fried veggies: beans, capsicum, carrot, broccoli, cauliflower

...just to name a few things I love

Umm I love the veggie sausages you can get from the supermarket special diet/kosher section. The chickpea & spinnach ones are sooo good. Also veggie/lentil burgers, you can make with mashed potato to bind thye ingredients.

Breakfast is usually porridge with bonsoy and a banana. Sometimes just plain old vegemite toast and a fruit of some sort. Lunch, mostly dinner left overs, toasted sandwiches, or salad rolls.

I add LSA into a lot of my meals (linseed, sunflower(or was it sesame?) & almond meal) for protein. Also, flaxseed oil. I take iron/folate, magnesium and zinc supplements. Iron also from foods such as spinnach, broccoli, lentils, chickpeas. Vit B12 from veggie/soya sausages, tofu & other specialist foods where it's artifically added - oh and vegemite! I think vitB12 is the biggest nutrient deficiancy vego's face.

I'm pretty boring - I don't have the best vegetarian diet because I get lazy, so I need to take supplements! I wish I could be more creative so hopefully others can post some other ideas.