Vegan cooking is wonderful! it's easy to adapt whatever you normally make if u stock up on items to replace meat/chicken: so you can still make stirfries and curries and pasta dishes.

In the supermarket you can usually get tofu - i would recommend Pureland tofu: cube it and marinade in soysauce/ sweet chilli, it's ready to eat or will survive further cooking, so toss it in stirfries. whatever's left goes in a water filled container with lid: change the water everyday and it'll keep for ages.

Some supermarkets sell tempeh (tempeh is very very high in protein and iron that the body can absorb easily), but i don't know if you'll get in Beerwah. The bigger Coles stores stock it. The only one thats really edible is the spicy flavour (red packet). spray oil in a frypan and brown it in thin slices; serve as is with sweet chilli sauce, rice and salad. or chop small to use in fried rice or stirfry.

Both tofu and tempeh work well in coconut based vege curries (use a packet mix or make your own from coconut milk, vege stock powder, soy sauce, sweet chilli, curry powder, any veges you like).

and finally, stock up on fake chicken/ beef etc from the frozen section of the larger Asian grocery stores. some good ones to look for are Lamyong Vegetarian Soy Slices (tasty alternative to chicken) and Natural Foods Vegetarian Beef balls/chicken Nuggets. Chinatown in Brissy has em.

hey any questions at all PLEASE ask me, more than happy to help!