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I am not vegetarian, but my boyfriend is, and that means that my meat consumption has dropped drastically. I might have chicken twice a month, but thats really it.
We do a lot of stir-frys. Trader Joe's has a wide variety of sauces for stir-fry, and we occasionally do a west indian-style curry (the key to making it edible was adding a bit more oil then we would usually use). I will eat pretty much any vegetable outside of onions, and there is nothing he doesn't eat, so that makes it easy for us.
The most important thing for us in eating is definitely time. When we don't have time or energy to cook and start eating out our diet suffers dramatically. It goes from vegetable stir-fry with brown rice to pizza 4 times a week. Thai food is a great alternative (the place near us makes an OUTSTANDING eggplant and tofu curry), but they don't deliver and papa john's does.
I have also discovered Amys brand frozen foods- they make FANTASTIC frozen meals, burritos and wraps. My new favorite is the vegan spinach paneer wrap- it's amazing.
Basically, find a good health food store with some variety and start thinking about how you can adapt the things you already eat to fit into a vegetarian lifestyle (for Thanksgiving we had a quorn roast that I cooked like a turkey, with stuffing on the side made with mushroom broth. It was wonderful!).
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Whole Foods is pricey which is why I call it the DEVIL, lol! I'm not vegetarian but I'm trying to eat better and use more organic products. They have the BEST sushi ever but watch out for the wasabi. It's HOT!
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