How can I be a healthy vegetarian?

Every time I try to eat a vegetarian diet I end up eating a ton of frozen mock meats and other unhealthy foods as well as several carbs. I'm not a good cook and need easy, simple dinner ideas as well as healthy snacks. Also, I'm very cautious with ethnic foods.



Any book or websites that might help?How can I be a healthy vegetarian?
http://allrecipes.com/recipes/everyday-c鈥?/a>

That gives you plenty of recipes. Don't listen to the people that go on about protein, they're so misinformed it hurts. Beans, Quinoa and nuts are fantastic sources of protein. Mock meats are good in most respects but tend to be very high in salt. The only things you will be deficient on with a poorly planned vegetarian diet are:

B12 - get this from yeast extract or fortified cereals.
Iron - fortified cereals and leafy greens - make sure you get plenty of vitamin C with it
Zinc - eggs, chickpeas
Vitamin D - The sun, mushrooms, fortified cereals
Selenium - Eggs and brazil nuts
Omega 3 fatty acids - walnuts, hemp seeds, linseeds, avocado, eggs
Iodine (possibly) - Iodized salt
Breakfasts

Beans on toast

peanut butter on toast

scrambled egg on toast

big fruit salad with yoghurt

bagel with cream cheese

beans, hash browns, tomatoes, 'shrooms, vegesausages

cereal



Lunch

Beans on toast (not if you had it for breakfast!)

mixed salad including bean and grain salads eg couscous

houmous and tomato sandwich

in fact anything you like in a sandwich/wrap/baguette/roll

baked potato with cheese and beans

vegeburger in a bun with large salad

soup and roll (some kind of protein soup like lentil or bean)

vegetarian sushi

leftovers from the night before



dinner

pizza and salad

veg+lentil stew and cheesy mash

veg+lentil soup (make double stew, whizz up the leftovers for soup) and garlic bread

chickpea and veg curry

chickpea and veg crumble

spag bol made with vegemince

vegetable lasagne

vegetable risotto

pasta bake

cauliflower cheese with baked potato and peas

stir fry with tofu and rice

all day breakfast as described under breakfast



puddings

fruit

ice cream

youghurt

cake

alpro soya dessert pots

fruit crumble/pie

most puddings actually but beware of gelatine and cochineal



snacks

crisps

houmous with crudites/breadsticks

cheese

fruitHow can I be a healthy vegetarian?
Make sure you get all your protein. If you like cottage cheese it has a lot of protein.

http://www.youngwomenshealth.org/vegetar鈥?/a>

http://www.lifedynamix.com/ebooks/Health鈥?/a>

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/vegetar鈥?/a>

http://www.healthyalberta.com/HealthyEat鈥?/a>

Here are some healthy snacks

http://www.wholeliving.com/photogallery/鈥?/a>

http://www.smoothie-handbook.com/fruit-s鈥?/a>

http://www.smoothie-handbook.com/green-s鈥?/a>

Even just looking that question up on google you can get some good healthy ideas.

Hope it helps!


Sarah
Try these websites:



http://healthycollegevegetarian.blogspot.com/



http://www.eatingwell.com/ and search for vegetarian.



http://www.cookinglight.com/ and search for vegetarian.



if you go to http://www.stumbleupon.com/ and list "vegetarian" as your interests, you will find a ton of websites with great recipes.



Good Luck!How can I be a healthy vegetarian?
Do your research.

Try eating fruits and vegetables daily.

Remember to also eat beans, legumes, nuts, pluses, etc.

Look at vegetarian food pyramids.

Buy cookbooks, read articles.

Do research.
try these simple easy recipes. im at university and so i barely have time to cook. this website really helped me out



http://www.fourgreensteps.com/community/鈥?/a>
like every other vegetarian... give it up... you don't have what it takes... you pretendo!