Some advices on being vegetarian
If you are going to be a vegetarian, look up at the vegetarian cookbook at first. You could find there a wide range of covering recipes for beginners and advanced cooks. Most of such books also give dietary advice.
Do not hurry and start gradually. For the beginning adapt familiar dishes such as lasagne by using vegetable protein. All ingredients are for sure available at health food stores. If you’re going to be the only vegetarian in your family it would be better to adapt a meat dish instead of cooking separately. A casserole, for example, can be cooked with beans and vegetables in one pan. And the meat can be cooked separately and then added to the meat eaters.
Try vegetarian cheese, which uses vegetable-derived rennet. Every supermarket has now at least one kind of vegetarian cheese.
You should learn to read the labels. Having bought a food product that seems vegetarian it may in fact turn out that it contains something such as gelatine or animal fat.
Many products are marked with The Vegetarian Society’s Seedling Symbol, which tells you at a glance that the food is suitable for vegetarians.
Pulses. Use tinned variety of kidney beans, chick peas, etc.
Study health food stores. You will find out that most of them have vegetarian products you haven’t seen before.