What are some good vegan recipes for someone who was previously very much carnivorous?

Funyuns. Put them on everything.

If you want something quick, there's a few vegan meat substitutes available on the market, though many veggie burgers contain eggs, so be sure to take care.

For home cooking, I would recommend the cookbook "Veganomicon". One of my favourite recipes from that book, the Spaghetti and Beanballs, even had my usually carnivorous brother asking for more. :) There's plenty of other delicious recipes in there too.

I've linked the book on Amazon in the sources section if you're interested.

There are no good vegan substitutes for meat. The sooner you realize that, the better off you'll be. Try to replace meat with soy analogs and you'll just wind up craving the real thing.

I would recommend you find delicious dishes that do not try to mimic meat but stand on their own merits. Examples include hummus, red lentil dal (soup or side dish), 13 bean chili, tabbouleh, babaghanoush, dumplings (saurkraut and mushroom, for example), black (or pinto) bean tacos, miso soup, tofu and vegetables, etc. Each of these dishes has numerous recipe variations. Check online or at the library for recipe ideas.

Soy, if you cook it with appropriate spices it will pretty much look like meat, at least the texture is really very very similar. If you cook it with potatoes or rice or whatever else you used to put meat in it. Or you could go through a stage of being vegetarian first i.g. to eat dairy products and eggs for a while not to deprive your organism of all sorts of animal fats so abruptly.

Congrats for becoming a vegan, btw :) I've been a vegetarian for over 4.5 years.

There are tons of meat analogues out there from various companies, and it doesn't hurt to try them. I like a company out of New Jersey called Veggie Brothers; they're strictly an order online company. There's also a company called VegeUSA, and your local Whole Foods might have their products, or you can go to www.veganessentials.com or www.veganstore.com. There's a product called Gardein, which is a soy/wheat/vegetable substitute; a company called It's All Good makes all sorts of entrees with the product to mimic meat. I've seen it online and at Whole Foods.

There are also veggie burgers (check out Amy's Texas Burger), veggie dogs, veggie crumbles, veggie sausage, and the like. Tempeh, an Indonesian food made from fermented soybeans, is great marinated and grilled or crumbled into a chili.

Finally, if you like to cook, check out Robin Robertson's "Vegetarian Meat and Potatoes Cookbook". She has some seitan (a.k.a. wheat meat) recipes, and seitan is an excellent sub for meat in almost any recipe. Message me, and I'll tell you my seitan secrets.

I feel your pain. I'm from Texas, too. Vegetarian, but my husband is vegan. We get sh*t from just about every BBQing person we know. Just last night we tried a new pasta bake. I wanted something seriously simple and it turned out great.

Pasta bake consists of whole wheat penne pasta, boca ground crumbles, tomato sauce (homemade or from a jar, whatever you prefer), and Follow Your Heart Mozzerella cheese (it's vegan cheese), shredded.

Basically just cook the pasta and the crumbles and mix it all in a casserole dish, bake it for 25 minutes or so at 375 and bam! Fast, easy, yummy.

Try substituting meat patties for vegan burgers, or vegan hot dogs. You can find the, in whole food stores. Or you can try tofu, tofu is amazing!!

try doing here, for recipes using tofu.

http://www.savvyvegetarian.com/vegetarian-recipes/...

first, leave Texas.

Now!

Only corruption comes out of that state. Lyndon Johnson, the murderer of Kennedy; George W. Bush, the murderer of 4000 people in the WTC who blamed it on the cave dwellers he set up to take the fall; the two guys who dragged a man around tied to the back of their bumper because his skin had a high melanin content, making it appear almost black; ENRON; the list goes on and on and on...

The whole damn place STINKS