What nutrients would I be missing out on if I had this vegetarian diet?

You can only get protein and iron from animals? Lol.

Just about everything has protein in it.

http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/iron.htm is a whole list of vegan iron sources.

One thing I never really thought of before I became a vegan, is that enormous beautiful vegetarian animals need iron, calcium and protein too, but they do not need to eat cheese or drink cows milk. There is tons of iron and calcium in dark green leafy vegetables, you can also get iron and calcium in soy milk. If you eat a healthy diet of nuts, seeds, legumes, vegetables and fruit you will be fine. I have been vegetarian for 6 years and vegan for 2 and I had my mineral and vitamin levels tested by my Dr the other day and everything was fine. Also remember that there are millions of people who are vegetarian who are perfectly healthy, in India where something like 80% of the people are vegetarian there are illnesses which are common in the West which are extremely rare in their culture, such as Osteoperosis and Diabeties and this is proven to be down to dietary choices. Being vegetarian doesn't mean being a skinny emmaciated dweeb, it is healthy and moral, and you also cut out 90% of saturated fat automatically when you become vegetarian! Good on you :D

Edit: the thing about your diet at the moment is that you will not be getting enough protein or vitamins if you just eat grains and humous. Humous is great, but you need other stuff. If you just eat what you have stated above you are also heading for constipation and worse down the road. And the thing is with supplements is that when you take one, quite often the other will cancel it out. It's complicated and you need to research or ask your Dr, but your body only needs a certain quota of vits and mins to be healthy, so if you only need 0.5mg vitamin C per day, and you take 20.0mg, your body will try to deal with that by using another vit or min to get rid of it through your urine, sweat or feceas. But if you eat food with you dietry requirements then you body takes what it needs and the rest is a waste product. One is forced, one is given.

The Western obsession with protein is generally viewed as bizarre by other cultures.

The only way to be protein-deficient is to be calorically-deficient, which is why YOU NEVER HEAR ABOUT IT anywhere outside a third world country. Ironis likewise found in many vegan (let alone vegetarian!) sources. You've been brainwashed by the meat industry.

Eating starch all day, and spiking your blood glucose in the process, will eventually make you fat and diabetic. And cheese? The blood-acidizing, pus, hormone, and antibiotic-filled mammary secretions of another species intended by nature for their own young? Yeah, no.

If you want a healthy diet, you should be eating hearty portions of non-starchy vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes, and avocados for fat and energy, and one or two servings of carbohydrate, in the form of FRUIT.

"I'm not really huge on many vegetables, legumes, and don't eat too many nuts, so should I take any supplements based on that information?"

No, you should learn to suck it up and eat to properly-nourish your body like an adult.

I agree with the first three answers. The only times I regularly took a vitamin was when I was pregnant with my five-year-old and two-year-old and exclusively breastfeeding them for their first six months of life.

On the other hand, my misinformed vegetarian sister-in-law (who also eats things I wouldn't really classify as food, such as the large chocolate muffin and Frappuccino she has almost daily for lunch, copious amounts of cheese and cookies, cakes, potato chips, etc.) takes an iron supplement. (I think her doctor recommended it because she is vegetarian. Sad that the doctor seems to be misinformed as well.)

When I am uncertain about something, I do a search, such as "vegan sources of iron" or "vegan sources of protein". In addition to tofu, try some veggie burgers, beans, etc.

Vegetarians and vegans easily get protein and iron, if that was not so, i would be dead after not eating meat and never needing to take supplements after twenty five years.

Protein is in most foods so you will not become deficient unless you stop eating food, the highest sources of protein are tofu, rice, all kinds of beans, pulses, wholegrains, soya milk and creals.

Iron is easily obtained from green leafy vegetables, beans and lentils, tofu, pumpkin seeds, figs, dried apricots and dates.

There are primarily made pet food that don't incorporate meat but include everything a canine needs to be healthful. Some manufacturers include: - Avoderm Vegetarian pet food - Zen Addition vegetarian pet food - usual balance if you happen to have no idea what you're doing and you want to feed your pet your possess vegan meals, please do not do it. Dogs wants detailed vitamins and minerals that can be observed in meat however that does not mean they must have meat. As long as these vitamins and minerals are gift in the things they consume, it's going to adequate.

The question should not be what are dense sources of X nutrients in a vegetarian diet but what are dense bioavailable sources of X nutrients in a vegetarian diet.

Something many posters here overlook is the ability for the body to assimilate the nutrient, As you may have already heard plant iron (known as ferrous/ferric based on its charge) is not as easily absorbed as heme iron from meat, This similarly happens with other nutrients or they are gotten in a more primitive form which our body can convert but not efficiently. Some nutrients which are low in a vegetarian diet/not as bioavailable/not efficiently converted/inhibited from absorption by plant chemicals are

-Iron

-Calcium from plants

-Omega 3 (found in ALA form in plants instead of DHA/EPA)

-Zinc (simply not as abundant)

-Vitamin D (sunlight/eggs/milk are the best sources)

-Potentially Iodine which may not be added to your countries salts, typically is gotten from dairy or iodine rich soil.

-Potentially fat if you do not eat some form of nuts eggs dairy products & oils. Though this is probably fine & is the least of the least to worry about.

This is NOT to say a vegetarian diet is bad for health or impossible. Merely that it's not as easy as swapping meat for some beans & nuts as many here would suggest. I don't mean to scare but you asked for advice & i'm providing indepth answer.

See the two links below for 2 articles by a 15 year vegan talking about veganism

http://www.carpevegan.com/?p=1026

http://www.carpevegan.com/?p=803

Vitamin A seems to be the one that is most missed as it mainly comes from meat.

Replace it with a lot of greenery, cabbage, silverbeet, spinach broccoli

Chetak

If you eat a healthy vegetarian diet you won't be missing out on any nutrients.

eggs have zinc and iron, eat those round thingy, packed full of vitamins and protein