Vegetarian protein?

Yogurts, beans, vegetarian meat substitutes like Morning "sausages" (which are PHENOMENAL, btw), and you could also get straight-up protein powders.

Quinoa and chia seeds are packed with protein. 1 cup of quinoa has 24 g and 2 tbsp of chia seeds have 4 g (and are packed full of other nutrients too). Sprinkle some chia seeds on your oatmeal or cereal or add them to smoothie. Thee internet is teaming with quinoa recipes. I recently made this: http://pinchofyum.com/creamy-chicken-quinoa-broccoli-casserole which you can easily modify to fit your dietary requirements (no bacon, quorn instead of chicken and soymilk for cow's milk). It makes 7 servings and each serving is 330ish calories with 34 g of protein.

Also if you are a cereal eater, many cereals such as Kashi and even special K have protein packed cereals.

I'm vegan, but I struggle with protein too. I'm not sure if you can have PB2 in your house with a nut allergy but it's been helping... I add it to everything. I also use nutritional yeast in place of cheese and it has a lot of protein. I recently just bough Jarrow's protein powder to add to smoothies (15 grams!)

I don't hardly eat soy so that's difficult, but I do second the beans/chickpeas... Can you not have any nuts or just peanuts? I eat loads of raw almonds as well. Even leafy greens add up (broccoli, zucchini, kale, cooked spinach).

You eat eggs, can you eat fish? I eat a lot of salmon. Tofu, and I add protein powder to smoothies.

Greek yogurt and beans. Quest bars are pretty phenomenal, packing 20g of protein per bar, but they're pricey. And most if not all have nuts in them, but they're all individually sealed if that makes a difference.

humous, chickpeas, beans, protein bars

I never seem to be able to get enough protein. I eat some Quorn, eggs, whole meal bread/pasta, brown rice, beans, small amount cheese. Don't drink cows milk and our house is nut free due to my older sons allergy.
Any ideas what else I can eat to up my protein?

MFP might have your protein goals too high.

I snack on cottage cheese to help boost my protein. You have a lot of other good suggestions on here.

Also, these are yummy. I had one for lunch today. Lots of protein.

http://www.drinkorgain.com/

Lots of great suggestions here, the only one I can think of that hasn't been mentioned is cottage cheese - it's one of the most convenient protein sources for me. (I also adore halloumi, but that has a higher calorie cost by a long way :-p)

Many people accept the fact there are different types of vegetarians, I being one of them. See this chart here:

http://www.vegetarian-nation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/vegetarian-levels-chart.jpg

mrsjordon, you should specify if you fit one of these categories, then you can receive more specific advice.

I get about 100- 120 grams of protein a day. on a 1,200 / 1,300 calorie diet.. Im a vegetarian have been since basically birth


my typical day is usually

breakfast: trader joes egg beaters / fake meat product usually quorn / fruit ( usually about 30 grams protein)

lunch : tofu / salad / veggies ( about 41 grams protein)

snack: fage yogurt ( 23 grams)

dinner: always different but usually veggies and a protein or starch ( usually about 25 grams)

snack : oatmeal ( 6 grams)

Quest bars use whey protein which comes from milk so if you don't do cow's milk at all then they don't work but if you just don't drink it then but don't mind eating milk products then those are amazing--20 g protein per bar. Some of them have nuts in them though so just be careful as to which you buy. There have a lot of meat substitutes but a lot of them have tons of soy which you shouldn't have too much of but seitan is good like other people have mentioned. Tons of eggs. Cheese. Protein powders...I love sun warrior protein...it's vegan.

humous, chickpeas

same same - hummus is made of chikpeas!