Looking for some Vegan help.

I would love to have anyone as a friend. I would like though to meet some Vegans for advice and recipes. I was a Vegan for 9 months until last September when I had reconstructive surgery and they pushed the protein powder every 2 hours around the clock for 6 days. I had critically low blood calcium levels. Looking for ideas on variety and making wise choices.

Feel free to check my diary. I'm vegetarian but eat a lot of vegan items. I also drink a vegan protein powder (soy free) in case you need it. I buy it from Whole Foods.

feel free to check out my food diary too. I am not quite vegetarian ( i eat poultry and fish, but not that often) but a LOT of my diet, expecially over the past two weeks has been vegan. tofu tofu tofu!! also, my OH is vegetarian but allergic to eggs and doesnt like milk, so he eats lots of linda mccartney vegetarian produce, drinks oat milk and uses egg replacement powder in baking. good luck :-) x

I have been eating a pretty much meat free diet for years and have recently started Joel Furhman's Eat to Live eating plan which is vegan. I have found four sources, early in my meat free life, which are my go-to places for recipes and ideas:

1) Any of Isa Chandra Moskowitz's cookbooks - right now I'm using a lot of recipes from Appetite for Reduction. A lot of the recipes fit the ETL eating plan with a wee bit of adjustment. I have all of her books and have not tried a recipe I didn't like. As a matter of fact I would really like to try my own version of "Julie & Julia" with Vegonomicon.

2) The blog Fat Free Vegan - Susan the author is actually following ETL right now and I love her recipes.

3) The blog Vegan Dad - great recipes and wonderful advice, especially if you have kids to feed. VeganDad's cutlet and seiten recipes are the best!

4) VegWeb.com - It takes some time to sort through the recipes and read the comments so I usually start with the recipes that have the most comments and highest ratings. I have catagories in my recipe box where I have designated recipes that fit my current eating plan.

I hope you find these helpful. I have, and I love to cook.

Absolutely LOVE Crazy, Sexy, Diet! I am also a huge fan of enLIGHTend by Jessica Berger Gross and, of course, Skinny *****.

This book changed my life! I just completed the 21 day adventure cleanse from it and I'm obsessed. It's been the best, most entertaining and helpful diet book I've ever read (and I've read a lot!) Kris Carr is awesome and the general guidelines she gives for changing your life are just amazing. I'm full vegetarian now and doing a "vegan-ish" approach until I can go full blown vegan (I'm giving myself till the end of the year for that. I'm so not done with cheese and ice cream just yet haha) I would highly recommend it to anyone looking to up their healthy factor. Also, the recipes in the book Vegan Yum Yum have made the transition so much easier- haven't found a bad one yet!