Healthy, meat free meals?

www.budgetbytes.com

They have a section specifically for vegetarian meals love this site! Highly recommend the spinach ricotta pasta.

My favourite thing to do as a vegan is take non vegan recipies and make them vegan.
Good egg substitutes are avacado, applesauce and banana. Good butter substitutes are olive oil, avacado oil, penut butter and many more :P
GOOD LUCK!

My go to simple meal is...

La Tortilla Factory low carb tortillas, 1/4 avocado, black beans, salsa and a ton of lettuce for yummy quick taco. Sometimes I add 1/2 oz cheese most times I don't.

One really simple one I call Awesome Cauliflower can be made vegetarian or vegan depending on if you eat cheese or not.
INGREDIENTS:
1 head cauliflower, chopped
Chives, to taste
Salt and pepper as needed
1/4 cup olive oil
2 tbsp lemon juice
2-4 tbsp grated parmasean or pecorino romano cheese
1 tbsp minced garlic

DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 500 degrees Fahrenheit. Place cauliflower florets in large roasting pan. Mix together garlic, lemon juice, olive oil, salt and pepper in a bowl, then pour and coat cauliflower in the mixture. Place in oven and cook for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally to ensure even roasting. Remove from oven and sprinkle with cheese. Garnish with chives and serve immediately.

Here are a few good ones:
http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/waldorf-salad-steel-cut-oats
http://www.mygourmetconnection.com/recipes/vegetables/warm-green-bean-salad.php
http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/veggie-pizza-cauliflower-crust

I'm making a zucchini mushroom oven frittata for dinner tonight. I have no idea how it will taste because I'm usually just winging it in the kitchen. MFP says it has 434 calories (most from olive oil and some parmesan cheese but you can easily leave those out or swap them form lower calorie ingredients). For the rest it's 0.5 zucchini, 0.5 cup mushrooms, onion and garlic. Bake in pan with salt and pepper or other spices. Let it cool a bit, put in an ovenproof dish and add 2 large, whisked eggs. Bake in oven for 10 minutes, sprinkle parmesan over it and put it back in the oven for maybe 5 more minutes. Don't know if the baking times are correct, like I said... haven't tried it yet.

http://www.thegardengrazer.com/2014/12/50-awesome-vegan-black-bean-recipes.html

We eat mostly vegetarian dinners. Even the vegetarians among our household eat eggs/dairy so it's not very restrictive, the only thing most people are giving up are cows, chickens, pigs, and fish, kind of a short list when it comes to food. It leaves almost all the foods in the diet.

Some of our staples:

Indian food
Mexican food
All sorts of beans and rice dishes
Chili
Pasta
Breakfast for dinner
Thai coconut curry (no fish sauce if veggie daughter is making it)


And veggie girls cheat on:
Ramen Night

because the one we love has beef bone broth, but pretty sure you could easily work up a veg version.

Basically, any soup, rice dish, pasta dish, potato dish, you can just leave out the meat and there you go.

My favorite vegetarian recipe site of all time is Cookie and Kate. She just posted 20 simple weeknight dinners.

Here's one of my go to simple recipes that is super healthy & delicious.

Fagioli in agrodolce (Tangy White Bean Stew)

Ingredients

• 2 cans cannellini or butter beans (rinsed)
• 28 oz good crushed tomatoes (w basil preferably)
• 1 large sprig rosemary (chopped)
• 1 medium onion (chopped fine)
• 1 Cubanelle pepper or a somewhat mild chili pepper (chopped fine)
• 4 tablespoons balsamic vinegar (far tastier if you get a good quality one - "grape must" as the only ingredient or the 1st ingredient)
• 2 cups vegetable stock (stock is tastier than broth)
• olive oil

Directions
1. Saute the onions with the rosemary and pepper in a soup pot using a little olive oil.
2. When the onions are translucent, but not yet brown, add the tomatoes and vinegar.
3. Cook for 10 minutes.
4. Add the beans, the vegetable broth and salt to taste.
5. Cook for a further 20 minutes on low heat, stirring frequently.

Really nice leftovers as the flavor only deepens over time. It can also be frozen.