I have finally come to the point where I am actively seeking out more and more Vegetarian meals. Yea! I have a friend who has a Russian husband and makes Russian Vegetarian meals. I got a Russian cookbook used at amazon.com (and just got it yesterday) and am going to make some, too. There are a lot of Vegetarian recipes in it or ones that could easily be made into them. I also have a new Vegetarian cookbook, Joy of cooking: All About Vegetarian Cooking. I am more excited about eating this way than ever. Last summer's 'situation' probably was linked to lack of knowing what to eat when one is not eating meat, I'm sure. I will begin blogging my recipes as well. Afterall, if you and my other friend helped me, perhaps my blogging about it will help someone else as well. :)

(((Kim))) I pray that you are doing well today, hugs, Robin

Have you found things like the seitan and similar things from local stores? Our Whole Foods is an hour and a half away and we likely won't go there again until December. I am hoping that Kroger will have it.

BTW, Robin mentioned a lot of veg. meals in Russian cookbooks--that would be true since Russians are mainly Orthodox and would fast more that 50% of the yr. I have found that looking at Russian sites gives a lot of vegan recipes. Except for the ones used on fish days ::wink::