Vegetarian and Vegan Dinner Ideas

Recipes for great tasting vegetarian and vegan dinners. Many lunch and dinner recipes can be swapped as good vegan and vegetarian food is tasty any time of the day!

Vegetarian Taco Filling and Refried Beans

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I love tacos! I used to have tacos quite often before becoming a vegetarian. I discovered a vegan taco filling early on when I first became a vegetarian. A brand called fantastic world foods has several products for vegan and vegetarians. Their taco filling is very good alternative to taco meat. For this taco dinner I wanted to add refried beans. Before becoming a vegetarian I was never a fan … [Read more...]

Vegetarian Tortilla Bake

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While on a quest for a good vegetarian lasagna I came across several recipes titled Tortilla Lasagna. There wasn't much in common with traditional lasagna other than being layered. It's more correct to call this a vegetarian tortilla bake than lasagna. This is a great dish to make with any vegetables and I bet just about any type of bean. It's a quick dish to prep and bake and leftovers are … [Read more...]

Spaghetti Squash

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I've never had spaghetti squash before so I decided to try it recently. I wanted to use is with homemade spaghetti sauce and see if I liked it as replacement for spaghetti noodles. Spaghetti squash is a variety of winter squash that can be yellow or orange. Spaghetti squash gets its name from its flesh that looks like spaghetti stands when cooked. Being a vegetarian and wanting to eat healthy … [Read more...]

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Black Bean Spaghetti

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I was craving pasta last night and decided to try something different for a spaghetti dinner. Looking online for different pasta recipes I decided to do black bean spaghetti. I checked my cupboards and noticed I had all the ingredients. I've come to love black beans since becoming vegetarian and have already posted several black bean featured recipes. I love pasta. Spaghetti and lasagna being … [Read more...]

Chick’n Stir Fry

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I often watch for sales on vegetarian products as they are more expensive than their meat counterparts. I've used a brand called LightLife before and enjoyed both of the Smart Ground original and Mexican veggie crumbles. I had a package of their Chick'n Style Strips I wanted to use in a stir fry. I had not tried the chick'n strips until now. While at the local CO-OP I picked up a container of … [Read more...]

Vegetarian Pizza

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Vegetarians often have left over vegetables and a great way to use them up is to make a veggie pizza! What I find on sale at the food store often dictates what meals I make. in the mood for pizza, I bought an organic pizza crust from Rustic Crust on sale. The rest of the ingredients I already had on hand. I decided this would be the first pizza I would have without cheese. As the toaster oven … [Read more...]

Vegetarian black bean roll ups

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I found three vegetarian products in the food store that I wanted to try in a vegetarian dish. The first being Tofutti Sour Supreme which is a sour cream alternative. Next was Veggie Shreds Cheese(Parmesan, Mozzarella & Romano blend) from Galaxy Foods and finally Brown Rice Tortillas from Food for Life. With these three vegetarian products to try I decided to make black bean tortilla roll … [Read more...]