Main Street vegan : everything you need to know to eat healthfully and live compassionately in the real world
(Book)

Decide that you can do this -- Recipe: My mom's wacky cake -- Start where you are -- Recipe: Lentil-spud burgers -- Retire from dieting -- Recipe: Grandma's lasagna (raw) -- Propel yourself with plant protein -- Recipe: 3-bean and quinoa salad -- Recast the entrée -- Recipe: Neat loaf -- Find out what other vegans eat -- Recipe: Baked chee spaghetti casserole -- Amaze your doctor -- Recipes: Oh-so-good mashed potatoes and easy mushroom gravy -- Save your money as well as your life -- Recipe: Cheapish chili -- Take a bird's-eye view -- Recipe: Veggie-edamame pot pies -- Know the beings behind bacon and burgers -- Recipe: Classic quiche -- Let fish off the hook -- Recipe: Mock tuna salad -- Outgrow your need for milk -- Recipe: Uptown pizza -- Get your calcium where the cow got hers --

Recipe: Gena Hamshaw's collard wraps -- Thrive with the five fitness food groups -- Recipe: Casablanca couscous -- Go green -- Recipe: Corpus Christi cornbread -- Go greens -- Recipe: All hail the kale salad -- Go the whole way with whole foods -- Recipe: Back-to-basics grains- brown rice and millet -- Veganize your kitchen -- Recipe: Scrambled tofu -- Supplement with vitamin B12 (and maybe a few other nutrients) -- Recipe: House dressing -- Move your body, manage your stress, and poison yourself less -- Recipe: ALT, the BLT alternative -- Dine out -- Recipe: Savory stuffed mushrooms (from the candle café) -- And cook out -- Recipes: Spicy coconut lime grilling sauce, Asian peanut glaze, and all-American fat-free marinade -- Wake up and smell the breakfast -- Recipe: Nick's holiday pancakes -- Joyfully juice -- Recipe: Kris Carr's "make juice, not war" green juice --

Have a drink if you want one

Recipes: Adair's no-place-like-home chocolate martini, and at-the-bar choco-hazelnut martini

Eat soy and wheat- or skip one or both of them

Recipe: Peanut butter "minus" cookies

Rethink macho

Recipe: Working man stew

Replace cruel cosmetics and household cleaners

Recipe: Chef John's spa smoothie

Choose fashion with compassion

Recipe: Catwalk cobbler

Bring the kids along

Recipe: Krispy kale chips

Walk the walk

Recipe: Mock chicken noodle soup

Don't sweat the small stuff- at least not in public

Recipe: Better fruit gel-oh

Invite people over

Recipe: Hot "cheesy" vegetable dip

Win friends and influence omnivores

Recipe: cool dilly tofu dip (or dressing)

Love the people who wish you'd just eat some meat

Recipe: pumpkin pie

Travel tastefully

Recipe: chickpea curry

Engage in a little activism

Recipe: chocolate chip cookies

Grow older better

Recipe: shangri-la soup

Engage your spirit

Recipe: seitan stroganoff

Go the distance

Recipe: chocolate mousse.