Vegetarian Eateries and Recipe Guide

Food is a celebration! It is used for love, for meeting with friends, for brightening up your day, for comfort, for sharing special moments, and for the pure heavenly feeling of it on your tongue and in your belly. So get some yummy vego food into you today!

Vegetarian food has many benefits, for both you and the planet:

* It’s healthy;
* It’s good for animals☺;
* Vego food uses less land and forest areas;
* Vego food is ethical, as land doesn’t need to be used in developing countries to grow feed crops or to graze livestock;
* It opens up people’s worlds to new and exciting food: no more chop and three veg!
What would Australia be like food-wise if we didn’t have a Chinese restaurant around when we were kids? We’d all still be eating chop and three veg for dinner. World migration to Oz has opened up our world to food we never dreamt of before, and vegetarian food does the same thing. Who would have eaten the myriad of beans we have available (unless they were in tins and baked), if not for vego food? Who would have ever tasted the delights of nuts and seeds if not for vego food? We would all still be eating peanuts.
* Vego food is yummy! It’s not all about tofu and steamed vegetables. There’s a whole new world of food out there to explore, and you’ll never know about it unless you get out there and try a vegetarian restaurant or café. These people specialise in vegetarian, and know what they’re doing.

Below are a few websites where you can find a vego café in your area, wherever you are in the world. Or try adding a few vegetarian recipes to your meals each week from the websites below.. Your body and the planet will thank you for it.

Have fun with your food and get out there into vego land! Exotic and new delights are waiting to woo your taste buds!

INTERNATIONAL SITES
www.happycow.net Worldwide directory of vegetarian eateries and information: even Veggie Humour!
www.vegweb.com International site good for recipes, links and for chatting to other vegetarians.

AUSTRALIAN SITES
www.veg-soc.org Australian Vegetarian Society. It lists restaurants, practitioners, has a forum and a magazine.

RECIPE SITES:
Vego recipes sites that I’ve used include:
www.ivu.org/recipes/ Vegan recipes from around the world.
www.vrg.org/recipes/ A good list.
www.veganchef.com/ Great recipes on this one.
www.vegsoc.org/cordonvert/recipes/ A great recipe index, also with special occasion ideas, including Christmas, Valentine’s Day and Halloween, and you can search recipes by ingredients, meal types, and themes.
www.vegsource.com/recipe/ VegSource is truly what it says it is – a source for all things vegetarian on the web. Go to the recipe page for links to all vegetarian recipes on the web

(If anyone has a favourite site or eatery, please add it in to the comments)