When I went vegetarian (7 years ago), the book that helped me the most was, swear to FSM, “Vegetarian Cooking for Dummies.” It did a great job outlining how to make a well-rounded, balanced vegetarian diet, as well as provided simple recipes to get started with.

Vegan Vittles is *the best* for learning to make your own faux meat substitutes, particularly for traditional down-home cooking. (Making your own is way cheaper than using the store’s and better than eating the processed ones). My omni partner loves any meat substitute I make from this book.

Fresh From the Vegetarian Slow Cooker is great if you are used to using a slow cooker and want to learn to adapt.

Beyond that, I’d just say to remember that most recipes you’re already used to are easy to make veg. Just sub veggie broth for chicken, and a veggie protein for the meat, and you’re generally good to go.

Re: Vegetarian recipes, I have the vegetarian BBC Good Food cookbook and there are some nice and easy ones in there. I also recently got A Girl Called Jack from the library – it’s a budget cook book rather than a vegetarian cook book, but there’s enough vegetarian stuff in there that I think it’s one I want to have around. Lots of tasty and not too time-consuming dishes. Good luck with the transition, and I hope you find a way to make it work for you.