How can I get good vegan food?

I only make a few things, and i'm tired of them. There are few vegan restaurants, and they're expensive. I look up recipes, but the dishes always seem to be a lot of BS with weird or hard to get ingredients. How can a non-nosense, not rich vegan survive?

Do as I do - make all the same foods that you did before making the switch - but make them vegan. I actually will buy those little cookbooks that they have at the checkout stands - so that I can make something within them that I know that I can switch over to what I can eat.

I can make everything from waffles to - cheese cake all suitable for a vegan/vegetarian.

What I eat now is little different than what I ate before - except the ingredients within the foods that I eat.

So what I suggest - change your approach. Instead of thinking that everything that you eat is 'different' - think of how to adapt what you ate before to fit your diet needs now.

Perspective is everything. If you see it as an expensive way to eat with ingredients hard to find or expensive because you have to make food that you never really ate before - that is all that you will see.

BUT - if you switch your view to seeing how you can adapt and how you can adjust things so that you are eating pretty much what you always have eaten with subtle changes - it is much easier. Sure, you can still make those things with the expensive ingredients once in awhile if you really want to - but it isn't required.

Not sure that I got my thoughts across totally accurate - but I at least hope that it helps you to think along a more positive line so that you can see that eating doesn't have to be expensive just because your vegan/vegetarian than if you weren't.

I had the same problem and i totally understand..but i gave myself some time to look through a few different cook books and sometimes improvise slightly to make it interesting.
some good recipes to look up are;
THE OBVIOUS ONES -
lasagne (with mixed veg or soya mince)
Bean burgers
Sos mix sausages
then there's MORE UNUSUAL / INTERESTING -
vegetable goulash (good with rice or pasta)
lentil and veg layered casserole..
theres loads of inspiration on here..

http://www.vegansociety.com/home.php

also something really nice that i eat occasionally is fajitas.
if you buy some flour fajitas / taco shells and some of the following -
salsa
mixed veg to roast (add some spices)
re-fried beans (or make your own)
quacamole (an avacado mix, or make your own as some contain dairy)
and my favourite, green jalepeno peppers.. quite spicy but amazingly good with mexican food.

bon apetite (;

www.veganoutreach.org/starterpack/recipe...

vegetarian.about.com/od/morerecipes/r/...

www.easyvegan.com

Buy a vegan cookbook. Vegan with a Vengeance and Veganomicon both have great recipes.

http://www.veganmeat.com/recipie.html

go to whole foods.

i'm sure they have entire cookbooks there aswell.