Vegetarians don't eke out a miserable existence on a few limp lettuce leaves and some boiled rice. And a proper vegetarian meal doesn't mean taking the meat away and leaving the side vegetables. With the hundreds of different vegetables, grains, fruit, pulses and nuts and seeds that exist, you could live to be 100 without exhausting all the possibilities for imaginative, nutritious meals! And as vegetarian food tends to be cheaper than a meat-based diet, you can afford to treat yourself to more expensive delicacies such as asparagus.

What You Should Eat Every Day on a Vegetarian Diet:
• 3 or 4 servings of cereals/grains or potatoes 
• 4 or 5 servings of fruit and vegetables 
• 2 or 3 servings of pulses, nuts & seeds 
• 2 servings of milk, cheese, eggs or soya products 
• A small amount of vegetable oil and margarine or butter. 
• Some yeast extract such as Marmite, fortified with vitamin B12.