Six months on whole-food, plant-based diet doesn't need to be boring

Valerie O’Connor has spent the last six months on a whole-food, plant-based diet but finds that eating in restaurants now has become really boring — though tasty options are straightforward with a bit of imagination.    

AS A teenage vegetarian who just did it to annoy my parents, I ate my way through a lot of bean burgers made from a packet.

You mixed the powdered stuff up with an egg and water and made them into burger shapes. They were delicious and saved me, even though I was eating lots of salmon and tuna because, as we all know, fish is a vegetable.