Salt Oil Sugar free recipes wanted

[LauraMipsum]

Trying to be SOS free until Christmas. I've got the hang of frying off onion and garlic in water instead of oil, but I'm a bit stuck for recipes. We're also dairy-free vegetarians (yes, I know it sounds like I'm asking for food-free food!)

I've found a couple of American sites with recipes but they seem to be either bland but rely very heavily on granulated onion, or get flavour from stupid amounts of things like dried thyme so you don't notice the absence of salt as you clutch your throat and start wondering if there's such a thing as herb poisoning.

Anyone else do this type of cooking and got any favourite recipes to share?