Can anyone help me with a vegetarian menu plan?

[Pennies]

We are changing our diet here from a very traditional British, carnivorous diet to an almost vegetarian, Mediterranean one for health reasons.

I want to be able to provide interesting and nutritious meals that can contain fish (couple of times a week), but keeping dairy to as much of a minimum as possible.

Can anyone help me or recommend some books to give me some pointers.

Vegetable crumble (Veg base, pasatta sauce, savoury crumble with any of - nuts, cheese and herbs)
Veg chilli
Pasta bake, with veg and/or tuna
Stir fry veg/cashews/Quorn chunks and sauce (I buy packet ones from Asda)
Jacket spuds/baked beans/coleslaw/cheese
Macaroni/Cauliflower cheese
Mushroom stroganoff
Chickpea/pea/spud "dry" curry (sauce based on a little tom purree and coriander)
Aubergine/courgette/pepper/mushroom "creamy" curry (I make sauce from yogurt, pataks curry paste and creamed coconut)
Ratatouille (+ chickpeas for protein, add cinnamon stick for exotic flair!)/rice cous cous
Roasted veg, lentils and cous cous
Spanish ommlette with chunks of potato, peas, cherry toms and peppers
Veg stew + dumplings (veg suet) - pearl barley is good to "beef it up". Or added chestnuts and/or wine for festive flavour.
Veg sausage caserrolle
Veg sausage and mash
Veg sherpherd's pie - bean or Quorn mince base, spud/swede mash topping.
Salmon or Tuna steaks/rice/peas
Falaffel, salad and cous cous
Fish pie
"Chip Shop" fish (from supermaket) and potato wedges
Lentil hotpot (layers of sliced onions/lentils/spuds/toms, cover with a generous amounnt of green oxo stock, bake 180c for 1.5 hours, sprinkle with cheese if desired).
Veg sausage and mash
Fish fingers!
Rissotto - mushroom (use "exotic" ones; of dried "exotic" ones - v tasty, more concentrated in dried ones, especially when reydrated in wine! - usually in herbs and spices bit of supermarket)/smoked salmon and asparagus/sun dried toms, feta, spinach and peppers.
Nut roast (Chestnut stuffing, add a packet of chopped nuts/cashews/various grated veg) in place of Sunday roast.

That is pretty much a summary of what we eat.
Te various "Cranks" cook books are good - the originals first written in the 1970s, so a bit hippy, but good basics. The more recent ones are less hippy.

Also "The Accidental Vegetarian" by Simon ? Rimmer?

My MIL likes Delia's Vegetarian book when cooking for me.

We cook spicey beans in rolled up tortillas, with cheese on the top in the oven and eat with sour cream and guacamole

I think the best veggie cook book is Leith's Vegetarian Bible. Expensive, but extensive.

BRS - thank you so much - that is an amazing list. Thanks for taking the time to write it all out. Very much appreciated.

Those bean tortillas sound good too - what sort of beans?

rose elliott books are fabulous, a fair amount of her recipes are vegan naturally, and she offers alternatives for cutting dairy out of most others
they're probably the books I use the most when cooking

am habving a mental block now on what we eat lol, but in the last few days we';ve had:

homemade pizza and potato wedges
lemon and rosemary risotto
veggie fajitas
celery and chestnut soup with crusty bread

made a lovely pistou from one of my rose elliott books which was delicious.

Pennies, I cheat and buy tinned beans (not sure what type of beans they are) in a spicy sauce from Asda but you could be earth mothery and make your own with a spicey tomato sauce. I lob in some finely chopped veg too, the kids don;t notice

we like having veg pasta sauce one night then adding blended baked/kidney beans and cooking a bit longer to thicken, popping in taco shells, sprinkling cheese over and baking for 15 mins.

another vote for Rose Elliot - I'm vegan and swear by her recipes
look here for pointers
and here