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[quote=Anonymous]OP, when I stopped eating meat five years ago, what I did at first was just to eliminate what could easily be cut out - chicken from soups, bacon from breakfast, etc.  I didn't call myself a vegetarian - I just tried, without totally rocking my world, to cut out what was easy to do so.  It was fall when I did this and I still ate turkey on Thanksgiving, for example, and I still had beef broth in onion soup that Christmas.  I just got rid of what I could without totally turning my world (and all my cooking) upside down.  This lasted for a couple of months, until it got to the point that I didn't miss or want any meat at all.  So then I got rid of all of the meat in my diet.  In that first year, I still used a lot of my old recipes, but I substituted -- beans for veggies for chicken in burritos, for example, or spinach for chopped meat in lasagna.  Once I knew I was happy being meatless, I bought Mark Bittman's vegetarian cookbook, and that helped broaden my horizons.  I also joined a CSA and started cooking seasonally, and I got a lot of meatless, seasonal recipes off epicurious and other websites.

Overall, I found it much easier to phase out the meat than to be drastic about it.  By the end of a couple of months, not only did I not miss meat but I couldn't stand the taste of it anymore (a server accidentally gave me an omelette with bacon last summer and I nearly threw up), so at that point it was easy to be all-in about being vegetarian.  But it would have been hard to have gone "cold turkey" from the start.  Good luck!![/quote]

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