I did exactly the same thing, Kotter. After I graduated Uni, I decided to move out of home and become veggie. My Mum bought me a New Internationalist cookbook with recipes from all over the world which had great recipes that I had a lot of fun cooking, including a weird sweet potato and orange dessert from Malawi which I won't forget in a hurry!

You just have to think a bit different and do everything in moderation. Society is designed for you to act and eat in a certain way, and the more you deviate from that the more difficult things can be. The biggest barrier to changing lifestyle is society, so if you love food and enjoy experimenting with cooking, you'll have no probs.

Geez, there's some heavy stuff out there. I'm reading some articles from http://www.soilandhealth.org/index.html at the moment.

Remind me to buy an LCD sometime soon *squint*