[AgentOrange1234]

Cold turkey could be hard. Try transitioning slowly. As a start, just cook more veggies and load up your plate with them. Roasted broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, etc., can be amazing. You can also substitute less-bad meats (turkey burgers instead of cow, etc.) or try out some of the veg. substitutes.

[danShumway]

Going slowly would be my recommendation as well. I transitioned to lacto-ovo vegetarian over the course of somewhere between 2-3 years. First was red meat, then poultry, and then fish. Even there, I had tiny goals -- I started with, "I won't buy this at a supermarket, but I'll eat it if I'm offered, or at a restaurant."

I'm also a really picky eater, and it took about that amount of time for my palette to start to change, to the point where I now really enjoy salads, mushrooms, tofu, and well-cooked veggies.

Changing a pallet is hard, it's OK to do it gradually, and it's OK to experiment and find setups that work for just you. I'm still working on softer veggies like baked beans; everyone says they're really healthy, but I saute about 90% of the veggies I eat. There's something about steamed or boiled veggies that just grosses me out.

But there were other foods I thought I'd never like before, and it's been really interesting especially over the last 4-5 months to go back and try foods that I dismissed before and discover that I suddenly like them a lot more.

[Fnoord]

> Cold turkey could be hard. Try transitioning slowly

Aim for reducetarian and go with the flow. Experiment, and think in terms of possibilities; not limitations. That being said, artificial restrictions can aid as extrinsic motivation, stimulating you to experiment. It could also lead you to conclude that it is too <fill in> (e.g. boring), thereby giving up, while the reason is that you did not put in enough thought, time, and -ultimately- effort.

For no particular specific good reason (apart from having lived as full-time vegetarian for ~10 years, vegan ~2 years and reducetarian for another ~10) I can recommend the book Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi. [1]

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8086216-plenty

[neltnerb]

Oh yeah, adding a fried egg to blanched spinach and quinoa is also very filling. If you're willing to eat eggs they can be extremely versatile with vegetables.