Sinsull do you know the core 'trinity' of vegetable food-groups which supposedly need to be combined in order to provide all the amino acids necessary for the body to synthesise protein?

Actually there are more current thoughts on this, which suggest that it's *not* strictly necessary to combine the different vegetable protein food-groups at the *same meal* - but if unsure whether you're getting sufficient protein, then traditionally the idea was to always include TWO of the Three staple vegetarian protein food-groups at any one main meal, to ensure sufficient protein uptake.

The three fully vegan food groups you will want to keep in your storecupboard are:

1: Legumes/Pulses (such as: lentils, dried split peas, adzuki beans, butter beans, kidney beans, chick peas etc.)
2: Grains (such as: cracked wheat, bulghar wheat, rice, oats etc.)
3: Nuts & Seeds (such as: almonds, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, walnuts etc.)

As each of these three food groups have *some* but not all of the amino acids contained in complete proteins (such as meat) by combining any two of them in the same meal, the body is provided with all necessary ingredients to enable it to naturally synthesise protein for itself (humans bodies are fully naturally evolved, to do this no sweat).

As such, something as simple as eating a wheat based cereal (grain) with say almond milk (nut), or soy milk (legume), would actually be sufficient to be deemed a full protein meal. I'm sure you get it.. :)

Otherwise, as Janie says, Tofu is complete protein, as indeed are ALL *Soya* based products. And indeed if after a while you're ever feeling weak and low on protein from such a sudden shift in diet, you could look into making up your own 'energy shakes', adding Soya based protein powder (same as body builders do, though for a different reason).

I'll post up some further simple vegan 'whole protein' meals, inabit..