"Mrs punkfolkrocker seems fairly positive about having a go at rekindling our student days veggie diet regime.
But it'll probably require monthly trips to Bristol to stock up on dried pulses etc.."

Grand! I tend to shop online once every three months for wholefoods, which I buy in 1kg or 3kg sizes (depending on what it is). You can usually get free delivery if you spend X amount (eg: £40). This works well for me because I've established a routine that suits me and I have a bunch of staple recipes (which I continue to switch up and add to) that I cook in bulk once a month and portion up and freeze for meals later. If I'm going to cook beans, I may as well do the bag. Once the bag is cooked, I may as well use the whole lot. I find a 500g bag of beans, tends to make eight portions of whatever it might happen to be (curry, stew, chilli etc.). AS there's two of us, that makes four meals (or one months worth). The batch gets portioned up into four 1kg tubs and frozen. I take it out the night before to defrost and then cook side dishes on the night.*

Ocado online is also surprisingly good for some things (good variety of pulses and grains, as well as dairy and meat subs), though I've found highstreet or edge of town Waitrose's to be rather rubbish by comparison.

Our friday night thing is curry and wine or lager. As Musket notes below, there are lots of veg options, add pickles and naan, and you're away. Even veggie it still feel like it's 'fun' or 'treat' food. Veg curries are always an option at takeaways too, the sides are fab: onion bajis, saag aloo, stuffed paratha.. Hmmm... hungry.





*that posh pressure cooker I linked to before was way too small. I thikn I'd probably need 8 litres not 4