text: I don't think there are any good shortcuts. If you are going to go vegan all the way, you might want to try your local health-food store and look for "vegan" in the label. You may also find websites if you google the same word. The bottom-line is you will still need to read a lot of labels and slowly learn what products come from animals (lactose and things like that). Try sticking to organic vegetables, tofu, and fresh foods in general to save some time at the grocery store (but not necessarily in the kitchen). Another good meat substitute is seitan (it makes a killer stroganoff). Look for fast-meal vegan cookbooks online. There is a world of information out there. \nJust make sure you are still eating enough vegetable proteins. Try beans, tofu, seitan, mushrooms, soy, nuts, etc. (again, google things like "high protein content" or look for nutritional listings online). Good luck!\nObs.: You might want to put your posting under a subject like diet, health, cooking, or something like that. \n\nP.S.: I just found that there is a whole section of yahoo! questions dedicated to the subject. Under "food and drink" there is a sub-section called "vegetarian and vegan". There are a lot of questions there similar to yours. Check it out!