Vegetarian and vegan recipes

I haven't eat meat/poultry for about 30 years but I do eat fish, eggs and dairy.
Lots of "normal" meals are vegetarian and don't need to be "labelled" - like pizza, pasta, beans on toast, chilli sin carne = red beans, tomatoes, onions and, um, chillies.
That split pea dahl I posted earlier - lots more recipes on Hodmedod's site.

Sounds like a daft question I know veggie, but was there one particular reason 30 years a go that you took the plunge and stopped eating meat?