If you are looking to create new traditions for your family, or need to know what to serve your vegetarian/vegan guests, here are some animal-friendly suggestions for a healthy and humane feast:

• Take your favorite childhood Thanksgiving dishes and make them vegetarian/ vegan. For instance, stuffing can be made using a vegetable broth and pies can be made using vegetable shortening in place of lard or butter.
• Try a commercial or homemade unturkey main dish
• Thanksgiving usually has a generous amount of side dishes, so try skipping the turkey substitute and feasting on the side dishes.
• If the people you celebrate with are not vegetarian, propose alternating years so that every other year the feast is vegetarian/vegan. Promise to help with recipes and ideas.
• Host a Day After Thanksgiving Vegetarian/Vegan Feast with friends, whether it be an extravagant sit-down dinner or a potluck.

Here are some menu ideas:

MAIN COURSES

• Field Roast Celebration Roast
• Garden Protein Veggie Turkey Breast
• Tofurky
• Pecan encrusted seitan
• Butternut squash with wild rice stuffing
• Veggie pot pie
• Veggie loaf
• Nut roast

SOUPS AND SALADS

• Pumpkin soup
• Butternut squash soup
• 12 bean soup
• Black bean and sweet potato chili
• Marinated lentil salad
• Quinoa salad
• Vegetable barley couscous
• Cranberry spinach salad

SIDE DISHES

• Mashed potatoes with mushroom gravy
• Potato and kale galette
• Roasted brussels sprouts with onions and apples
• Green beans with cranberries
• Cranberry-apple relish
• Cranberry chutney
• Corn bread
• Sweet potato biscuits

UNSTUFFED STUFFING

• Walnut-apple stuffing
• Sourdough stuffing with pine nuts and raisins
• Cranberry-pear wild rice stuffing
• Cornbread stuffing
• Stuffing with gimme lean sausage
• Quinoa stuffing

DESSERTS

• Pumpkin or squash pie
• Sweet potato pie
• Apple pie
• Pear and apple crumble
• Cranberry-nut bread
• Poached pears with wine vinaigrette
• Lemon custard bars
• Fresh fall fruit tart

ARTICLES

• Being vegetarian/vegan during holidays or family gatherings
• Turkey Alternative Brands

BOOKS WITH VEGETARIAN/VEGAN THANKSGIVING RECIPES

• Vegan Handbook by The Vegetarian Resource Group
• Friendly Foods by Brother Ron Pickarski
• The Vegan Table by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
• A Bountiful Vegan Thanksgiving by Nava Atlas
• Vegetarian Times Complete Thanksgiving Cookbook

Thanksgiving Day recipes

• Must Pumpkin Always Be Pie?
• Splendid Squash
• Saucepan Stuffing Mix
• Cooking with Tofurky for the Holidays
• Stuff Your Face: Stuffings for All Seasons
• Easy as Apple Pie
• Awesome Autumn Desserts From our Past
• Holiday Potatoes
• Sweet and Savory Sweet Potatoes
• Vegan Comfort Foods
• Salads for Every Course
• Crazy About Cranberries
• Quick Cornmeal
• A Vegetarian Thanksgiving Feast-The Easy Way
• Winter Squash with Apricot Stuffing
• Vegetarian “Stuffing” and Pumpkin Pie
• Recipe of the Month-Tofu Pumpkin Pie
• Recipe of the Month-Pecan Pie
• Vegan Thanksgiving
• Vegetarian & Vegan Thanksgiving Recipes (The New York Times; 2013)