Learning the basics
VivaUSA's Vegan Basics Guide is a guide to animal-free shopping, cooking and eating. Vegan Outreach's Guide to Cruelty-Free Eating features advice on cooking, eating and living cruelty-free.

What to cook
See our Cooking page for links to vegan recipe sites and advice on veganizing recipes with substitutes for animal products. For vegan and vegan-friendly cookbooks, see the vegan.com bookstore.

Where to shop
The national chains Whole Foods Market, Wild Oats and Trader Joe's offer a good selection of vegan and vegetarian foods. Use their store locators to find a location near you. For a directory of natural foods cooperatives, click here. For other stores see our list of State and Local Vegetarian Guides and International Vegetarian Guides or look in your local yellow pages under "Health Food Products Retail". Now many mainstream grocery stores offer a variety of vegetarian and vegan foods and many vegan recipes use easy-to-find ingredients. Consider joining or starting a food buying club to buy natural foods wholesale together with other people in your area. United Natural Foods Inc. services buying clubs in most regions of the continental U.S.. Email them at bcinfo@unfi.com with your name, address, city and state to find a club near you. For harder-to-find vegetarian and vegan foods, see our list of Mail-order Sources.

Saving money
See our Guide to Making Frugal Choices for simple, easy ways to save on your grocery bill while eating veg.

Eating out
See our list of State and Local Vegetarian Guides International Vegetarian Guides to find veg-friendly restaurants near you. Otherwise, ethnic restaurants, especially Asian ones, often have something vegan.

For other useful websites, see the links page.