Helpful websites:
-Plantbasedonabudget.com - has recipes for plant based meals that won't break the budget (see their meal plans with shopping lists).
-Byanygreensnecessary.com - website of plant-based thought-leader, Tracye McQuirter
-Healthiersteps.com - plant-based gluten free recipe site.
-Forksoverknives.com - lots of recipes, as well as a helpful meal planner tool (costs extra)
-Rachelama.com - website of plant-based thought-leader, Rachel Ama
-Blue Zones Food Guidelines - Guidelines based on analysis of the diets of the peoples that most frequently live to 100. With recipes and a helpful meal planner
-Rainbow Plant Life - Nisha Vora's excellent site full of recipes and helpful guides to starting and maintaining a plant-based lifestyle.
-Cuisinicity.com - full of delicious healthy recipes from Catherine Katz, PhD wife of my hero David Katz, MD, a giant in the field of nutrition.
Podcasts to investigate:
-Nutrition Rounds, Danielle Bellardo
-Nutrition Facts, Michael Gregor
-The Exam Room Podcast by the Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine.
Documentaries to watch:
-What the Health - a mostly-right, slightly exaggerated case against factory food production
-Forks over Knives - a spot-on look at how low-fat, whole-foods, plant-based diets unblock arteries
-The Game Changers - Profiles on plant-based, plant powered, elite athletes. The best answer to the 'what about protein?" question.