sarah-i can eat all of those except chicken and salad- but only when the salad has preservatives.i have a cookbook that has bread, potato, soups, veggie. etc. recipes. it's a vegan cookbook but you would probably find it helpful. you could add chicken to the recipes i'm sure. the book is called "how it all vegan" and you can get it through amazon.i personally love roasting red potatoes in olive oil and spices.i also like sautee(sp?) veggies like onions, potatoes, tomato, and garlic in olive oil, adding curry or some other spice, and putting it over brown rice or couscous. you could add whatever protein to it you wanted, i use lentils or chick peas.