Nuts and seeds are great, beans, rice, lentils, other whole grains (I just had a great quinoa and garbanzo bean dish I found on Recipezaar, yummy!).
Lots of times what I'll do is get the vegan "meat" and use it in a typical meat dish, like tacos with soy crumbles, or chicken style seitan (wheat gluten) in stir-fries. I'll often make my own vegi burgers with vegetables, whole grains, beans, and sometimes nuts and seeds too - there are lots of recipes on the internet and you can freeze them like the packaged burgers too.
Seitan is very versatile, you can make it yourself, many different ways, from vital wheat gluten.
For breakfast I'll often have a green smoothie with soy milk (supplmented with protein powder like hemp, rice or soy), or a tofu scramble. I basically make it the same way as an egg scramble, I just put in diced tofu (firm or extra firm) with the veggies.
For fat, you can use any of the many nut or seed oils (olive, sesame, sunflower, walnut, etc.), nuts, seeds, avocados and olives have healthy fats. I like coconut too (oil, butter, etc.) but some people don't like it because it's solid at room temperature (though it's definitely not like animal fat from a health perspective).
So for green smoothies if I'm not getting enough fat from the protein (or I am blending a salad), I'll put in some coconut oil (or butter) or avocado, for instance. You can top salads with nuts or seeds, or use olive oil of course. Sauteeing foods in olive oil is great, so that becomes easy to do if you make a stir fry or tofu scramble, for instance.
When I make vegi burgers or other sandwiches, I often replace the condiments with avocado and also hummus. Hummus has the garbanzo beans, but also tahini (roasted sunflower seeds) which gives it some fat.
Don't forget other nut and seed products like almond butter. And consider all kinds of seeds like flax, hemp, chia, sunflower, pumpkin, and the like, and also sprouts - sprouts are very protien rich, gram for gram.
If you look at raw food recipes, you can find a lot of recipes to make your own mayo, cream, "cheese", and pates in a healthful way from nuts and seeds, which is a great addition, whether you are mostly a raw vegan or not.
Also, when it comes to protein look at the protein values of the foods you're eating - protein is in all plants to a varying degree. I tend to stay away from the white button mushrooms but eat other kinds as they're higher in protein. Same with things like kale, collards, mache and spinach vs. lettuce. I also add raw chocolate to my smoothies which has quite a bit of protein in it. It all adds up.
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