Building muscle on a vegetarian diet with no supplements

[frogmella]

Just curious, are thre any women out there who are vegetarian and do not take any supplements who have successfully followed this way of eating while gaining muscle?

[mysticpenguin]

What do you consider a supplement to be? I am vegetarian (well, ovo-pescetarian: so fish and eggs but no dairy whatsoever) and I do just fine, but I do supplement with 1 scoop of protein powder (Gemma pea isolate from True Protein) per day. I write up my daily eats sometimes on my blog (Squat Like A Lady) but I do think if I didn't have such issues with soy and could eat it once a day without reeeeally paying for it, I wouldn't even need the pea protein powder.

Have you read Vegan Bodybuilding by Robert Cheeke? It contains several diet plans.