good bean dips are hummus made with chickpeas or balck beans and tuscan bean dips which is white beans ans tomato and sage, check out vegweb.com in the different sections for good recipes and since its a vegan website there is no milk in the recipes my best recommendations for cook books would be how it all vegan and vive le vegan.
Deli meat slices, the tofurky brand ones are really good, so are their sausages, they are made with organic tofu and not weird soy protein isolate gook.