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Most other beans besides lentils will do the job. Beans and brown rice together make good proteinaceous dish. Beans _can_ be cooked to be tasty.
As for the peanut butter thing, thingstodo is correct. The only ingredient listed onyour peanut butter jar should be peanuts. The all-natural stuff has to be stirred, but frankly it's a lot tastier than Jiff and the others if you really like nuts, and goes down better.
For variety, try other nut butters: almond butter (a little more expensive) and cashew butter, a lot more expensive and kind of rich, but YUM! That stuff rocks. These are available many places, but try natural food stores first, where you can even buy them in bulk.
If you want to go the supplement route, whey protein mixed with milk or soy milk is a good way to go, tasty, and not all that much more expensive, by gram of protein, than the cheaper cuts of meat, or even canned tuna.
Personally, one of the most popular dishes I make is a lentil stew with sausage. There really isn't much sausage in it, but after I've slow cooked everything for a couple of hours the sausage flavor runs through the lentils, the liquid, everything. Great with yogurt on top. And don't forget yogurt, another good protein source. Eat it by itself, with fruit, or as a topper on other dishes, like the lentils.
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