I love Easy Vegan SO MUCH. I can't wait for the brick and mortar to open!

Just here to say they make incredible food - regardless of vegan or not

Hopefully the bell pepper lemonade will be on the menu. That’s one of the most delicious drinks I’ve ever had!

I’ll take all the local business coming to south broadway! Glad to see this as the hornet news had me bummed. Long live south broadway! 

Not a vegan. But really enjoy what I have had at the farmers markets.

Lmao, for real though, the prices are crazy and the food just isn't that great.  Mediterranean type spots that are setup like Chipotle are the only ones that are consistently great.  They aren't usually fully vegan but their vegan options are fantastic. 

I started my vegan journey 11 years ago.  When we went out, I got a potato or rice and steamed veggies.  At home I cooked whole foods, plant based meals and abstained from everything processed.  Then I got super busy with work and started eating out, a lot (there was a spot close to work that had a tahini and tempeh wrap that was suuuuuuper tasty.  A few years ago we found an amazing vegan Chinese restaurant that stole our hearts (if you're ever near Rowland Heights in CA, it's called House of Fortune).  Then we moved across the country, to the country, where I've had to learn to cook delicious vegan meals because those options just aren't available here lol.  And when we have visited bigger cities with vegan restaurants, we have the same thoughts you do:  too expensive and what we make is way better.   I've upped my game since the whole foods, plant based beginning... now with seasonings and tofu, ohhhhhhh yeaaaaahhhh. :-)

Far from where? Where are you where you want vegan food?

Veggie grill recently introduced weekday lunch combos, for around $10 you get a wrap/tacos plus fries/salad and drink.

I love Vegan Glory Thai food, and I think it’s decently priced considering you get a few meals out of those entrees.

Lucy Ethiopian restaurant is deliciously and affordable

Bé Ù on Hoover has some good vegan options including an awesome bánh mì for like $7.

I second baked potatoes. I top them with salad or fill them with veggies.

Overnight oats topped with fruit.

Rice and any kind of beans.

Pasta and any kind of beans.

Tofu scramble.

Buy stuff at your local Asian market. Rice and tofu are much cheaper there than at traditional grocery stores in my experience

The trick is to buy in bulk. Find somewhere in your town that sells 20kg bags of rice, kidney beans, lentils and rolled oats. Buy a bag of each.

Get yourself some basic spices (salt, onion powder, garlic powder, paprika, cumin), and some canola oil.

Add some cheap veggies. Whatever you can find locally cheap.

Learn to cook some basic dishes with these ingredients. Youtube is a great resource for this.

Make overnight oats every day - a cup of rolled oats, a bit of cinnamon, some frozen fruit, some chia seeds, top up with your favourite milk. You have an amazing breakfast that cost under 50c.

Tofu + veggie stir-fry.

Making stews from dried beans and pairing with rice, there's infinite variations on that simple concept, plenty of them are about as cheap as it gets! Pick a couple with similar ingredients to keep a rotation going without needing to stock a whole kitchen.

"Its got dead animals in it so you don't want it"

"This is the seafood section, we don't do that fuck you seafood"

I am stealing these, ty

Trader Joe’s has a great variety of plant-based options! I like the kimbap as a quick snack/small meal.

I also determine if products are vegan or not based on cholesterol % on nutrition labels. That and the “may contain” section below. And somehow still end up reading the whole ingredients list at the end, lol.

Great video! Thanks for sharing! I wish I saw videos like this when I was a new vegan to give me ideas of where to grocery shop and what to buy!

Holy clickbait title

Too bad Trader Joe's is anti-union https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/02/02/trader-joes-argues-national-labor-relations-board-is-unconstitutional-and-other-labor-news/

Last year I spent an average of £140.5 monthly in groceries. Most common dishes were:

• Paella (rice, mushrooms...)
• Pasta salad.
• Zucchini cream (thick soup)
• Rice salad (with beans/chickpeas..)
• Potato Stew (+texturized soy)
• Pasta with sauteed mushrooms and broccoli
• Boiled or steamed potatoes with peas snd/or beans, chickpeas... just drizzled with good olive oil, salt and pepper

Less common, but still repeating:

• Ramen

I’M 60 pounds . 

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Yams and sweet ones I eat them as they are as they are sweet. Some people eat them as desert with bananas. Check on youtube, there are so many talented vegans and so many channels to choose from. Some meals are very simple that even I can do.

On the potatoes I add onion powder and garlic powder, but again sky is the limit, season as you wish and experiment.

I am on an oil free, low fat whole foods plant based diet, but you can also add oil in the mix.

The thing with potatoes is that they have a very high satiety index so they keep you going for a long time.

Other most simple meals and so good are oats with fruits. Overnight oats, microwaved oats with frozen fruits and bananas, are the best. Again oats very high satiety, after potatoes.

Rice, beans, roasted veggies with a vinegrette on top. Or sub tofu for beans.

Recently I've been making pasta with meatballs, takes like 10-15 minutes and it's pasta so it's great.

You can get fairly cheap vegan meatballs in the UK, at most major shops, im pretty sure, and pasta comes cheap anyway.

Not sure if that helped, but that's my current comfort meal

When I'm depressed, my favorite meal is a can of beans. Seriously. Refried black beans or jalapeno pinto beans are my favorite, but anything will do

It's the absolute minimal amount of effort, it's filling, it's nutritious, and everything tastes the same anyway so I'm not cooking for flavor (but really, beans are always delicious anyway)

Then I can get fancy if I want. Or not. Hot sauce, an avocado, Fritos, shredded cheeze. Whatever I'm feeling, or not feeling!

Ramen Noodles 🍜🌱

Baked potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams. Everything where the over does the entire job by itself. Season and serve.

Annie’s chili in a can is vegan. I like that on my baked potatoes. You could even microwave some frozen broccoli.

I mean…it might sound bleak, but it’s an undeniable truth that self stable rice and beans are affordable and abundant just about everywhere in the world. Yes fruits and veggies are too, but they will tend to be a little more expensive overall, not keep as long, and ultimately will shift greatly depending on season if you’re say hitting a farmers market.

All of that is without even factoring in the cost of supplements or anything else that might restrict things even further. That said, yeah we don’t need to sound so bleak about it. Rice and beans can be made a million different ways and have such a wide selection in and of themselves. I do appreciate seeing what you spend on and vary y’all’s diet. That’s awesome and practical advice. I feel ya about the tone we use sometimes when we make eating vegan out to be this boring thing tho. Shame, as some of the vegan food I’ve had has been absolutely bomb as fuck.

Counterpoint: rice and beans are practically manna of the gods.

Look, I eat a wide variety of foods that make me happy, but if someone is coming at me with "veganism is expensive!" and "but protein though?", I'm not going to talk about fruit, I'm going to sing the praises of the humble lentil, every time.

An interesting point to consider is that since becoming vegan, I actually have more variety in my diet. Look at the "biodiversity" in a butcher shop versus a greengrocer. The butcher shop has maybe 5 distinct species (cow, pig, chicken, sheep, goat), while the green grocer has hundreds of species of plants and fungi.

Stopping eating meat only amounts to "giving up" the few species of animals that are culturally allowed to be slaughtered and in return opens up the doors to eating dozens of new species of plants. Thus, it is a complete misnomer that a vegan diet is less varied than a traditional Western European diet.

The fallacy is that a omnivore may say he can theoretically eat more variety than a vegan. But in practice this is not so, because the human appetite is finite, so if the omnivore eats meat, it will necessarily mean that he cannot eat as many plants as he could have eaten if he did not eat that meat. Thus, in practice you can actually achieve more variety in your diet by being vegan.

Yeah sure but where's the vegetables? Where's the fruit? The variety? I have cooked professionally, I'm a fantastic cook..which is why i wouldn't limit myself. Just because I can make rice and beans a hundred ways, why would I want to? Lol. This is about nutrition as well as ethics. I think people can get so lost in the tag of "being vegan" that they forget you actually have to at least attempt to eat a healthy, balanced diet. Just because it's vegan, doesn't necessarily mean it's good for you. It genuinely baffles me the amount of people who are afraid of vegetables 🙃

This isn’t to say that there aren’t benefits. I’d even argue that you have heard some you just may simply not agree with them. For example, I’m non vegan, and i absolutely love experimenting with different animal proteins I’ve not tried before or even those same proteins cooked different ways. What’s the benefit? It tastes different and thus creates a different experience. Now would I expect most vegans to accept that answer? No probably not. That not to say however that there isn’t any benefit. It’s the same with plants too, granted there is a much larger range of edible plants than there seems to be animal proteins.