/r/EatCheapAndVegan
Eat Cheap as a vegan.
A community for eating cheap on a vegan diet. Share your meal preps, favorite recipes, and strategies for eating vegan without breaking the bank.
Sub Rules:
All food MUST be vegan
Ingredients must actually be cheap/cost effective.
Be civil - No trolls
No spam (spam isn't vegan)
Please include an ingredients list if you post pictures of your meals. Links to recipes outside reddit are okay.
Recipes should focus on whole foods rather than processed foods. Processed foods are typically not cheap or widely available.
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Hi all!
I’m looking for cheap, delicious and filling oatmeal recipes that I can pack for work. I tend to prefer overnight oats, but may be willing to convert.
Thanks in advance!
Looking for some tasty casserole ideas to dump and bake, and make my kitchen smell like delicious food! What are some of your favorites? Bonus points if they use potatoes lol
Link to recipe here with tips and suggestions
I just had a bunch of old apples that I forgot about that I made apple sauce with! I use a lot of apple sauce in my baking so I just froze them in some silicone muffin pans and I've got perfect portions for when I'm baking.
I also make all my beans in my insta pot then freeze them so they're ready to add to things easily.
Welcome to the last week of Veganuary! This is the last of five weekly support threads for the month of January.
If you've made it this far, congratulations! Was the past month easier or harder than you thought it would be? Did you learn anything new, as far as cooking or other skills? Did you learn anything new about yourself?
Thank you all for participating here, and best wishes for the rest of 2025! To our wonderful community of vegans here, thank you for all you do, and cheers to another year of kindness!
I've been making a mess of TVP by soaking it in broth.
The end result is a bit watery and mushy. I would like to get it firm/dry enough to fry it.
I've put the rehydrated TVP in my tofu press which gets a lot of water out fast. How long should I leave it in the tofu press. A few minutes or a longer time?
I was surprised with how expensive mock turkey was at Thanksgiving and Christmas this year.
Now, every store that I go to that sells vegan products has their mock turkeys on serious sales.
Do you think the mock turkey makers or the retail outlets priced themselves out of the market this year?
Relatively cheap, pretty easy, very tasty, and I tell myself it’s at least somewhat healthy
Hello Cheap Vegan fam! What are you all prepping this week that's cheap and vegan? Keeping it simple with beans and rice, or trying something more advanced? Do you have any general tips for managing your mealprep process? Share your knowledge and help out your fellow vegans and aspiring vegans! Thank you all! 🌱
I know one recipe that involves frying chickpeas, kale, and onions together in a pan, and it’s super tasty and one of the few low-carb recipes I make. (I eat way too many carbs.) I would love to make more things with chickpeas because they seem great, but I don’t know what!
What are some of your easy go-to meals that heavily feature chickpeas?
Actually the 10th anniversary of this sub was January 18th so I'm a little late, but I didn't want this to go unacknowledged. Happy Cake Day to r/EatCheapAndVegan! Thank you to all of YOU who make this community great!
Here's a look back at ten of the most upvoted posts over the last decade, you may have seen some of these already but they're all worth revisiting.
Also a challenge--if anyone can correctly identify ALL of the beans and grains in the title photo in the next 48 hours, you get a Reddit award! There can be multiple winners, but you have to get them 100% correct. Post your guesses in the comments below.
Random meals my wife has cooked - whole foods, non processed and cheap ingredients
Ideas for what to eat when nothing sounds good.
Loaded veggie sesame garlic stir fry. Holy crap this dish was insanely good!
Local grocery had 2lb bags of black beans for $.50!
Lately tofu wraps have become my go-to college lunch
I Eat A Version of This $3 Meal Every Day
VEGAN NIGERIAN RED STEW (Easy, One Pot)
Each bag has 4 ramen noodle cakes - $0.25 a serving!
I have 2 jars of miso paste at home, so this is a deal!
TVP = Textured Vegetable Protein = TSP = Textured Soy Protein = Soya
The other week I paid about $11 USD per pound for Butler Soy Curls( $15.80 CAD per 0.5 kg ), high end TVP made directly for humans.
I thought that was expensive, but looking other brands of TVP on Amazon I see it isn't that far out.
So, I was wondering how much a pound you pay for TVP?
The only I see being able to call TVP "cheap" is considering that a serving ( for me ) would be only 70 grams (dried) or about 2.5 ounces ( dried ), 231 calories, 35 grams of protein.
You know you want it.
Whole wheat roll, apple cider vinegar, avocado, purple, cabbage, carrot, red onion, spinach and nutritional yeast. T