Hello Readers,
This blog is about cooking and eating vegan meals without spending a fortune. The focus will be on weekly diet planning, making sure you can utilize all the ingredients you buy, to create healthy, balanced meals. Further, I will try to avoid sending you to health food stores for odd and typically expensive ingredients like kelp powder or arrowroot, but some speciality ingredients may be required.
A quick note on eating organic: I encourage it, but I understand organic ingredients are budget stretchers. If you're worried about pesticide load, you can check here for a list of common produce from worst to best. Buy the worst offenders organic, but don't worry about the rest.
A quick note on eating local: I encourage this too, but again, local ingredients can be very expensive. Every area will vary - I suggest going to your local farmers market and doing some comparisons against grocery prices. Buy local ingredients that thrive in your climate and are in season. They may even cost less than at the grocery store.
Finally, splurge on food sometimes! Enjoying what you eat is very important, especially in maintaining a vegan diet. Make meals you think you will love or that you're at least excited to try. If you hate lentils, don't make dal - being vegan should not be a masochistic endeavor.
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