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Here is a week’s worth of Vegan meals (which are also WW friendly), and the cost of the groceries needed to prepare them. I thought maybe this information would be useful for someone who won’t go vegan because “healthy food is expensive.” It is, but if you cut out most processed foods like chips, drinks, desserts, you have already gained 20-30 bucks back into your grocery budget. Not to mention the savings costs of not buying meat and dairy!

This week I spent $118.53 on groceries. I usually try to keep it around $125-150 so this was a good week. I am using things from our pantry and fridge that were left over from the week before. However, it isn’t as cheap as possible because I also stocked up on a few items. It’s also not as cheap as it could be because I buy primarily organic products as often as possible.

Breakfast is super low key usually consisting of cereal, oats, toast, or a baked good like healthy muffins. Also, I don’t plan lunches because we home school, we just eat leftovers or whatever we can scrounge up that day.

Now let’s begin:

7 Low Budget Vegan Meals

Crockpot Vegetable Soup: Soup is a great way to eat lots of vegetables, and its easy to reheat for a quick lunch. Bonus: Soups are usually cheap and last for many meals.

Creamy Potato Corn Chowder: I eat a lot of soup because of the reasons above. But one thing I missed the first time I was Vegan-ish and failed was I desperately missed creamy things. Now I make sure to have several creamy things on the menu.

Pad Thai: I use this recipe for the sauce, and this recipe for the vegetable variety. I serve it over rice noodles.

Best Kale Salad Ever: I try to make a kale salad and eat on it all week. I like kale, because despite what the recipe says, I will put the dressing on it and let it wilt a little more each day. It’s easier and I like it like that. I will use nutritional yeast instead of cheese.

Balsalmic Portobello Burgers with Caramelized Onions & Garlic Aioli: I will serve this with homemade steak fries. I’m very much looking forward to this!

Broccoli Stir Fry: I had some broccoli that had to be used in my fridge and this sounds delicious. Also serving meals with rice is a good way to stay full and keep the budget low.

Lentil Sloppy Joe’s: These are SO good. A lot of my non-vegan relatives are now making them. Use the four buns leftover from the burgers, or serve them on homemade steak fries because potatoes are cheap.

Bonus: The sandwich in the picture is this recipe. It was amazing, but it had feta. Here is a similar one that is vegan with rave reviews, but I haven’t tried it yet.

Whole-food plant based living

These are the meals I am making this week. They are all pretty low in points (as I make them I’ll enter the points per serving) But better than that they are whole-foods and packed with vegetables. The only item that is processed is the buns. On top of that, I think they will come together pretty easily, but I will let you know on that.

If you ware interested in doing WW, you can do that here. In my opinion, the healthiest way to do the program is to eat real foods and not get sucked into the fake sugar trap. For more tips on how to do WW Whole-foods plants based check out this post.

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