My Vegan Dinner for Under $2 per Serving.
I figured I should start sharing with my fellow Steemians when I make super affordable vegan meals.
The main reason I hear that holds people who are interested in veganism back is the cost. I am super poor and vegan and have been a super poor vegan for about 15 years. So, I have some experience scraping by on the vegan lifestyle. If you guys like seeing my cheap vegan meals I will try to do them once or twice a week to give you more dinner ideas.
Szechuan Snap Pea Stir Fry with Brown Rice, Quinoa, and Tofu.
Costs of items used:
- Szechuan sauce: About $4
- Soy Sauce: $1.50
- Brown Rice and quinoa cups: $2 for two cups
- Frozen Stir fry: $1.75
- Tofu: About $3
I like to put the cost of each item even though we won't use all of it in the recipe because we still have to buy it all, right? I only used a little of the sauce, one of the brown rice and quinoa cups, and about 2/3rds of the stiry fry bag and 2/3rds of the tofu in order to make about 2.5 of the servings pictures above. Which makes it..... tries to calculate ...really heckin' cheap! Oh and I used a bit of olive oil. I get huge bottles for cheap. If you have Aldi near you check there!
Normally, I would prefer to make my own brown rice and quinoa just based on packaging but ran out and my roommate gets many of these cups. So, I used a cup. I do like that it is portion controlled and you just pop it in the microwave for one minute. I separately friend the tofu in a non-stick pan with oil and soy sauce. For the stir-fry I put it in a large wok and fried it for a bit with oil and the Szechuan sauce and then added the rice.
I really should be cutting tofu out of my diet but for now I need the protein. Soon I will be replacing it with other proteins like hemp heart, nutritional yeast, seeds, nuts, and legumes as soy is an IC trigger but until I learn to get all my protein elsewhere I need to stay alive, eh?
So, as you can see. It is possible to be a dirt poor vegan like me.
DISCLAIMER: I do not subscribe to an all organic, GMO free diet. You won't get that on my blog.
Looks pretty tasty to me and I'm a carnivore.
You're probably more of an omnivore. ;) I cook for all my meat eating friends and they love my food. Don't have to be vegan to enjoy a plant-based meal now and again.
Thank you for this one. People just need to realise - veganism is the opposite of expansive!
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Well it is bite-sized dinner :P
It's like $1.50 for this amount, could double it and still be spending like $3. I ate two bowls. ;) You could also bulk it up with more rice. I was just using cups. I need to lose weight so no need to bulk it up for me.
I just wanted it to look nice for the pic. I honestly didn't do the full math on individual serving cost but it's really cheap. :)
It looks great and tasty. Even tofu looks like fish :P
I got pretty good at cooking tofu but it took years. I let this get a smidge burnt but ah well. hehe
Are these ingredients all ORGANIC ??
No I don't eat all organic for many reasons that I won't get into so I won't be sharing organic recipes. Sometimes some things happen to be organic but my blog isn't the place to look for that.
its quick, easy and healty
thanks for the share
Wow it's cool. Looks yummy too. Thanks for sharing.
Resteemed.
Very thrifty! And healthy. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks. ^_^
You're welcome.
looks good
I'm a vegetarian and close to being vegan but I like to have raw honey for health reasons.
I can understand that. Raw honey does have some great health benefits. :)
It has helped so much with seasonal allergies and I really don't have it anymore. There is no harm to the bees either and they are going to make honey anyway.
That actually isn't exactly true. I only know because I wanted to use honey and looked into it a lot. A ton of commercial bee keepers will actually kill their hive during off seasons and buy new ones when they start up again. :<
I don't know how to find out which ones do and do not. But I am glad your allergies are gone. :)
Oh I didn't know they did that. Why would they do that? Just set them free.
I am not sure why but you can look it up. :'( Seems totally stupid to me but often times when people are using animals for products they view them as just that...products. I know there are also bee keepers that love their bees. Just hard knowing how to find out for each honey.