r/EatCheapAndVegan:

u/TheBodyPolitic1

You have to always read the ingredients with things that look like the would be vegan with Trader Joe’s. Thankfully the usually put a list of allergens at the very end so it is easy to see if their products are not vegan.
u/TheBodyPolitic1

Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe The Saucy Vegetarian by Joanne Stepaniak World Of The East Vegetarian Cooking by Madhur Jaffreys Guide To Natural Foods Cooking by Judy Brown ( vegan ) Fabulous Beans by Barb Bloomfield ( vegan ) The Ayurvedic Cook by Amadea Morningstar
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Following recipes in vegan cookbooks,mostly. Got a few recipes off of Usenet. The public and college libraries I used had plenty of vegetarian cookbooks. I would just pick recipes without eggs or dairy. Vegan cookbooks (more) started coming out in the 90s too.
u/TheBodyPolitic1

Sweet potatoes. Potatoes. Poke some holes in them with a fork. Microwave for about 6 minutes. Round it off with a can of beans ( or chilli ) and a drink.
u/TheBodyPolitic1

I’m thinking of getting into Japanese curry. I always bought the prepackaged curry, but the blocks are apparently cheaper in the long run Read the ingredients. Though they might be vegan ( a number of them aren’t ) they aren’t the kind of things you want to put into your body more than occasionally. Frozen potatoes You can poke holes in raw potatoes with a fork, put them in a microwave, and have them ready in about 6 minutes. I haven’t compared prices myself, but you might want to. It seems like raw potatoes would be cheaper.
u/TheBodyPolitic1

Probably not, all of the supermarkets tailor what they stock to match the local community. One member of chain can be great, while another member of the chain in a different neighborhood can suck.
u/TheBodyPolitic1

I haven’t tried Lidl hummus as I have(had?) a food sensitivity to a component in sesame seeds. Lidl positives: the bakery – good quality, low prices cheap organic tofu: $1.35 a carton cheap nuts and seeds cheaper canned beans cheaper pasta sauce and salsa cheaper and better tater tots cheaper fruit cheaper frozen fruit and frozen vegetables their cheap vegetable biriyani – I have with pressed tofu cubes These are the vegan products they took away that I really liked their vegan meatballs their vegan chicken nuggets the $1 mie noodles ( ramen noodles )
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Black. Garbanzos.
u/TheBodyPolitic1

Not true https://veganhealth.org/vitamin-b12/
u/TheBodyPolitic1

No. https://veganhealth.org/vitamin-b12/