Veg food on the cheap

I agree that it really depends on what you make. My cheap and easy go to things tend to be pretty simple. A pita with hummus, diced cucumber, spinach, salsa and maybe some goat cheese if I am doing any dairy. Aldi carries quite a few veggie burger varieties that are pretty affordable and tasty so I will pair those with some fresh chopped veggies on a sandwich thin or something. I agree that bean burritos are a nice and easy option. Veggie Nachos are also pretty easy, cheap and tasty. I like to make Veg tacos or nachos with a lentil based taco filling that is pretty tasty. Lentil Potato soup is easy and tasty and cheap and honestly...buddha bowls. I will make rice and black beans and throw in salsa and feta, maybe throw in some various roasted or cooked veggies, whatever is on hand. Tofu baked crispy and mixed into stir fry on rice is another easy cheap and tasty option. Veggie sandwich and salad are always cheap, easy, fast and tasty and healthy.

 

Steel cut oats with raisins, peanuts, peanut butter and fig jelly.

 

Good ol' beans & rice. Red beans & rice, black beans & rice, field peas/black-eyed peas & rice; and best of all, Puerto Rican pigeon peas & rice.
I like dried beans; no salt and who-knows-what compared to canned.
Vegetable curry over rice.
Stir-fried veggies over rice.
I like local produce for a host of reasons, including cost.
Wintertime can be slim pickins' in that regard; frozen veggies seem better and cheaper than canned.
Potatoes in all of their infinite glory.
She tends a small garden. Any veggie cuttings that can take root, should take root.
I bake all our bread.
We make our own yogurt and kefir. Sometimes we make the kefir into cheese similar to chevre.
She found a source on-line for cheap expiration-date-expired coffee.
We get eggs from the local care home; they're not only cheap, the folk there keep the money and put it towards their activity fund. The average age of a grocery store egg is two months; these are less than 12 hours old.

 

My complaint of the prices at Whole Foods has recently become less valid. They have a new treat - Eat Gud. They make a wrap out of some kind of lettuce with cabbage and things inside. It's really good! AND... are you ready? Less than $5 for a change!

 

Ohhh...I love falafel!

 

Our new dog tends to eat all the meat in our house, so Jane is increasingly left with all the vegetables to feed me.

 

We make our own hummus and pita, too.

 

My father-in-law used to make lakror with stinging nettles. I don't know how to prepare them.