Your Vegetarian or Vegan Grocery list

What is a good or common grocery list for you when you shop for vegetarian or vegan items?

I almost always have fake burgers and chicken nuggets on my list and fresh or frozen veggies.

 

This is pretty vague, but other than our baking supplies things that I make a point of keeping on hand are:

* Various in-season raw fruits & veggies
* Potatoes; red, russet, gold and/or sweet
* Soymilk & Earth Balance "butter"
* Frozen mukimame, (shelled soybeans) various broccoli mixes & "stir fry" veggies
* Ready-made bottles or fresh ingredients for Asian sauces & Mexican Salsas
* Several kinds of beans and canned diced tomatoes (when tomatoes aren't in season)
* Canned fruit (during the winter when we're tired of apples & pears) and applesauce
* Brown & wild rice and a few types of pasta
* Black olives
* And pretzels, corn chips or some other "crunchy carb" food
love,
mom

 

Lists are for the mentally challenged. I shop freestyle!

Boca ground burger is always a given. About two boxes a month. Gardenburgers are excellent too. Onions. Love white onions. Red onions are also most excellent raw in a sandwich or salad. Pasta. I prefer Italian if I can get it. Pasta sauce. Whatever good quality stuff is avalable. I stir in the boca and simmer for a couple of hours. Garlic. Life would suck without garlic. Don't you think?

Salsa. Love peach mango salsa. It almost has me speaking in tongues just thinking about it. Always keep salsa on hand. Herdez is excellent for the canned stuff. Made in Mexico. Tabasco sauce. There is only ONE.

Cheese. I buy a block of extra sharp cheddar. American cheese for sandwiches. I keep about a half dozen different kinds of cheese on hand at any given time. Like the smoked stuff too. I get smoked Mozz. out of northern California. Rumiano brand. Smoked for 100 hours. Best cheese I've ever tasted. I melt it on top of english muffins for breakfast.

Potatoes. Russets for frying or baking. Red for cooking in dishes.

Always on the lookout for interesting spices. Always have a couple dozen on hand. Sage is a favorite.

Cornmeal. I'm from the south, and therefore addicted to cornbread.

Dried beans. Same reason.

Cooking oil. Regular ol soybean for general purpose. Olive oil. Extra virgin everytime. Anything else is a waste of money. I use it extensively.

Flour tortillas. Can of refried beans. I can make a burrito at the drop of a hat.

Tomatoes. Usually eaten raw, but Italian baked tomatoes with breadcrumbs are to die for. Always got to have maters. No question about it.

I troll the day old bread rack at the store too. Love 9 grain bread.

Natural peanut butter. Just hand me a spoon.




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Quorn- I don't know if you guys have ever had anything by this company, but it's really good! The turk'y roast is awesome, and the little chick'n tenders are great for making veggie fried chicken
Yellow Rice
Pita Chips
Apple Chips-Caramel in particular
Soy Sauce- I am almost always making a stir fry with quorn
Organic Chocolate milk
Progresso Minestrone Soup
Progresso Garden Vegetable Soup

Those things are pretty much always on my list
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I always seem to get...
Green peppers
Onions
Mushrooms
Pesto
Pasta
Veggie burgers
Frozen burritos
Bagels
Beans
and stuff that goes good with that...

And then I cook stuff yay

 

Usually something like this:


GREENS: Various cabbages, various lettuces, chard, spinach, kale, herbs
OTHER VEGGIES: Carrots, garlic, mushrooms, celery, potatoes, onions, bell peppers
FRUITS: Avocadoes (lots of), clementines, dates, apples, bananas, raisins, mangoes, tomatoes, lemons and limes...then anything i fancy (passion fruits, various berries, grapefruits, new fruits etc)
NUTS: Cashew, macadamia, pecan plus whatever else i fancy
Soya/rice milk and butters for the fiancé
Bread
Cereals
Grains
Seeds to sprout (sunflower etc)
Sometimes this mock burgermix stuff, or pizza ingredients, if Scott wants it

Our lists chage as we do, though

 

Kale
Collard greens
tomatoes
zucchini
cucumbers
yellow squash
all sorts of nuts (almonds, cashews, pecans, walnuts, pistachios, etc)
almond butter
bananas
apples
carrots
mango
kiwi
peaches
grapes
oatmeal
raisens
olive oil
juice (not from concentrate)

Since most of what I eat is raw I need to buy every two weeks or more. lol

 

y'all eat a lot of fake meat...

my list:

coconut oil
dried goji berries
pumpkin seeds
spirulina
ginger root
lentils
quinoa
brown rice
hemp mylk
hazlenut mylk
some sorta herbal tea
fresh garlic
whatever veggies are in season and are local
same goes for fruit.. although in the winter i settle for organic veggies/fruits from cali/mexico or where ever warm they grow em
almond butter
hemp hummus
pita
rice mylk chocolate with almonds

 

has anyone ever had a horned melon, because thats all you need!

My list:
Horned melon

 

-avocados
-red/green/yellow peppers
-sweet potatoes
-red/white onions
-ginger root
-loose organic salad
-hummus
-almond butter
-whole almonds
-soy milk
-almond milk
-organic cow's milk
-organic apples/pears/oranges/grape fruit
-ginger cereal
-pasta
-boca spicy soy chicken patties
-some other things that i randomly want to try

 

Wow, those are some good things to have. Do you get most of it from a co-op or local grocer? Or does the chain grocery carry some of that stuff, too?

 

I don't personally do the shopping, but I make sure we have:
Coffee or Chai tea
Vegetable burgers or fingers
Some veggie mince
Lots of fruit and veg I like
At least one kind of vegetable microwave meal for emergencies
some seeds or dried fruit
multivitamins

 

I always plan my meals in advance, and then buy all the ingredients I need, but I always have on hand
- pasta
- rice
- Asian noodles (soba usually)
- tinned tomatoes and various beans and pulses (usually chickpeas, red kidney beans, lentils)
- cheese
- frozen stirfry veg
- stir fry sauces, chutneys, marinades, curry pastes
- all the common spices (ground cumin, coriander, turmeric, chilli, garam masala, dried herbs, etc)
- coconut milk

As far as fresh veggies go, I always have garlic and onions on hand, but I usually buy all my other veg depending on what I'm cooking during the week. I find this saves a lot of wastage.