Thank you for showing that eating vegan doesn’t have to be expensive or complicated. I also love that your appliances aren’t pristinely clean and new. You’re the real deal, a busy mom making great videos! You are perfectly imperfect, just like the rest of us. Thank you again. ❤
Ha ha my husband always comments on how I need to clean better before I film but I only have so much time while my twins are at preschool!! Thank you for your kindness!!! Glad you are here!
Hello!! Thanks for the ideas to give variety to our diet. A tip for making tacos so that the tortilla doesn't break is to heat it. We Mexicans use a comal but if you don't have one you can use a frying pan or the microwave to heat it.🙂 Blessings from Mexico❤
Great. Now I’m craving those taquitos. And I may be the only person who really loves the taste of tofu, but I would absolutely have thrown some cubed tofu in with the pasta a veggies to boil for a few minutes and firm up. Would’ve been great with that peanut sauce.
You are so kind! This means so much!! Thank you!!! It really does mean a lot! (Especially after reading someone else’s negative comment) Keep sharing your kindness. It makes a difference. ❤️❤️❤️ Thank you again.
Wow these look so good. Def going to try the taquitos---I think my son would love them---and I have everything for the pasta with peanut sauce. I might make that one tonight! Thanks for the recipes.
I know I had just found you, but I feel like you are reading my mind! 🙄🥺😧Because I was wanting to look up (Shopping Vegan on a budget), and here you are. Thank you and I hope you are going to make more and share them like this?
Yes, both kombu and nori can be used when cooking beans to help lessen gas. Both seaweeds contain enzymes that can help break down the complex sugars in beans that can cause gas and bloating. Adding a piece of kombu or nori to the cooking water when preparing beans can help make them easier to digest and reduce the likelihood of gas.
You can also use dried espazote. I buy little bags of it at my local Mexican or international food stores, where it’s hanging with the other herbs. I’ve found the kombu at a natural foods store, but it’s further away so I don’t go there very often.
The rice wash! 😳... I appreciate all these great recipes, but I don't have an immersion blender, or air fryer, or insta-pot or whatever. I'm poor. I have a stove, and an oven. That's why I'm watching this $5 dinner video. 😕
You can soak overnight and cook the beans on stove top. Don't pour all of that beautiful bean broth down the drain, (sacrilege, especially the black beans, wasting all of the flavor!) slightly wet and mash (with fork, potato masher, or a wire wisk) .Soft, well cooked beans will mash easily (go easy on the salt, it can make your beans not soften). OR... buy a can of fat free refried beans because easy fast works too. ;-)
I appreciate y'all trying to help, but I mean, she literally says you can soak the beans overnight in the video. I'm talking about alternatives to the appliances she uses like the ones I listed off. It's like saying "you can save a lot of money by making your own bread" and using a bread maker. Like, yeah, I have an oven. But making my own bread every day or two isn't practical when I have to prepare the dough on top of it. I just don't have all the appliances she has. I'd love to have an air fryer, but I'm not sure what I should do as an alternative, a pot of oil on the stove? Sounds like that would increase the cost of the whole purpose of a "low budget meal". I just wished it was more considerate towards those who might be low income and can't afford all of these appliances.
Love these ideas!! Doesn’t fit the budget, but those taquitos would be amazing with a simple salad of lettuce, tomato and avocado with lime! Be sure to wash and pick over dry beans before cooking! You’re looking for stones and bad beans, which unfortunately do show up more in cheaper bags.
I cannot find large corn tortillas anywhere around here the only ones I can get are the very small ones. Thank you for your great ideas and letting others know being vegan is pretty fantastic, you get to save lives too-win,win!
You can lay them side by side with a little overlap, use a dab of water (or even the refried beans) to help them stick together. I do this all the time because I make my own and my tortilla press is small.
For your refried bean taquitos, are you cooking or just soaking the dried pinto beans (the video isn't clear)? I have seen on another YT video that soaking beans with a little baking soda overnight helps with bloating & gas (also rinsed away)...
Thank you for posting wonderful food! I just started looking for vegan food thar is simple and yummy and without fake meat you did a wonderful job of meet my needs! The price is also right. Looking forward to more in the future 🥰
The refried beans taquitos would have to be a carb cheat day for me because I'm trying to limit my carbs. Well, I could get the carb friendly tortillas. Everything looks so good...Oh and the rice (brown rice will have to do) My dollar store has tons of brown rice. 🎉
Please tell me the reason you cook your rice like that? I always mess up rice on the stove so i always cook it in the instant pot. But if i have to use it for something else i have to do it on the stove.
@@plantwhysI think (?) I remember that it’s also good to do because it reduces the possibility of arsenic, often found on rice - maybe on a McDougall or Grieger video? (both vegan MDs)
Wow people are so critical. I thought these were good ideas for the base of a meal, a quick workday lunch, or a dinner for just me on a day when I don’t feel like shopping or cooking and I happen to already have these on my pantry. and it’s probably a big improvement on some people’s carn diet who may be thinking vegan food is fancy and $$$. I always learn something from other people’s ideas.
So you try to roll them cold? 🙄 If you actually WATCH the video, she warms them for rolling, fills and cooks them until brown and crunchy. Ignorant comment.
