Cheap Lazy Vegan I just found your videos and you're a life saver! I'm on a very tight budget and Vegan or even close to is usually out of my range but your advice is such a help.
Not sure who complained about only 5 days but clearly they don't meal prep. Most people who meal prep, meal prep for the work week and cook on their days off. So 5 days is standard.
Madie maybe so but the video title clearly says full week. I didn't even notice until you said anything but I can see how somebody would be pissed off that 5 days is equated to a full week. There's no point of making full week capitalized if it's not really a full week. Your point is still received though.
Aly Richardson I was about to say maafe is one I learned about this when I was looking up African recipes to try for my kids and I ran across maafe I thought to myself “blacks and Africans aren’t too different the only difference was the peanut butter” but the again I wouldn’t know if my grandparents or great grands ever made peanut stew or maafe it’s one of those things I will never know
Lol. I ended up staring at a tomato while making a peanut butter and banana sandwich for my son yesterday, thinking "Peanut butter and tomato? Why does that sound so good? I guess I have to try it." Anyway, it was really good. Nevermind bananas. And thank you for leading me to the tomato pb recipes that I was bound to be looking up.
Girl, you have the most perfect timing. I was literally sitting here thinking, "How the hell am I going to manage two weeks of food with a $50 budget?" These ideas will help immensely.
muther freaking creative! Not the most delicious looking food, but dude, when I was broke as fuck looking for anything to get me by, this would have been GODSEND. You fucking rock.
I'm not vegan, but THANK YOU for coming up with something feasible on a small budget. Every now and again I incorporate more vegetarian and vegan dishes in my repertoire, and I respect your resourcefulness. It's annoying when someone says something like "Vegan's not expensive! Okay so buy this $9 jar of almond butter to make this one dish." like, really??? Anyway this is great and has me inspired, thanks again.
What person would say "Vegan is not expensive" and then tell you to buy $9 of almond butter? that makes no sense. A jar peanut butter is $2-$3 for over 10,000 calories, and this jar can last weeks.
This was wonderful! We can free up at least $5 for another week's shopping by not having to buy staples such as beans, lentils, rice, and oats because there were some left over. There is the money you need for some fresh veggies and fruit. Thanks for the inspiration!
You can do another $20 challenge. But also use what you had leftover from the week before. For example: You had a lot of leftover black beans and lentils. So this week you won't have to purchase them. Now you have a little more for more fruit and veggies.
I agree with you that most people have spices on hand, so I wouldn't have been upset if you had included some in your recipes. I think the thing about this challenge that people like best is seeing what food you can get for a certain amount of money and how creative you can be with that food. I'm going to generalize here, but most people have pantry items that do not get purchased every week and are then incorporated into meals.
Lithostoic hope you are doing well now! Hoping you have found your own form of stability and happiness, whatever that means for you. 🙏🏽❤️ sending love.
Ran over budget and was freaking out trying to figure out how to feed myself for the rest of this month until I remembered this video! I originally came to this channel years ago for vegan options without a budget in mind, but this is keeping me from going hungry this months and I'm very grateful. It's especially hard to figure out how to get in produce and vitamins so this was a lifesaver :)
Yes Please do another with more veggies & fruit!! Yes people usually have spices if not at least salt & pepper can be found at most dollar stores as a duo pack for $1!!
Dore Love Oh yes! I also buy raw black beans, pinto beans, sometimes navy & kidney beans there too... oh & canned coconut milk as well as some other items!
TIPS! (For if you don't have a food processor) If you put the pb in the bowl first and add in your liquid in steps while you mix it with a fork your mixture comes out smooth. 1.add on 2.add splash of liquid 3.mix 4.repeat steps 2 and 3 interchangeably until done (the peanut butter might seize up and become harder to mix. Idk why but it's done that to me before but just keep adding. Use water if you run out of your base or don't want to add to much of something like soy sauce, but want it thinner.) Also: Beans and lentils are easier to smash by hand when they're warm. (If you don't have a masher and your batch is too big to even bother trying to use a fork, use your hands!) (I've done it, it's not weird promise. These are back to basics my friends.)
I have IBS so it means no onion or garlic for me. I use some onion (or garlic) oil. You place an onion in a jar, and add oil. Place it in the fridge and use it for cooking. Give some onion taste without the abdominal pain it causes.
Five years later, and this video has inspired me to use what I've already got in my kitchen for the next week of eating. I've already got way more food stocked up than what was used in the video. I'm very grateful to have enough food. I'll be making overnight oats. And, I've got the Maple syrup... plus hemp seeds, plus flaxseed meal.
Omg this was amazing!!!! I used to think I had to spend $100/week for a household of two and like honestly this food is more than substantial! This video proves that it's NOT expensive to be vegan. (Although I am vegetarian because I love eggs too much) I would love to see more Asian inspired vegan meals!!!!!
I've never risen from my chair before to start cooking a recipe I saw on RU-vid, but those peanut butter oat cookies sounded so good and easy to make that I couldn't resist. They are in the oven now and I'll continue watching the video ;)
You might not want to try this if you're going vegan for the first time. You'll definitely not be getting enough variety of nutrients since she couldn't get a lot of fresh veggies or fruits.
I'm really surprised with the amount of food you made! That was incredible how you managed to make so many different recipes with some ingredients. Congratulations! hugs from Brazil
First Last Well, the goal is to do this all on a budget, so it makes sense to try to use the same ingredients if possible. Especially if you're cooking for only one or two people since most stuff comes in decent packs to feed more people than that.
😆😆😆 yeah, good point, well like most fast food companies, in example, Wendy's making chili out of the extra cooked hamburgers at the end of the night for a fresh batch of chili the next day. It's better for them to use it to make something else that's tasty that offers something a bit different than most places do and it's not failed their company yet, it's been a huge seller and there's little to no waste. At least with this food prep you aren't getting any SAND filler in the mystery meat like you do at Taco Bell.
This is really cool!! Trying to get a job so I can afford my own groceries and finally go vegan. I'm part time vegan whenever I can afford it, but most of the time I have to eat what I can get. This gives me some ideas though since I already have most of these things in the kitchen! My favorite thing is buying a little pouch of taco seasoning and mixing it in with rice, beans, and veggies. Super easy and delicious!
This video should be called, "How to put Peanut Butter in Literally Anything" Lol. JK. Still super helpful and it can be adjusted to your own personal taste. I just hate peanut butter. 😂 And almond butter is like 7-12 US dollars per jar.
Shannel Ford I usually make my own, and it costs about the same for me when i buy nuts in bulk or by the pound. So i usually just wait for them to go on sale then i buy them and put then in the freezer.
Vannesa Garcia understand that completely. I usually find them for significantly less in bulk and it makes MUCH more. I am sure that depends on your area as well..also with homemade you know exactly what is inside your butter..burger
Rachel Lee -- can you make your own "sriracha" with peppers and garlic? I once made harissa with soaked dried mild red chilies, and it was out-of-this-world good.
Wow, Rose! That's pretty damn creative! I bet PB and Tomato tastes good! Sweet, salty and acidic....yum! I also 110% admire your commitment to the $20 only aspect; however, since most people aren't starting from scratch in their kitchens, maybe give yourself a little leeway next time? So, instead of actually having to spend some of the $20 on things you and most viewers might already own, like soy sauce and peanut/nut butter you could use it on fruits and veggies? Like a list of the ten most common spices/seasonings used. I think if you'd had nut butter, soy sauce, onion powder, garlic powder, Italian seasoning, chilli powder, cumin, cinnamon, curry powder etc as a list of staples in your pantry, you could have gotten even more variety out of these already creative and yummy meals! I've seen other videos that take this approach and it helps stretch that budget a little further. Great video as always! Thanks! ❤
Lara Pierce whenever I see these types of videos and the RU-vidr takes that approach, they get a lot of shit in the comment section from people who don't normally keep those things on hand.
I guess the RU-vidrs who use pantry staples can suggest their viewers could add one pantry staple a week or one staple every other week or something until they had a collection of staples. I do like that Rose stuck with starting from scratch.
Maple syrup is suuuuper expensive where I live BUT I found an affordable alternative!! Coconut supar has a maple syrup flavour and is something like 50% fibre! I use it as a sweetener instead of maple syrup when I run out or can't afford the liquid sweetie 😉😍👍
As a fellow Canadian viewer, really appreciate this since some of the things that they have in America is not easily available in my area since i live in a small town... Thanks for this meal prep video!
sure you got this message but on over night oats add milk night before meal to the one you'll eat and you can then make 7 jars. also if i use berries for oats i like to freeze until i add the milk.
I noticed that you had a difficult time getting the peanut butter off the spoon. If you spray the spoon with cooking spray before scooping up the peanut butter it should come right out without having to scrape it out.
I recently lost my job so I guess I'll be needing this video. I have no savings and only $130 in my checkings acc with no clear job in the near future. I actually want to die. But I'll try this first I guess.
i dont know whers u live, but see if they have a plasma donation center near u. they pay u everytime u donate and u can go twice a week. its how I've been buying groceries and gas for a few weeks now.
I just got laid off last week too friend, I'm very lucky to be getting unemployment. But since I've $8 bucks in the bank account I do eat like this. Save as much of that $130 that you can for as long as you can! I can make that little bit last me longer than a month in food.
I like peanut as much as the next guy but dang girl lol. Thank you I'm new I'm trying to convert to being a vegan and I'm on a budget. This helped a whole lot. Keep up the great work😊
Maddie Holt i used to eat more fats than carbs and rarely ever ate protein. i was incredibly overweight with those choices. since i decided to be vegan, i also decided to be more conscious about micronutrients and switched to a high carb, low fat diet and let me tell you, i dropped weight so quickly!! i know it’s different for everyone but i feel like the “carbs make you fat” narrative is just damaging.
Maddie Holt yes it had a decent amount of carbs but it also has a ton of protein and fat. So it’s balanced enough that it really shouldn’t cause problems because the protein and fat will give you lasting power.
Jess Personal The average working class person doesn’t have time to think all this shit out. Working class people work harder and earn less than most other people so they don’t have the time to worry about ethical consumption when they’re just trying to survive. Good vegan praxis means not being classist and dropping the politics of purity. How the hell do you expect your movement to amount to anything when you constantly alienate working class people by saying shit like this? Don’t take this as an attack or anything, I know when people cuss over the internet it makes it sound more intense than it needs to be but I’m not angry, I understand where you’re coming from. I wasn’t raised to think this way, I learned it because I needed to if I wanted to live in the real world and talk about veganism in the real world I needed to learn empathy and have an understanding of the circumstances and societal barriers that lead people to consume the way they do. Fuckin go watch mexie, she knows more about this than I do. Build solidarity with your working class family, friends and coworkers. Discourage elitism in your vegan social circles. That’s all u gotta do.
I really liked this. I like my burgers, wings, etc., too much to ever give them up completely. However, I do need to eat a healthier diet and save some money. I plan to limit the amount of meat I eat on a weekly basis and make more meat-free meals.
this is amazing!! i’m trying to save money and i’ve been trying to transition back to veganism for like a year now, and your video is by far the best cheap meal prep :) you got so creative and these meals actually look filling and tasty :) i love how you approach it with a positive attitude as a fun challenge when many youtubers look at it as a struggle
Thank you so much for this! I bought everything but the soy sauce, peanut butter and kale (I hate kale so I got spinach instead) yesterday and I'm so excited to start today 💕💕
tip for the parchment paper; you can use a silicone reusable baking sheet to save money as well. you can use it for like 6 months so it's probably better for the environment as well!
Omg I'm son happy I found your channel. I just started being vegan again and I'm so lost when it comes to try to get enough protein and the right amount of calories in my diet. So hopefully me watching your channel can help me alot.
hey! I encourage you to try buying your products zero waste :) You can do this buy buying these products in the bulk food section, and using jars/ reusable baggies instead of the given plastic bags. Not only is it *cheaper*, but it’s also saving the environment!
Marie Johnson question about using your own jars/reusable bags, do most stores let you do that??? For bulk foods. I know they let you use your own grocery bags lol
Beesweetbeeyou yes at bulk barn they weigh the jars/containers that you bring in before your start shopping. Also many health food stores with bulk sections do this. If they don’t you can encourage them to by asking about it :)
I have been adding PB or tahini to my tomato sauces for many years now. It all started when I tried making a peanut, tomato stew (a traditional African soup recipe) and realized how amazingly they pair. My hubby thinks I'm weird, but it's freakin delicious!
I just found this video and it was really helpful! I would love to see a slightly less low budget one. Assume you already have spices, syrups etc in your cupboard (as long as they're easy to get hold of and fairly inexpensive). Make the budget $30 or $40 a week. Not so much meal prep all at once, because I prefer fresher food, but maybe clips of how you cook and prep throughout the week. I would love to see that. If you have already made this video, sorry! I just found your channel! I'm going to go look for more of your videos now ➡️
You are the type of vegan I like. You help and explain how to meal prep and budget, rather than just sit and complain. I'll try to be vegan on this, and who knows I might keep it up longer. 💜💜💜
To make meal prepping easier on a budget, I don’t include condiments and seasoning in my budget only because I usually have those on hand. That way the next time you meal prep, your money goes towards the food and your recipes can be more versatile. Thank you for your videos. I love your good combinations.
Wow! I'm impressed, your vegan cooking is simple for me to get started on a vegan diet but mostly looks so delicious 😋 inspiring cos thinking of going vegan for health! Thanks! Btw, I'm proud Canadian too 😉 even though living now in Greece!
There are some really creative options here. I’m converting to veganism, and I don’t want to be discouraged by cost, boredom or difficulty. I also love peanut butter. Thank you!
My mind is just blown at how much food u just made loool. And I don't even have to buy black beans or lentils. always have a whole bunch of canned items and dont know what to use them in.... so my grocery bill is probably going to be cheaper than $20 😂😂😂😂 I would just like to thank you and all the other RU-vid channels who prove to us on a daily basis it's possible to eat healthy on a budget, because every time my friends start complaining I just linked hella videos 😂😂😂😂😂
Not vegan but impressed with how cheaply you were able to feed yourself for what is effectively a good 10 days worth of food, counting leftovers. This is good basic survival shopping/eating for everyone on a tight budget. Thumbs up!
star rabbit prince finally! Yes I'm super allergic like can't even have it on my skin or I break out in a rash and if I eat my throat closes but every vegan breakfast has banana in it! 😂
You can actually use it as an egg replacement, but i wouldnt replace more than one egg cause I feel it gets to liquidy then. Dont know if it works the same tho because I never tried it with bananas ( but I assume its more neutral in taste compared to bananas)
Just super big thank you..I'm not a vegan, maybe someday. But I haven't cooked a single meal with meat in the past 5 months. This video is soooooo d**n simple. Subscribed and wait for more.
I am having money problems AND I just became a pescatarian. You have blessed me with this vid! I seriously want to make all of this stuff. Like, today. xD
Sooooo I've been watching your videos forever. I just moved to Israel and your videos are almost more helpful here. The kitchen I have is really small and I use a plug in burner top. Your recipes are so amazing and get me out of my tiny kitchen so fast! Ugh thank you for existing!
You can cook lentils in a rice cooker. About 3 parts water to 1 part lentils. Little less on the water. This will give you a consistency close to lentil soup. Adjust as needed.
I've been watching a lot of meal prep and vegan prep videos of late, but I gotta tell you...yours are best, the easiest, and what looks like the tastiest ones I see. Thanks, and you rock!
Great video as always. Kale stems are edible; I use them in soups and stir fries sorta like celery. They take longer to cook than the leaves, so I strip the leaves like you do, then use the stems separately. In your meal plan they could be added to the frozen vegetables when you sautéed them.
Well because of you I need to make bean/oat burgers so I definitely need one lol. Oh thanks for the recommendation (I've had a look and it's a bit out of my price range but thank you) And cheers for the inspiration as always. Your lipstick looks beautiful btw
as someone who is semi new to vegan eating and a plant based lifestyle i love your videos they have given me so many amazing ideas and recipes that i have recreated myself keep em coming much love from a canadian fan!!!
Monique Jeffs most sugar is made with bone char. It's not listed as an ingredient but generally if the sugar isn't labeled as vegan you can be pretty sure it's not. I don't really know why it's necessary but i do know some sugar companies dont use it!
I love the low budget user friendly options here. I really don’t need to make a gourmet meal or spend tons of money to have a healthy nutritious vegan meal.
Where I live, you can grind your own pb and it's $2/lb. I love it because everything about it is better but also you can buy $0.50, $1.75, $7.00 worth, however much you want. I usually get a few pounds at a time
350 degrees F for around 12-15 minutes, flip half way. sorry, i should've been clear, I have the recipe instructions written on my blogpost (link in description box). thanks for watching, love
Thanks for this video...I did almost everything today and it's really good and tasty... my daughter adores the lentils and beans patties... I adored everything...thank you so much 👏👏
i always thought that achieving veganism was going to be so expensive. so, i just never made the switch. i stumbled upon her yt channel and started planning meal preps. turns out, it’s not expensive at all if you’re using the right products. i probably would have never tried if it wasn’t for her!!
Ok. People can have differing symptoms of detox when they go vegan, so that might have been it - or not. Of course hard to tell just from a few words over the internet ;) Anyway, all the best!
This changes my weekly diet expectation, along with improving my food budget by an embarressing amount of U.S. dollars! We are loving your content so much, thank you for taking the time! You Are Appreciated
I love your videos especially budge friendly! as a warning to anyone seeing this, added Omega 3s usually means a fish source (such as some breads and orange juices)
ANOTHER amazing video??? Gurl u gotta slow down, my heart can only take so much😭😂❤️ seriously good. Cant wait to try this stuff. I love how u kept it simple but still made it creative and affordable. One of my favourite youtubers always. Love u and have a good day💓💓
loving this kind of video. To be perfectly honest Rose I haven't been able to relate to a lot of your food lately. Use to watch most of your videos while you were in England but not nearly as consistent since you have been back home in Canada. This though, I can relate. Thanks
I'm not vegan, but my bf is "restricted vegetarian" and I'm in love with your videos/dishes. I have just jotted down all recipes and I'll be making them tomorrow. YOU ROCK, GIRL!! Brazilian viewer here, hi from Brazil!! :D
This is incredible! Love videos like this, you're very inspiring :) I'm still transitioning to vegan so videos like this are really helpful for inspiration!
