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Post by scotthughes on Oct 17, 2007 3:28:37 GMT
What nutritious food do you get that is inexpensive?
I find that pasta and pancake mix is very cheap.
Also, soy milk isn't that bad.
I also get protein powder. It's cheap per gram of protein.
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Post by sluggie on Oct 17, 2007 10:47:44 GMT
Lentils, beans and rice are the old standby when strapped for cash. Along with vegetables (from the market if you're watching the pennies). If you go along to the market at the end of the day when the stallholders are about to pack up you can get some really good bargains, as the fruit & veg guys usually buy fresh every day and will practically give things away when they're getting ready to go home.
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Post by Pob on Oct 17, 2007 11:05:33 GMT
I wouldn't have said that pancake mix was nutritious - isn't it just white flour?
Porridge oats are cheap and nutritious. Add dried fruit and some chopped nuts for a yummy warming breakfast. Cheaper and healthier (no salt or sugar) than cereals.
Baked beans are really cheap (although a bit salty).
What vegan protein powder do you get? I always thought protein powders were expensive. I'd rather get my protein from eating a good variety of different foods.
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Post by puffin on Oct 17, 2007 12:03:45 GMT
Protein power is usually about £15 a pot here, way to expensive. I agree with pob about porridge, only a couple of quid for a few weeks worth. I shall add. Apples (i get the special offer ones which are around £1.40) Oranges Spinach is a good price at around £1.20 a bag and that will last a couple of days. I would get wholemeal pasta if you dont buy it already, much better for you. Brown rice. Nuts.
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Post by enchantress on Oct 17, 2007 12:07:35 GMT
Protein power is usually about £15 a pot here, way to expensive. I agree with pob about porridge, only a couple of quid for a few weeks worth. I shall add. Apples (i get the special offer ones which are around £140) Oranges Spinach is a good price at around £120 a bag and that will last a couple of days. I would get wholemeal pasta if you dont buy it already, much better for you. Brown rice. Nuts. £140 for apples? £120 for a bag of spinach? I think someone may have forgotten their decimal points .
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Post by puffin on Oct 17, 2007 12:24:54 GMT
Well i am posh so £140 pound is nothing for someone like moi. *quickly changes it before anyone notices*
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Post by tabitha on Oct 17, 2007 12:48:37 GMT
Yeah, I think I would just exist on porridge with dried fruit and nuts for my breakfast and veggie/lentil/pulses stews, curries, soups etc for my dinner. I may consider giving up jam if I were ultra poor. At the moment I rely on Pob to fuel my jam addiction, but if my source were cut .......
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Post by veggiesosage on Oct 17, 2007 16:15:24 GMT
Back in days of yore when times were hard we used to buy tvp mince we got pretty cheap at the wholefood shops. We then used that to pad out pretty much everything, spag bol, curries the lot. Useful protein boost, made the tasty bits go further, virtually no fat and usually fortified with B12.
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Post by mikeg on Dec 2, 2007 13:45:17 GMT
What nutritious food do you get that is inexpensive? I find that pasta and pancake mix is very cheap. Also, soy milk isn't that bad. I also get protein powder. It's cheap per gram of protein. Dont get me wrong, but that just sounds like flour (wheat) and carbs... I would much rather have seeds, nuts etc... they are expensive in small bags i know, but if you go to places that do bulk they are quite cheap really, and great to have in the cupboard for munchies!
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Post by jippia on Mar 29, 2008 9:29:34 GMT
In order to find cheap nutrious food, I compair prices of different brands and shops. The cheapest brands can sometimes be better than the more expensive ones. Pancake mix does not have to be that bad. There is wholegrain and multigrain pancake mix (at least here in the Netherlands). Same goes for pasta. There is nothing wrong with carbs, in my opinion, as long as they are complex carbs.
Peanut butter can also be cheap and is more versatile than you think. You can spread it on bread and crackers, but you can also mix it with some water to create a peanut sauce.
Buy your vegetables when they are cheapest: in the right reason. I find most cabbages a real bargain in wintermonths. We are just the two of us and one big savoy or white cabbage is enough for two days. You can boil it or add it to stir fries and rice dishes. Winter carrots are also very cheap and they are great in soups, stir fries, oven dishes and salads. You can grate them and make little pancakes (add oat brans and corn starch for binding).
If you want to buy organic, you could also ring up farmers in your area. Most of them also sell to customers. I have a girlfriend whose mother always went to a farmer to buy their milk and potatoes. It is cheaper and as fresh as can be.
Dried pulses are also very cheap. You can cook them and freeze them in portion sizes. (If you have a freezer.) Go to discount supermarkets, like Lidl. They are not always so bad and quite cheap. There are more vegan foods available there then you would expect.
Good luck!
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Post by Wabbit on Mar 29, 2008 11:44:40 GMT
In order to find cheap nutrious food, I compair prices of different brands and shops. The cheapest brands can sometimes be better than the more expensive ones. Pancake mix does not have to be that bad. There is wholegrain and multigrain pancake mix (at least here in the Netherlands). Same goes for pasta. There is nothing wrong with carbs, in my opinion, as long as they are complex carbs. Peanut butter can also be cheap and is more versatile than you think. You can spread it on bread and crackers, but you can also mix it with some water to create a peanut sauce. Buy your vegetables when they are cheapest: in the right reason. I find most cabbages a real bargain in wintermonths. We are just the two of us and one big savoy or white cabbage is enough for two days. You can boil it or add it to stir fries and rice dishes. Winter carrots are also very cheap and they are great in soups, stir fries, oven dishes and salads. You can grate them and make little pancakes (add oat brans and corn starch for binding). If you want to buy organic, you could also ring up farmers in your area. Most of them also sell to customers. I have a girlfriend whose mother always went to a farmer to buy their milk and potatoes. It is cheaper and as fresh as can be. Dried pulses are also very cheap. You can cook them and freeze them in portion sizes. (If you have a freezer.) Go to discount supermarkets, like Lidl. They are not always so bad and quite cheap. There are more vegan foods available there then you would expect. Good luck! if you came here to France & checked our Lidl store, you'd find most their products tend to less than vegetarian... ie, fruit juices "offering" fish biproducts, so healthy
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Post by jippia on Mar 29, 2008 22:50:15 GMT
Lidl products may differ from country to country. I know that, because I grew up in a small town 3 km from the German border. People from Germany came to my town when there were things or special offers that were not in the German Lidl and visa versa. Since many people lived in the villages just across the border, their teenage girl could be seen working at the German supermarkets. When my parents were still living in my home town, I sometimes joined my Mum on her grocery shopping to the Dutch and to the German Aldi and Lidl. But that was not the topic.
Fish byproducts are used in fruit juices to bind the added vitamin A, as it is a fat-soluble vitamin. Clear apple juice may have been clarified with fish gelatin. You can always try to email a store if you want to know what products are vegan. I did that last year with my favourite supermarket (about bread) and I got a whole list of items that did not contain any animal derived ingredients. Another store confirmed to me by email about fish gelatin being used to bind vitamin A in multivitamin fruit beverages.
I do not know the situation in the UK, but it cannot hurt to have a look and read some labels. In my opinion.
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Post by Wabbit on Mar 30, 2008 6:54:06 GMT
Being vegan makes us all professional label readers LOL...
I didn't know that the fish biproducts are for vitamin A, just assumed the industry was just dumb and wanted to add it in as many produce as they could, say fruit juice, or a margarine labeled "100% vegetal" on its top, but once you flipped it over you'd be amazed at what they beleive to grow on trees (fish biproducts, dairy products - the latter being also present in some soy 100 vegetal yogurts... label reading is a must!)
It sure makes them all cheap, doesn't it ? but not nutritious nor veg... I join the previous posts and say that I also buy beans, rice, lentils & the like, and even the organic ones tend to be fair priced nowdays, here in France. Sometimes, it's even cheaper to get organic than non-organic, isn't that crazy ?!
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Post by dan on Apr 16, 2008 20:45:04 GMT
hello everybody ! i am new here and i've read many messages posted on this forum and i could say that i find here some advices and information that i search for a long time. i am not vegan but i am vegetarian and i hope in short time i will 'say no' to cheese and eggs ;D. I am from Romania and here i didn't find any vegetarian forum like this one. Soon i wil come to U.K. to work near cambridge at a farm and i am looking for cheap vegetarian food. I studied the composition of diferend kind of foods and i read that there is a lot of sugar in bean cans or even peanut butter and i know that sugar is bad especialy in combination with fats or proteins. If somebody know about this please answer . Thank you for all informations
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Post by Pob on Apr 17, 2008 10:35:36 GMT
Too much sugar isn't good, but there's not a massive amount in baked beans or peanut butter. It is possible to get lower sugar and salt versions of baked beans, but they tend to taste like something is missing, or they contain artificial sweeteners which come with their own issues. Baked beans are a processed food, and you'd be better off not eating too many of them, anyway.
Not all peanut butters are created equal, some contain more peanuts and less additives than others. My favourite contains nothing but peanuts - no salt, sugar, or added vegetable fat.
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Post by jippia on May 5, 2008 15:15:34 GMT
Hello Dan,
If you are worried about the sugar in tinned beans, you can always drain and rinse them well and heat them with fresh water. I do that all the time, with all tinned vegetables, and I find them taste better that way.
Where in Romania do you live? My parents live in Sangeorgiu de Padure (north of Targu Mures). They are missionaries there. I have been there two years ago and I thought that it was very well possible to be a vegan in Romania. That is, if you shop at Metro and Selgros and such.
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Post by dan on May 14, 2008 9:01:06 GMT
I've readed your advice i will think about that but i think i should try some cereals, whole gains or muesli, for proteins soy milk or some lentils or pulses and bot( Grey pea) and i saw that fruits are not so expensive anyway i will look better when i arrive in u.k. in two weeks and i will see better entire offers . i am from another region not from Transylvania, from city of Bacau who is in Moldavia on the other part of the Carpathians mountains. About vegetarians from Romania i could say that i know some of vegetarians but they are in a small number, because people from here are too busy with their life problems they try to pay the bills, to make money for food, clothes and for their children's school. Anyway the life here its improving and in the last years we could see few results and in the future will be better About baked beans i know that its a processed food but i hope i will find only boiled beans, anyway i am worried about metal from cans and this reactivity with food from inside if you could tell me which is your peanut butter ;D it will be great or where i could find it tesco waitrose, lidl but i am sure i will find it alone, my "hobby" it's to read the labels ;D
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