Can't afford to be vegan!
Okay guys and gals. I have a job now, am in my own apartment again. I am back to being a vegetarian again! ;)b :w00t!: :w00t!: (it was near impossible to be a veg while living with mom, meat meat and more meat is what she has, she doesn't believe in veggies...yuk.)
I want to go back to being vegan, I was one before I got pregnant. I am vegetarian, lacto ovo now but mosly vegan. I drink soymilk (Silk), which is expensive but I can't stand cow's milk and home made soymilk is yukky. But I can't afford vegan butter for instance, I use store brand margarine which usually has some dairy in it. I can't afford agave nector so I use plain white sugar because I can't afford vegan sugar. I love to bake and make all my own bread, I rarely buy bread. I have yeast in my fridge that I keep alive for this purpose (called sponge) because those packets of active dry yeast are expensive.
Is there a way to be vegan and cost effective? I use child support to pay for groceries so I don't have a lot for groceries.
So can I still be considered vegan even if I can't afford all the vegan fancy stuff, or say that I am an almost-vegan?
Do you know of a way to make home made soymilk taste like Silk?
I was just thinking of some cheap things my kids loved when they were small. Hummus on pita wedges or spread on bread and cubed for toddler finger food. Also, peas and pasta. You sautee frozen peas in a little olive oil, add some crushed walnuts or not, salt them, then stir them into cooked tiny pasta shells. The peas kind of nestle into the shells. My daughter still loves this at 13.
I was just thinking of some cheap things my kids loved when they were small. Hummus on pita wedges or spread on bread and cubed for toddler finger food. Also, peas and pasta. You sautee frozen peas in a little olive oil, add some crushed walnuts or not, salt them, then stir them into cooked tiny pasta shells. The peas kind of nestle into the shells. My daughter still loves this at 13.
add sauteed garlic and/or onions to chopped tomatoes (or watered down tomato paste) and peas to some kind of pasta and you have pasta piselli (shells are perfect for pea nestling), replace the peas with cannelini or kidney beans and pasta with ditalini, and you have pasta fagioli...serve with salad or greens and whole grain bread...voila, cheap, delicious and quick. When I was first married and really didn't know how to cook, we practically lived on this stuff.
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