What's the best way to stick with a cheap vegan diet?

I've always wanted to be a vegan and now that I'm going off to college, I think I can because I'll have more of a choice about what food I eat. But I'm not going to have a ton of money, so what's the best way to start without breaking my budget?What's the best way to stick with a cheap vegan diet?
Vegan ism is a Total lifestyle, not wearing clothing that comes from any part of an animal, nothing containing bees wax. not using personal grooming items that have been tested on animals. Starting out just being a Vegetarian is much easier and less time consuming.What's the best way to stick with a cheap vegan diet?
When talking about affordability, people need to understand that this only comes when you sacrifice a little convenience. There are plenty of "convenience items' that are vegan--like microwave burritos, microwave dinners, soy milk, almond milk, and those soy-based proteins like soy burgers and other "meat substitues." However, if you buy these specialty items you'll notice that they are more expensive than buying fresh produce or even canned veggies and fruits. So instead of attempting to get protein from the convenience items, try whole foods like nuts, beans, and tofu or tempeh. Then for calcium look towards leafy greens like spinach and kale. Don't be afraid to load up on the big bags of dry beans and rice--bulk products like that are way cheaper. Buying a big bag of soybeans will last you 5-7 meals, while a box of soy burgers will last you only 4meals--and the burgers are more expensive



Try buying whole food items, rather than the packaged processed ones.
I am a vegan and I do not spend much money on food. In fact, I spend less than the majority of meat-eaters.



A very cheap vegan diet should be based mainly on: wholegrain bread (and/or other wholegrain products, like muesli, oatmeal, bran,) buckwheat, barley grits, dried peas (they are similar to beans, but cheaper), cornflakes/corn grits/corn flour (they are much cheaper than fresh corn), rice, potatoes, carrots, cabbage, apples and other cheap vegetables and fruits (or vegetable/fruit juices).



All of the products above are the cheapest (at least in Poland, where I live) products which are very rich in minerals that I can think of. From time to time you should also eat some other, a bit more expensive stuff to make sure you will have all important ingredients; choose for example: sunflower and pumpkin seeds, peanuts, (soy)beans.



If you don't mind spending time cooking, you can buy wholegrain flour instead of the bread. It is even cheaper. I often make wholegrain pasta (it consists just of wholegrain wheat flour and water) or wholegrain apple pancakes.



What's essential (and I guess it's obvious,) you ought to choose the cheapest markets and cheap food brands (for example, cornflakes made by Nestle may be three times more expensive than those made by Tesco, but they are not better in any way.) You probably will have to regularly buy food in a few different shops, because it rarely happens that one store has the cheapest brands of all important products.



I hope it will help you a bit. My diet is very similar to what I described and I do not face any health problems.What's the best way to stick with a cheap vegan diet?
Eat cheap.



Oatmeal for breakfast: you can all all sorts of stuff to oatmeal just as you would to rice, but quick oats cook really fast; and when you're cooking it just chuck in from soy sauce, frozen peas, and whatever you want that'll be ready in ten minutes, and presto, you've got a meal.



For lunch: make noodles and put whatever you want on them -- it's super easy to make your own sauce, just think "sweet, salt, sour, oil" and mix something like: sesame paste, little sugar (organic cane), little vinegar (organic apple cider), and soy sauce. Mix, add water to thin to sauce, and done! You can do the same with peanut butter and it tastes just like Thai peanut sauce. You can put some miso in there rather than soy sauce... fool around and you can come up with all sorts of different sauces for the same noodles. Or put the same sauce on boiled potatoes -- potatoes are quick and cheat and filling and fill of nutrients. So is millet. Get a rice cooker and learn to cook rice, millet, barley, ... nearly any grain (they just need different amounts of water)... Get a toaster oven and use it to bake sweet potatoes and yams. Put on 400F for 1hour, done! Very portable for lunches as well. Just dip them in your favourite oil such as Omega's Garlic Chili Flax oil = cheap = yum = nutrients = filling. Eat apples for snacks in between or whatever is cheap and in season... really, I eat nearly all organic and I spend WAY less money than other people do on processed food. You can even find a local organic produce home deliver company... Just be creative and learn to mix and match and experiment and very quickly you'll be able to whip up a fast filling cheap meal from scratch.
0+50+50+80+60+80+120+5+108= 553 calories daily
bfast evian liter n teatulia white tea n vitamineralgreen48 daily
also if u can find it then cup kaia foods cocoa granola add 440 calories
lunch green smith apple n 2 vine san marzano tomatoes
2 cups baby arugula salad n 365 evoo n beaufor tarragon
dinner 2 cups steamed broccoli
sundays just this pizza n the 3 drinks above
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Take less oily/spicy food an 5 liters of water in a day.
when I went vegan, I got some excellent advice from an experienced vegan I knew. It was as follows:



1 eat as many baked beans as you can. They contain all the nutrients you need to stay healthy and they are cheap!



2 an excellent dressing for baked beans is a mixture of 1 part olive oil, one part mustard. Add this to the beans for taste.



3 drink plenty of water. You may add mustard to the water.



I lived on this diet alone for 6 months.