Does it cost more to be vegetarian?!

believe me being a vegetarian, way cheaper.

my food bills are considerably low compared to my friends that buy meat. I once did comparison, of how much money it would take for me to buy meat. - and believe me being a vegetarian, way cheaper.

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In my experience it costs way less. When I go out to eat the vegetarian option it is almost always the cheapest meal on the menu.

At the grocery store unless you are eating the cheapest ground round or the "high calcium meat" hot dogs you won't find too many items of similar nutrient compliment cheaper.

Now what can be seemingly expensive at times is to eat fresh fruits and vegetables. These you should be eating in the first place.

Buying in season should help to reduce costs. I recommend local and or organic produce hopefully from a farmers market, which depending on the market can be quite reasonable without the middleman taking up the small farmers already bare subsistence profits.

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Generally costs less. It's only expensive if you try and replicate an omnivorous diet, with expensive imitation meats n stuff like that all the time. I'm not a fan of them any way, veggies taste nicer & are alot cheaper.

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It depends if your eating tofu and fake meat all the time or eating vegetales and fruits and pasta if your eating fake meat and tofu it will be more expensive

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Honestly, it can get a tiny bit expensive. Say for example, I eat lots of soymeat and tofu. Soy turkey slices, veggie burgers, soy chicken patties, soy sausages, etc, and I notice that the price of these items has been going up higher and higher. Although this doesn't really have to do with being a vegetarian, I eat a lot of natural foods such as multigrain chips and crackers, or kashi granola bars, multigrain cereal, and I find that these natural foods that are much better for you can be overly pricey. They make nasty potato chips that clog your arteries cheap, but not the other better and tastier foods and snacks that will keep your body healthy. Does this country want to kill us? UGH!

I also drink soymilk (this has nothing to do with being vegetarian either...just after reading the book 'skinny b-tch', I'll never touch milk again), and over time with purchasing it, it can get expensive, unfortunately. :(

If you are a vegan, then it definitely can get expensive.

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How much your grocery bill is depends less on whether or not you eat meat and more on what types of food (processed vs whole) that you eat. Vegetarianism can be pricey if you're eating a lot of processed convenience foods and faux meats. It can also be very cost effective if you're cooking mainly from whole foods. Legumes and grains can be bought in bulk, making the staples of a lot of tasty, filling, healthy vegetarian meals very affordable.

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I belive it all depends on wear you live i live n the country i live on a farm, my mom & dad rasie cows for meat so it we never bought meat from a store. And we buy alot of fruit and i mean alot, it is alot a $50 for each vist to get grocerys and it was about the same befor, wait i think it when up about 10 dallors.but that is it. Also we grow our own blueberrys.

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