How do I get a healthy, not real expensive, vegetarian diet from wal-mart?!
I say wal-mart because i live in a somewhat small college town where we don't have any places like wild-oats or anything!. I would try to go organic but I only allotted myself 200 dollars a month for food so that may not work into my budget!.
I ate somewhat healthy for awhile, incorporating bok choy and carrots into my daily diet but lately it's just been lots of carbs and cheap meat!. (steak, chicken breast, brats)
My only experience with going meatless was this summer during a failed week-long detox!. It ended up being a two day detox!. Any ideas of what specifically i can use in my diet to replace some of that protein my body is so used to!?
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I ate somewhat healthy for awhile, incorporating bok choy and carrots into my daily diet but lately it's just been lots of carbs and cheap meat!. (steak, chicken breast, brats)
My only experience with going meatless was this summer during a failed week-long detox!. It ended up being a two day detox!. Any ideas of what specifically i can use in my diet to replace some of that protein my body is so used to!?
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Answers:
Walmart has some organics!. And they are much more reasonably priced than Wild Oats!.
They carry tofu!. Get the firm kind and stir fry it with veggies and a stir fry seasoning pack, and serve with steamed rice ( white or brown)
Cheese is good protein!. Eggs are excellent and low cost too!. Walmart has nice brown eggs and some cage free ones too at a pretty good price!.
They carry peanut and other nut (cashew etc) butter!. Spread on whole wheat bread with sliced bananas for a healthy sandwich!.
They even carry Loma Linda and Worthington canned foods!. The skallops are very good!. Coat them in seasoned bread crumbs and pan fry!. Delish!
Dried beans - great source of protein!. Soak these overnight in water and then cook for a couple of hours the next day!. You can use pinto beans, navy beans, great northern, black beans or a combo of them all!. Put beans in a pot and cover with plenty of water about 3 inches over the top of the beans!. Add an onion, celery, and a couple of carrots, a bay leaf if you have some, salt and pepper!. This will make a wonderful bean soup!. Serve with fresh bread and a salad!.
You can make bean and cheese burritos!. Chinese fried rice with egg and no meat!.
To stretch your dollars, get fresh food!. Dried beans will give you many meals!.
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They carry tofu!. Get the firm kind and stir fry it with veggies and a stir fry seasoning pack, and serve with steamed rice ( white or brown)
Cheese is good protein!. Eggs are excellent and low cost too!. Walmart has nice brown eggs and some cage free ones too at a pretty good price!.
They carry peanut and other nut (cashew etc) butter!. Spread on whole wheat bread with sliced bananas for a healthy sandwich!.
They even carry Loma Linda and Worthington canned foods!. The skallops are very good!. Coat them in seasoned bread crumbs and pan fry!. Delish!
Dried beans - great source of protein!. Soak these overnight in water and then cook for a couple of hours the next day!. You can use pinto beans, navy beans, great northern, black beans or a combo of them all!. Put beans in a pot and cover with plenty of water about 3 inches over the top of the beans!. Add an onion, celery, and a couple of carrots, a bay leaf if you have some, salt and pepper!. This will make a wonderful bean soup!. Serve with fresh bread and a salad!.
You can make bean and cheese burritos!. Chinese fried rice with egg and no meat!.
To stretch your dollars, get fresh food!. Dried beans will give you many meals!.
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Frozen veggies are pretty cheap, if you get the generic brand!. Canned might be tempting, but there's like no nutrition in canned veggies!. Brown rice, beans, oatmeal, peanut butter sandwiches!.!.!.!. If you're still eating fish you can pick up canned tuna!. And they have eggs pretty cheap there too, if you're still eating eggs!. Pick up a bottle of One A Day multivitamins too!. Like Nature's Way!. You'll want the one a day, otherwise it's like three a day for most vitamins!. Www@FoodAQ@Com
Beans, brown rice, fresh vegetables, tofu, peanut butter!. To save money don't buy canned beans or instant rice!. Get a crock pot from your local thrift store or off craigslist and cook dried beans in that!. Not only are these healthful foods but they are also some of the least expensive!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Amy's products (sold at Wal-Mart)
-Soups
-Chili
-Frozen burritos
-Frozen dinners/lunches
All Vegan and inexpensiveWww@FoodAQ@Com
-Soups
-Chili
-Frozen burritos
-Frozen dinners/lunches
All Vegan and inexpensiveWww@FoodAQ@Com
the best answer is to join a vegetarian forum and ask them because you are not going to get a good answer here
Here, use the one I use, it's the best one I found
http://www!.veggieboards!.com/boards/
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Here, use the one I use, it's the best one I found
http://www!.veggieboards!.com/boards/
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You can live really cheaply on a vegetarian diet and buy some organic products too!. Go for the cheaper organic products such as soups and baked beans where it is only a few extra pennies on each tin!.
The simpler the food, usually the cheaper it is!. So go right back to basics!. You need to look at filling, nutritious, cheap food!. Canned foods have similar amounts of nutrients as fresh!. In fact, if you don't eat your fresh fruit and vegetables straight away, it can have more (see the British Nutrition Foundation information below)!. Slow cooking beans, which you have to soak from dried overnight and then cook for a long time use a lot of power to cook!.
Buy cans, stock up on tinned chickpeas, kidney beans, barlotti beans, baked beans etc!. Use them to make channa dhal, a big pot of curry, bean stews etc!. Hummus is simply made, cheap and just as good made from tinned chickpeas as it is from dried!.
also great are tinned tomatoes, tinned sweetcorn and tinned soups (organic soups are usually only a few pence more if you buy the supermarket's own range)!.
Porridge oats are cheap and nutritious, they only take 2 1/2 mins in the microwave!. Or have tinned baked beans and scrambled eggs for breakfast!. In the UK we can get mycoprotien (Quorn - not suitable for Vegans because it contains eggs) sausages, or better still buy some Vegan Sosmix in (dried mix) and keep it in your store cupboard!. It is cheap and makes plenty!. Vegetable 'sausages' are easy to make yourself in batches and freeze!. Nothing wrong either with Weetabix or cornflakes with milk for a cheap filling breakfast!.
Pasta, potatoes, couscous and rice are also very cheap!. Base your meals around them!. Jaket potatoes with vegetable chilli, vegetable pasta bakes, vegetable lasagna, leak and potato pies, mushroom risotto!.
Soups can be made from cheap mixed frozen veg cooked in stock with garlic and whizzed in the foodprocessor with a handful of homegrown herbs!.
Buy fresh fruit and vegetables in small quantities and frequently, a lot of people buy too much and waste them as it deteriorates so quickly they have to throw it away!. Buy whatever is in season, look for local produce and offers!.
Bread and pizzas are great and really cheap to make!. Nothing like a sundried tomato and pesto loaf of bread served warm with a carrot and coriander soup or a carrot and parsnip pate or hummus!. Or just a plain tomato pizza, homebaked pizzas are so much nicer, you don't even have to add cheese, just make a really good tomato sauce/base mix and then top with piles of veg!.
Buy free range chicken eggs!. Then think back to the old simple favourites, boiled eggs on toast, curried eggs, egg and potato curry, egg foo jung!. Make big pans of vegetable chilli, vegetable stews and stocks and freeze them!.
As for deserts, nothing is cheaper or nicer than the old fashioned favourites which are all easy to make from scratch and cook in minutes in the microwave: semolina, rice pudding, bread and butter pudding, tinned fruit (ie peaches) and lashings of custard!. A syrup sponge cooks in a few minutes in the microwave, just add cocoa powder to the mix as it does not brown and looks raw if you don't!.
Swap over to herb teas so next summer you can grow your own in a pot near the back door!. Nothing like wandering outside to pick a few leaves of lemon balm or mint on a hot day!. The aromas when the boiling water hits it, is just exquisite and good for you too!
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The simpler the food, usually the cheaper it is!. So go right back to basics!. You need to look at filling, nutritious, cheap food!. Canned foods have similar amounts of nutrients as fresh!. In fact, if you don't eat your fresh fruit and vegetables straight away, it can have more (see the British Nutrition Foundation information below)!. Slow cooking beans, which you have to soak from dried overnight and then cook for a long time use a lot of power to cook!.
Buy cans, stock up on tinned chickpeas, kidney beans, barlotti beans, baked beans etc!. Use them to make channa dhal, a big pot of curry, bean stews etc!. Hummus is simply made, cheap and just as good made from tinned chickpeas as it is from dried!.
also great are tinned tomatoes, tinned sweetcorn and tinned soups (organic soups are usually only a few pence more if you buy the supermarket's own range)!.
Porridge oats are cheap and nutritious, they only take 2 1/2 mins in the microwave!. Or have tinned baked beans and scrambled eggs for breakfast!. In the UK we can get mycoprotien (Quorn - not suitable for Vegans because it contains eggs) sausages, or better still buy some Vegan Sosmix in (dried mix) and keep it in your store cupboard!. It is cheap and makes plenty!. Vegetable 'sausages' are easy to make yourself in batches and freeze!. Nothing wrong either with Weetabix or cornflakes with milk for a cheap filling breakfast!.
Pasta, potatoes, couscous and rice are also very cheap!. Base your meals around them!. Jaket potatoes with vegetable chilli, vegetable pasta bakes, vegetable lasagna, leak and potato pies, mushroom risotto!.
Soups can be made from cheap mixed frozen veg cooked in stock with garlic and whizzed in the foodprocessor with a handful of homegrown herbs!.
Buy fresh fruit and vegetables in small quantities and frequently, a lot of people buy too much and waste them as it deteriorates so quickly they have to throw it away!. Buy whatever is in season, look for local produce and offers!.
Bread and pizzas are great and really cheap to make!. Nothing like a sundried tomato and pesto loaf of bread served warm with a carrot and coriander soup or a carrot and parsnip pate or hummus!. Or just a plain tomato pizza, homebaked pizzas are so much nicer, you don't even have to add cheese, just make a really good tomato sauce/base mix and then top with piles of veg!.
Buy free range chicken eggs!. Then think back to the old simple favourites, boiled eggs on toast, curried eggs, egg and potato curry, egg foo jung!. Make big pans of vegetable chilli, vegetable stews and stocks and freeze them!.
As for deserts, nothing is cheaper or nicer than the old fashioned favourites which are all easy to make from scratch and cook in minutes in the microwave: semolina, rice pudding, bread and butter pudding, tinned fruit (ie peaches) and lashings of custard!. A syrup sponge cooks in a few minutes in the microwave, just add cocoa powder to the mix as it does not brown and looks raw if you don't!.
Swap over to herb teas so next summer you can grow your own in a pot near the back door!. Nothing like wandering outside to pick a few leaves of lemon balm or mint on a hot day!. The aromas when the boiling water hits it, is just exquisite and good for you too!
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Eat lettuce!.Www@FoodAQ@Com