Isn't it more expensive to be a vegetarian than a carnivore?!

I'm sorry, but I can't believe no one has said this yet: It's OMNIVORES, not carnivores. Carnivores eat only animals; omnivores eat animals and plants. If a human attempted a carnivorous diet, they would get sick and die!

Now that that has been clarified, to answer your question, most people save money when they become vegetarian, even when they substitute with fake meat. Look at a menu in a restaurant, and the meat dishes always cost more. The only marketplace disadvantage is if you buy only vegetables, in which case, your grocery bill would take a hit. It sounds like you've replaced meat with vegetables completely instead of looking into diversifying your diet with beans, rice, grains, soy, etc. Look at the other isles and you're grocery bill will become lower than that of someone who purchases meat. You will also be a lot healthier.

Elementary school.

It depends, really. Fake meats *are* relatively expensive, but vegans and vegetarians don't need these for protein and they are just processed food.
If you find, through observance at the grocery store, that vegetarianism is more expensive, it is to trap the consumer into staying a carnivore. The meat industry is very deceptive.
I find that the more grocery savvy I become, and the longer I've stayed a vegan, the wiser I am at choices and I'm starting to notice that omnivore shopping is actually a little more expensive!

Vegan

it depends what kid of vegetarian you are. if you are the tofu, brown rice, veggies, pasta, fruits, nuts beans vegetarian then it costa pretty much the same. but if you are the type of vegetation that wants to eat what meat eaters eat so you buy all kinds of fake meat products then you will spend a lot of unnecessary money. also, it's pretty dumb to buy a $3 can of vegetarian beans when you can make a huge pot of vegetarian chili for the same price. there are websites like vegweb.com that have all kinds of recipes on how to make fake meats, like hamburger patties made out of beans and oats and nuts and stuff like that. it's pretty cool.

a can of beans costs 99 cents. one can of beans has 3-4 servings. where can you buy meat for that price?

fake meats and meat substitutes can be expensive, because captialism is like that, but they are not at all necessary.

milk and cheese have plenty of complete proteins and b12 for vegetarian diets.

if you don't want to eat milk or cheese, a can of nutritional yeast may be required. that'll be around $6, but it'll last 6 months at least.

Depends on what you eat. If you buy a lot of mock meat and veggie burger or tempeh etc it can be more expensive. But I only eat normal food, fruits, veggies, starch etc. I buy everything meat eaters would eat but no meat! So it is cheaper. Depends on the peson. Plus i get my protein from beans and they are super cheap!

Actually no
The vegetarian family can survive on just vegetables
Were as canivores have to get vegetables and everything a vegetarian family gets as well as meat.


Also you get like $1-$2 off burgers because of no meat.

My life/Family

If you go out and buy the specialty frozen meals, yeah, it can get pretty expensive.

If you cook for yourself, a vegetable dish will cost considerably less than a meat dish with similar caloric value.

I think eating healthy always costs more in this economy with fake meat and soy milk. Do what the real vegetarians do and stick to real food. Buy bags of beans and not those in a can and then it is cheap.

Actually yah kinda not that much my cuzion is a veqetarian and its not that much more expensive than beinqq a carnivore!!!!<3