[littestvegan]

I agree with this, you can't really go wrong with any of this!

 

[Soulwatcher]

The cheapest meal that I eat is buttered noodles. My friend's mom taught me how to make it because we all were poor growing up. You take a 1LB box of noodles and you cook them until they are fully cooked. And then you put butter and salt on them and there is your super cheap meal. I like to use a quarter stick of butter. And then you freeze the rest of the noodles for 3+ other meals. And when you reheat them to let them dethaw out in the fridge and put the butter on top when you cook them in the microwave to reheat them.

 

[etherea]

I live very frugally so even though I absolutely love good food I do many things to keep the cost down:

Keep a stock of pasta, rice and noodles.

Have a store cupboard full of herbs and spices

If making a sauce make a load and separate into portions for freezer

Keep anything at all left over. Always serves another purpose - add to it to make another meal, add it to soup etc.

Never put the oven on for one thing

 

[blue_green_gold]

A can of black beans and a can of corn dumped together and sprinkled with salt, pepper and cumin.

A while back I went from vegan to low fat vegan to lose weight. No added oils and nothing with oil, no soy, avocado, nuts or seeds (except on my day off!). I am eating heaps of delicious food and saving a fortune by not buying processed food!

 

[AspiringBuddha]

Split pea soup: costs about $1.75 for the whole recipe, and is delicious and filling. It calls for vegetable broth but I just use water.

Taste of Home Veg*n Split Pea Soup

 

[Spudulika]

This is my cheap eating blog. Rarely updated, but I do regularly eat the food I post - so no 'experiments' and they should work. Many of them are done in bulk, so they can be fridged for later in the week, or frozen for later in the month. I'm a fan of saving time too.

https://pennyveguk.wordpress.com/penny-veg-recipe-index/
https://pennyveguk.wordpress.com/

 

[joombo]

oatmeal, I try to eat it every morning

 

[Werewolf Girl]

oatmeal, I try to eat it every morning

Same! Or rice and beans.

 

[Tom]

I'm not sure how much one of my most common meals costs because I'm not sure how much it weighs! The quick-cooking rolled oats I use are about $1.50 per pound... that would be about $3 per kilogram, but I don't know what the current exchange rate is for other currencies.

For breakfast, I have a big bowl of oats... but uncooked. I usually moisten it with water (unless I have some sort of nondairy milk on hand), and have 1 or 2 pieces of fruit with it: apple, pear, peach, plum, banana, a cup of grapes- maybe even an orange or tangerine, which sounds kind of unconventional, but orange juice is a common drink, so why not? Sometimes I put the fruit in the oats, but often I eat it on the side.

 

[David3]

Dry split green peas are the cheapest of all bagged legumes, and they have as much protein as lentils or beans. In the U.S., probably the only cheaper legume is bulk-supplied pinto beans.