My Vegan Dinner for Under $2 per Serving.

Costs of items used:

• Szechuan sauce: About $4
• Soy Sauce: $1.50
• Brown Rice and quinoa cups: $2 for two cups
• Frozen Stir fry: $1.75
• Tofu: About $3

I like to put the cost of each item even though we won't use all of it in the recipe because we still have to buy it all, right? I only used a little of the sauce, one of the brown rice and quinoa cups, and about 2/3rds of the stiry fry bag and 2/3rds of the tofu in order to make about 2.5 of the servings pictures above. Which makes it..... tries to calculate ...really heckin' cheap! Oh and I used a bit of olive oil. I get huge bottles for cheap. If you have Aldi near you check there!

Normally, I would prefer to make my own brown rice and quinoa just based on packaging but ran out and my roommate gets many of these cups. So, I used a cup. I do like that it is portion controlled and you just pop it in the microwave for one minute. I separately friend the tofu in a non-stick pan with oil and soy sauce. For the stir-fry I put it in a large wok and fried it for a bit with oil and the Szechuan sauce and then added the rice.

I really should be cutting tofu out of my diet but for now I need the protein. Soon I will be replacing it with other proteins like hemp heart, nutritional yeast, seeds, nuts, and legumes as soy is an IC trigger but until I learn to get all my protein elsewhere I need to stay alive, eh?

So, as you can see. It is possible to be a dirt poor vegan like me.

DISCLAIMER: I do not subscribe to an all organic, GMO free diet. You won't get that on my blog.