RE: Question on cheaper vegetarian meals/CSA

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Local Harvest is a great place to find a CSA:  www.localharvest.org

 

 

--- On Tue, 2/17/09, Lorraine <ldemi wrote:

 

Lorraine <ldemi

RE: Re: Question on cheaper vegetarian meals

 

Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 12:25 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hi Cheri,

Oh, I remember spending so much money when we first started being

vegetarians - to see what was out there, and because we were just so

excited. Now, 20 years later, we're back down to basics - but we do

about one meal a week with the fancy stuff/recipes. It's fun, and once

a week can still be affordable. One other tip for making the grocery

list - I organize it by food group, so I make sure we have grains

(bread, rice, pasta, cereal, waffles), and protein (tofu, eggs, nuts,

seeds, peanut butter, soy milk), and dairy, veggies, fruits, etc. I end

up buying less stuff this way and we have a balance of foods in the

house, and ingredients for many different meals. We get our produce

from a CSA, if you have one in your area, that's a great way to save

money and have fresh, local food. Oh, and with our CSA, if you

volunteer to be a drop-off location for the boxes, you get a free box of

produce each week! You could try that!

Good luck!

Lorraine

 

 

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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:07 AM

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Re: Question on cheaper vegetarian meals

 

Nope we dont have a Trader Joe's here. Sure wish we did. I hear

everyone speaking so highly of this place. I usually look at my

pantry see what we have on hand. Then use coupons also when we have

them. There are a few sites I use to get coupons from. I do a menu

and write out a shopping list. For some reason I am still coming in

with $120 on groceries. I think with us being new vegetarians we have

been trying all the new things. All the faux meats bocca and morning

star has. Trying all these fancy recipes. We just need to get back

down to basics. Just trying to come up what should be staples in the

house. What are some basic meatless meals. I am sure we can do it.

Thank you for all the ideas. These are all great things to keep an

eye on and improve on.

 

Cheri

 

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<warrensangels@ ...> wrote:

>

> Hello everyone,

>

> Not to get to personal here. To give a bit of why I am asking. My

> husband was making plenty to cover our family expensives before. We

> were going through a certain food program called angel food. Now

that

> we are vegetarian. We do not want to buy the food boxes when there

is

> meat in them. So we have been shopping at regualr grocery store. We

> were easily spending $180 a month for all our groceries with the

food

> boxes. Now we are finding ourselves easily spending $120-$150 a

week at

> the store. How do you make cheaper meals for your families if you

do? I

> need to get this cost down alot. My hubby is the only income coming

in

> to our home. His hours have been cut now and will stay this way for

> some time. He is no longer getting incentive like he was. So our

income

> coming in has been cut about $600 a month. This is a big amount for

a

> family of 4. Thank you for any advice or information. Love being

able

> to come to other parents who have same lifestyle as we do. Thank

you

> all in advance.

>

> Cheri

>