Welcome to week 3 of the budget challenge. It has been a lot of fun, but a lot of work! I hope you all are enjoying the meals. The items came in under $100 for me again. Also, I understand you may not all live on the westcoast and have access to these prices, but I encourage you to shop around, use ...
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Plant Based on a Budget Challenge - 2 People - Week 3
Welcome to week 3 of the Plant Based on a Budget food challenge for 2 people! One of the things that I would like to address from the comments is the varying prices of food. I am fully aware that unless you are shopping at the same grocery store that I am, it is unlikely that our prices are going to be the exact or ...
Plant Based on a Budget Challenge - 1 Person - Week 3
Welcome to the Plant Based on a Budget Challenge! First off, thank you very much for considering this challenge. We’re hoping to show that a plant-based diet can be done without breaking the bank, and we really hope it works out for you! There’s no specific day to start just seven days of eating plant-based foods at ...
Plant Based on a Budget Challenge - Family of 4 - Week 2
Welcome to week 2 of the budget challenge. Hopefully, you enjoyed last weeks meals. This week was cheaper than last week. I was pretty excited when I finished at the checkout and saw the final price! I counted on the fact that you will still have some peanut butter, tahini, and bbq sauce left ...
Plant Based on a Budget Challenge - 1 Person - Week 2
Welcome to the Plant-Based on a Budget Challenge! First off, thank you very much for considering this challenge! We're hoping to show that a plant-based diet can be done without breaking the bank, and we really hope it works out for you! There's no specific day to start just seven days of eating plant-based foods at ...
Plant Based on a Budget Challenge - 2 People - Week 2
I'm going to get real for a second: there was a point during the first week that I felt extremely overwhelmed and asked Toni if I could opt out of the challenge. Too much work, adding too much stress. And then I thought about how privileged I am to have this meal planning be a chore for me, or something that I can ...
Plant Based on a Budget Challenge – Family of 4 – Week 1
Welcome to the Plant Based on a Budget Family of 4 Challenge. I had a lot of fun putting this together. It was also fun going shopping and really paying attention to prices and making sure we could keep the bill under $100. I was really worried when we got to the check out, but we did it! The meals ...
Plant Based on a Budget Challenge - 2 people - Week 1
[Some disclaimers] I went vegan for ethical reasons. I bring this up because while I do care about my health as well, I do not beat myself up about using oil, salt, sugar, etc. We are not really people who eat breakfast. For this challenge, we ate oatmeal every day except one for breakfast. It was filling, but to ...
Plant Based on a Budget Challenge - 1 Person - Week 1
Welcome to the Plant-Based on a Budget Challenge! First off, thank you for considering participating in this challenge. Whether you’re here because you’d like to save money, become healthier, try a plant-based diet, or all of the above, I welcome you. I’m Toni Okamoto, the founder of Plant-Based on a Budget, and I’m ...
Plant Based on a Budget Challenge
As most of you know, several Plant Based on a Budget contributors will be putting together FREE meal plans to show that eating a plant based diet can be inexpensive. There have been a lot of questions about what exactly we're planing, so I'd like to give a little clarification and back story. The first blog post that ...
“7 Ways to Eat Good on a Hood Budget" by Stic of Dead Prez
Dead Prez has been the most inspirational Hip Hop group in my life. I first heard their album "Lets get Free" when I was in middle school, and it introduced me to ideas of healthy living, questioning authority, the importance of happiness, being proud of my brown skin, among many other powerful ideas that I wasn't ...