[HomeyT]

I've only gone vegan in the home for the past 2 weeks. Before than we were vegetarians. But I find not buying the casual block of cheese, sour cream, coffee cream, butter, or countless eggs is saving BIG bucks! We're also trying to eat whole foods making everything from scratch. It is making a difference with the bottom line. The first week it was expensive contributing to our pantry. But grains/dry beans are relatively cheap.

I just read 'The Kind Diet' and it had a LOT of ideas! Her principle is 50% grain, 25% veggies, 25% protien.

We like Soba noodles, buckwheat noodles, cheap, healthy, quick cooking! cook them and then fry them up with some veggies and herbs, spices, tofu...mmmm!

Grains such as millet, rice, ....with some sort of veggie concoction on top. I made a thick lentil soup and served it on rice and it was FANTASTIC!

we like spanish rice with faijitas (peppers, tofu?, onion)...add guacemole and cilantro ontop - mmmm!

we make our own bread too. but i think you can buy vegan bread, it's just $$.we also don't eat nearly the amount of bread we used to now that it's homemade because it's work. and health wise that's a good thing.