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Looking for a cheap easy vegan meal plan? In this post I share how to enjoy a whole food plant based diet for $29/week shopping at Trader Joe's!
This is my cheapest plant based meal plan for shopping at Trader Joe's. Keep reading to watch my video tutorial and get a free printable meal plan and shopping list.
Note: Before making any changes to your diet based on this meal plan, please consult your physician.
No chop ingredients
I chose the Trader Joe’s Mirepoix Mix and Garden Vegetable Hash products to make these no-chop vegan recipes, meaning you just dump the ingredients into a mixing bowl or stock pot and they are ready to serve or cook.
They also include a variety of vegetables which makes them great for a budget meal plan because you don’t have to purchase each individual ingredients and can still get a variety of nutrition and flavor into each meal.
11 Trader Joe's Mirepoix recipes: daileyfoods.com/trader-joes-m...
Daily Dozen food
This meal plan was created with the Daily Dozen in mind. Because it is one of the cheapest plant based meal plans I've made, there are some compromises made.
For example, there are no seeds in this meal plan, which are part of the Daily Dozen recommendations.
Additionally, I chose to add peanut butter instead of almond butter because of costs. This means, if you don’t use almond butter, there are also no nuts in this meal plan.
If you have any extra available in your food budget, I recommend purchasing a food product which contains both nuts and seeds to make this a full Daily Dozen meal plan.
I did choose a variety of vegetables to compensate for the missing Daily Dozen ingredients.
Trader Joe's groceries
Vegetables are packed with nutrition, so at the very least this cheap easy vegan meal plan is still packed with a variety of nutrition, despite not including all Daily Dozen recommendations.
For example, the Garden Vegetable Hash includes a variety of vegetables, both cruciferous and regular. And, both dinners include cruciferous vegetables as well as a variety of other vegetables.
I’ve included the approximate Daily Dozen servings for each meal below the recipes for easy reference.
Daily food checklist: Here's what to eat every day: daileyfoods.com/daily-intake-...
Daniel Fast meal prep
This plant based meal prep is perfect for Daniel Fasting! It’s packed with whole food plant based ingredients and is very easy to prepare.
Quick start guide to Daniel Fasting: daileyfoods.com/daniel-fasting/
Vegan dump meals
Many of the meals in this cheap meal plan are vegan dump meals, meaning you just open packages and dump them out to prepare each meal.
36 vegan freezer meals for $50 from Trader Joe's groceries: daileyfoods.com/36-vegan-free...
No chop meals
Many of the meals in this meal plan are considered “no chop meals”, meaning you don’t have to use a knife and cutting board to prepare each meal.
For example, each breakfast you just smear peanut butter onto rice cakes and place a peeled banana on top.
Lunch 1 if uses an already chopped vegetable mix which you simply dump into a bowl with garbanzo beans to prepare.
Lunch 2 is bean tacos which only requires opening a can of refried beans and smearing them onto corn tortillas before cooking in a skillet - there’s no chopping involved!
And, Dinner 1 is a simple vegetable soup which uses an already prepared mix of vegetable mirepoix that you don’t have to chop.
Check out my Beginners Vegan Meal Prep page for cooking tutorials: daileyfoods.com/beginner-vega...

[@joygoncalves4917]

New to your channel. LOVE this. Going to do this.

[@shess1640]

I love love love your channel. I mostly eat like this but you've got this down in such a smart way... and your videos are an efficient use of my time and very enjoyable. Thank you so much!

[@DaileyFoods]

Thank you so much!! I’m so happy you like what I’m sharing🥰

[@StorytimewithSai]

Great ideas 🥰 thank you for sharing

[@cavenavasagam6461]

Great Ideas for budget friendly meals

[@shess1640]

for a slightly different soup.....instead of the mirepoix, get a bag of the frozen cauliflower stir fry mix... otherwise, make it the same, with potatoes.... I also blitz mine....delicious. Sometimes I add zucchini. There are so many variations of that healthy soup.

[@DaileyFoods]

Great idea :) I'll grab some next time I'm there!

[@capsaicinkat7767]

daily dozen, Dr. Greger

[@patmuscarella8279]

Ive seen where eating a plant based diet is healthy. Yet these choices are loaded with carbs which equals sugar. I would love to eat everything your making. But i couldn't justify the carb count. I guess we have to pick our battles.

[@ivettejimenez9460]

there's a difference between whole foods and Ulta processed foods. The sugar in the whole foods items is all natural and therefore released slowly into your blood . it avoids sugar spikes.