Which tips do you have to save money?
buy simple ingredients in bulk. beans, rice, lentils, etc. tofu can be frozen and kept on hand for a while too. at that point you just need to get produce to finish meals. store brand products are helpful and cheaper
SNAP, food stamps. If you’re broke/homeless/unemployed and are fortunate enough to live in a state that doesn’t have strict means testing then for fucks sake, DO NOT pay for food that should be free. Otherwise, bulk section and growing my own easy greens like lettuce and Kale if that’s an option, it wont solve the problem but it helps.
Mutual aid networks are also sick- if they exist in your area it makes it easy to get stuff like beans, lentils, and rice for free, but most likely you’ll have to put up with a critical mass of terribly unread anarkiddies. They can be pretty insufferable sometimes, but some are also cool and open minded (I’m biased because I used to be one before dedicating 8+ months to reading Marx/Engles, Lenin/Stalin, Mao and friends), plus it beats letting the capitalists starve you. Find the MA people and get into the group chats, if you dedicate your time to a feed for your homeless neighbors, it’s likely you’ll also get fed.
Also if you go this route you can drip feed theory to them. Blessed ML comrades in the group chat being super chill and gentle about things until folks are ready to pick up a book.
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This is a big one for me lately since I often buy fresh and never get around to using it.
Starve.
I know, it’s not what you’re looking for and it’s horrible, and I also don’t mean this as a jab, but eating vegan consistently is extremely difficult with little money. Especially when I’m in the middle of a food desert and I’m closer to a nuclear power plant then I am to an actual grocery store.
In full honesty, buying in bulk used to be incredibly useful at places like Costco, and I could survive off of only going there a handful of times a year and buying metric tons of vegan food for wholesale prices.
That doesn’t exist anymore and all the prices are the same and higher. I’ve lost a lot of weight from not eating. Eating vegan is a massive privilege.
I don’t think this is necessarily true. Beans, lentils, tofu, and check peas are cheaper than any non-vegan protein, especially if you get dry beans.
Even if you’re in a food desert, I don’t see how that changes vegan vs non vegan food. In a food desert what else are you going to get, fast food? It’ll be cheaper to get a taxi to a grocery store than eating that way.
What cheap non-vegan food are you eating?
I didn’t say it was non vegan. But it isn’t healthy. Rice and beans mostly, some vegetables they I grow, cheap pasta. I have a friend who I can buy buckwheat through sometimes. Yes, I have a buckwheat dealer.
Also do you understand what a food desert is? Tofu? Chickpeas? You wish. I’m lucky if I see regular chicken breast every few months.
A cab to the closest grocery store will ring you 80 dollars there and back, not costing the cost of finding an Uber (there are none where I am), or a cab (these do not exist outside of major cities). Are you paying the bill? How is that cheap? If you want a good leg day, you should apparently be able to make the trip in 4 hours by bike (I live in an extremely mountainous area so good luck), or about 12 hours round trip by foot.
To answer your question, I grow some food, but it’s not much, and since I don’t eat fast food (one of the only food options) I starve.
Also what makes you think I can afford to purchase the vegan options at a regular grocery store if I magically teleported to one?
I’m sorry, it’s awful you’re going through that.
It sounds like this is a problem that stems from living in poverty, and isn’t really a vegan vs non-vegan issue. Of course you have to eat what’s available when there’s no other choice, and yeah I understand that there are no good options when you live in a food desert.
Having a buckwheat dealer sounds kind of badass though.
Solidarity, comrade.
Thank you. I don’t mean to come off as hostile or anti-vegan, as ironically I have been eating basically vegan for a long time.
But when you have to choose between survival and starvation, extremely snarky people act like you’re the devil because you have to dare eat chicken as opposed to tofu because you simply can’t afford it, and would not like to die.
It gets old fast, seeing people in positions of privilege act all high and mighty and holier then thou, because you dare eat a “violence product” because you have no other choice.
