Some really great vegan recipes that are designed to not cost a lot of money! I can't wait to try some of them! ( )

I'm not vegan, but I try to eat mostly vegetarian, and these recipes are simple, delicious, and easy to modify. ( )

I’ve entered to win this book on Goodreads. I can’t remember another time I’ve wanted to win this much. I’d love to own this book. It’s one of the very few cookbooks I’ve read that I’d actually regularly use. The copy I read I borrowed from the library.

Recommended for all people who like to save money and save time, eat healthfully/fairly healthfully, and cook/eat vegan. These really are time saving and money saving and mostly healthy recipes.

This book is all about saving money and all about health, though while the author did start a plant based diet for health reasons she did come to be vegan also for the environment and animal welfare reasons.

I love that readers are encouraged to play with the recipes because that is what I always do; I never make recipes exactly as they are written. This is a book with room for home cooks to write their notes about the recipes. I love the idea! There are some tips from the author and the tasters and there is also space at every recipe for the readers/home cooks to make their personal notes about recipes. This is one reason that this would be a good book to own.

I love her tips on how to shop to get the exact right amount of ingredients for the recipes. She’s against food waste and I find that inspiring and will adopt some of her suggestions when shopping for ingredients for recipes and also for using leftovers, vegetables just starting to go bad, etc.

There are so many recipes I’d like to make from this book. Yes, I’d tweak many but only a tiny bit. Most look great as they are.

I enjoyed the short little blurbs before some of the recipes, especially the ones that had personal stories about them.

There are colorful, gorgeous and mouthwatering photos for each of the completed recipes. (There are also multiple photos of the author.) The entire layout of the book is attractive and seems easy to use and easy to find its recipes.

The only negative I see is that there is a lot of repetition in the basic foods lists and between the recipes re types of beans, grains, vegetables, spices, but it’s also obvious how easy it would be to substitute alternatives to get a wider variety of foods. The only negative for me is that I don’t have a food processor or blender or even some of the basic recommended kitchen utensils. This author does describe how it’s possible to get what’s useful very inexpensively.

Contents:

Foreword

Introduction
My Story
How To Be Plant-Based on a Budget

Breakfast
Salads
Snacks
One-Pot Meals
Supper Staples
Desserts
Back to Basics
Sample Meal Plan for One

Acknowledgments
Metric Conversions
Subject Index
Recipe Index
About the Author

Some of the dishes I’d like to make that would require very little or no tweaking from me:

From Breakfasts: Five-Ingredient Peanut Butter Bites; Tofu Scramble; Blueberry Banana Muffins; Hummus and Avocado Bagel

From Salads: Quinoa Salad; Perfect Potluck Pasta Salad; Larb Salad

From Snacks: Homemade Hummus; Homemade Red Salsa; Guacamole; Nacho Cheese; Peanut Butter Balls

From One-Pot Meals: Black Bean Soup; Broccoli Potato Soup; Carrot Ginger Soup; Miso Split Pea Soup; Mexican-Inspired Soup; Minestrone Soup; Gumbo; Sweet Potato Chili; Tofu Noodle Soup

From Supper Staples: Tofu with Peanut Sauce; Avocado Sunflower Seed Pesto Pasta; Lentil and Sweet Potato Bowl; Veggie Tofu Pasta; Spaghetti Squash with Marinara and Veggies; Stuffed Bell Peppers; Veggie Chow Mein; Ginger Lime Tofu; Tofu Veggie Gravy Bowl

From Desserts: Four-Ingredient Chocolate Cake; Banana Soft Serve; Aaron’s Grandma’s Banana Bread; Depression Era Cupcakes; Mixed Berry Cobbler; Chocolate Covered Strawberries; Baked Apples; Protein Chocolate Chip Cookies; Pumpkin Pie; Real-Deal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Her Back to Basics section includes some great recipes too. They’re mostly staple foods such as specific grains, beans, dressings, etc. and special foods such as piecrust, pizza dough, cashew cream.

I should try to make at least a couple of these recipes before I return the book. There is a queue. I’m glad and I don’t mind borrowing it again. I voted for this book for best cookbook in the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards. I’d be delighted if it wins. The author has a blog https://plantbasedonabudget.com/blog/ on her website. This book stands completely on its own and it’s excellent.

The problem is the book and writing this review made me way too hungry! ( )