r/EatCheapAndVegan

Ate 1/3 of the jar before remembering to take a picture...

Daikon Radishes were on sale this week at my local Asian grocery store. I've slowed down a bit on Cookbook of the Week just because it's honestly too hot here to do much cooking. The author runs Helen's Recipes (https://helenrecipes.com/), which has lots of great vegan recipes although she also publishes a lot of non-vegan recipes too.

Pic One: jar of carrots and radish

Pic Two: Cookbook

Pic Three: Picture of recipe

Ive been doing this thing where I make a bunch of food, eat what I can , and keep the leftovers (I know, big transformative breakthrough thought) then a couple days later I just cook some other things to add to my leftovers. For example I had black beans, lentils, yams, onion and mushrooms the other day, and when I was low on that I cooked up some quinoa, sweet potato, zucchini (📸). And I think next when that gets low, I'll add some mushrooms and tempeh ive been marinating.

Is there a word for this or maybe a name of this style of making meals?

Anyways, its been fun and keeps my food waste really low and i feel like I'm not really in the kitchen for as long period of times cooking.

Hi my name is Beebs and I've been doing this vegan thing for 1 month 😊. First time caller, long time listener.

Breakfast

Three bean chili with mushrooms and some bagged frozen green/wax beans and carrots. This was so good!

Cost about $4 to make this. It was yum.

Jin veggie ramen with mushrooms, scallions, tofu, soy sauce, chili crisp, garlic powder, & black pepper.

I'll put the instructions in the comments.

Potatoes + oil

Butter beans and canned tomatoes with a little sugar and a lot of seasoning

Tempeh marinated in maple syrup smoked paprika and soy sauce

And finished off roomates avo (with permission) before it went bad

36grams of protein and delish 💪

Me and beans 🤞

Bought this huge bag of soy chunks not knowing they would be disappointing (to say the least). I use them in stir fries every once in a while when I have no other protein left to use, but I’m getting tired of it. To top it off, they take forever to rehydrate and the texture is rubbery. Please note that I have cooked with other brands of soy curls before and I really enjoyed them, which is why I thought buying this bag was a good idea in the first place.

Are there any other creative ways I can finish this bag? Or should I just cut my losses?