Cheap, easy, healthy meal ideas please!

[Candycats]

Hi all,

Hoping for some inspiration please. I have been vegan for 2.5 years now and although DH and 2 year old DS are not vegan, we cook mainly vegan food at home for ease. Both DH and I have decided that we need to lose weight in the new year but feel in a bit of a rut with meal ideas. What are your favourite easy, healthy vegan meals that are also not too expensive?

Also bonus points for any healthy savoury snack suggestions please as I am a crisp monster which is not helping with my weight!

Thank you!

Tagine - I’ve got two good recipes which don’t use honey: cauliflower and chickpea.
Burgers
Tofu stir fry with rice noodles and lots of veg
Tofu fried rice
Tuscan bean stew
Chickpea bake
Sweet potato and lentil bake
Meatballs - these were easier than I thought to make and far cheaper than buying ready-made. I didn’t bother with the vine tomato’s though, just used tinned.
Pilaf

Have a look on Facebook or directly on the website at some of the vegan magazines.

Have a look at Gaz Oakley on YouTube, he’s a vegan chef I recently discovered and he has lots of great ideas in his budget section. Also healthy living James, his peanut butter chickpea curry is divine

m.youtube.com/watch?v=DuIUssE9BF4

m.facebook.com/healthylivingjames/posts/2688719568072019?comment_id=2689275291349780

I like sliming world recipe for carrot and coconut dalh

www.slimmingworld.co.uk/recipes/carrot-and-coconut-dhal

www.slimmingworld.co.uk/recipes/vegetable-dhansak

and this recipe is tasty

both can be bulk cooked and frozen - I make double and eat he last two weeks of the month

pinchofnom.com/recipes/vegan-campfire-stew/ this is easy to make and I just pop it all in the slow cooker - again batch cook and save for the last two weeks of the month

Sausage and bean stew. Use vegan sausages and make sure you ad some smoked paprika. Virtually any recipe will do.

Spanish chickpeas is similar.

www.abelandcole.co.uk/recipes/peanut-butter-noodles

this is quick, easy and cheap

It really annoys me that so many veggie and vegan dishes rely on tinned tomatoes. Yuck.

So here are some tomato free ideas:
Dhal - I like it with chapatis and a crunchy side salad
Baked sweet potatoes with spicy kidney beans (or rice and peas)plus mango salsa
Stir fry plus tofu, with rice
Banh mi with tofu

Brilliant, lots of ideas here, thanks everyone!

last night I had run out of food so I raided the freezer and found mixed veg, some bits of vegan mince, a potato and an onion in the fridge and some sprouts.
I shoved them all into a saucepan with a veg stock pot and thickened the water with some flour like a roux.
It was delicious and I was full before I got through half of it.