Ok, so I'm looking to eat for $20 a week. I love nuts and dried fruit and everything, but I could spend $15 dollars on dried fruit and eat it all in less than a week. So, other than sandwiches, what are some cheap vegan snacks?
Thanks!
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Smoothies :p
Fresh/frozen fruit blened with a touch of soy milk.
I make a batch of bean burgers, cook them and eat them cold or pop them in the toaster :)
Fresh fruit, especially if you have a farmer's market nearby. (Farmer's Markets often will have cheaper nuts and dried fruit than the stores too.) I like to get bags of frozen blueberries from the supermarket and I mix a serving of those with a cut up banana. Let it defrost a little and it's delicious.
I don't see how anyone can get buy on $20 a week these days, considering how prices have been skyrocketing.
That said, the cheapest way to go with nuts/seeds is to buy sunflower seeds. I buy organic raw unsalted sunflower seeds in bulk for $2.19 a pound. This is way cheaper than any of the other nuts I might buy. A couple ounces of sunflower seeds is really a lot, and only costs me about 27 cents. Thats 27 cents for about 328 calories worth of food. Not bad! My doctor tells me that it is a great food to eat for muscle recovery after a workout.
As far as fruit goes, I would go with some fresh ones. As we get a little further into the summer, and the price of watermelon drops, it will become much more economical than any of the other fresh fruits. I love watermelon and will be eating tons of it.
Truthfully, I don't officially 'snack' between meals. Sometimes I might munch on some raw veggies (love those cherry tomatoes) while I'm making a salad, but I don't have any planned snacks. Instead I just stick to two to three meals a day, with no snacking. Usually its just lunch and dinner, and both meals are rather large and satisfying. On mornings that I go to swim practice, I have been eating a couple ounces of sunflower seeds afterwards, which I guess you could call my breakfast.
Glenny's soy crisps are 1-2 dollars for a bag with 10g protein.
i do a lot of toast with peanut butter or cereal with soy milk. also, air-popped popcorn makes a lot for cheap.
Roasted chickpeas are good and cheap. A bag of chickpeas is probably less than a dollar and makes a ton. Cook them normally (boiling) then drain and spread them out on a cookie sheet and roast for 20-30 minutes until they get brown and crunchy. You can use different seasonings on them such as salt, pepper, garlic, cayenne, etc. Or you can do it with canned chickpeas since they are already cooked - just drain, rinse, and then roast them. This would be slightly more expensive, though.
I second the popcorn. Don't bother buying the microwave bags-- get the plain kernels in a jar, and it is dirt cheap.
Or carrots, raw. Carrots are cheap. I got a 5 pound bag the other day for $4. It had like 30 carrots or something in it. Amazing. 
I also make oatmeal a lot, 30 cents per serving. I eat oatmeal as a snack. Also, you can make your own soup for pretty cheap too. I got a 16 oz. jar of miso paste for $4, and it makes 20 servings of soup. And you can add some scallions or random vegetables or whatever to it.
I used to spend $20 a week before I was vegan, then it went up to about $30, and now it's at $40 since everything is so flipping expensive. But yeah, some cheap options would be vegan bread and English muffins, peanut butter, jelly, nuts/seeds (my favorite is pumpkin seeds), cereal, homemade soup (you can make a huge batch and live off of it for the entire week for probably $10), frozen vegetables are usually cheaper than fresh, beans. And I can get tempeh for about $2.50 a package, and I can make about 4 sandwiches out of a package of it, so that's pretty cheap. You can frequently find sales on tofu. Avocados give you a lot of bang for your buck. I usually eat 1/4 of an avocado a day which is about 100 calories give or take, and they're usually about $1.50.
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