Budget-Friendly Plant-Based Meals
Delicious, Healthy, and Affordable Recipes for Every Day!
Are rising food prices affecting your wallet? Or perhaps you’re simply looking to save a little on your grocery bill?
My collection of budget-friendly vegan meals is here to help!
When I started my food blog, Rebel Recipes, in 2015, plant-based eating was considered a niche lifestyle, driven by those who passionately believed in the health, environmental, and ethical benefits of consuming food made entirely from plants. And rightly so!
As the conversation around climate change grew, plant-based eating started to enter the mainstream, and today, plant-based options are more accessible than ever in supermarkets.
However, not all plant-based foods are budget-friendly. Some are affordable, while others can quickly add up.
On Rebel Recipes, I focus on how fresh, wholesome, and minimally processed plants can be combined into dishes full of delicious flavours, satisfying textures, and vibrant colours.
By choosing these nutritious and cost-effective ingredients, you can enjoy healthy plant-based meals throughout the day without breaking the bank.
When I do my weekly grocery shopping, I always stick to a list and start with the fresh produce and pantry staples. Here, you’ll find a range of colourful fruits, leafy greens, beans, legumes, grains, potatoes, pasta, rice, oats, flour, and more.
In the refrigerated section, my top pick is tofu—it’s an affordable, plant-based protein that fits perfectly into many plant-based diets.
With these simple ingredients, I’ll show you how to create tasty, affordable plant-based and vegetarian meals for every part of the day, suitable for all occasions and guaranteed to satisfy your loved ones.
Budget-Friendly Breakfasts
Fluffy savoury oat pancakes topped with mushrooms, avocado and pesto dressing. Very delicious and totally more-ish–perfect for a weekend brunch.
Nutty oat choc chip breakfast cookies - they are easy to make, incredibly yum and packed with healthy and nutritious ingredients; oats, nuts, dates–so good!
Beautifully spiced and warming oats topped with sticky caramelised roast pears - a nourishing bowl of goodness the whole family will love.
Affordable Lunch Ideas
Incredibly tasty pancakes made with carrots, topped with fresh pea pesto and bursting roast tomatoes. A perfect brunch dish - like summer on a plate.
You’ll love this incredible soup! It’s packed with flavour, spices, vegetables and pulses. Not only healthy, it’s absolutely delicious - you’ll make it again and again.
Super healthy - green pea & mint soup! Full of plant proteins and really easy to make. A great way to get in the green goodness.
Low-Cost Tasty Dinners
The classic combination of cauliflower, spinach, peas and gorgeous Indian spices make this curry sing with flavour and texture - a winner!
Easy to make pimped up beans served on ‘cheesy’ sweet potato mash - makes an amazing quick meal which packs a flavour punch. Beans on repeat. That’s the way it is for me at the moment, anyway. Pure comfort, quick and nutritious.
The perfect creamy lemony butternut squash risotto - golden and creamy and totally delicious. Packed full of flavour and easy to make - it’s a winner!
Delicious Budget Snacks
The tastiest Asian style cabbage pancake - filled with a tasty mix of spring onions, cabbage and Asian flavours - easy to make and absolutely delicious!
Gorgeous richly spiced tomato harissa sauce with chunky chickpeas and the best bit - gooey caramelised leeks stirred in at the end.
This delicious pumpkin and roast garlic hummus is a great way to use up leftover over pumpkin - wholesome and amazing on charred bread.
Sweet Treats That Won’t Break the Bank
Beautifully squidgy chai spiced parsnip cake - sticky with treacle and spiced with ginger, allspice, cinnamon and cloves, all laced with a zingy lemon drizzle!
Tasty banana, date and blueberry flapjacks are super easy to make, healthy, sweet & delicious. They make a brilliant breakfast or nutritious snack.
A simple dessert which celebrates the abundance and juicy goodness of berries with a gorgeous crispy topping.
