How to Eat Vegan for Less Than $3 per Day | The Exam Room Podcast

Nice to see Americans choosing vegetables, fruits and whole grains. For so many years they thought their meat diet was far ahead of the vegetarian diet. I am from India and am a vegetarian since birth. But recently I went vegan and your podcasts Chuck are very beneficial for mankind.

Awesome! Do another video with the recipes made from the foods you bought!

My most recent grocery order was 50 pounds of brown rice @ $33 (Great Value brand) and 24 pounds of pinto beans @ $18. That is a 32 day supply of calories for me (I eat 3800 calories a day, btw) for about $54 after tax. I can eat that every day, and make it taste different if I spice it differently (I bought 30 pounds of whole spices (in bulk whole is the ONLY way to buy spices;) a couple years ago for $300, and that's enough to last me 5 years or more). So...I do not tire of eating the same thing every meal of every day. I had brown rice for breakfast, with cinnamon and apples, I had a cold rice salad last night with beans and corander/cumin/black pepper, I had spicy beans and turmeric fortified rice later, a soup, a veggie burger, stews, casseroles, loafs, and so on. There are 1000 different ways to make beans and rice, from smoothies to entrees. When I'm working out, if I need a sports drink, I have rice and strawberry smoothie for a quick boost. I might of course add whatever fresh produce I like, and is on sale or in season, to round out the nutrition profile with some vitamins and phytochemicals. I usually go for collards, kale, cabbage, apples, carrots, onions, potatoes, sweet potatoes, seasonal (seasonal = cheaper and better) citrus/berries/melons/et cetera....and I frankly just avoid the expensive stuff. Right now the avocados are 1.60 EACH...and they are sooooo smol. Ugh no. I'm not paying $6 a pound for avocado, lol. So, anyway.....at the risk of this turning into a blog....lol.... The moral of my story is, base your diet on the intact starches: rice, beans, starchy root vegetables, pastas, intact grains....make sure the fresh veggies and fruits you buy are seasonal or on sale, use your freezer for leveraging sales to your advantage (just make sure you wash and dry your kale or collards BEFORE you freeze them), and that's the best way to take the burden of inflation off your and your family's backs. Everyone around me is wringing their hands about food prices, but I'm like 😎 Inflation? What's that?

Thumbs up on this. Every morning I make a pot of black beans brown rice 2 tomatoes and 3 handfuls of spinach. I eat it throughout the day with whole wheat hgh fiber wraps and also try to eat some oatmeal with berries each day. Most expensive thing is soy milk which I use for the protein. I started doing this during Advent last year as a temporary religious prep for Christmas but my health and wallet were so improved I just decided to keep doing it.

This is an important video to show all the people who constantly complain about the vegan diet being costly. If you eat whole foods and not processed, then one should have more coin in the bank.

Good shopping;). Would have loved to see the meals made from what you bought.👏👏👏

Beans, rice, whole wheat flour, oats, whole wheat pasta, canned and frozen veggies, potatoes, cabbage, carrots, onions, garlic, bananas, apples, and loss leader seasonal produce are the things I buy—but grow as much of your fruits and veg as possible to reduce it even more.

Thanks for the great video. Funny though, I'm actually from Germany, but it's exactly all those things that are the cheapest here as well. One tip: I buy my lentils and beans and spices at the oriental supermarket. Sooooo much cheaper and way more variety than regular places.

My grocery budget for a month. Thirty pounds of grain (rice, oatmeal, cornmeal, etc.) $30. Thirty pounds of produce (fresh and frozen) $30. Ten pounds legumes, $10. Miscellaneous (baking powder, raisins, lemon juice, spices, etc.) $10. Total, $80.

I make my own peanut butter: one pound toasted unsalted peanuts, quarter pound of sunflower seeds, half teaspoon salt. Pour into a food processor for 2 minutes and voilá!!! absolutely delicious....

Brilliant way to dispel the myth that it’s too expensive to eat healthy. For variety, lentils, which are just as inexpensive as beans, could be swapped out for one of those bags of beans. Also, if you can shop for two weeks, buying larger quantities can sometimes save some money. Butternut squash and other vegetables in season are more economical. After cooking, they can be frozen for another meal. Great point about the high nutrition content in frozen vegetables…this is something most ppl don’t realize. Love the way you get by those aisles of temptation. Great guest

Red cabbage is cheap and last long and super healthy. Doing your own sprouts is super cheap, healthy, and easy too for super foods. It's amazing how much you can grow and save simply growing some foods even in the smallest places...

Would LOVE to see what meals were created with these ingredients

I would like to see what you make with what you bought.

I live in the state of Oregon and our groceries costs more than Washington DC? That's terrible. We can't get a loaf of 100% Whole Wheat bread for less that $4.59 each. Same is true for most of the other products. Produce is twice as high than in DC. I make my own peanut butter with a Vitamix blender and it's indeed cheaper. I make my own bread with a bread machine. I make all my meals from scratch so I end up paying less than other folks at least.

The secret is having a list and sticking to it and paying attention just like Chuck! 😉

Quaker oats are high in glyphosate. I always get groat or steel cut organic. It may be more but it's more whole food. And once you get use to it rolled or quick oats are nasty unless you're making cookies or using the rolled oats for some other recipe...

This was so informative! Very well done, Chuck. ❤️😊

I try to buy all organic products...unfortunately they are very expensive but to me worth the extra price.

I grow my own sprouts, can my own tomatoes, make bread from whole grains, etc. It's all natural.