{"id":16254,"date":"2020-10-16T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=16254"},"modified":"2020-10-01T10:24:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T14:24:38","slug":"low-cost-vegan-menus-based-on-usda-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap-budget-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2020\/10\/16\/low-cost-vegan-menus-based-on-usda-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap-budget-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Low-Cost Vegan Menus Based on USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/5ba40fbe402f3.image_-270x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16255\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Several months ago, The Vegetarian Resource Group began a lengthy research\nproject with the goal of creating a Low-Cost Vegan Menus Based on USDA\nSupplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Budget. Little did we know how\nimportant this piece became during the pandemic. With so many people\nout-of-work there\u2019s even greater need for food budgeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The piece states, \u201cHow inexpensive can a vegan diet be and still provide\nhealth-supporting food without requiring hours of travel to different stores\nand lots of meal preparation? Sometimes vegan diets are perceived as expensive.\nOur experience has been that they can be pricey if we choose lots of\nconvenience foods and out-of-season produce, and mainly shop at specialty\nstores. We\u2019ve also found that vegan diets can be incredibly inexpensive and can\nbe planned using foods that are readily available in supermarkets and big-box\nstores. We decided to plan a week of vegan menus whose cost would not exceed\nthe food cost allotment from the United States Department of Agriculture\u2019s food\nassistance program.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article includes a SNAP Weekly Low-Cost Vegan Menu, as well as several\nvegan recipes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read the entire article that ran in the most recent <em>Vegetarian\nJournal<\/em> here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2020issue2\/2020_issue2_vegan_menus.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2020issue2\/2020_issue2_vegan_menus.php<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also find a Spanish version of this information here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/09\/snap-recetas-semanales-de-menos-costos-para-veganos-low-cost-vegan-menus-based-on-usda-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap-budget-spanish-version-available\/\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/09\/snap-recetas-semanales-de-menos-costos-para-veganos-low-cost-vegan-menus-based-on-usda-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap-budget-spanish-version-available\/<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To support this type of research, please donate to The Vegetarian Resource\nGroup here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/donate\">www.vrg.org\/donate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several months ago, The Vegetarian Resource Group began a lengthy research project with the goal of creating a Low-Cost Vegan Menus Based on USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Budget. Little did we know how important this piece became during the pandemic. With so many people out-of-work there\u2019s even greater need for food budgeting. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16256,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16254\/revisions\/16256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}