{"id":17045,"date":"2021-03-05T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=17045"},"modified":"2021-02-25T13:16:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T18:16:50","slug":"low-cost-vegan-menus-based-on-usda-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap-budget-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/05\/low-cost-vegan-menus-based-on-usda-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap-budget-3\/","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\/2021\/02\/5ba40fbe402f3.image_-270x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17046\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, The Vegetarian Resource Group finished a lengthy research project\nwith the goal of creating a Low-Cost Vegan Menus Based on USDA Supplemental\nNutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Budget. Little did we know how important\nthis piece became during the pandemic. With so many people out-of-work there\u2019s\neven 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 stores.\nWe\u2019ve also found that vegan diets can be incredibly inexpensive and can be\nplanned 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>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>Last year, The Vegetarian Resource Group finished 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 piece [&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-17045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17045","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=17045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17047,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17045\/revisions\/17047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}