{"id":27304,"date":"2026-09-10T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=27304"},"modified":"2026-08-17T11:22:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:22:05","slug":"vegan-cooking-tips-cooking-on-a-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2026\/09\/10\/vegan-cooking-tips-cooking-on-a-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegan Cooking Tips: Cooking on a Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27305\" style=\"width: 264px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/frozen-berries-Magnific.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27305\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27305\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/frozen-berries-Magnific.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo from Magnific<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Each issue of <em>Vegan Journal<\/em> features Chef Nancy Berkoff\u2019s Vegan Cooking Tips column. In the latest magazine, Nancy shares ideas for saving money when preparing vegan meals. For example, she suggests that when berries are in season and less expensive, buy them in bulk and freeze them in zip-lock bags. These frozen berries can later be added into beverages instead of ice, baked into muffins and breads, and blended into smoothies. They can also be stewed into jam or stirred into hot cereal or vegan yogurt. Read more of Nancy\u2019s money saving suggestions here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2026issue3\/2026_issue3_cooking_tips.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2026issue3\/2026_issue3_cooking_tips.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please subscribe to <em>Vegan Journal<\/em> in the USA only here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\">www.vrg.org\/member<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each issue of Vegan Journal features Chef Nancy Berkoff\u2019s Vegan Cooking Tips column. In the latest magazine, Nancy shares ideas for saving money when preparing vegan meals. For example, she suggests that when berries are in season and less expensive, buy them in bulk and freeze them in zip-lock bags. These frozen berries can later [&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-27304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27304","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=27304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27306,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27304\/revisions\/27306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}