Favorite Economical Vegan or Vegetarian Main Dishes?

[ceeveg]

Hi! I'd love to hear your favorite penny-pinching vegan or vegetarian main dish recipes!

Some of mine include:

Lentil Tacos
Chickpea Curry
Bean and Veggie Burritos

I can post recipes, too, if you'd like.

[ResidenceonEarth]

My faves are:

Sweet potato and black bean burritos, bean, tomato and pepper enchiladas, any soup, lentils and rice, garbanzos and rice, sweet potato pancakes. I could go on and on, but these come to mind first.

[ceeveg]

Mmm! Thank you!!

[MountainMamaGC]

Honey baked lentils on brown rice.
Vegan mac and cheese made with nutritional yeast. Sometimes I throw in some black beans and salsa.
Homemade cheeseless pizza. I make the crust from scratch, throw on some sauce and whatever veggies I have handy.

[caiesmommy]

Mine is a vegan version of this stew-I prefer it with black beans but dh prefers it with pintos. I use whatever we have most of

http://operabuffo.blogspot.com/2009/...not-vegan.html

With frozen corn/more spices added. And If we have it guac and salsa...YUUMMMM

[bandgeek]

Chili....doesn't get cheaper or easier than that!

Spaghetti...boring, yeah, but everyone likes it. I've seen a recipe where you add red lentils to the sauce to "beef it up" (ha!) and I want to try that.

Love making burritos with refried beans.

Vegetable soup with lentils and biscuits.

Mexican pizza (refried beans and salsa mixed to make the "sauce", add whatever toppings you want, bake, then add shredded lettuce). This is our new favorite. I've been making it about once a week. All the supplies are expensive if you don't make any of it from scratch, but even if you buy canned beans and salsa, you only use half and stick the rest in the fridge for later. If you make your dough and buy cheap ingredients, it can come to as little as $4 per pizza (feeds 2 very hungry people or 3-4 normal hungry people ).

Black bean burgers are SO much cheaper than boca burgers.

For the kids: Corn bread muffins with veggie dogs cut up and buried in the muffins. I can't find veggie corn dogs *anywhere* here and corn dogs are DS's favorite food right now. This is my compromise. I can make 6 muffins (2-3 dogs) for like $2 and there's plenty for the 2 of us.

[caiesmommy]

Originally Posted by bandgeek

Chili....doesn't get cheaper or easier than that!

Spaghetti...boring, yeah, but everyone likes it. I've seen a recipe where you add red lentils to the sauce to "beef it up" (ha!) and I want to try that.

Love making burritos with refried beans.

Vegetable soup with lentils and biscuits.

Mexican pizza (refried beans and salsa mixed to make the "sauce", add whatever toppings you want, bake, then add shredded lettuce). This is our new favorite. I've been making it about once a week. All the supplies are expensive if you don't make any of it from scratch, but even if you buy canned beans and salsa, you only use half and stick the rest in the fridge for later. If you make your dough and buy cheap ingredients, it can come to as little as $4 per pizza (feeds 2 very hungry people or 3-4 normal hungry people ).

Black bean burgers are SO much cheaper than boca burgers.

For the kids: Corn bread muffins with veggie dogs cut up and buried in the muffins. I can't find veggie corn dogs *anywhere* here and corn dogs are DS's favorite food right now. This is my compromise. I can make 6 muffins (2-3 dogs) for like $2 and there's plenty for the 2 of us.

I think morningstar makes some corn dogs When I was preggers w dd I was craving themso badly dh took me to the seventh day adventist store figuring if anyone around her had veggie corn dogs it would be them...they had them and let me say it was like a bright shining light!

I also think pogo maked a corn dog batter so you can make pogos at home

[crunchy_mommy]

Spring rolls with peanut ginger sauce
Pasta! (with "cheese" sauce, or tomato sauce)
Stir-fried-whatever-is-left-in-the-fridge
Polenta, black beans, and broccoli
Potatoes, onions, & kidney beans
Refried beans & salsa with corn tortillas