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These 20 cheap vegan meals are delicious, frugal dinner recipes that everyone will love! Meal planning is essential if you’re on a budget. Each of these recipes costs less than $1 per serving.
“Eat your veggies.”
Your mom was right about that one. A vegetable-rich diet is essential to good health. One of the best ways to get more plant-based food into your diet is to add some cheap vegan meals to your meal planning rotation.
Cutting back on meat is a great way to keep homemade dinners affordable, too. High-quality dairy products and eggs are also expensive, so many vegan recipes end up being cheaper than those with animal products in them.
I like to regularly include vegan dinners in my meal plan. There are so many flavorful vegan meals out there. Nobody will miss the meat in these easy, delicious recipes.
Cheap Vegan Meal Prep
These 20 frugal vegan recipes each cost less than $1 per serving to make. By adding a few of these meals to your meal plan each week, you’ll be able to trim your grocery budget. You’ll also feel good about what you’re eating.
You can prep some of the ingredients for these meals during the weekend, and they’ll be easy to put together on a busy weeknight. Plan ahead and shop for a full week of dinners so you can save time and money.
Vegetarian Cassoulet
This Vegetarian Cassoulet is such a hearty meatless skillet dinner recipe! Beans, leeks, carrots, and celery make the base of this delicious meal.
$.88 per serving
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Instant Pot Vegetable Soup
This Instant Pot Vegetable Soup is an easy, healthy recipe full of carrots, celery, onions, broccoli, cabbage, garlic, and tomatoes. It's perfect for a light lunch or dinner.
$.86 per serving
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Healthy Crockpot Chili
This healthy Crockpot chili is such an easy vegan dinner recipe for a busy night. It's full of beans and veggies, and it's finished with lemon juice, chili powder, and cumin for a delicious combination of flavors. ($.69 per serving)
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Vegan Butternut Squash Chili
This vegan butternut squash chili is one of the best cozy dinner recipes for fall and winter. It features squash, beans, tomatoes, onions, and a flavorful chili sauce.
$.58 per serving
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Homemade Vegetarian Chili
This homemade vegetarian chili recipe is a healthy dinner full of vegetables, beans, and classic chili seasonings.
$.93 per serving
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Cauliflower Chickpea Curry
This cauliflower chickpea curry is such a delicious, healthy recipe for lunch or dinner. It features cauliflower, chickpeas, red pepper, and curry tomato sauce.
$.86 per serving
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Rice Noodles with Peanut Sauce
These rice noodles with peanut sauce are perfect for a light vegan meal. This whole grain recipe features brown rice noodles, veggies, and a delicious peanut sauce.
$.96 per serving
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Black Bean Soup
This black bean soup is a delicious vegan recipe full of flavor. Red onions, sun-dried tomatoes, and diced green chilis come together with beans, broth, and seasonings in this simple, tasty meal.
$.40 per serving
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Smoky Red Lentil Stew
This smoky red lentil stew is delicious vegan comfort food. It's a simple combination of carrots, celery, onions, lentils, and a flavorful broth.
$.62 per serving
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Lentil Sweet Potato Casserole
This lentil sweet potato casserole is such a flavorful vegan dinner! It's full of tender sweet potatoes, red peppers, green beans, ginger, garlic, and lentils, which are a great plant-based protein.
$.75 per serving
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Instant Pot Butternut Squash Soup
This Instant Pot butternut squash soup is a quick, easy recipe for fall. This is so much easier than roasting butternut squash in a sheet pan since the Instant Pot does all the work for you.
$.89 per one-cup serving
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Peanut Ramen Noodle Salad
This peanut ramen noodle salad is a healthy, delicious recipe full of veggies for lunch or dinner. It's simple to make this flavorful dish.
$.92 per serving
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Instant Pot Pinto Beans and Rice
This Instant Pot pinto beans and rice recipe is such an easy one to make for a quick meal. Top with avocados, fresh herbs, sour cream, and an extra sprinkle of cumin and chili powder for a delicious meal.
$.80 per serving
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Instant Pot Ginger Carrot Soup
This Instant Pot Ginger Carrot Soup is the perfect light dinner.
$.68 per serving
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Frugal Vegan Recipe Price Breakdowns
I used my price chart to evaluate the cost per serving for these recipes. Your costs will vary, but this gives you a sense of the prices you can expect to pay for these recipes.
My price chart includes some organic ingredients and some conventional ingredients. Even if you upgrade to all organic ingredients, your cost per serving won’t go much above $1. If you grow some of your own produce, your costs will come down quite a bit for many of these recipes.
For more frugal dinner recipe ideas, see these posts: 30 Healthy Dinner Recipes and 60 Healthy Frugal Dinner Ideas.
Nice work on this collection! I love budget-friendly ideas that are also healthy. And, thanks for including my soup in your round-up!
Wow. So many amazing vegan recipes, so little time. That cauliflower fried rice is next up on my must-make list. Thanks for a delicious roundup! Pinning NOW.
What a delicious roundup! So many recipes to try!
Great round-up! Eating healthy is so easy 😉
thank you for sharing this great collection of recipes – sharing!
This is a great round up. I love using beans and lentils to stretch my meals–saves so much money!
what a great roundup! thank you so much for including my soup 😉
all these recipes look so delicious, wholesome and totally afforable. pinning it because i want to incorporate them into my mealplan next week.
So many delicious looking dishes, it’s hard to believe how economical they all are! I’m really loving the Cinnamon Apple, Walnut & Kale Quinoa Salad, the Potato and Grilled Corn Salad and the Mexican White Bean Soup!
Yummy! 😀 I love budget-friendly recipes, and these all look so good! Pinned for later! :]!