Comments on: Vegetarians are so fabulous in so many ways

By: Danika

Danika — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:37:04 +0000

I find that vegan or non-vegan food are just as expensive as one another. You’ll have expensive food and some cheaper. There are always sales and sometimes its more expensive. It all comes down to the same situation, I find.

By: Helbert

Helbert — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:53:36 +0000

vegetarian foods are so much cheap if you are living in a third world country like mine compared with animal based foods. I am a vegan for more than 10 years and saved a lot of food money by being a vegan. Fresh Organic fruits and vegetables are always available all year round in my region where local farmers bring their products everyday direct from the farm. I can even live and survive for 40 days without buying anything just rely from the fruits and vegetables grown in my backyard. Currently I live in dubai, a modern city where veganism is over 300% more expensive than animal based diet. its a real struggle for me.

By: Vegetarian Carnival for January 2008

Vegetarian Carnival for January 2008 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:55:07 +0000

[...] considering the recent debate on food costs that went on in the comments here the other day, we have a couple posts about paying less for [...]

By: Jul

Jul — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:39:59 +0000

Douglas – I haven’t been able to find the link I was thinking of, but maybe the following post will help you come up with some affordable veggie meal ideas:
http://www.veggiechic.com/brainstorming-meal-ideas/

By: Elaine Vigneault

Elaine Vigneault — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:44:19 +0000

I think higher intelligence and vegetarianism are effects of the same cause: exposure and acceptance of new and different ideas.

By: Healthy

Healthy — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:26:09 +0000

Ryan, according to the list Jul provided, I guess Taco Bell beans don’t have lard. That’s rockin’ good news!

Although I don’t eat this crap as a daily diet, I do travel a lot and Taco Bell may be good in a hunger emergency … not many vegan options, but sufficient enough.

By: Jul

Jul — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:38:34 +0000

According to the Vegetarian Resource group, there’s plenty of vegan food at Taco Bell:
http://www.vrg.org/fastfoodinfo.htm

As for non-fast-food restaurants, in my experience vegetarian options tend to be cheaper than meat dishes. One exception to this was when I encountered the $1 extra charge to replace hamburgers with veggie burgers in Oregon:
http://www.veggiechic.com/more-for-a-veggie-burger/

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:33:36 +0000

Healthy – I have always wondered, are the refried beans at Taco Bell actually vegetarian? Do they cook them in lard? Doesn’t that constitute as non-veg?

By: Ward

Ward — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:20:12 +0000

I agree with Jul that eating vegetarian is usually cheaper than eating meat when at the same quality level. Restaurants are often a hard place to do a comparison. Are all items on the menu of the same quality? Do they want to make the same amount of money per person regardless of what you order? Do they charge more for the items they don’t serve as often and can’t get bulk discounts on?

The NYTimes article does says that fruits and vegetables are becoming luxury foods. But the article is using them as an example of healthy foods and contrasting them with the cost of unhealthy food, which could be a vegetarian back of nacho chips.

“Healthy” seems to have confused the issue a bit by trying to make the comparison to being vegan rather than being vegetarian. And to me it sounds like when you saying “doing it right” you mean “being healthy”; so we are returning to the argument that eating healthy is what is expensive.

By: Healthy

Healthy — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:08:18 +0000

Jul — I never said I trusted White Castle either. HELLLO, my name is “Healthy” — I don’t eat crap, period. I’m a high raw vegan.

I’m just illustrating the fact that crappy vegan food is still more expensive than crappy omni food.

End of conversation.