About Me & The Penny Pantry
I have been vegan non-stop for the past 8 years and have never looked back! I’ve also been vegetarian for nearly 30 years. I was vegan (and stopped) for two years about 17 years ago. So, I guess you could say collectively, I have been vegan for 10 years. 🙂 I love to cook, and […]
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Happy Holidays from The Penny Pantry!
From Our Home to Yours… To All Creatures Great and Small, May We All Find Peace on Earth…. These fur babies are my two assistants at The Penny Pantry! I am spending Christmas Eve today with my family, and will be back posting the best plant-based deals tomorrow the 25th!
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Scrambled Tofu – Quick Meal Idea for about $.50/serving!
This is one of our favorite quick go-to meals. I can have this on the table in about 15 minutes. I’ll usually make this for dinner with a microwaved potato or toast, and fruit. Leftovers will make an appearance the next day for lunch. I like to warm up a couple of corn tortillas, and […]
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Are There Bugs in our Beloved Candy Cane?!
This post may contain affiliate links. If you click one of my links, I may receive a small compensation at no cost to you. Thank you for supporting The Penny Pantry! It’s that time of year again for vegans when we may hear about carmine in candy canes. Well-meaning friends and family may warn us […]
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Recipes for My Frugal Plant-Based Thanksgiving
Here are all the recipes, plus some tips for everything to make my Thanksgiving Dinner I wrote about earlier. It might actually cost as low as $26, depending on how much the tofu and cider cost. Everyone eats vegan at my house. 🙂 My daughter and I are both vegan, with slight differences. I try […]
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The Price of Rice
Strategies Used: Buying in Bulk and Price Book We eat A LOT of rice at my house. It makes an appearance at dinner alongside tostadas, burritos, with stir fried veggies and tofu, etc. My daughter even likes a bowl of it plain with seaweed. I have been known to eat it for breakfast with almond […]
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Warning to Vegans: Vitamin D3 in Cereal
I just discovered that some of my daughter’s favorite cereals contain Vitamin D3, which is not vegan and most likely derived from sheep. 🙁 Apparently, Kellogg’s and other cereal manufacturers starting adding this to their products, including cereal. I have been vegan 8 years and vegetarian almost 30 years and this was news to […]
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What I Buy at Trader Joe’s
Bananas $.33/lb.! There are a few things I buy on a monthly basis at Trader Joe’s that I have verified are at the lowest price available anywhere in my area. On occasion I will also buy Marshmallows (they are gelatin-free), and Pita Breads. These prices are based on my store in the San Francisco Bay […]
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Cooking from Scratch
This is Part 1 of many posts to come in the series: The Penny Pantry System, Strategies to Save the Most Money on Your Groceries Strategy #1: Cooking from Scratch One of the strategies I use to save the most money on my grocery expenses is to make food from scratch. I was shocked when […]
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6 Free Avocados at Sprouts!
If you live near a Sprouts Farmers’ Market, you can score free avocados starting tomorrow! Sprouts is having a Friday, Saturday and Sunday 3 day sale: $1 for 3 avocados. There are 2 coupons available to print right now on Coupons.com. One will get you 3 avocados for free, the other will get you 3 […]
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