NEW Breakfast Lunch and Dinner Under $2! Easy Vegan Recipes! - Mind Over Munch

Easy vegan budget meals! Healthy homemade wheat bread, potato soup, DIY peanut butter, roasted veggies, lentil patties and more! Ideas inspired by an amazing cause: The #PassMyPlate Campaign from The American Foundation for Children with AIDS!

How to Participate (sign up through link above, and see more info there)
- Calculate what you normally would have spent on food during that week and donate anything over the $1.90 allotted for daily consumption
- If you are unable to take the challenge, you can donate an amount equal to what you normally spend on food for a week.
- Ask friends and family to support your efforts to help provide food for AFCA’s children.

STUFF From this video:

RECIPES:

8 Roma tomatoes, diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
⅓ cup fresh basil, finely chopped
salt, to taste
pepper, to taste
drizzle of extra-virgin olive oil

In a large mixing bowl, combine all ingredients. Toss to coat.
Serve on your favorite bread and enjoy!

Per 1 cup, yields 5
72 cal | 2F | 11C | 2P

► DIY PEANUT BUTTER:
16 oz peanuts
salt
cinnamon
other seasonings if desired

Add all ingredients to a food processor and blend until smooth butter forms.
Transfer to a jar to store.

► ROASTED VEGGIES:
1 lb carrots, sliced into rounds
1 lb green beans, cleaned and trimmed
drizzle of olive oil
salt, pepper, to taste

Preheat oven to 425°F (220°C).
On a baking sheet lined with parchment, add veggies.
Drizzle with oil, season to taste, & toss to coat.
Roast ~25 minutes, until softened & just beginning to brown on top.

► POTATO ZUCCHINI SOUP:
2 large potatoes, peeled and cubed
4 zucchini, cut into thick rounds
drizzle of oil
salt and pepper, to taste
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 cup water
½ cup broth
½ cup milk of choice

Preheat oven to 425°F (220°C).
On 2 baking sheets lined with parchment, toss potato & zucchini in oil and seasonings
Roast both pans for 25-30 minutes, until vegetables are browning.
Add oil and garlic to a saucepan over medium heat and sauté for 1-2 minutes.
Add water, broth, milk, & roasted vegetables to saucepan.
Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer covered for 20 minutes.
Once vegetables are fork tender, pour contents of saucepan into a blender or food processor & blend, until smooth or chunky as preferred. (An immersion blender works, too!)
Season to taste.
Yields 6 cups (4 servings).

Per serving of 1 ½ cups:
122 cals | 5F | 19C | 4P

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[MindOverMunch]

Thumbs up if you want more budget friendly meals! Being healthy can be affordable :) Thank you all for supporting me and my support of the AFCA!!

[Lexieplusthree]

Love these ideas! We are very low income (I'm a full time college student with a part time job and a mom of 3) so budget friendly options are always appreciated!

[mewmoux]

It's great to see someone on Youtube using their popularity to contribute to the betterment of people's lives. Thanks for a great video. I'm definitely going to contribute to the cause.

[AashitaR]

Proud fan of yours!
Love the way you handled such a sensitive topic. Must be challenging and yay, you win!
Loads of love and success to you from your Indian fans.

[mercurivale]

I this kind of videos!!!!
These are exactly the recipes I was looking for!
Thanks for all your effort Alicia!
Love from Italy

[mf]

My lentil patties are in the oven! Excited to see how they turn out. Thanks for the plant based recipes :)

[Sassybesos]

Hey Girl HEYY ! Always inspiring me to do better with my eating and saving habits. A day at a time. Lol 😂 Stay encouraged and blessings will follow xox'

[ambera]

I LOOOVE this! I am so glad you didn't take the easy way out and just have a variety of rice, beans, and oats recipes. These are so creative and diverse. Everyone always says eating healthy is expensive, even I did before I started to eat cleaner, but I realize that if you go to the store and leave out the junk food, frozen meals and expensive meats (steak, bacon) you save a lot. I love your channel so much and always get so excited when you have a new video. :) I would love to see a video for cleaner, at home coffee/frapp recipes.

[leeshyeternally]

Thanks so much for bringing awareness to such an important cause!

[gemmablue]

The amount of negativity on this video is sickening awesome job gf

[EatThePizza]

Pizza fam! Challenge: Breakfast pizza, lunch pizza, dinner pizza, under $2 a day! What do you think? 😁

[pineappleshorty]

"Soup-er smooth and creamy" 😏

[xDuchessx]

Alyssia, these are my favorite videos you have EVER done. What a worthy cause. I have been sad because my husband lost his job last week but watching this I realize we are still SO blessed. I am going to look into that challenge. Much love 💕❤️❤️

[alessandralz]

Ohh God that lentil patties ❤ excellent idea! we need to rethink our consume ways

[theluckylokean]

I LOVE this video and the one you did last year for this. I wish you would make more of the ones like this one and the one last year. I live just above the U.S. poverty line so while I understand the nutrition isn't great, the cost is perfect for me. I can't make most of your recipes because I cannot afford the ingredients. PLEASE make these vids more than once year. Thank you!

[stefaniacattaneo]

I am so happy to see you post videos like this one. We all need to eat nutritious food and it can be expensive and hard to come up with a menu. This is a public service video! It should go viral. I hope all your viewers re post it across social media platforms to inspire Moms (like me) living on single incomes, younger people in college who need to stretch a buck, people who are in debt... Thanks you!

[josevaniafulgencio]

In a time of fancy cooking, I feel very happy to see this type of videos! Love the old-fashioned bread and the other recipes too! Thanks 😍

[babyjenks]

It's the first time I see a foreigner (for me: someone who's not Italian!) do a perfect bruschetta! You did everything right, even the garlic rubbing on the bread. Congrats :D And the right pronunciation is the last one you said! :D
I love your video, Alyssa. They are so inspirational.

[marystestkitchen]

These are awesome ideas! Eating vegan is cheap AF!

[feedujardinetdulogis]

Thank you for such nice recipes ! I was sad to see many people nitpicking about the content - I remember I was a student with extremely limited means and now I make a decent living, I am not poor but I do have to be cautious about expenses, I feel that my spending power is constantly challenged. So I appreciate any means to eat well on a budget.
As to the 1.90$, it is extreme poverty that the AFCA deals with, that's why they need to raise awareness. Of course the cooking conditions are not the same as in Alyssia's kitchen. The recipes are here for inspiration and they show that it is possible to eat healthy with limited means and make the best of what you can afford.