Stephanie Joins FNB News Team

Stephanie is going to take care of this feature from now on. She has great experience with writing about food and especially good vegan cheap food. She has been publishing The Cheap Vegan - a monthly newsletter/zine since September 2002. The Cheap Vegan is partially inspired by Amy Dacyczyn’s Tightwad Gazette and also by quirky obsession with cooking, a desire to be as self-sustaining as possible, and a constant tendency to be cheap.

The Cheap Vegan is eight pages, corner-stapled, and costs a measly $1/issue, plus an optional stamp. For further purchasing info, email Stephanie.

Here is a quick summary of each of the issues so far:

#1—Homemade vs store-bought, salvage stores, cookbooks, staples, the wonder of calculators, price notebooks, comparison shopping, what do I eat now?, recipes for veggie burritos and tortillas.

#2—Cheap vegan baking, recycle your food, TVP, homemade vs store-bought again, chili and marshmallow recipes.

#3—More cheap vegan baking, muffins, sweet bread, peanut butter cups, burrito soup, and breakfast bread pudding recipes, recycling your food . . . again, gift ideas.

#4—What to keep in the kitchen, Coupons: Clip ‘em or Can ‘em, Cheap Valentines, review of Budget Living magazine, recipes for: pasta sauce, ketchup, simple potatoes, gravy.

#5—The Big DIY Issue. How to make soymilk, pasta, egg roll wrappers, seitan (and what to do with it), nut butter, sushi, granola, barbecue sauce and veggie broth.

#6—Foraging for food, how to make vegan ice cream, veggie burgers, cheap baking substitutions, stretching your broccoli, eating out cheap.

#7—Making “cheese” with nutritional yeast things to do with okara, bakery thrift stores, soup recipe, making cookies, zucchini milk, cookbook review, soy sausage recipe.