I'm in the process of quitting my job and going back to school. I'm moving next week (into a place with my own kitchen, not a dorm) and I'll have a few days before the beginning of classes. I'd like to get a jump start on the semester by cooking some food in bulk and freezing it, to help me stay vegan on a budget. Can you suggest something for
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I like to add corn kernels and green chiles to my cornbread much of the time.
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Most soups/stews can be frozen. Some of our house favorites are:
Spicy tomato-rice-veggie stew
Vegetable-quinoa soup finished with miso (freeze before adding miso, warm up the soup, then stir in a bit of miso right before serving)
Curried winter squash soup (with coconut milk!)
Baked pasta dishes freeze well. I've also heard that polenta freezes well, though I've never tried it. You can make delicious lasagna-like casseroles using polenta instead of noodles. Curries also tend to freeze great. Beans too! I make a large batch of beans, then freeze them in portion sized amounts. They're so much more economical and have a better texture/flavor than canned beans.
I'm a big fan of making a cold salad to snack on throughout the week. Recent favorites include Asian noodle salads (I like soba) with a bunch of raw veggies cut up, kind of like this. Quinoa salads are great to have throughout the week as well.
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There are also a ton of freezeable recipes here, about half of which are vegan (they're clearly marked):
http://onceamonthmom.com/menus/vegetarian/
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A book I'd suggest for a student budget is Eat Vegan on $4 a Day by Ellen Jaffe Jones.
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That sounds like a good book-I'll keep an eye out for it.
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