vegan on a budget?

It can be super cheap, I get by fine on a pretty measly student budget. I don't eat the fake meats and not much tofu either so can't help you there. But fruit and veg is good value in lidl and they often have a lot of veg organic. You can spend a fortune on fake meats, milks and cheeses but, you don't need to buy that stuff.

Eating vegan is just like eating a normal diet except people tend to eat a little more fruit and veg and replace meat with extra potatoes, sweet potato, rice, beans, legumes etc.

I get through about 1ltr of almond milk a week and it's €1.50, but if you're buying loads you can get soy milks for like 85c in supermarkets I think. Alpro yogurts are similar price to standard brand natural yogurts I think.

I'd say the biggest mistake people make when they go vegan is not getting enough calories, veg and most fruits are very low calorically, so don't try and live off just veg and salads, especially initially. 500 calories from rice, potatoes or bananas costs very little, but 500 calories from fresh raspberries will ruin you. I often see people spend a fortune, or feel hungry all the time. That and people can't afford because they think they have to eat kale chips and sometimes expensive processed vegan foods etc.

There's loads of cookbooks aimed at young people about going vegan which are often budget focused. I've heard good things about vegan on $4 a day, and I recommend vegan for life by Jack Norris to everybody when they first go vegan (although, take it with a pinch of salt it's not bible, he's big into calcium and zinc supplements, which I don't think are necessary for most). And I'm sure there's loads of blogs about budget vegan. Loads of other books as well worth reading eventually too, starch solution by john mcdougall etc.

Yeah saw it in tesco earlier, they had sunflower and soya. Sunflower was €1.86 soya was like €1.50. I'd never even seen it before, glad that stuff is available in places like tesco.