Reddit reviews PETA's Vegan College Cookbook: 275 Easy, Cheap, and Delicious Recipes to Keep You Vegan at School

No, no, no! I am broke too! There are EASY recipes out there with minimal ingredients. Not everything needs 1000 spices like an Indian dish. Do some research for your health, if anything, because the diet you have now honestly sucks, and there's no way you are getting everything your body needs.

Here's a book to check out: http://www.amazon.com/PETAs-Vegan-College-Cookbook-Delicious/dp/1402218850

Hi, I went vegan straight from eating meat, dairy etc, I had like 2 weeks as a transition phase as that all I felt I needed.
Some of my reasons were health, some were ethical. I'm going to try to keep this fairly short.
The ONLY "ethical" eggs you will find are ones that come from a neighbour's/friend's/relative's backyard, even commercially available "free-range" "organic" eggs aren't that fair to the chickens.
There is NO ethical dairy. No matter what a female cow is kept pregnant on a very regular basis, her calf is taken away from her, they are often tortured and turned into veal. The mother and infant both become incredible distressed by this, they understand that their infant is being torn from their side. She is then milked, given high doses of antibiotics to keep the pus from her mastitis at a low level, but this doesn't really work so it still ends up in our milk. then the cycle repeats for a few year and then she is killed. In the wild cows will live around 20 years, a LOT longer than they do in any farm.
So that is a HUGE reason I went vegan, I used to consume a SHIT LOAD of dairy and then I came to understand that and I (just me personally here) became really, really saddened and disgusted in myself for supporting this. After I went vegan I read a quote somewhere that as some dude went vegan he just "saw a slice of veal in every glass of milk". So there really isn't any such thing as ethical dairy.
Egg replacer products are easy to find and you can get used to non-dairy milk, I got used to it by drinking the chocolate kind with a snack, it helped. Here are some (hopefully) useful links for you, if you don't get to cook on campus then you may have to wait to go home to use them:
http://www.savvyvegetarian.com/vegetarian-advice/student-needs-easy-healthy-diet.php
http://www.skinnybitch.net/
http://www.amazon.com/PETAs-Vegan-College-Cookbook-Delicious/dp/1402218850
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=vegan%2Bstudent&x=0&y=0

Good luck! (:

I make a vegetarian slow cooker chili (I'll update this comment with the recipe in a bit), but this cookbook is a godsend for veg-heads in college.

Will you be living in an apartment or a dorm? I ask because most dorms don't have any cooking access besides a microwave. If that's the case, there's PETA's book about cheap college vegan recipes (HERE) It's not necessarily the best food, but it is really cheap and microwavable. A lot of them are absurdly simple like "Take bread and put vegan cheese in it and cook it," so it gets ridiculous. It's also not really the healthiest, but I think overall it is worth a look to get ideas.

There's also another book called Vegetarian 5 ingredient gourmet. I don't have it, but I saw it at the bookstore yesterday. It might be worth it, too. Here

One standby that my ex always ate, and I do now, is to use a rice cooker to make rice and beans. It's super simple. Just use whatever amount of rice the cooking times tell you, add your favorite salsa and your favorite beans and the amount of water it says to use, and cook it. It's simple and cheap, but has plenty of nutrients.

I recommend Peta's Vegan College Cookbook for recipes. I don't know if you mind the vegan diet, but it has about 300 recipes that can all be cooked in a microwave and are made with easy to obtain, cheap ingredients http://www.amazon.com/PETAs-Vegan-College-Cookbook-Delicious/dp/1402218850

Wait you have a fridge, right? You can still get frozen vegetables and some spices so you can still have some more variety. The frozen stuff obviously won't stay frozen but it will be cold enough for a few days.

Are you allowed a blender? If so at least you could make smoothies with stuff like frozen fruit, avocado, rolled oats, flax, leafy greens, peanut butter, even beans. Heck if you had access to a Vitamix you could make soups too!

Is there a kitchen in your dorm? Maybe in the common area(s)?

Is there a way you could smuggle in a rice cooker and hide it when not in use? That greatly expands your options.

Maybe this could help too:

http://www.amazon.com/PETAs-Vegan-College-Cookbook-Delicious/dp/1402218850

Peta has a book called Vegan College Cookbook, all cheap and easy to make recipes. You can get it here http://www.amazon.com/PETAs-Vegan-College-Cookbook-Delicious/dp/1402218850

Have you seen the Vegan College Cookbook from PETA? The recipes are VERY simplistic but a lot of it got me through college a few years ago.

are you good with recipes? maybe a beginer level cookbook would be your jam.

peta's always good for cookbooks.
http://www.amazon.com/PETAs-Vegan-College-Cookbook-Delicious/dp/1402218850

and veganomicon is quite popular as well.
http://www.amazon.com/Veganomicon-Ultimate-Isa-Chandra-Moskowitz/dp/156924264X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416511134&sr=1-1&keywords=veganomicon

both are good starter level cookbooks.

i'd reccomend cooking in big batches and freezing stuff.

if this doesn't work, try your local asian or indian grocery store. they have a ton of instant meals for dirt ass cheap (like a buck or 2 each) many of which are vegan..


congrats on going vegan too, btw!

Here ya go: http://www.amazon.com/PETAs-Vegan-College-Cookbook-Delicious/dp/1402218850

Welcome and congratulations! Watching Earthlings is what did it for a lot of us.

I recommend getting this book. http://www.amazon.com/PETAs-Vegan-College-Cookbook-Delicious/dp/1402218850 I don't have it personally but I looked through it at the bookstore and wished that I had had it when I first became vegan. Lots of very easy simple things to make!

If you're on facebook I also recommend joining the group Veganism as they have a lot of good advice and I feel the more support systems you have the easier time you'll have on this major lifestyle change.

The best of luck to you my friend.. you've made a wonderful decision. The animals and all of us here thank you! :)

Peta wrote a cookbook of only recipes which can be made in the microwave: <http://www.amazon.com/PETAs-Vegan-College-Cookbook-Delicious/dp/1402218850/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266097407&sr=8-1>

Also, if you have access to a fridge, keep fake lunchmeat and bread around; pretty easy to make a sandwich.

Rice cookers are the greatest invention ever; rice is retardedly cheap and a rice cooker means you need no skill whatsoever to cook it; many come with a steamer on top so you can steam vegetables at the same time as cooking the rice. At my university you're allowed to keep them in the dorm.

Here are some great cookbooks to get you started:

http://www.amazon.com/Everything-College-Cookbook-Hassle-Free-Students/dp/B003156G0Y/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265384294&sr=8-2

http://www.amazon.com/Healthy-College-Cookbook-Alexandra-Nimetz/dp/1603420304/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265384294&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/PETAs-Vegan-College-Cookbook-Delicious/dp/1402218850/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265384294&sr=8-15

I don't know your level of food tolerance (e.g. vegan, pescetarian, etc) so I threw in that last one just in case. And, on that, here are a few pointers:

1. Try to quickly learn how long it takes you to cook things, regardless of what the recipe says. There's nothing like being late for class because you've got something on the stove.
   
   
2. Find out what skill level you're at and master it before moving up. Even being king of microwave cooking is a step up from being so-so at everything.
   
   
3. If you don't already, learn to love leftovers.
   
   
4. Cook like it's an investment. Don't blow all of your money on one meal (however decadent that meal may be) only to allow yourself to go hungry for a week. If you're having a bunch of friends over and you've said you'd cook for them, ask that each one bring a different ingredient for the meal.
   
   
   Hope this helps.

If you're a microwave chef like myself PETA's Vegan College Cookbook is great because it is EASY PEASY! I'm a vegetarian not a vegan so occasionally I add cheese, use real milk and so on.

http://www.amazon.com/PETAs-Vegan-College-Cookbook-Delicious/dp/1402218850/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311538779&sr=1-1

It's vegan. But. There's hella good food in it. I'm a vegetarian and I love it.

Have the book in my hands now, (the one suggested earlier)! It's called Peta's Vegan College Cookbook, conveniently broken down into sections. Haven't tried too many of the recipes but they're all very simple to make and there's room to tailor the recipes for your specific palette, switching out topics or seasonings here and there. Of course nuked spuds aren't as great ones slowly roasted but the recipes still seem nice. Here's a link: http://www.amazon.com/PETAs-Vegan-College-Cookbook-Delicious/dp/1402218850. Enjoy!

I have a million vegan cookbooks and my favorite is still the PETA's Vegan College Cookbook. It's probably just me though, I'm lazy and cheap.

It's really the most practical cookbook I own because all of the recipes only have a few ingredients and can all be quickly made quickly in the microwave. Many of the recipes are common sense, like "veggie burger", but many of them are really creative and worth checking out.

It's not a vegan cookbook focused on health, like many you see, so it includes a lot of fake meat and dairy substitutes in it's recipes. At the same time, none of the recipes are that unhealthy either.

Here is PETA's Vegan College Cookbook. It's an alright cookbook but I personally think Vegan on the Cheap is way better. I'm sure there are plenty of other good cookbooks too. I also recommend the Vegan Stoner blog, like rockmeahmadinejad said. It's a great site even if you don't smoke!

I haven't read it myself, but [Peta's College Cookbook] (https://www.amazon.com/PETAs-Vegan-College-Cookbook-Delicious/dp/1402218850) is a book full of microwave vegan meals.