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My guest today absolutely walks the talk so far as eating Plant-Based on a Budget. 

Toni Okamoto is a master at creating Delicious Vegan Recipes for Under $30 a Week, in Less Than 30 Minutes a Meal and it’s a passion fuelled by her personal health journey and also the health struggles of those closest to her.

In fact via plantbasedonabudget.com Toni shares: “To me, my family is priceless. But I understand the reality of living on a small budget and the limitations it provides while food shopping. Until recently, I lived under the poverty line my whole adult life.”

For a little offical bio: Toni Okamoto is the founder of Plant-Based on a Budget, the popular website and meal plan that shows you how to save dough by eating veggies. She’s also author of the Plant-Based on a Budget Cookbook, co-author of The Friendly Vegan Cookbook, and the co-host of The Plant-Powered People Podcast. Okamoto’s work has been profiled by NBC News, Parade Magazine, and she’s a regular presence on local and national morning shows across the country, where she teaches viewers how to break their meat habit without breaking their budget.

This conversation covers plenty of actionable tips for nutritious, cheaper plant based food as well as time saving and food waste avoiding strategies!

We also hear about Toni’s fun (and website crashing) experience on What The Health and the hugely inspiring 15 minute 7 Days Documentary | Fast Food to Vegan where Toni and her friend Michelle Cehn coach a fast food loving gent – Raul from Craigslist – towards a healthy, sustainable plant based lifestyle.

In this conversation we cover:

• Toni’s becoming vegan story.
• Combating the fear your loved ones might have that eating healthy / plant based is expensive.
• Some of Toni’s tips for the “non chef” vegan wanting to up their cooking game.
• Swapping out expensive foods for nutritious, cheaper options.
• Time saving AND slow cooker tips.
• Avoiding food waste. 
• The value of delicious vegan food as a means by which to effectively encourage loved one to take the meat blinders off.
• Toni’s inspiring 7 Days Documentary | Fast Food to Vegan (made with Michelle Cehn).

Many people assume fast food is cheap. The throw away line that people like myself might be guilty of dishing out is that poor health is very expensive.

And yet, it’s not that simple. Also it’s also not so compassionate right? Toni has really put in the work to create the accessible deliciousness she shares via Plant-Based on a Budget.

You’ll find affordable and easy-to-make recipes, and an inclusive, supportive approach to plant-based eating.

If you need just a little bit more of a nudge to dip a toe in the plant based waters – or maybe a loved one does – then I really do recommend the short 15 minute 7 Days Documentary | Fast Food to Vegan where Toni and Michelle embark on a mission to show fast-food-lover Raul Medina how much eating plant-based can improve his health in just 7 days.

Purchase Plant-Based on a Budget and discover 100 of Toni’s “frugal but delicious” recipes.

Purchase The Friendly Vegan Cookbook 

Connect with Toni via her main Website

Check out Toni’s Free Meal Plan – $25 per person for a week’s worth of meals!

Watch 7 Days Documentary | Fast Food to Vegan.

Connect with Toni across the socials: Instagram | Facebook

Check out the Plant Powdered People Podcast

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Till next time, remember Creating a body and life you love is Freedom. (If this ex-refined-carb queen, non genetically gifted, naturally uncoordinated vegan chick can do it – so can YOU!!!)

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