Vegan Student Special - Impress your friends, fuel your body and save lots of money.

Welcome to my student snacking special.

Being a full time student can be really stressful and finding the time or energy to cook and eat well can be difficult. If you are a vegan student this can be especially tricky. Eating and snacking can also be really expensive however living on a budget doesn’t mean compromising on taste. So, the following recipes are super cheap but really tasty.

I’ve found that supermarkets like Aldi, Lidl and Asda are the cheapest places to buy from. Smaller local stores are more convenient but a lot more expensive so if you can try to do a big shop and perhaps share a taxi back with your house mates. Alternatively online shopping can be used but you do usually need to spend a minimum of around £40 so it may work out cheaper to head off for a shopping trip :)

Snack well

Whether you are a plant or meat eater the following recipes are super easy, healthier and cheaper than shop brought. You’ll be able to save the store cupboard ingredients to use to make the recipes over and over again and some of the ingredients can be used to make tasty breakfasts or snacks to enjoy everyday.

You’ll find below recipes for delicious breakfast flapjack bars, healthy and filling chunky monkey smoothie and the BEST brownies ever!

Impress your friends, fuel your body and save lots of money.

Shopping list

(You’ll be able to make every recipe below when you buy the following ingredients and also have lots left over to make each recipe again and to also use for breakfast and snacks for the weeks ahead).

Caster Sugar

Vegan Spread (Flora is good)

Golden syrup (supermarket own brand)

Mixed fruits 250g bag (Aldi is cheap)

Mixed nuts 150g bag (Aldi/Lidl/Asda have cheaper bags)

Oats (supermarket own brand or whatever is on offer)

Puffed rice/rice krispies

Dairy free milk (Aldi now have almond and soya)

Peanut butter (own brand)

Chia seeds (Aldi or Lidl have cheap bags)

Cacao powder (supermarket own brand or Bournville if its just as cheap. You can make hot chocolate with it too)

Banana

Plain flour

Vegetable oil

Dairy free chocolate 200g (Bournville is a good choice as it quite sweet too so good for a chocolate fix)

Dairy free chocolate chips (optional if you find some cheap enough-Aldi)

Vanilla essence (optional but buy if you can as it lasts for ages)

Flapjack Breakfast and Snacking Bars

All the ingredients that you’ll use here can saved for other baking recipes and they also be used to make other meals. Use the oats for porridge or smoothies, fruit and nuts for snacking and puffed rice for either breakfast or snacks.

INGREDIENTS

50gcaster sugar

50g vegan spread

50g golden syrup

250g dried mixed fruit - I used raisins, cranberries, dates and apricots (choose your favourites or what you have in)

150g chopped nuts - I used pecans, almonds and cashews (again choose whatever you like to eat or what you have in the cupboards)

200g oats (jumbo oats work best if you have them, if not then regular will do)

30g puffed rice

METHOD

Preheat the oven to 180C and prepare a baking tray with lined paper

Add the sugar, spread and syrup to a large pan and gently heat until combined.

Add the dried fruits and chopped nuts to the pan and mix together.

Add the oats and puffed rice and combine.

Pour onto a lined baking tray, flatten down and bake for 15-20 minutes

You can find my video recipe on my Instagram feed

Chunky Monkey Smoothie

You will need a blender for this recipe however you can get them really cheap and you will get lots of use - ask your house mates to chip in and you can share it :)

This healthy protein shake will fuel your body and keep your mind focussed. It’s really simple to make and tastes delicious. You can buy bags of chia seeds from Aldi that are a lot cheaper than other supermarkets, they are really healthy and can be added to lots of recipes and will keep and stay fresh for a long time. You can also buy supermarket own brand of cacao powder that can be used to also make hot chocolates or used in brownie and cake recipes.

You can make this shake as thick or smooth as you like. I enjoy mine quite thick as it make it more indulgent and filling but feel free to tweak it for your personal taste.

Ingredients (makes 2 shakes)

1 handful of oats

1 cup of nut based milk (use as much as you like to get the desired consistency)

1 spoonful of nut butter

Half a frozen banana

1 spoonful of chia seeds

1 spoonful of cacao powder

METHOD

Pop all of the ingredients into a blender and drink straight away, pop into a take away cup to drink on the way to uni.

The best student brownies

Impress your friends with these amazing brownies, simple to make and taste delicious. They are great to save and eat through out the week for snacks or on the go.

Great for snacking, on the go or as a tasty dessert with ice-cream

INGRIDENTS

140g plain flour

20g cocoa powder

200g caster sugar

80ml vegetable oil

1 teaspoon vanilla essence (optional)

200g dairy free chocolate (Bournville is a good choice)

240ml (1 cup) dairy free milk

75g chocolate chips (optional)

METHOD

Place all of the ingredients into a large bowl and mix until combined without any lumps left in the mixture.

Place the brownie mix into a lined brownie tin and bake in a preheated oven for 20-25 minutes.

Leave to cool in the tin.

Pop the tin into the fridge for an hour once cooled to make cutting easier and when fully cooled cut into pieces. (if you cut whilst warm it’ll be too squidgy to cut)

Top Tip

You can also use cake cases if you don’t have a baking tin and bake for around 15 minutes

I hope you find this student snacking special useful and if you have a go at making any of the recipes remember to send us a photo of them and leave a review, we love hearing from you :)