Cheap Vegan Meals
The cheapest vegan meal on MealSpend is Stovetop Oats with Peanut Butter & Banana at $0.48 per serving (U.S. grocery prices reviewed August 2026), with 13 g protein per serving. All 6 recipes below are ranked from one shared price table, so they're directly comparable.
Every vegan recipe on MealSpend, ranked by computed cost per serving. Same price table across all of them, so a cheaper rank means genuinely cheaper — not a different author guessing differently.
| Recipe | Per serving | Protein | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stovetop Oats with Peanut Butter & Banana | $0.48 | 13 g | 13 min |
| Vegan Peanut Noodles | $0.80 | 24 g | 22 min |
| Red Lentil Soup | $0.87 | 17 g | 40 min |
| Black Bean Soup | $1.11 | 10 g | 40 min |
| Mediterranean Chickpea Salad | $1.26 | 10 g | 15 min |
| Chickpea Coconut Curry | $2.09 | 20 g | 35 min |
Ranked by cost per serving. Every figure is computed from the same ingredient price table — see how we price.
9 of 49 ingredient prices come from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics average price data; the remaining 40 are estimates. Last reviewed 2026-08-12. Your store will differ — treat every figure as a planning estimate, not a quote. Nutrition is computed from USDA-typical ingredient values and rounded.