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brennalarose
2007-10-10 07:18 pm UTC (link)

Here in Richmond, it's a bitch and a half to find Vegan and Vegetarian foods for food stamps that are nutritious, filling, and edible. Speaking as someone who went vegetarian for Lent when I was 10 and the family was hard up, tofu and beans gets really boring really fast.

Moral: Vegan eating sucks on a tight budget. No telling how Professor Bitchboots up there managed on a teacher's salary.

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	lostmahmarbles 2007-10-10 08:05 pm UTC (link)
	Depends on what kind of teacher's salary he made. We have a teacher in my local school district who retired, was hired back and works random other jobs for the school district while still getting her retirement money. She makes over 100K a year. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	pastri_archy 2007-10-10 09:38 pm UTC (link)
	squints Richmond, VA? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brennalarose 2007-10-10 10:29 pm UTC (link)
	Yep. Where there's no such beast as a Safeway or a fabric store. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	themadmermaid 2007-10-10 11:36 pm UTC (link)
	There's really no fabric store? Ah, Richmond... All the ghetto of the city without any of the amenities. Are there Safeways anywhere in VA? I remember some when I was a wee ickle thing but not since then. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	pastri_archy 2007-10-11 12:17 am UTC (link)
	Ah, Richmond... All the ghetto of the city without any of the amenities. Hear, hear. I think my sister has mentioned one being here. But that was years ago. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brennalarose 2007-10-11 01:37 am UTC (link)
	I haven't seen any. My fabric is WalMart dollar table. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	brennalarose 2007-10-11 01:43 am UTC (link)
	Everywhere except Richmond. Ukrops chased them out. Though there's Kroger's and Food Lion and Food Lion may finally be turning into Bloom. I think there's a Trader Joe's SOMEWHERE, though you may have to drive the hour to Hampton Roads to find it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	themadmermaid 2007-10-11 02:37 am UTC (link)
	I remember Hampton Roads having a Safeway when I was little, but that was like, 25 years ago? Fuck, I'm getting old. Out here in the hills, we have nothing either. But it's a bucolic, peaceful kind of nothing. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	shaysdays 2007-10-11 02:46 am UTC (link)
	Errr... I was going to go to Richmond for vacation next month. Damn. This has been, "Shay's vacation plans aren't looking so good," brought to you by Piss-Poor Planning. Piss Poor Planning- for when you've just got to go somewhere to get away from the kids! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brennalarose 2007-10-11 01:43 pm UTC (link)
	No worries! Ukrops isn't a horrible place to shop and their organic/health/vegan/dietary restriction sections are really good in the bigger stores. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shaysdays 2007-10-11 05:37 pm UTC (link)
	I'll be down there for a pub crawl, actually. But I'll have most of Saturday morning and Sunday free if you care to drop a line and give me some recommendations of interesting things to see- it's my username at livejournal dawtcawm. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brennalarose 2007-10-12 03:18 am UTC (link)
	Ah. Ukrops is closed Sundays. But I'll see what I can pull up. Penny Lane is good if you don't mind the Beatles. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	heddychaa 2007-10-11 04:13 am UTC (link)
	Haha, I thought you were writing about Richmond, BC and I was like "What? Chinese people don't sell vegetables now?" (Reply to this)(Parent)

soupspooks
2007-10-10 11:23 pm UTC (link)

I'd have thought it was the supplements they seem to swill that'd cut into the budget, but since my one in-person witnessing of a vegan eating involved one of the worst kinds of vegans ever (the awful "I'm doing it to piss off my parents and make them do all the work when it comes to figuring out what to feed me" kind) I'm willing to admit I might not have gotten a proper idea of what a true vegan diet is like.

Newfoundland is pretty far north in the great scope of things, and they have a hell of a time getting fresh produce, especially on the island. I have a friend who went camping there, and he commented that in some of the smaller, poorer communities fruit basically meant raisins, apples, and if you were lucky and they were in season, local berries. I dunno if it's just the communities he hit or the time of year, but it makes sense that northern communities wouldn't have access to the bounty of fresh fruit and veggies so many people take for granted. :/

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	tachikoma01 2007-10-17 12:14 am UTC (link)
	Ah, comments like this remind me of why I'd make a terrible mom. If my kid did that to me, I'd say "Fine, here's your rice and beans. I'm cooking meat and if you don't like it, you don't have to eat it, but if someone has to do extra work for you to eat it ain't me." (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ladyrogue 2007-10-12 06:21 am UTC (link)
	I have two vegetarian friends who live in Richmond, though I don't know where they shop. shifty eyes They're close to Chippenham and I have no clue what's around there. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brennalarose 2007-10-12 02:14 pm UTC (link)
	Ellwood Johnson, maybe. It's off of Carytown so it shouldn't be that far from Chippenham lives off of Jahnke, which is off Chippenham (Reply to this)(Parent)

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