#90: Budget-Friendly Vegan Living Tips for the Family
Amber Allen is a popular YouTuber who strives for balance by living as low waste as possible while still eating wonderful food and having fun. She’s a vibrant mom of 3 kids and 3 rescue dogs, and is on a mission to show the world that small changes can have a big impact.
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If sustainability is important to you, then you'll definitely want to tune-in to this episode! We chat with Amber Allen, a mom of three who is showing the world that small changes can make a big impact through her wildly popular YouTube channel. Amber is a wealth of knowledge on all things low-waste, eco-friendly living, and plant-based, and she’s sharing all of her best insights on this episode!
Amber shares her story about what put her on the plant-based path over 16 years ago, and what it has been like to raise her vegan family while staying low-waste. She let us in on all her best low-waste tips for plant-based grocery shopping, budgeting, meal prepping, gift giving (and receiving!), and more.
This is an inspiring conversation that will leave you feeling empowered to make more low-waste changes in your own life, and save money and animals while doing it!
Enjoy,
♡ Toni & Michelle
EPISODE SHOW NOTES
- Amber’s mission of raising her family with a low waste, plant-based lifestyle that's gentle on our planet.
- How Amber started living plant-based, and how she accidentally became low-waste
- How Amber got started growing her own food in a tiny urban apartment
- Amber’s best tips for living a budget-friendly, sustainable plant-based lifestyle
- The value of trading, repurposing, and how to find people items to trade/repurpose
- How to select the best second-hand products, and when to buy new items
- A vegan who wears leather? Learn the story of why it was a more sustainable decision.
- Making intuition-based decisions rather than trying to find the “rule” about what is most sustainable or vegan
- Unusual things that Amber does to save money and live sustainably
- DIY laundry detergent that lasts all year
- How to use reusable toilet paper
- How to help reduce food waste by buying expiring/recently expired food at supermarkets
- How to give plastic fruit/veg supermarket containers another life
- The energy and work required to grow and preserve food
- Amber’s strategy to prevent food waste at home
- How to normalize “strange” foods for young children
- The importance of creating an environment where healthy foods/cooking is the easier easier than grabbing convenience foods or takeout
- How to make your own plant-based convenience foods to have on hand (broths, pressure cooker meals, meal prepping)
- A guide to consciously giving and receiving sustainble gifts
- How Amber and her husband got out of $70,000 of debt
- The difference between frugality and being cheap
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