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Vegan Grocery List

We created this vegan grocery list, especially for beginners. It is to show you all the useful and essential plant-based ingredients you need to start your vegan journey right now. Not only that, but we are giving tips, recipes where you can use each item.

Ingredients

Fresh Fruits

  • Banana
  • Avocado
  • Apple
  • Orange
  • Lemon
  • Apricot
  • Berries
  • Cherries
  • Clementine
  • Currants
  • Grapefruit
  • Grapes
  • Kiwi
  • Mango
  • Melon, Cantaloupe, Honeydew
  • Peach
  • Pineapple
  • Plum
  • Pomegranate
  • Watermelon

Frozen Fruits

  • Banana peeled, sliced and bagged
  • Berries (strawberries, blueberries, blackberries)
  • Cherries
  • Mixed berries

Fresh Vegetables

  • Onion
  • Garlic
  • Potatoes
  • Sweet potatoes
  • Other root vegetables carrots, parsnips, turnips, kohlrabi rutabagas, celery root…
  • Dark leafy greens spinach, kale, and collard
  • Salad greens all kinds of lettuce
  • Asparagus
  • Beet (medium)
  • Bell pepper
  • Broccoli
  • Cabbage
  • Cauliflower
  • Celery
  • Corn
  • Cucumber
  • Eggplant (medium)
  • Mushroom
  • Olives
  • Peas, snap peas
  • Pumpkin, squash
  • Radish
  • Sprouts
  • Tomatoes
  • Zucchini

Frozen Vegetables

  • Broccoli
  • Carrot peeled, sliced and frozen
  • Cauliflower
  • Corn
  • Green beans
  • Peas
  • Spinach or kale
  • Zucchini peeled, cut into cubes and frozen
  • Veggie mix for stir fry

Legumes

Processed grains

  • Bread
  • Tortilla
  • Bagel
  • Pasta

Dairy substitutes

Meat substitutes (see notes as well)

  • Bacon
  • Burgers
  • Chicken strips
  • Deli slices
  • Meatballs
  • Nuggets (chicken and fish)
  • Sausages

Egg substitutes

  • Chickpea flour
  • Silken tofu
  • Mung beans
  • Aquafaba (water from the canned chickpea)
  • Vegan yoghurt
  • Ground flax, ground chia, psyllium husk, agar agar
  • Apple sauce, mashed pumpkin, mashed sweet potato, mashed overripe banana, mashed avocado
  • Store-bought egg substitutes Just Egg, Bob Red Mill’s Egg Replacer, Ogran No Egg, Ener-G Egg Replacer

Sweeteners

Condiments and other cooking/baking essentials

Instructions

  • We added tips, recipe ideas, and additional useful information to ALL grocery list items in the post above. If you would like to know more about why a certain item is on the list, read the descriptions above.
  • You can print the full vegan grocery list using the "Print recipe" button within this recipe card. You can find it below the image.

Notes

Download our FREE 7-day Vegan Meal Plan E-book (shopping list included) ready to be printed or used
Meat substitutes
If you are looking for whole foods alternatives to certain meat products you can certainly make them at home. Some of them will taste very similar to meat, but some will taste very different. Some of them have a similar texture, but some will be different. It will all depend on your taste, preference, openness. 
  • Vegan bacon - tempeh, eggplant slices, rice paper
  • Vegan ground beef - cauliflower mince, walnut mince, mushroom mince, soy curls or TVP (textured vegetable protein), millet, quinoa, lentils
  • Vegan pulled pork - young canned jackfruit, eggplant stripes, king oyster mushroom stripes
  • Vegan beef cutlets - soy cubes, young canned jackfruit
  • Vegan chicken cutlets - extra firm tofu
  • Vegan fish - banana blossom, extra firm tofu sticks
  • Vegan tuna - chickpeas, young canned jackfruit
  • Vegan salmon - thin carrot slices
Disclaimer: We are not certified Dietitians or Nutritionists. We are sharing this vegan grocery list for educational and informational purposes only and this is not meant to replace any dietary advice from your own qualified professionals. (For more info read our Nutritional Disclaimer.)