I live in a vast rural area in the central valley of California. Here, people are fanatical carnivores. There is very little vegan food and I live very far from where most of it is available and don’t drive for many reasons many of them environmental. Getting there would require riding a bike in the heat most of the year and people here hate bicyclists. Delivery like doordash is really expensive and only the same two dashers will take my vegan order I’ve noticed.
Has anyone found any useful tips for this basic kind of situation that I’m driving at?
Buy bulk as much as you can. Dry lentils, beans and noodles, canned goods, frozen vegetables, tofu lasts a long time unopened. If you have someone who can drive and you plan what you’re going to eat ahead of time, you can probably make it by on a single grocery trip a month. If any stores near you do ordering ahead, that’d save time for you and your driver, but you’ll need to watch close that they don’t try to substitute anything if they’re out of stock. Worst case for environmental reasons, but you can order a surprising amount of dry goods on places like Amazon. The grocery shopping equivalent to Door Dash I think is Instacart, but that may also be expensive.
There’s definitely no ideal option, but it helps to think that there are places in the world where people eat essentially the same meal every day outside of special occasions and that eating whatever you feel like every night is a privilege. So get used to simple recipes with similar ingredients you can take advantage of. This helped me break out of the idea that I can’t have stir fry 3 days in a row because its not ‘balanced’ when you’re fine as long as overall you’re meeting your vitamin and nutritional needs.