Sizzle sizzle on the grill, excellent with beer for that barbeque outing, the aroma across your kitchen as you wait for tonight's dal bhat, meat is good for a lot of things and gets everyone's going. But one thing it lets us down on is budgeting. It goes without saying that vegetarian meals while eating outside are generally cheaper than its meat alternatives. But what are the implications of budgeting on our daily lives of preferring vegetarian meals over meat based meals. Are those meat sizzling on your pan at home actually the sound of paper elephants sizzling away?

It gets confusing when people say vegetarian diets are healthier, but then again there is a question of whether you receive adequate nutrition. Nutritionist Kabita Maharjan says, ‘in the long run vegetarian plans are always better in terms of health. If we can fulfill all our nutritional requirements with a meatless diet, the results on health are always better.’ Meat is one of the prime ways we intake carcinogens that cause cancer. Further, people who follow a vegetarian diet consume less saturated fat and cholesterol, and more of vitamins, fiber, and other minerals, creating an overall healthier lifestyle and reducing the chances of getting ill, and reducing all the costs associated with curing them. So as they say prevention is better than cure, in the long run, vegetarian diet is quite wallet friendly.