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How about Jack Monroe she's all about cheap, commonly found ingredients: https://cookingonabootstrap.com/category/vegan-recipes/
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Also substitute stuff, blag it and experiment.
Liquid aminos - soy sauce.
Millet - rice or whatever grains in the cupboard.
Aduki beans - any beans.
Job's tears - crywank over iPhone or grains again.
Tamari - soy sauce.
Radicchio - fuck knows, spinach? Just have beans on toast.
Fennel - fennel, it's easy to get right?
Cashew butter - peanut butter. -
Only half vegan, but great recipes and super easy. We've cooked loads from it since getting it.
https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-green-roasting-tin/rukmini-iyer/9781910931899
HFW's Veg is great too.
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I always recommend these:
https://www.lfgss.com/comments/13965941/
Edit: The link in that post is dead. Here are the books I mean:
https://www.eatyourbooks.com/library/78180/fresh-flavors-of-india
https://www.eatyourbooks.com/library/11016/the-new-tastes-of-india
If you're ever in London, go to RASA N16. They've slimmed down the chain (which grew quite big at one point), but the original one is still well worth going to. Most of the restaurant's recipes are in these cookbooks, and they're a really lovely adaptation of Keralan cuisine to British tastes.
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I know everyone will already have recommended this, because who isn't a massive Made in Chelsea fan, but I really like Lucy Watson's Feed Me Vegan cookbook.
To be honest I had no clue who she was but a foaf sent me a vegan brownie recipe and it was amazing. I bought it on the strength of that recipe alone and was not disappointed. I've made loads from it and enjoyed them all, which is rare for a cookbook. The only down side is that some of the recipes use vegan cheese, which is something I'm not in the least bit keen on.
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Can anyone recommend me a cookbook? I have completely lost all my mojo for cooking which results in me not eating or eating the same unhealthy but quick stuff over and over again.
The problem is most of the recipes in cookbooks that I look at need take a two hours to cook and need weird ingredients that I struggle to find/afford. I can't reliably find liquid aminos, Job's tears, millet, aduki beans, tamari, radicchio, fennel, cashew butter, etc. in my nearest shop, which is a medium-sized Lidl. I do have a couple of Asian supermarkets down the road though.
So, vegan cookbook with cheap + common ingredients that a typical busy gardenless city-dwelling person has access to, does it exist? I'm guessing it's going to involve a lot of kidney beans and chopped tomatoes...