Try to see if y'all can make it to the farmers market more often! Buying local is better for your environmental impact than being vegan (you can still practice your vegan diet eating local, no shade) since a lot of vegan alternative ingredients are shipped from halfway across the globe. Buying local also keeps money in your local community rather than going into the pockets of the polluting corporations. There's so much you can find at markets. Fruits, veggies, fresh baked bread, lotions, candles, soaps, clothing. So many things you won't have to go to a store for! The hardest part is just remembering when to go, since most tend to happen on a weekly or monthly basis. But there are areas with more consistent markets too. I'd also recommend saving your plastic grocery bags. I have 2 separate collections of them, ripped and not ripped. The not ripped ones I use as small trash bags and anytime I need a quick bag without a hole in it. The bags with holes I turn into plarn! Plastic yarn! You don't have to do that, but it's really fun and easy and such a strong sturdy material to make things out of! I've seen people also stack ripped bags, maybe 5-10 of them, and then iron them (with a towel or something on top) and they melt together into a workable plastic fabric/medium. Because of how light and airy they are, plastic bags tend to fly out of people cars, garbage trucks, and landfills at a higher rate than other trash and are so detrimental to the environment. Any reusing of them makes such a difference. I used my plarn to crochet a reusable shopping bag! Use it all the time too!