Brewster’s Millions but with food actually sounds like a reasonable challenge that would make for a good video 1: Has to spend the full hundred in one day with the usual anti-exploit caveats 2: Has to eat all the food purchased (this would actually be the hardest bit since some things will not come in small enough quantities, grains in particular would be hard) 3: Has to keep to be reasonable levels of healthy (not consuming 5000 calories or pound of salt) 4: No premade meals or restaurant. I think a price cap on alcohol would be needed, since that’s an easy way to blow 50+ GBP on wine and just use it wastefully. Cuts of meat and maybe cheese (Truffle Parmigiano Reggiano) could also use a cap.
Yes, but he has to make food for a homeless shelter with 200 residents! So that's a budget of just 50p each per day and teach them how to cook on a budget in the process!
When humanity learnt how to grow crops and have reliable flour / clean water nothing could to stop us. It’s what’s fed most of the world for all of humanity. A silly little plant and some wet stuff lol.
@@SD-oi9gr That 'silly little plant' is basically an offshoot of grass (not actual grass, a variation of it), there is very little nutrition in the leaves and stems for humans but we can eat the seeds if we process them down correctly. That was learned through trial and error and endless hours roaming around collecting seeds from the wild plants which would have been very small with tiny seeds back then !
Me: won’t watch a 90 min movie because it’s ‘too long’ Also me: fully engrossed in this man feeding himself better than I have in my life with less than £2
@@shanethrelfall416 hehe yeah, i am pretty sure If Mr. Shrimp cooks a Zombie it will be delicious! And totally foodsave. By the way, is it cannibalism when you eat a Zombie? 🤔
He did the same for me a couple of years back. Was invaluable in cheering me up and keeping my mind off catching my ex in the act. Stay strong. Time is the only real cure. Best wishes in finding yourself again.
As Carl S says give yourself time!!!! Meanwhile take your time, go at your OWN PACE. You are going to find yourself... sooner or later!! Meanwhile, enjoy youtubers or whatever you like. You are going to realise you are a much better person!!!!!
I GREATLY appreciate leaving the botched crepe attempt in. That transparency goes such a long way in making the video as interesting as it was. And how informative and educational!
Wanted to say that I appreciate that camera shot of the memorial plaque. Not that I know who Gerry Doyle was, but I think it was really nice gesture. Stuff like that is the real reason I love this channel so much.
Plus the fact that this channel has 659K Subscribers as of today, and NOT one single advert! Although I HATE adverts, I would like to think that Atomic Shrimp is making good money from this channel like he deserves! ALOT of hard work and good honest advice going into these videos, I'd happily watch adverts if I knew he was making what he deserves!!
Today was the first time I actually clicked on one of his video (it was part 1 of this same topic), and damn I am amazed. He even gives so much botany knowledge.
Caring a small kinder toy casting as your "condiment bag" This man is an absolute genious,so simple and tight yet does not impact the flavour or smell of the stuff kept inside
You show how to do a lot of things that are not obvious to most home cooks. You do it in a way that makes viewers like me imagine we can do as well. Teaching cooking techniques without lecturing, but by just doing is nowhere near as easy to do as you did. Thank you. Working with flour without messing up the place was impressive. You made flat bread, bread, dumpling wrappers, seitan, a cornish pastry , and homemade noodles from a kilo of flour over two days. Cool. Most people cooking at home might make one of those things from scratch maybe once a week.
I don't know what it is about Atomic Shrimp, but I love his videos so much. They give me so much joy about life and just enjoying yourself out there. I've really struggled in the past few months, with eating as well, and while they obviously cannot heal anything, they're so comforting to watch.
Just discovering with this 2 pound/2 days challenge, and I must say I feel the same. I think overall he's got a very genuine, lovely manner, he speaks well and clearly, shows his mistakes (that starch crepe disaster was hilarious), and his videos are efficiently edited without losing the human (doggy) touch. I've added his "Food" playlist to my sidebar ^^ he teaches the sort of practical, non-fussy cooking that I need to step out of my depression-induced junk food habit. (doing the dishes is another matter entirely)
Some people have watched this and been encouraged to better understand foraging and edible plants. Others have been inspired to be more resourceful with cooking and money. It inspired me to eat a can of baked beans that's been in my cupboard for a year. Cheers!
I really love how we're in day two, and there is still - bananas, half a packet of floor bacon, half a tin of beans, carrots, half a loaf of bread, bunch of flour etc. Your ability to ration all the supplies is so impressive 😂
@@katekat1064 in an ideal situation, a full time job would mean one wouldn't need to live like this, but, for the sake of the challenge, work nights, forage in the morning after a night shift on the first day, and save what you find, then cook the easier meals from the video series on day 1. You likely won't need to make all 3 as there's enough nutrition in the video to make it through the 2 days in 2 meals so long as you aren't working in a very physical job. Day 2, you cook the harder meals before your shift starts and take it in with you. I'm basing all this on experience as a night shift worker, but you could probably find time in the evenings after work for foraging/cooking so long as you had a torch with you
@@katekat1064 Truth. I do feel like most of that two days was spent foraging and preparing the bread products and the seitan. Doesn't seem to leave much time for much else. But the meals looked well delicious, and I loved some of the tips he shared, especially about the yeast he got for free from the bakery, and making seitan and budget noodles and budget dumplings!
Honestly love this channel. You know botany offhand and can even deduce from the salinity of water what edible creatures you can catch, and you pause to film a name plaque on a bench before sitting on it. So lovely and gentle. It's channels like this that make me glad I was born in Great Britain, for better or worse.
I’m on benefits and don’t have a good food budget due to other bills, this 2 part video has helped me so much flour is so cheap to get and you can get quite a few meals with it, I made the wrap yesterday and it was amazing I’ll definitely try the seitan tomorrow
just looking at the price of reduced food stuffs at tesco I am amazed that one can buy such quantities of food for so little. I mean if you have 100 or 150 pounds you could buy from the reduced shelves and eat like a king every day... but perhaps your food budget is a lot less... even so... you could still eat like a king if you learn a bit about forraging and wild produce.
I have celiac and grew up in a religious household. I always like to say I shave been afraid of the wrong "satan/seitan" my entire life. 🤣 Perfect Dad joke.
SO excited for this. In many ways this video feels like things have come full circle as you're now finally returning to this "limited budget" format. I found your channel via the 1 pound challenge about a year ago. Your videos have brought me an inordinate amount of peace over the last year, at a time in which peace was hard to find. Thank you for your time, creativity, stories, and the sense of whimsy and calm your videos have brought to me and so many.
Thanks for the mention. I am happy my seitan video helped. I didn't explicitly mention, but when you simmer the gluten, you need to keep it at a very low simmer. If you cook it too hot, the water inside the gluten expands and creates that puffing you see. It makes the final product a little bit spongey. Keep it very low, not boiling, and the texture will be more like chicken shreds. By the way, I have the same problem making crepes from the starch. I usually have to make 2 or 3 before the pan temperature gets perfect for making crepes that unstick when cooked. I try to leave it in the pan until it releases itself before burning and the temperature to do that is a balance.
As a chef by profession I have to say I find your creativity along with your knowledge for foraging quite inspiring. What you've managed to knock up with such a small list of ingredients and budget is impressive indeed. My 'dish of the challenge' would be that pastie, that looked bloody lovely that did. I would love to see you do a Ready, Steady, cook type challenge. Maybe your wife could buy you a few mismatched ingredients on a small budget of like £5 & you have to create both a mains and dessert from them. Would be interesting to see your creativity come into play there, haha.
You can just tell this guy is a secret millionaire set for life by a FInancial Independence Retire Early lifestyle. No unnecessary new pans utensils etc and frugal living.
I always open a big smile when Mr Shrimp says "That's actually really good". It's amazing how dense the math to have good meals and keep the budget can be. Amazing video, loved every second.
It's challenges like this that make you realize just how inexpensive food can be if you are willing to look for and take advantage of bargains and you have the time to spend foraging and prepping all of your meals.
I just want to say thank you for these amazing videos. I can't exactly explain why, but they are just so calming and relaxing to me. You seem like such a nice dude, and I thank you for spreading your niceness with the world. I'm so glad I found this channel, it's very wholesome
This shows so much creativity, I'm actually inspired to try this myself, see how much I csnt get for a fiver at tescos and how long I could meal plan to make that last. I'm only 17 but il soon be leaving home and it would be a good challenge I think to get me to see shopping in a different angle
It's absolutely great to get some practice in shopping and cooking on a budget before you move out. I'm 20 now, moved out at 17, and still playing catch-up on food matters. I spend those 3 years asking myself things like: what do I like? how do I cook that? what recipes match my skill level? why do I not own a medium pot? and, by god, how do I survive without an oven or a freezer? Knowing at least some of those things in advance will really help you.
@@Elenyiorene yeah, I consider myslef pretty lucky as I grew.up.cooking and have a pretty wide range of dishes. Pity nearly all of them.include 5 or more ingredients... although thats a rlly good point with no oven, I might try making an entire meal fr scratch in the microwave that sounds another good challenge. I vaguely rmeber a very old cookbook from when thr microwave first came out. If I rmeber correctly it had a guide about how to make an entire roast dinner in their. Now that would be fun to watch
@@queeny5613 My mother gifted me one of those microwave cook books when I moved out. I never opened it, but judging by the art style of the cover it must've been from the 80's. :)
When I heard that my thought was "I can think of a whole lot of worse things that could happen to your yard than it being taken over by an edible plant".
2 things from my first viewing: love the way he says "I don't know" every time he gives you a quantity or cooking time. And his respect for the environment, so 19th century, heart warming.
This man has gone far beyond my expectations of how much you can do with 2 pounds and few ingredients. Also I am amazed by your knowledge of plants and nutritients.
The pasties Cornish miners use to eat were often Half Main & half dessert, the crimp was also discarded to the "Mine spirits" in order to give one safe passage and prevent collapses or cave-ins for those who were superstitious
Mine spirits also are known as Knockers or Tommyknocker in Cornish folklore. Skinner's brewery in Truro make a beer called Cornish Knocker in celebration of the legend. There is a tradition of mine spirits in the Black Country too (my neck of the woods). There is a tale surrounding a mine that was located in my neighbouring town that was said to have been plagued by a malevolent spirit. A local "priest" was called in to perform an exorcism. This priest was known locally as The White Rabbit. A local pub was called The White Rabbit in honour of this tale but it has since changed its name.
I absolutely LOVE this. I have been telling my group of friends FOR YEARS that I want to see a cooking competition that involves poor people budget. A lot of people know how to make food better with money. I want to see people explaining how to make cheap food better with processes. Thank you. This is wonderful.
I did this mentally using the Swedish equivalent of 2 pounds and realised it was improbable here due to the disparity in just basic raw ingredient costs. Although foraging would be an option certain times of the year (like July - Sept I could literally gather kilos of Chanterelle mushrooms) and here in Midsummer you can buy new potatoes for as little as 10p a kilo, it is really seasonal. Flour costs around 60-70p for 2kg, but that beyond maybe the odd single onion would be it, beans for example are about 60-70p a tin, and you can rule out even off cuts of bacon. But great channel and has given me some ideas for some personal budget challenges (That eventual trip to Korea isn't going to pay for itself)
I agree a small bag of flour here would run you about 6 - 8 dollars and thats canadian. If you went to a bulk food store you might be able to get a handful of flour for a dollar or two but that would be all you could buy.
In New Zealand it costs $2 (£1) for a kg of flour. Food is expensive here and no way could you do this challenge here. My family is from Britain and my parents like to complain about how expensive food is here quite often.
@@rachelcookie321 funny how most people left Europe because of poverty :-) But you should take everything in consideration of course. Is petrol around the same price? Is a average house the same price? and the salaries?
@@marijnl we left Britain because New Zealand is safer and my dad was able to get a job here. Petrol is more expensive, land is cheaper but materials are more expensive, salaries are lower (for my parents but it may be higher for other jobs). Even New Zealand lamb is more expensive here than in the UK. Stuff is expensive here because people have no other option so companies can raise their prices is people still have to buy it because there’s nowhere else to go.
I find these budget challenge videos so interesting, the foraging and creativity is just fascinating to me. It's amazing what you can make for so little
"Well I didn't expect it would go transparent" - this part killed me. More seriously though, thanks for the lovely video. This is the kind of life I dream of having and this 2 part series is great inspiration ☺️
I'm really liking these budget meals uploads after loosing my job last year down to lock downs yes I have more than £1 a day to spend but still helpful stuff.
That crepe part was so funny!!!! Best laugh I've had in ages, that moment of acceptance "yep, even if it's cooked I'm not gonna eat that...". Brilliant.
I think it's so important to note how laborious it was to make these two days of food. Many people who have financial difficulties are working long hours or multiple jobs and don't have this kind of time! All the more reason for government assistance. I really like this video (and the part one)!
I find the level of knowledge and skill demonstrated in this channel very impressive. I don’t understand Trolls and haters. Some people find themselves in challenging situations and because of the short fall in their skillset they can feel overwhelmed and it’s channels like this that make it possible for people to feel empowered enough to have a go. Many thanks 🙏
I know you're probably tired of hearing these compliments but I can't say it enough how much I learn by just watching you "do" the things you're doing. Thanks for the videos.
What I think would be a cool idea is to follow these videos up with a "luxury" version of the same foods where you aren't budgeted to see the different ways you would do it
This was so imaginative and creative. two episodes - a feature length offering of the two pound challenge. Appreciate your hard work and the editing skills needed. Thumbs UP!
This really has been an amazing mini series to show that you really can cook and eat well on such a miniscule budget. This needs to be seen by so many people that are living on such budgets. If you'd have baked the bananas before putting them in your sandwich they would release their natural sugars and made them a lot more syrupy and that may have been the sweetness you were searching for. Fantastic, thank you 😀
I couldn't believe your prices there. There's no way that you could have bought all that for $2 here in Australia. Also, foraging isn't a thing, certainly around Sydney. "How did your foraging go, dear?" "I have two red-bellied black snakes, a brown, a funnel-web and three redbacks. Can you call an ambulance?" :P You really need Aboriginal knowledge here. If you can, watch a few episodes of "The Bush Tucker Man". I love your videos :)
You're brilliant with these. Never in a million years I would come up with all these recipes you come up with in the budget food challenge videos. I think it's a sign you're a good home cook - you don't need to cook Michelin star level food to be one, being able to create something out of nothing requires a LOT of food knowledge.
Just found this two-part series and am so impressed by what you were able to make with so little cash. Thank you for sharing the entire process! Hope you have a wonderful 2022!
I've just been watching the same time as you.its inspired me to put my credit card away & live off cash 💸 & use every thing up in the freezer.& I've already determined ( no buying off clothes this year. ) To easy to get carried away in the shops. Back to Basics.😜
I also just Found it. I have some ocd so I Force myself to Constantly wipe my screen. This was so interesting i completely forgot about it zich is really rare for me.
Mike, how about an instructional line of videos on foraging? Seems to be quite complex when watching your foraging sections. Give some of us a bit more confidence at trying it ourselves!
Its not something you should do first time without someone there with you who knows what there doing to double check seeing theres plenty of copy cat plants that are edible that also mimic other more harmful plants (the previous video in this series has a similar comment and goes into this as well)
Absolutely. The skill is not actually foraging, it's natural history identification - my advice (which I will expand on in a video very soon) is to get a field guide for plants and fungi and just get out there identifying things, with no intention to eat them, Get good at understanding how to be sure you know what it is that's in front of you.
@@AtomicShrimp there’s a level of common sense and knowledge that needs to be sought I totally agree. As a young child back in the 70s I’d go into Cannock chase, and he’d forage mushrooms, they were great! One I particular had a sponge underside that would change colour when you touched it! Now living in North Wales fungi abounds in all shapes and sizes pretty much year round!
Useful if you are planning to study Pharmacy, it has some topics about scientific plant names, so if you are able to go for a walk and start connecting dots between names of plants and shapes, is much better than just memorizing by having all your house filled with names of plants.
This is incredibly inspiring. I used to hate cooking, since I have bad memories of my mother's verbal abuse when she had us help with her cooking, but through videos like yours, I am learning to truly appreciate the beauty, serenity and creativity of low budget meals and the process of cooking itself. I was always a big fan of foraging and living off the land, but while I could identify many plants and fungi, since I didn't really like to spend any more time than absolutely necessary in the kitchen, it wasn't as useful. Your videos are really helping me rekindle that hobby and be a bit more creative and try out new things. Thank you:)
Great Video Set! You're recipes I will keep in my memory. 👍🏼 We never know when food will run out right now... And we need all the nutrition/energy you talked about. I'll be sure to keep more flour in the pantry 💪🏼
Honestly, I really appreciate these. I can't have garlic or onion (low FODMAP, IBS is the devil incarnate) but wild garlic grows pretty readily around here and the leaves from that don't contain the sugars but do have some of the aroma/flavours. Also, so much that can be done with wheat! I never knew I could just... I dunno, make my own pasta. Fry carrots like that into a sauce, that kind of thing. The versatility here is definitely helpful to people with limited diets who struggle with conventional fruit and veg!
Basing your knowledge of plants solely out of books and the internet is a poor idea. Better to find someone with knowledge. We have had people almost die in an ICU because they thought certain plants were good to eat
Hey, I just watched both part 1 and 2 videos while I prepped for work, and I gotta say, this is is so wholesome. I'm thankfully not in need of using a super strict food budget, but this has inspired me to try and be a bit more economical. And I found the bits of your £2 videos where you talk about the foraging to be so interesting. It makes me want to get outdoors a bit more. Thanks for sharing a really fun challenge, and also for staying so positive through out all of it.
This series are so inspirational. Sometimes I just got the simplest ingredients at home and get stuck with only the recipes that Im used to make, never make anything new. Those dumplings were so easy and simple to make, Im definetly gonna give it a try!
It’s a very different budget but it reminds me of when I went on a school trip and we had to buy our own food while we were there so me and my two friends put our money together and thought of what would be the best items to buy and went and found the cheapest and healthiest options (with a couple treats too). We ended up running out of time and hadn’t used the whole budget which made me sad because we weren’t getting that money back to spend on anything else. The group of boys just bought a bunch of sweets and ran out of food after one day and had to spend the money they had brought with them.
Pasties are amazing, got some family history there. I make them regularly. Also I loved how you shoved "Telekinesis" in the forbidden list before cutting lol
For the dumplings, if you add some of the starch mixture mixed into the broth and after they are finished steaming, remove lid of pan and allow all liquid to evaporate. Eventually youll be left with a crispy sheet under the dumplings for a nice crunch. It works with corn starch so dont see why it wouldnt work here. Great videoes!
Like a budget expanding one's recipe abilities, it's fascinating how introducing limits can actually expand one's creativity and options. I've made sandwiches without using my thumbs, put a blindfold on to find my way around, etc. I learned a lot doing exercises like this that built skills and creative abilities I could use in solving problems that came up later. I enjoyed seeing the many recipes built on limited supplies. This is a fantastic channel.
I know it's probably not so great for your health and mental well-being, but I would love to see more of the limited budget food challenges. They're so refreshing to watch when every foodtuber out there is making A5 wagyu and king crab and such.
A5 wagyu, crab and all that they all taste crazy good, but me being open minded to trying out unique food like this made me feel curiously thrilled. This is why I love these kind of videos :D
When i saw that you bough so much flour i was thinking to my self "I would helluva sure make seitan because it is so cheap and full on protein" and you did it! Hats off to you sir!
£2 for 6 meals- First time Iv'e seen this & I loved it. I think you did fantastic. If I only have this amount for 6 meals I hope I can find you. Look forward to seeing some more. Morecambe England.
Oh wow… holy hell. Mr Harris?! This man used to be by teacher, he even told us about his experiments and how people waste a lot of product. Fucking famous now innit.
Wait what?! He was a teacher??? I thought he was just an I.T. professional. That's certainly all he's talking about in the course of discussing his career anyway.
On the banana sandwich, I think you could have wrung a bit more flavor out of the bananas by gently roasting them under the grill until lightly caramelized.
Two things about the Seitan. If you pan fry it on top and bottom before simmering in the broth it will help prevent it from fluffing up and losing it's texture. Also you want to put it in water that is barely bubbling, even not bubbling at all. Water movement causes it to loosen up. You can also freeze it to make it chewier. Love these videos.
Thank you Atomic, I now have a better understanding of how to make pasties, noodles by scratch, and dumplings. It all looked pretty good. The only pass for me is the seiten. A few years back, I watched series of farm video's where the cast lived, worked, and re-established debilitated farmhouses and cottages. One was an Edwardian farm in the Tamar Valley. Your site reminds me of that. I enjoy the natural lighting you use as well. It is warm and inviting. The nature walks are lovely too. That is something I've always enjoyed. We live in the Pacific Northwest which looks similar to your environment.
The trick I learned with leeks is to rinse them in a sieve after chopping. Don't even bother to try cleaning them first. I really love this series of videos. If we could remain this conscious about our food, the world would be a better place.
Your videos are so relaxing and cheerful :) thank you for posting such interesting things, I've been happily watching your channel for the past couple of hours
At this point I actually think £100 a day might be more of a challenge for you
@@crauldrachinasvladington6663 Hahaha, good one!
oh my, I remember the phrase from Day 1 "economy of scale" for the video series for this bideo.
Brewster’s Millions but with food actually sounds like a reasonable challenge that would make for a good video
1: Has to spend the full hundred in one day with the usual anti-exploit caveats
2: Has to eat all the food purchased (this would actually be the hardest bit since some things will not come in small enough quantities, grains in particular would be hard)
3: Has to keep to be reasonable levels of healthy (not consuming 5000 calories or pound of salt)
4: No premade meals or restaurant.
I think a price cap on alcohol would be needed, since that’s an easy way to blow 50+ GBP on wine and just use it wastefully. Cuts of meat and maybe cheese (Truffle Parmigiano Reggiano) could also use a cap.
This is paradoxically inspirational, I would LOVE to see that.
Yes, but he has to make food for a homeless shelter with 200 residents! So that's a budget of just 50p each per day and teach them how to cook on a budget in the process!
It really is remarkable how versatile just flour and water can be.
Quite right ... although I was half expecting him to demonstrate hanging wallpaper with some of the excess as a little tangent.
When humanity learnt how to grow crops and have reliable flour / clean water nothing could to stop us. It’s what’s fed most of the world for all of humanity. A silly little plant and some wet stuff lol.
Yes, and bacon was a key ingredient for these 2 days.
@@smcdonald9991 I would never underestimate the importance of bacon!
@@SD-oi9gr That 'silly little plant' is basically an offshoot of grass (not actual grass, a variation of it), there is very little nutrition in the leaves and stems for humans but we can eat the seeds if we process them down correctly. That was learned through trial and error and endless hours roaming around collecting seeds from the wild plants which would have been very small with tiny seeds back then !
Me: won’t watch a 90 min movie because it’s ‘too long’
Also me: fully engrossed in this man feeding himself better than I have in my life with less than £2
fkn youngards
It’s cause you can also not feel bad about coming back to it
@@slimjong-un5743 who are you to say that? a boomer?
@@January1983_1 Boomer > Gen Z safe spacer
@@slimjong-un5743 ok boomer
Your videos give such intense “grandad” vibes, you’re so knowledgeable and wholesome. Don’t ever stop posting, Mr Shrimp.
The food costing £1.98 actually worked out quite well, because it left just enough for you to give us your 2 cents at the end :)
Looooool nice joke
Reminds me of a quote from Life of Boris: "There's the end of the month, and then there's the end of the month without flour and vegetable oil."
I mean he did manage it without the vegetable oil tbf
@@tangytim6699 tough harshly, now imagine it without flour... that would be a very terrible thing.
Lol I'll never forget his end of the month butterbrod
Subbed to this guy because of the old Boris vibes lol
i love Life of Boris! not surprising people here would too!!
You Mr Shrimp, are for sure the guy i would Accept as my leader in a Zombie Apocalypse. Smart as heck!👍
We need someone to tell us "Don't eat that you idiot, it's hemlock!"
Bukowski was GREAT !!!!!
He might go join the zombies if that's less of a hassle.
Step one on how to cook a zombie 😂
@@shanethrelfall416 hehe yeah, i am pretty sure If Mr. Shrimp cooks a Zombie it will be delicious! And totally foodsave. By the way, is it cannibalism when you eat a Zombie? 🤔
Going through a devastating break up after 6 years together and your getting me through right now mate
He did the same for me a couple of years back. Was invaluable in cheering me up and keeping my mind off catching my ex in the act.
Stay strong. Time is the only real cure. Best wishes in finding yourself again.
As Carl S says give yourself time!!!! Meanwhile take your time, go at your OWN PACE. You are going to find yourself... sooner or later!! Meanwhile, enjoy youtubers or whatever you like. You are going to realise you are a much better person!!!!!
That sucks. Hope you are doing well and good luck on all your future endeavours, whether they be relationship-based or not.
stay strong buddy, life changes can be a pain to deal with but you'll find your way!
Much love 💕 breaking up is hard to go through - It does get better
This dude deadass got his salt and pepper in a kinder egg container. I love this guy.
Glad im not the only one who noticed
he's shown that before, he has a whole set of kinder egg containers where he keeps spices when he goes out on a picnic, it's really practical
@@aseldesu yea, i find them really useful for when i go camping.
Deadass.
@@aseldesu He's so clever, he really thinks about everything and how he can improve/what he can use things for, etc. Super cool!
This gentleman not only made 6 dishes with 2 pounds, he even managed to have left overs.
What a legend.
I GREATLY appreciate leaving the botched crepe attempt in. That transparency goes such a long way in making the video as interesting as it was. And how informative and educational!
Heh. That _transparency_
@@linusmushroomtips776 No pan intended
The transparency lol
@@ironpirate8 doo doo fart
@@linusmushroomtips776 linus dummy stupid tips for noobs /s
Wanted to say that I appreciate that camera shot of the memorial plaque. Not that I know who Gerry Doyle was, but I think it was really nice gesture. Stuff like that is the real reason I love this channel so much.
Poor guy was only 54. Must have been his favourite spot. I wonder what happened to him.
Plus the fact that this channel has 659K Subscribers as of today, and NOT one single advert! Although I HATE adverts, I would like to think that Atomic Shrimp is making good money from this channel like he deserves! ALOT of hard work and good honest advice going into these videos, I'd happily watch adverts if I knew he was making what he deserves!!
I felt the same. It was a nice appreciation
and 75K more 2+ months later ( 739K as of half way through August)
Today was the first time I actually clicked on one of his video (it was part 1 of this same topic), and damn I am amazed. He even gives so much botany knowledge.
28:39 I like how he's worried about having too much food in a challenge about spending £2 on 6 meals
Caring a small kinder toy casting as your "condiment bag"
This man is an absolute genious,so simple and tight yet does not impact the flavour or smell of the stuff kept inside
I have only seen them used for Hashish haha
"Eva saw one of her friends out of the window" - more like Eva provides a gentle reminder that dog tax exists when bacon is on offer.
You show how to do a lot of things that are not obvious to most home cooks. You do it in a way that makes viewers like me imagine we can do as well. Teaching cooking techniques without lecturing, but by just doing is nowhere near as easy to do as you did. Thank you.
Working with flour without messing up the place was impressive. You made flat bread, bread, dumpling wrappers, seitan, a cornish pastry , and homemade noodles from a kilo of flour over two days. Cool. Most people cooking at home might make one of those things from scratch maybe once a week.
I have never actually bought a bag of flour...
I don't know what it is about Atomic Shrimp, but I love his videos so much. They give me so much joy about life and just enjoying yourself out there. I've really struggled in the past few months, with eating as well, and while they obviously cannot heal anything, they're so comforting to watch.
It is like listening to your dad read you a bedtime story as a kid. Very soothing.
Same. Take care of yourself out there friend, I hope things start looking up for you soon.
Just discovering with this 2 pound/2 days challenge, and I must say I feel the same. I think overall he's got a very genuine, lovely manner, he speaks well and clearly, shows his mistakes (that starch crepe disaster was hilarious), and his videos are efficiently edited without losing the human (doggy) touch. I've added his "Food" playlist to my sidebar ^^ he teaches the sort of practical, non-fussy cooking that I need to step out of my depression-induced junk food habit. (doing the dishes is another matter entirely)
Some people have watched this and been encouraged to better understand foraging and edible plants. Others have been inspired to be more resourceful with cooking and money. It inspired me to eat a can of baked beans that's been in my cupboard for a year. Cheers!
I really love how we're in day two, and there is still - bananas, half a packet of floor bacon, half a tin of beans, carrots, half a loaf of bread, bunch of flour etc. Your ability to ration all the supplies is so impressive 😂
I think I just watched him empty the can of beans into his last pasta dish
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@@007nadineL He's talking about the start of day two not the end leftovers
Just want to know if you got hungry during the 2 days? Also...how would this challenge fit in with a part or full time job?
@@katekat1064 in an ideal situation, a full time job would mean one wouldn't need to live like this, but, for the sake of the challenge, work nights, forage in the morning after a night shift on the first day, and save what you find, then cook the easier meals from the video series on day 1. You likely won't need to make all 3 as there's enough nutrition in the video to make it through the 2 days in 2 meals so long as you aren't working in a very physical job.
Day 2, you cook the harder meals before your shift starts and take it in with you.
I'm basing all this on experience as a night shift worker, but you could probably find time in the evenings after work for foraging/cooking so long as you had a torch with you
@@katekat1064 Truth. I do feel like most of that two days was spent foraging and preparing the bread products and the seitan. Doesn't seem to leave much time for much else. But the meals looked well delicious, and I loved some of the tips he shared, especially about the yeast he got for free from the bakery, and making seitan and budget noodles and budget dumplings!
That Salt & Pepper Kinder Egg is magnificent
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Same lol 😂
came to say the exact same thing
This is ingenious. You are the best.
Time travel🤯
@@gaminggeek948 No. You obviously don't understand videos can be shown privately or premiered to specific people
@@swanningabout you do realise that you're not the only person that knows this
Right?
Edit:nvm...
Food looks nice tasty under budget
@@gaminggeek948 of course. Now you do as well
Honestly love this channel. You know botany offhand and can even deduce from the salinity of water what edible creatures you can catch, and you pause to film a name plaque on a bench before sitting on it. So lovely and gentle. It's channels like this that make me glad I was born in Great Britain, for better or worse.
I mean I'm german and can still watch his videos but I know what you mean, good lad
I agree... it is so easy to judge people based on their image and clothes but it is what comes out of a person's mouth that determines their value...
I’m on benefits and don’t have a good food budget due to other bills, this 2 part video has helped me so much flour is so cheap to get and you can get quite a few meals with it, I made the wrap yesterday and it was amazing I’ll definitely try the seitan tomorrow
I hope your financial situation gets better. Thankfully you can still eat
just looking at the price of reduced food stuffs at tesco I am amazed that one can buy such quantities of food for so little. I mean if you have 100 or 150 pounds you could buy from the reduced shelves and eat like a king every day... but perhaps your food budget is a lot less... even so... you could still eat like a king if you learn a bit about forraging and wild produce.
hey, if you're still struggling for food budget, you should also check out the videos life of boris did
@@greenherooftheinterwebz7078 He hasn't replied in 5 months. it's safe to say he didn't make it. RIP
@@ameliasilverhart4864 F
I absolutely love how you took nutrients into account along with flavour and no waste
I love having captions on when you use a frying pan because it says [Applause]
That made me turn the captions on :)
Applause indeed!
I feel like you missed out on the most enjoyable aspect of seitan, which is pronouncing it as "Satan" in a deep and ominous voice. Never gets old.
I have celiac and grew up in a religious household. I always like to say I shave been afraid of the wrong "satan/seitan" my entire life. 🤣 Perfect Dad joke.
This!
SO excited for this.
In many ways this video feels like things have come full circle as you're now finally returning to this "limited budget" format. I found your channel via the 1 pound challenge about a year ago. Your videos have brought me an inordinate amount of peace over the last year, at a time in which peace was hard to find.
Thank you for your time, creativity, stories, and the sense of whimsy and calm your videos have brought to me and so many.
Very well put!
100% agreed i only found this channel a couple of months ago but it's my comfort channel
I don't have anything to add to this statement, except my acknowledgement of truth.
same
its really relaxing isnt it, something to just chill out and watch
“Well its sticking to a non stick which is... quite a feat”
Thanks for the mention. I am happy my seitan video helped. I didn't explicitly mention, but when you simmer the gluten, you need to keep it at a very low simmer. If you cook it too hot, the water inside the gluten expands and creates that puffing you see. It makes the final product a little bit spongey. Keep it very low, not boiling, and the texture will be more like chicken shreds. By the way, I have the same problem making crepes from the starch. I usually have to make 2 or 3 before the pan temperature gets perfect for making crepes that unstick when cooked. I try to leave it in the pan until it releases itself before burning and the temperature to do that is a balance.
Thanks! I might try cooking it in my slow cooker next time
As a chef by profession I have to say I find your creativity along with your knowledge for foraging quite inspiring. What you've managed to knock up with such a small list of ingredients and budget is impressive indeed. My 'dish of the challenge' would be that pastie, that looked bloody lovely that did.
I would love to see you do a Ready, Steady, cook type challenge. Maybe your wife could buy you a few mismatched ingredients on a small budget of like £5 & you have to create both a mains and dessert from them. Would be interesting to see your creativity come into play there, haha.
Absolutely ballin with your pepper stored in a kinder egg container
You can just tell this guy is a secret millionaire set for life by a FInancial Independence Retire Early lifestyle. No unnecessary new pans utensils etc and frugal living.
I always open a big smile when Mr Shrimp says "That's actually really good".
It's amazing how dense the math to have good meals and keep the budget can be.
Amazing video, loved every second.
Love this comment
It's challenges like this that make you realize just how inexpensive food can be if you are willing to look for and take advantage of bargains and you have the time to spend foraging and prepping all of your meals.
I just want to say thank you for these amazing videos. I can't exactly explain why, but they are just so calming and relaxing to me. You seem like such a nice dude, and I thank you for spreading your niceness with the world. I'm so glad I found this channel, it's very wholesome
This shows so much creativity, I'm actually inspired to try this myself, see how much I csnt get for a fiver at tescos and how long I could meal plan to make that last. I'm only 17 but il soon be leaving home and it would be a good challenge I think to get me to see shopping in a different angle
It's absolutely great to get some practice in shopping and cooking on a budget before you move out. I'm 20 now, moved out at 17, and still playing catch-up on food matters. I spend those 3 years asking myself things like: what do I like? how do I cook that? what recipes match my skill level? why do I not own a medium pot? and, by god, how do I survive without an oven or a freezer?
Knowing at least some of those things in advance will really help you.
@@Elenyiorene yeah, I consider myslef pretty lucky as I grew.up.cooking and have a pretty wide range of dishes. Pity nearly all of them.include 5 or more ingredients... although thats a rlly good point with no oven, I might try making an entire meal fr scratch in the microwave that sounds another good challenge. I vaguely rmeber a very old cookbook from when thr microwave first came out. If I rmeber correctly it had a guide about how to make an entire roast dinner in their. Now that would be fun to watch
@@queeny5613 My mother gifted me one of those microwave cook books when I moved out. I never opened it, but judging by the art style of the cover it must've been from the 80's. :)
@@KConny yeah that sounds familiar, I think mine was from the 1970s
Woah, look at Mr moneybags over here with a whole 5 bucks.
THIS IS SUCH A WHOLESOME CHANNEL!!!!!!
calm down dear
Mike's like DO NOT INTRODUCE 3 CORNERED LEEKS INTO YOUR GARDEN. And I'm thinking, unlimited garlic leeks? I dunno, I think I'm willing to risk it lol
Confine them to a large pot or tub rather than open ground to stop them spreading.
My mum has her entire garden taken over by ramson (wild garlic), because the lady who previously owned the house thought it looked nice.
Be prepared to go nuclear and raise your entire garden. Especially if you have dogs who will happily spread the lot.
@@SD-oi9gr How do dogs spread it?
When I heard that my thought was "I can think of a whole lot of worse things that could happen to your yard than it being taken over by an edible plant".
2 things from my first viewing: love the way he says "I don't know" every time he gives you a quantity or cooking time. And his respect for the environment, so 19th century, heart warming.
This man has gone far beyond my expectations of how much you can do with 2 pounds and few ingredients. Also I am amazed by your knowledge of plants and nutritients.
Usually, I feel like I'm wasting my life watching RUclips but tonight I'm actually learning!
Yea, I'm unconsciously improving my cooking skills while relaxing and being entertained, good stuff!
The pasties Cornish miners use to eat were often Half Main & half dessert, the crimp was also discarded to the "Mine spirits" in order to give one safe passage and prevent collapses or cave-ins for those who were superstitious
Mine spirits also are known as Knockers or Tommyknocker in Cornish folklore. Skinner's brewery in Truro make a beer called Cornish Knocker in celebration of the legend.
There is a tradition of mine spirits in the Black Country too (my neck of the woods). There is a tale surrounding a mine that was located in my neighbouring town that was said to have been plagued by a malevolent spirit. A local "priest" was called in to perform an exorcism. This priest was known locally as The White Rabbit.
A local pub was called The White Rabbit in honour of this tale but it has since changed its name.
That pasty looks amazing! So impressive that you managed to cook that with what little you had. Well done sir!
I absolutely LOVE this.
I have been telling my group of friends FOR YEARS that I want to see a cooking competition that involves poor people budget. A lot of people know how to make food better with money. I want to see people explaining how to make cheap food better with processes.
Thank you. This is wonderful.
I did this mentally using the Swedish equivalent of 2 pounds and realised it was improbable here due to the disparity in just basic raw ingredient costs. Although foraging would be an option certain times of the year (like July - Sept I could literally gather kilos of Chanterelle mushrooms) and here in Midsummer you can buy new potatoes for as little as 10p a kilo, it is really seasonal. Flour costs around 60-70p for 2kg, but that beyond maybe the odd single onion would be it, beans for example are about 60-70p a tin, and you can rule out even off cuts of bacon.
But great channel and has given me some ideas for some personal budget challenges (That eventual trip to Korea isn't going to pay for itself)
I agree a small bag of flour here would run you about 6 - 8 dollars and thats canadian. If you went to a bulk food store you might be able to get a handful of flour for a dollar or two but that would be all you could buy.
@@user-dd9dh9kw5c Canadian too and can confirm. I just bought a 1kg bag of quick oats for $5.29 (equivalent to 3.05 GBP).
In New Zealand it costs $2 (£1) for a kg of flour. Food is expensive here and no way could you do this challenge here. My family is from Britain and my parents like to complain about how expensive food is here quite often.
@@rachelcookie321 funny how most people left Europe because of poverty :-)
But you should take everything in consideration of course. Is petrol around the same price? Is a average house the same price? and the salaries?
@@marijnl we left Britain because New Zealand is safer and my dad was able to get a job here. Petrol is more expensive, land is cheaper but materials are more expensive, salaries are lower (for my parents but it may be higher for other jobs). Even New Zealand lamb is more expensive here than in the UK. Stuff is expensive here because people have no other option so companies can raise their prices is people still have to buy it because there’s nowhere else to go.
Mr Shrimp, an absolute pleasure to watch you, Sir. You are a genius, in the tradition of a Great British eccentric. You deserve your own TV show.
I find these budget challenge videos so interesting, the foraging and creativity is just fascinating to me. It's amazing what you can make for so little
Adding beans to the pasta sauce reminded me of Mark's Moroccan pasta in Peep Show
We cant see if he has written " love you" on his eye lids lol and he didnt use eggs thats always good until they hatch i suppose.
@@ktmbikes9227 No lovely filling lettuce either or a refreshing glass of rum and water. Disappointed to say the least.
Glad I'm not the only one whose's mind went straight to Peep Show at that point.
@@helvete983 great minds think alike (or people with great taste in comedy think alike anyway 😂)
@@dmel2001 and no cheese and lettuce or morrocan eyeshadow
"Well I didn't expect it would go transparent" - this part killed me. More seriously though, thanks for the lovely video. This is the kind of life I dream of having and this 2 part series is great inspiration ☺️
This is an example of a person who really deserves their subs. Very informative!
I'm really liking these budget meals uploads after loosing my job last year down to lock downs yes I have more than £1 a day to spend but still helpful stuff.
Hope you'll find a new job soon. Take care!
seeing him wash the dough and try to fry the starch makes me feel like I somehow ended up on a "Kiwami Japan" video
Sharpest Crepe Knife, am i right
Hahah I’m glad I’m not the only one that thought so
That crepe part was so funny!!!! Best laugh I've had in ages, that moment of acceptance "yep, even if it's cooked I'm not gonna eat that...". Brilliant.
I think it's so important to note how laborious it was to make these two days of food. Many people who have financial difficulties are working long hours or multiple jobs and don't have this kind of time! All the more reason for government assistance. I really like this video (and the part one)!
Yeah, this isn't intended to emulate any real world hardship scenario, but rather to provoke creativity
I find the level of knowledge and skill demonstrated in this channel very impressive.
I don’t understand Trolls and haters.
Some people find themselves in challenging situations and because of the short fall in their skillset they can feel overwhelmed and it’s channels like this that make it possible for people to feel empowered enough to have a go.
Many thanks 🙏
I agree wholeheartedly. The trolls just need to move on, makes me so mad. 😣
I know you're probably tired of hearing these compliments but I can't say it enough how much I learn by just watching you "do" the things you're doing. Thanks for the videos.
What I think would be a cool idea is to follow these videos up with a "luxury" version of the same foods where you aren't budgeted to see the different ways you would do it
Save for some technique I don't think these are very far off some of the most luxurious foods as is.
I agree. I'd love to see a non budget version of these and sum up the cash spent at the end of the two days vs. the £2
That's actually a great idea, I hope he does that.
Luxuary version will have 50p more budget.
he just did this
Please do more of this series, they're interesting and I love them!
This was so imaginative and creative. two episodes - a feature length offering of the two pound challenge. Appreciate your hard work and the editing skills needed. Thumbs UP!
This man is a wizard with budgeting and meal prep I love him.
This really has been an amazing mini series to show that you really can cook and eat well on such a miniscule budget. This needs to be seen by so many people that are living on such budgets.
If you'd have baked the bananas before putting them in your sandwich they would release their natural sugars and made them a lot more syrupy and that may have been the sweetness you were searching for.
Fantastic, thank you 😀
You can pour a thin layer of starch water in plate then steam it. Cut it in slices, add seasonings, vegetables or some meat, a noodle salad is done.
I couldn't believe your prices there. There's no way that you could have bought all that for $2 here in Australia. Also, foraging isn't a thing, certainly around Sydney.
"How did your foraging go, dear?"
"I have two red-bellied black snakes, a brown, a funnel-web and three redbacks. Can you call an ambulance?" :P
You really need Aboriginal knowledge here. If you can, watch a few episodes of "The Bush Tucker Man".
I love your videos :)
Every episode of The Bush Tucker Man:
Now, see this little fella here?
It's a bit dry, but you can eat it.
Sydneysider here. Concur completely. We are in a proper city yet snakes in long grass in spring and summer isn’t in Aussie stereotype, it’s the truth!
You're brilliant with these. Never in a million years I would come up with all these recipes you come up with in the budget food challenge videos. I think it's a sign you're a good home cook - you don't need to cook Michelin star level food to be one, being able to create something out of nothing requires a LOT of food knowledge.
Just found this two-part series and am so impressed by what you were able to make with so little cash. Thank you for sharing the entire process! Hope you have a wonderful 2022!
I've just been watching the same time as you.its inspired me to put my credit card away & live off cash 💸 & use every thing up in the freezer.& I've already determined ( no buying off clothes this year. ) To easy to get carried away in the shops. Back to Basics.😜
I also just Found it.
I have some ocd so I Force myself to Constantly wipe my screen.
This was so interesting i completely forgot about it zich is really rare for me.
This is brilliant, I’m so impressed at the different meals you were able to make, those dumplings looked really good
Mike, how about an instructional line of videos on foraging? Seems to be quite complex when watching your foraging sections. Give some of us a bit more confidence at trying it ourselves!
Its not something you should do first time without someone there with you who knows what there doing to double check seeing theres plenty of copy cat plants that are edible that also mimic other more harmful plants (the previous video in this series has a similar comment and goes into this as well)
Absolutely. The skill is not actually foraging, it's natural history identification - my advice (which I will expand on in a video very soon) is to get a field guide for plants and fungi and just get out there identifying things, with no intention to eat them, Get good at understanding how to be sure you know what it is that's in front of you.
@@AtomicShrimp there’s a level of common sense and knowledge that needs to be sought I totally agree. As a young child back in the 70s I’d go into Cannock chase, and he’d forage mushrooms, they were great! One I particular had a sponge underside that would change colour when you touched it! Now living in North Wales fungi abounds in all shapes and sizes pretty much year round!
@@richardmillican7733 That type of mushroom is a type of bolete 😊. Nifty little fact
Useful if you are planning to study Pharmacy, it has some topics about scientific plant names, so if you are able to go for a walk and start connecting dots between names of plants and shapes, is much better than just memorizing by having all your house filled with names of plants.
This is incredibly inspiring. I used to hate cooking, since I have bad memories of my mother's verbal abuse when she had us help with her cooking, but through videos like yours, I am learning to truly appreciate the beauty, serenity and creativity of low budget meals and the process of cooking itself. I was always a big fan of foraging and living off the land, but while I could identify many plants and fungi, since I didn't really like to spend any more time than absolutely necessary in the kitchen, it wasn't as useful. Your videos are really helping me rekindle that hobby and be a bit more creative and try out new things. Thank you:)
I hope you get some peace of mind associated with the activity of cooking.😌
@@kosimochaosbold7544 I dont like that emoji
@@ioankibble9885 Okay :']
@@ioankibble9885 oops😌
@@pranamikaverma k
Where/how did you learn so much about....everything?!
He’s a mad genius, but he’s not mad
Years of experience and skills taught by his parents I presume. Traditions really help you tackle life.
Great Video Set!
You're recipes I will keep in my memory. 👍🏼
We never know when food will run out right now... And we need all the nutrition/energy you talked about.
I'll be sure to keep more flour in the pantry 💪🏼
Honestly, I really appreciate these. I can't have garlic or onion (low FODMAP, IBS is the devil incarnate) but wild garlic grows pretty readily around here and the leaves from that don't contain the sugars but do have some of the aroma/flavours. Also, so much that can be done with wheat! I never knew I could just... I dunno, make my own pasta. Fry carrots like that into a sauce, that kind of thing. The versatility here is definitely helpful to people with limited diets who struggle with conventional fruit and veg!
Honestly sir, where does your limitless knowledge of plants and fungi come from??? You’re just amazing!!
With the right books, experience and especially the internet i'd imagine it's not hard if you know where to look.
Basing your knowledge of plants solely out of books and the internet is a poor idea. Better to find someone with knowledge. We have had people almost die in an ICU because they thought certain plants were good to eat
@@deathfuntaxes 'experience'. Agreed, though a reputable written source can be useful.
"I do actually think bacon would go okay with this." -- Elvis Presley's ghost would like a word about banana, bacon and peanut butter sandwiches.
Citation needed
Unlike Elvis he could use the extra calories for this
This is so inspiring, just makes you realise how much more you can do with the odds and ends in your pantry
Hey, I just watched both part 1 and 2 videos while I prepped for work, and I gotta say, this is is so wholesome. I'm thankfully not in need of using a super strict food budget, but this has inspired me to try and be a bit more economical. And I found the bits of your £2 videos where you talk about the foraging to be so interesting. It makes me want to get outdoors a bit more. Thanks for sharing a really fun challenge, and also for staying so positive through out all of it.
This series are so inspirational. Sometimes I just got the simplest ingredients at home and get stuck with only the recipes that Im used to make, never make anything new. Those dumplings were so easy and simple to make, Im definetly gonna give it a try!
What wonderful timing, I've literally just finished part 1 - You creativity is inspiring!
More of these challenges! They're just so satisfying, seeing what you can do with that amount of money.
Your ingenuity is both impressive and inspiring. I couldn’t possibly imagine what you could possibly make out of your ingredients. Well done 👏🏼
It’s a very different budget but it reminds me of when I went on a school trip and we had to buy our own food while we were there so me and my two friends put our money together and thought of what would be the best items to buy and went and found the cheapest and healthiest options (with a couple treats too). We ended up running out of time and hadn’t used the whole budget which made me sad because we weren’t getting that money back to spend on anything else. The group of boys just bought a bunch of sweets and ran out of food after one day and had to spend the money they had brought with them.
As you're preparing your 6th meal "can't do that or we'll have TOO MUCH FOOD." 😱 For real, that was pretty darn amazing.
"Well, I didn't expect it will go transparent" :DDD I lol'ed so much :DDD
he should have leave it thick and follow ancient rule: first pancake always is bad. and make second pancake.
I’m addicted to these budget food challenges!!
Pasties are amazing, got some family history there. I make them regularly. Also I loved how you shoved "Telekinesis" in the forbidden list before cutting lol
Of course! Telekinesis would have trivialized the challenge xD
It's a shame he restricted it from the challenge; telekinesis is delicious and filling.
Your videos are a visual treat as well as a fun trip watching you be creative!!! Also LOVE the jazz mmusic.
For the dumplings, if you add some of the starch mixture mixed into the broth and after they are finished steaming, remove lid of pan and allow all liquid to evaporate. Eventually youll be left with a crispy sheet under the dumplings for a nice crunch. It works with corn starch so dont see why it wouldnt work here. Great videoes!
Like a budget expanding one's recipe abilities, it's fascinating how introducing limits can actually expand one's creativity and options. I've made sandwiches without using my thumbs, put a blindfold on to find my way around, etc. I learned a lot doing exercises like this that built skills and creative abilities I could use in solving problems that came up later.
I enjoyed seeing the many recipes built on limited supplies. This is a fantastic channel.
I know it's probably not so great for your health and mental well-being, but I would love to see more of the limited budget food challenges. They're so refreshing to watch when every foodtuber out there is making A5 wagyu and king crab and such.
A5 wagyu, crab and all that they all taste crazy good, but me being open minded to trying out unique food like this made me feel curiously thrilled. This is why I love these kind of videos :D
@@Feylx King crab is expensive? My dad ate it as a snack when doing diving work in Norway.
@@lemons1559 yea its expensive, a whole king crab can be sold for 200-400$
@@Feylx My dad just dove down and grabbed one from the bottom.
@@lemons1559 sheesh that easy then? u gotta start a business
When i saw that you bough so much flour i was thinking to my self "I would helluva sure make seitan because it is so cheap and full on protein" and you did it! Hats off to you sir!
£2 for 6 meals- First time Iv'e seen this & I loved it. I think you did fantastic. If I only have this amount for 6 meals I hope I can find you. Look forward to seeing some more. Morecambe England.
I'm absolutely floored what you do with so little money,thank you for your valuable information.
RUclips linked S01E01 of the classic The Good Life to your video. Perfect! Tom and Barbara, Margo and Jerry. I'm off to watch it immediately.
Oh wow… holy hell. Mr Harris?! This man used to be by teacher, he even told us about his experiments and how people waste a lot of product. Fucking famous now innit.
Wait what?! He was a teacher??? I thought he was just an I.T. professional. That's certainly all he's talking about in the course of discussing his career anyway.
I fucking knew he had to be a teacher
i love this channel even more
That’s very cool. I would’ve loved to have this guy as my teacher when I was in school.
What did he teach?
On the banana sandwich, I think you could have wrung a bit more flavor out of the bananas by gently roasting them under the grill until lightly caramelized.
Two things about the Seitan. If you pan fry it on top and bottom before simmering in the broth it will help prevent it from fluffing up and losing it's texture. Also you want to put it in water that is barely bubbling, even not bubbling at all. Water movement causes it to loosen up. You can also freeze it to make it chewier.
Love these videos.
28 yr old loser here.. trying to become a house husband.
U seem knowledge-able and i was wondering... could u make videos like these pls? :3
Thank you Atomic, I now have a better understanding of how to make pasties, noodles by scratch, and dumplings. It all looked pretty good. The only pass for me is the seiten. A few years back, I watched series of farm video's where the cast lived, worked, and re-established debilitated farmhouses and cottages. One was an Edwardian farm in the Tamar Valley. Your site reminds me of that. I enjoy the natural lighting you use as well. It is warm and inviting. The nature walks are lovely too. That is something I've always enjoyed. We live in the Pacific Northwest which looks similar to your environment.
The trick I learned with leeks is to rinse them in a sieve after chopping. Don't even bother to try cleaning them first. I really love this series of videos. If we could remain this conscious about our food, the world would be a better place.
The one piece of chicken he knocked out of his pan was killing me
Bacon, but yes, same here! I was expecting him to notice instantly and just throw it back in.
@@Farquad76.547 I am ashamed.
It was Seitan, not dough ;)
@@Mugenloo these comments are just a rabbit hole of corrections, want to correct to something ridiculous for comedic effect, but i wont
It was the perfect moment for some sad music and a zoom in during editing.
Perfect start to a rainy British weekend. Thank you Mr Shrimp!
Thanks for this video. Your speech is very clear, it's perfect for learning english. You're extremely creative!
Your videos are so relaxing and cheerful :) thank you for posting such interesting things, I've been happily watching your channel for the past couple of hours