When my kids were little (my oldest is 19) and money was tight, one night a week we had "buffet night". I heated up all the leftovers from the week, put it on the table and they made their plates. I normally did this the night before trash was picked up since the fridge needed cleaned out anyway. They still talk about that being their favorite night - probably because they chose what they wanted, but I loved it because I only made dinner 6 nights (there was no eating out at that time) and nothing went to waste.
Oh, if you have any leftover juice from canned fruit, make a syrup out of it by adding more sugar. Cook in saucepan until sugar melts. Cool and pour into a container of tea to sweeten it and give it that little extra flavor. Add a little sprig of mint and you have an infused and flavored tea .
Hey hey! Wanted to add I’m feeding for 4. Just from filming the grocery haul on this video blocks of great value brand cheese have went up .11c 😩 Budget cooking is getting harder now a day, but it’s still do able! I hope todays video helps you feed your family on a budget. 😍
It is harder to budget right down to the penny now a days… even if you use the store app things can either go up in price or be out of stock by the time you get to the store to shop and you have to sometimes substitute that meal on your menu. Excellent video and everything looks delicious 😋
I just wanted to say if you don’t have chicken stock you can throw those bones in a crockpot full of water over night (16-24 hrs) and you have you some bone broth for free! Or if your recipe calls for cooked chicken consider boiling it and saving the broth. It’s wonderful. Use plastic bags, pickle jars or cleaned out peanut butter containers and put the cooled broth in the freezer for later. Just leave some room at the top for expansion.
The black beans that you added to the chicken and rice skillet really give the dish a lot of protein so you shouldn’t have to worry about having less chicken. Great video!!
Such a realistic budget challenge. Great job on being under $50! For pizza sauce, I tend to grab a small can of tomato sauce from Aldi for about .60¢ then add some seasonings to it. My kids say it tastes better than pizza sauce so I'll take it 🤣.
I buy pizza sauce and put it in an ice cube tray and freeze it. Pop the cubes out and put them in a zip lock in the freezer. Just pull out as many as you need,. They thaw really fast.
Thank you for all the good ideas of more ways to cut costs. I have learned to poach my skin on bone in chicken thighs to make stock if needed & just use all the meat in a recipe & freeze stock in qt size freezer bags if not needed that
You did an excellent job. I was watching you cook and my mind was just going with different ideas. Thanks and keep up the great work. You're a wise young mother for cooking and meal planning. Your son's will appreciate this even when they get older.
AWESOME video! You didn't just meet your $50 challenge, but you did it and made GREAT MEALS for your family for a whole week. And, you offered very cool ideas and tips all along the way. Keeping in mind, your feeding 4 people and had leftovers few times. YOU GO!! Looking forward to another video like it. Very INSPIRING!! Arlene
Great job! Thank you for these budget meal videos. You are appreciated. There is nothing wrong with leftovers. I like that you are raising Winston to eat leftovers too. Proud of you. My husband & mother in law will not eat leftovers. Actually my husband will eat leftover chili & sometimes leftover spaghetti.
That was a great grocery haul for $50! Now that prices have shot up, it def takes some planning and cooking mostly from scratch to feed a family for a week.
Just an fyi: instead of buying the tomato sauce, you could have blended the other half of the tomatoes and saved money for the next week-but still a great job!
If you are on an extreme budget. A bag of leg quarters is your best option for chicken. You will have to put in the work to cut it down but you will have lots of it. To me that frozen chicken 🐔 is too expensive 😫.
Oh my gosh Tamara!!! Hopefully you see this!!!! As I was binge watching your videos I came across this one. 64 THOUSAND VIEWS!!!!! You nailed it girl!! We ALL need ideas to stretch out grocery budget! THANK YOU!!!!!!! 💞🙏🏼💞
Excited about this, we just bought a car so we are trying to keep our budget tight while we get used to the new extra bill. I plan on trying to lower or grocery bill for a bit. Helpful!
My cousin and his family did a “clean out the fridge” night (either Friday or Saturday). Took the leftovers from the week, put them out like a buffet and everyone ate what they wanted. Their kids really looked forward to those nights.
I absolutely love this video. Today I went to the grocery store with $60 to get our groceries. We were out of several things and I needed items for meals too. Before I left home I gathered up some coupons from the store I was going to and check that store's sale paper. In this store at the front there is a kiosk where I can scan my card and get more coupons so, of course, I did. I realize this all sounds like a lot of work but really it is worth it because I spent $39.05 and got what I needed EXCEPT green beans. 🤣 But I was so excited. Budget shopping is not hard and it is so worth the extra little bit of effort. Always enjoy your channel because you make it look so easy yet keep it so real.
I am SO impressed with your haul & everything that you made Tamara! I struggle to get the right amount of protein in every day & you’ve covered everything! I LOVE this challenge! Thanks so much my friend -awesome job!! 🤗
You can also use the bone in chicken with skin left on, one package of your sausage, you package of frozen peppers & onions with some diced celery...to make a wonderful gumbo! Just brown up equal amounts of flour and oil in a soup pot until color of an old penny. Add your chicken in to brown, then add your vegetables. Season with salt, pepper and Cajun seasonings and add water or chicken broth( you can even cook your chicken with skin and bone - whole pieces before you add it if you are strapped for time). Let mixture come to a boil, then reduce it to medium. After mixture has thickened up some, you can either put in a slow cooker to cook on low for 6 hrs, or leave on stove top on a low simmer until chicken is cooked. Serve over cooked rice with garlic bread. You can also cook up a pot of red beans to have next meal with sausage. Stretches your proteins a lot further.
My Walmart already raised the price of that marinara and alfredo sauce up to $1.40 here in TN it jumped up quickly. I recommend buying a lot of them before the price jump that is coming to you.
Loved your video! The meals looked delicious and the fact you made everything with a 50 dollar budget was great! I’m an empty nester so I don’t make meals most days but I still need to watch my money!
Love this challenge! I have never seen those frozen peppers and onions. I am definitely going to look for those; huge timesaver on a busy night! Your meals this week looked fantastic this week! Appreciate these budget friendly ideas!
We eat a lot of hot dog, eggs and rice with onion and soy sauce..whatever seasonings you like and it's amazing! Pretty cheap! I need all the cheap ideas since we fell on hard times and now living in a hotel that's robbing us blind...
Nice work! I am super impressed you kept it under $50 including meat and even had some veggies. Great ideas your sausage dish looked really good also the chili dogs. I might try that out
Hello! New subscriber in Indiana. I just found your videos today and watched and watched and watched. I love that you use normal everyday ingredients, set goals, budget, prep and store and cook meals that your family loves and show us how to save $$$. Although it is just my husband and I here now, we still try to do all of these things. Us older folks need to budget, save, shop carefully, store, prep and have great meals too. Not to mention saving $$$. I appreciate you and will be watching through more videos. Thank you for what you do and for sharing it with us!♥
Thanks so much for another great cooking video and some great tips on how to get something yummy for dinner on a budget. I do a lot of budget meals myself I join in once a week on Wednesday budget meals under five dollars so I know how hard it is to come up. But it is possible. Thanks so much for sharing yours and you’re giving me so much inspiration and great ideas what I might be able to put up the next few weeks with a little different twist. Hugs and kisses from grandma Sandy thanks for sharing and giving so much inspiration.
What a great video and awesome ideas. We had 'leftover buffets' where everyone may not eat the same thing when I was growing up. My hubs takes leftovers for his lunch because I always make too much
Wow all of these recipes looks so delicious 🤤 I am so thankful for this wonderful video!! I am so glad that you did the awesome grocery haul and the wonderful dinners all in one video because it really did give me a visual of how to make and stretch what you have. Awesome video!! I am so thankful for your videos and tips and especially stretching a tight budget!!
Those meals looked fantastic! I think you did REALLY WELL! I have made that sausage dish often like you I just threw it togather one day and it became a regular you can take those leftover sausage and peppers and put them on a sub roll or with scrambled eggs for breakfast
I've been making this dish for twenty years. I have found a way to make it awesome I dehydrate celery because I hate celery salt. So you can use thinly sliced fresh celery or dehydrated. Also add carmelized onions and a little bit of finely grated asiago cheese. Expensive cheese aren't expensive really because you only need a little for a ton of flavor examples I use are romano asiago and Italian parmesan the legit stuff.buy blocks because I not keen on eating cellulose which is in all pre grated or shredded cheese. Always buy the block and grate your own.
Awesome. So happy to see someone show different recipes. I go through these kinds of videos a good bit and it seems that most are all pretty much the same ideas. I'm so glad to see something new for a change. Definitely will be trying a couple of these. Thank You
I bought several pks of hot dogs when on sale so just need the crescent rolls. Can't wait to try. I made pizza bread, my husband had never heard of it before! I used some hoagie buns I had for something else & they were good. I used pepperoni & bacon If we have left over bacon I put in freezer & I use for omelets, baked beans, anything I can think of. I HATE throwing away food, I feeling like takin a dollar bill or two in trash so always try to have no waste. Not saying I never do but I really don't throw away much I had made spaghetti & meatballs, there were 4 meatballs left & last night we did leftovers & I had those meatballs with some already noodles & green beans I had left. It was good, kinda like meat loaf.
You can also use a couple pieces of fresh or canned corn, black beans and fresh tomatoes or can of rotel( hot or not), onion and garlic or powder, S& P, drizzle of vinegar and olive oil( opt). You have fresh corn and black bean dip. You can add fresh cilantro and diced jalapeño peppers if you want to give it more flavor. Serve with tortilla chips.
I do leftover meals too or next day lunch there is only two of us but I have budget one hundred dollars a week from a seventy five a week. I am finding this hard to do where I live now but I have moved over two hundred miles from where I use to live.
We constantly do the beef stroganoff this exact way and the bread pizzas so affordable and so good !! Anxious to try the others as well. Love videos like this where it is everything (proteins, etc )in the amount you have for the week ! The sausage and veggies over rice I've never had with tomato sauce I've always done soy sauce so this will be a good way to change it up as well !
There is a pizza dough they sell for 2 dollars that makes a full big pan pizza. Just add some toppings and place in oven. It tasted better than regular frozen too, it tastes just like a Pizza Hut or papa jones pizza. Cost, less than 5 dollars with all toppings too
Hey girl…….I do enjoyed this video, everything looked so good. I really like the chili dog and can’t wait to try it. I love hotdogs. I really love the sausage one too. All looked great. At least I know now that the $50 budget works. In the very beginning, I had doubts about it. You surprised me lol. Thank you for sharing. Love ya bunches ❤️❤️❤️ Kim
So true about spices making a difference. Yum for this menu! The twist on sausage & peppers looked great. Most of your prices are very similar to ours in Michigan but Great Value Marinara sauce is $1.42. I often shop two different stores because of this (like you said with the chicken and Ruler Foods). You are such an encouragement even to this old Grandma; I hope there’s lots of young people learning from you
You did so well. Everything looked good and you included meat too for the meat lovers. Loved that last meal with kielbasa right up my alley. Keep cooking and vloging . Bless you and your family.
Loved this video!! Thank you so much for taking the time to do this. It helps so much. I would totally love to see how to save money on snacks for your littles. 💕
I just shared a video of making little bite muffins “homemade”. Cheaper then buying them from the store. Winston is a only child, so we do go through a lot of snacks, but not like we would if we have more kids. I just try to make things homemade if I can or buy in bulk. Divide snacks up, so he doesn’t sit down and eat a whole box of something at once. Like taking a box of cheez-it’s and dividing it up into single serving ziplock bags. Also buy store brand that will save you a ton of money!
Really great menu! Really good job on the protein. That is important to me! Wish we had .88 Walmart marinara and Alfredo. Our GV Alfredo is up to $1.74!!!
Hey Tamara. I really really appreciate you so much !! You have the biggest most caring Heart ! 💜 Thanks for showing All of us that it's ok to make cheap meals and they look and taste amazing.. your such a Blessing to me, I'm sure to many. But I personally just wanted to say Thank You from the bottom of my heart. I Love you !! 😍 It's a scary world. I've cried so much lately. My kids are grown and I still worry about them having enough to eat. I make sure I make plenty extra food and invite them over to eat. Otherwise I can't take a bite of my food. Anyway. Everything looked Delicious. I really love your beef stroganoff yum. I'm making that this week. Take Care and God Bless Y'all 🙏 Love From your Indiana Friend.
I make something similar to the chicken skillet. I make mine in the instant pot, it can be a soup but I prefer to drain off the liquid and make fajita bowls out of it. I usually make the leftovers into burritos.
Fresh chicken breast at my Walmart is 1.99 all the time . Cheaper than any other store in my area which I'm willing to drive the extra 5 minutes to get my chicken breast for that price. 🙂 I'm trying this challenge for sure
Great idea for the markdown bread...it freezes well so could buy and have on hand. Homemade pizza or garlic bread...yummy. You did have plenty of pasta but I always check the weight...bowties are usually 12 oz and the others are 16oz...and same price at my Walmart. I found a couple new ideas. Thanks. Great dinners for 50.00.
This was great! With today's grocery inflation prices, it's getting harder and harder to feed a family. I also have a family of four that includes two teens and they love meat! 😅My budget is always going up and up and grocery prices up and up. 😭I turn to these videos to try to find creative ways to stretch it and come up with more creative meals. I love your chili dog bake🥰 I'm going to try it soon and I know it will be a hit! I hope you keep making more of these other videos, thanks so much!💙
Thanks for the video. We are a large family in Australia ( kids at home are 23, 17, 13 and 10 and all but 1 eat adult portions) the discount bread is our savour. It helps a meal stretch some little more. Though extremely jealous of your capsicum onion mix we don't have that as frozen mix here and it would save me so much money
id love to see a video where you do to the store today and buy all the same things and then compare the cost...inflation has bee awful here...that same bag of chicken is like double that price where i live
This is my first time to your channel. I enjoyed watching you cook all of your budget meals. I like the tips you add in. Adding spices on hand and comparing marinara sauce to pizza sauce. The bread was an excellent bargain. 👍
When my kids were little (my oldest is 19) and money was tight, one night a week we had "buffet night". I heated up all the leftovers from the week, put it on the table and they made their plates. I normally did this the night before trash was picked up since the fridge needed cleaned out anyway. They still talk about that being their favorite night - probably because they chose what they wanted, but I loved it because I only made dinner 6 nights (there was no eating out at that time) and nothing went to waste.
I like “buffet night “ instead of “leftovers”👍🏻❤️
I LOVE that idea!
What a great idea!!!
Awesome idea!
This is an awesome idea! I’m going to start doing this with my family as well! ☺️
Oh, if you have any leftover juice from canned fruit, make a syrup out of it by adding more sugar. Cook in saucepan until sugar melts. Cool and pour into a container of tea to sweeten it and give it that little extra flavor. Add a little sprig of mint and you have an infused and flavored tea .
Thanks I like your ideas
Hey hey! Wanted to add I’m feeding for 4.
Just from filming the grocery haul on this video blocks of great value brand cheese have went up .11c 😩 Budget cooking is getting harder now a day, but it’s still do able! I hope todays video helps you feed your family on a budget. 😍
It is harder to budget right down to the penny now a days… even if you use the store app things can either go up in price or be out of stock by the time you get to the store to shop and you have to sometimes substitute that meal on your menu. Excellent video and everything looks delicious 😋
Sometimes a quick trip to the dollar store can help. Even though the dollar store itself isn't just a dollar now, it's 1.25. ugh.
I just wanted to say if you don’t have chicken stock you can throw those bones in a crockpot full of water over night (16-24 hrs) and you have you some bone broth for free! Or if your recipe calls for cooked chicken consider boiling it and saving the broth. It’s wonderful. Use plastic bags, pickle jars or cleaned out peanut butter containers and put the cooled broth in the freezer for later. Just leave some room at the top for expansion.
Everything looks great us mama's have to stick together and feed everyone. Great job !
The black beans that you added to the chicken and rice skillet really give the dish a lot of protein so you shouldn’t have to worry about having less chicken. Great video!!
Such a realistic budget challenge. Great job on being under $50! For pizza sauce, I tend to grab a small can of tomato sauce from Aldi for about .60¢ then add some seasonings to it. My kids say it tastes better than pizza sauce so I'll take it 🤣.
I buy pizza sauce and put it in an ice cube tray and freeze it. Pop the cubes out and put them in a zip lock in the freezer. Just pull out as many as you need,. They thaw really fast.
Thank you for all the good ideas of more ways to cut costs. I have learned to poach my skin on bone in chicken thighs to make stock if needed & just use all the meat in a recipe & freeze stock in qt size freezer bags if not needed that
Me too!! Even my spaghetti sauce is made from tomato sauce and spices.
You did an excellent job. I was watching you cook and my mind was just going with different ideas. Thanks and keep up the great work. You're a wise young mother for cooking and meal planning. Your son's will appreciate this even when they get older.
AWESOME video! You didn't just meet your $50 challenge, but you did it and made GREAT MEALS for your family for a whole week. And, you offered very cool ideas and tips all along the way. Keeping in mind, your feeding 4 people and had leftovers few times. YOU GO!! Looking forward to another video like it. Very INSPIRING!! Arlene
I truly appreciate these budget meals. They all looked and sounded delicious.
I feel the same way! I love these budget meals.
Great job! Thank you for these budget meal videos. You are appreciated. There is nothing wrong with leftovers. I like that you are raising Winston to eat leftovers too. Proud of you. My husband & mother in law will not eat leftovers. Actually my husband will eat leftover chili & sometimes leftover spaghetti.
Loved this. I love the $10 a week videos but this is so much more relatable for me. ❤️❤️❤️
That was a great grocery haul for $50! Now that prices have shot up, it def takes some planning and cooking mostly from scratch to feed a family for a week.
Tamara, I really enjoy your videos! You make it look easy for young or old mothers trying to feed their families on a budget!
Love these recipes! Adding to my shopping list! Thank you for showing how you make the food! That’s where I struggle too!
Glad I could help! Thanks for watching ❤️
Just an fyi: instead of buying the tomato sauce, you could have blended the other half of the tomatoes and saved money for the next week-but still a great job!
Hot dog or hamburger buns make great garlic bread! And also, you can get spices/seasonings pretty cheaply at Dollar Tree...
If you are on an extreme budget. A bag of leg quarters is your best option for chicken. You will have to put in the work to cut it down but you will have lots of it. To me that frozen chicken 🐔 is too expensive 😫.
I love that most of this is great for fast meal prep too. Or canned for better storage. Love it
Oh my gosh Tamara!!! Hopefully you see this!!!! As I was binge watching your videos I came across this one. 64 THOUSAND VIEWS!!!!! You nailed it girl!! We ALL need ideas to stretch out grocery budget! THANK YOU!!!!!!! 💞🙏🏼💞
You're the best!
Excited about this, we just bought a car so we are trying to keep our budget tight while we get used to the new extra bill. I plan on trying to lower or grocery bill for a bit. Helpful!
My cousin and his family did a “clean out the fridge” night (either Friday or Saturday). Took the leftovers from the week, put them out like a buffet and everyone ate what they wanted. Their kids really looked forward to those nights.
I absolutely love this video. Today I went to the grocery store with $60 to get our groceries. We were out of several things and I needed items for meals too. Before I left home I gathered up some coupons from the store I was going to and check that store's sale paper. In this store at the front there is a kiosk where I can scan my card and get more coupons so, of course, I did. I realize this all sounds like a lot of work but really it is worth it because I spent $39.05 and got what I needed EXCEPT green beans. 🤣
But I was so excited. Budget shopping is not hard and it is so worth the extra little bit of effort.
Always enjoy your channel because you make it look so easy yet keep it so real.
I am SO impressed with your haul & everything that you made Tamara! I struggle to get the right amount of protein in every day & you’ve covered everything! I LOVE this challenge! Thanks so much my friend -awesome job!! 🤗
You can also use the bone in chicken with skin left on, one package of your sausage, you package of frozen peppers & onions with some diced celery...to make a wonderful gumbo! Just brown up equal amounts of flour and oil in a soup pot until color of an old penny. Add your chicken in to brown, then add your vegetables. Season with salt, pepper and Cajun seasonings and add water or chicken broth( you can even cook your chicken with skin and bone - whole pieces before you add it if you are strapped for time). Let mixture come to a boil, then reduce it to medium. After mixture has thickened up some, you can either put in a slow cooker to cook on low for 6 hrs, or leave on stove top on a low simmer until chicken is cooked. Serve over cooked rice with garlic bread. You can also cook up a pot of red beans to have next meal with sausage. Stretches your proteins a lot further.
That sounds delicious! Thank you for sharing!
My Walmart already raised the price of that marinara and alfredo sauce up to $1.40 here in TN it jumped up quickly. I recommend buying a lot of them before the price jump that is coming to you.
Have you ever made garlic knots out of canned biscuits? Just another way to go if bread is not on sale.
Loved your video! The meals looked delicious and the fact you made everything with a 50 dollar budget was great! I’m an empty nester so I don’t make meals most days but I still need to watch my money!
Love this challenge! I have never seen those frozen peppers and onions. I am definitely going to look for those; huge timesaver on a busy night! Your meals this week looked fantastic this week! Appreciate these budget friendly ideas!
We eat a lot of hot dog, eggs and rice with onion and soy sauce..whatever seasonings you like and it's amazing! Pretty cheap! I need all the cheap ideas since we fell on hard times and now living in a hotel that's robbing us blind...
Season with your heart. I love that. So very true.
Great ideas for budget meals! These are all going on my menu for our next pay period! Thank you!
I love that you did the haul, and the recipes all in one video and did it on a budget!!! Subscribed!
Nice work! I am super impressed you kept it under $50 including meat and even had some veggies. Great ideas your sausage dish looked really good also the chili dogs. I might try that out
Hello! New subscriber in Indiana. I just found your videos today and watched and watched and watched. I love that you use normal everyday ingredients, set goals, budget, prep and store and cook meals that your family loves and show us how to save $$$. Although it is just my husband and I here now, we still try to do all of these things. Us older folks need to budget, save, shop carefully, store, prep and have great meals too. Not to mention saving $$$. I appreciate you and will be watching through more videos. Thank you for what you do and for sharing it with us!♥
Thanks so much for another great cooking video and some great tips on how to get something yummy for dinner on a budget. I do a lot of budget meals myself I join in once a week on Wednesday budget meals under five dollars so I know how hard it is to come up. But it is possible. Thanks so much for sharing yours and you’re giving me so much inspiration and great ideas what I might be able to put up the next few weeks with a little different twist. Hugs and kisses from grandma Sandy thanks for sharing and giving so much inspiration.
What a great video and awesome ideas. We had 'leftover buffets' where everyone may not eat the same thing when I was growing up. My hubs takes leftovers for his lunch because I always make too much
Wow all of these recipes looks so delicious 🤤 I am so thankful for this wonderful video!! I am so glad that you did the awesome grocery haul and the wonderful dinners all in one video because it really did give me a visual of how to make and stretch what you have. Awesome video!! I am so thankful for your videos and tips and especially stretching a tight budget!!
Those meals looked fantastic! I think you did REALLY WELL! I have made that sausage dish often like you I just threw it togather one day and it became a regular you can take those leftover sausage and peppers and put them on a sub roll or with scrambled eggs for breakfast
use cheap taco or chili pkg for seasoning if you dont have a stocked seasoning pantry
For pizza sauce I use an 8 oz can of tomato sauce and season it with Italian seasoning. Saves money over using “pizza sauce”.
I've been making this dish for twenty years. I have found a way to make it awesome I dehydrate celery because I hate celery salt. So you can use thinly sliced fresh celery or dehydrated. Also add carmelized onions and a little bit of finely grated asiago cheese. Expensive cheese aren't expensive really because you only need a little for a ton of flavor examples I use are romano asiago and Italian parmesan the legit stuff.buy blocks because I not keen on eating cellulose which is in all pre grated or shredded cheese. Always buy the block and grate your own.
Awesome. So happy to see someone show different recipes. I go through these kinds of videos a good bit and it seems that most are all pretty much the same ideas. I'm so glad to see something new for a change. Definitely will be trying a couple of these. Thank You
I bought several pks of hot dogs when on sale so just need the crescent rolls. Can't wait to try.
I made pizza bread, my husband had never heard of it before! I used some hoagie buns I had for something else & they were good. I used pepperoni & bacon
If we have left over bacon I put in freezer & I use for omelets, baked beans, anything I can think of.
I HATE throwing away food, I feeling like takin a dollar bill or two in trash so always try to have no waste.
Not saying I never do but I really don't throw away much
I had made spaghetti & meatballs, there were 4 meatballs left & last night we did leftovers & I had those meatballs with some already noodles & green beans I had left. It was good, kinda like meat loaf.
adding heavy cream to alfredo is a great idea!! thank you
You can also use a couple pieces of fresh or canned corn, black beans and fresh tomatoes or can of rotel( hot or not), onion and garlic or powder, S& P, drizzle of vinegar and olive oil( opt). You have fresh corn and black bean dip. You can add fresh cilantro and diced jalapeño peppers if you want to give it more flavor. Serve with tortilla chips.
I do leftover meals too or next day lunch there is only two of us but I have budget one hundred dollars a week from a seventy five a week. I am finding this hard to do where I live now but I have moved over two hundred miles from where I use to live.
You did an Amazing job on $50!!. Your meals looked so good!😋
We constantly do the beef stroganoff this exact way and the bread pizzas so affordable and so good !! Anxious to try the others as well. Love videos like this where it is everything (proteins, etc )in the amount you have for the week ! The sausage and veggies over rice I've never had with tomato sauce I've always done soy sauce so this will be a good way to change it up as well !
There is a pizza dough they sell for 2 dollars that makes a full big pan pizza. Just add some toppings and place in oven. It tasted better than regular frozen too, it tastes just like a Pizza Hut or papa jones pizza. Cost, less than 5 dollars with all toppings too
Hey hey girl....I'm so excited for this video!!!
I forgot how easy french bread pizzas are!!!!! Thanks girl!!!!!
oh my that looks so good! I am from WV and this is the way we ate growing up.
Hey girl…….I do enjoyed this video, everything looked so good. I really like the chili dog and can’t wait to try it. I love hotdogs. I really love the sausage one too. All looked great. At least I know now that the $50 budget works. In the very beginning, I had doubts about it. You surprised me lol.
Thank you for sharing. Love ya bunches ❤️❤️❤️ Kim
We do left overs and at times it’s even better then the first time around
You rock !!!
Love ya bunches!!!!
I just looked down in the comments and saw the answer to my question thank you
So true about spices making a difference. Yum for this menu! The twist on sausage & peppers looked great. Most of your prices are very similar to ours in Michigan but Great Value Marinara sauce is $1.42. I often shop two different stores because of this (like you said with the chicken and Ruler Foods). You are such an encouragement even to this old Grandma; I hope there’s lots of young people learning from you
Our marinara is now $1.48 just with in a week from filming that to now!
@@SouthernWifeEverydayLife that’s crazy!! We’ve had some things jump also.
I always take the chicken skin and bones and boil them to make a broth for soup or dumplings.
You did so well. Everything looked good and you included meat too for the meat lovers. Loved that last meal with kielbasa right up my alley. Keep cooking and vloging . Bless you and your family.
Loved this video!! Thank you so much for taking the time to do this. It helps so much. I would totally love to see how to save money on snacks for your littles. 💕
I just shared a video of making little bite muffins “homemade”. Cheaper then buying them from the store. Winston is a only child, so we do go through a lot of snacks, but not like we would if we have more kids. I just try to make things homemade if I can or buy in bulk. Divide snacks up, so he doesn’t sit down and eat a whole box of something at once. Like taking a box of cheez-it’s and dividing it up into single serving ziplock bags. Also buy store brand that will save you a ton of money!
Yes, the grocery haul and cook is "totally" helpful. Thanks 👍
Now you talking, stewed sausage and rice!!! My Goddd!!!
You’re so good at meal planning. I’m terrible at it Thanks for doing these videos!
Really great menu! Really good job on the protein. That is important to me! Wish we had .88 Walmart marinara and Alfredo. Our GV Alfredo is up to $1.74!!!
Ours is now $1.48 for marinara and $1.74 for Alfredo.
@@SouthernWifeEverydayLife Oh OK, I don’t feel so alone. 😂
I make a similar sausage, peppers and rice meal but I use cajun seasoning. SO good.
As a fat person, I approve. Everything looks seasoned and tasty 😋
Oh my goodness ... all of these look so so good 😍😍😍.
Hey Tamara. I really really appreciate you so much !! You have the biggest most caring Heart ! 💜 Thanks for showing All of us that it's ok to make cheap meals and they look and taste amazing.. your such a Blessing to me, I'm sure to many. But I personally just wanted to say Thank You from the bottom of my heart. I Love you !! 😍 It's a scary world. I've cried so much lately. My kids are grown and I still worry about them having enough to eat. I make sure I make plenty extra food and invite them over to eat. Otherwise I can't take a bite of my food. Anyway. Everything looked Delicious. I really love your beef stroganoff yum. I'm making that this week. Take Care and God Bless Y'all 🙏 Love From your Indiana Friend.
I loved this challenge! You came up with some great meal ideas. I love your channel. You know you’re my hero😂🤗💕
I have six kids but one is about to go away to college but if I cook a bit more, this still saves me money!
your fav one looks amazing, cant wait to try it
Good Video, Love this grocery haul.. lots of good ideas. Thank you for sharing..
You could also use your skin and bones to make a stock to use for later
im definitely making the thing with the sausage! yum
I love that grater!! I needs it 🤣🥰🙌
Really great ideas. We love that chili cheese dog bake
I make something similar to the chicken skillet. I make mine in the instant pot, it can be a soup but I prefer to drain off the liquid and make fajita bowls out of it. I usually make the leftovers into burritos.
I like the breakdown, do more like this please! Thanks for all you do!
Great job I love these videos they're really helpful on inspiration you're a wonderful mom and a wife
Fresh chicken breast at my Walmart is 1.99 all the time . Cheaper than any other store in my area which I'm willing to drive the extra 5 minutes to get my chicken breast for that price. 🙂 I'm trying this challenge for sure
Heyyy family and happy Sunday thanks for sharing
Great idea for the markdown bread...it freezes well so could buy and have on hand. Homemade pizza or garlic bread...yummy. You did have plenty of pasta but I always check the weight...bowties are usually 12 oz and the others are 16oz...and same price at my Walmart. I found a couple new ideas. Thanks. Great dinners for 50.00.
You can use your bones and skin and make chicken broth in your crockpot. That’s a freebie!
Great budget meals!
Thank you for sharing Tamara have a blessed evening stay safe and healthy. Liked the video 🙏❤🦋
This was great! With today's grocery inflation prices, it's getting harder and harder to feed a family. I also have a family of four that includes two teens and they love meat! 😅My budget is always going up and up and grocery prices up and up. 😭I turn to these videos to try to find creative ways to stretch it and come up with more creative meals. I love your chili dog bake🥰 I'm going to try it soon and I know it will be a hit! I hope you keep making more of these other videos, thanks so much!💙
Thank you so much for the ideas! Every penny saved helps so much! Thank you again! 😊
Thanks for the video. We are a large family in Australia ( kids at home are 23, 17, 13 and 10 and all but 1 eat adult portions) the discount bread is our savour. It helps a meal stretch some little more. Though extremely jealous of your capsicum onion mix we don't have that as frozen mix here and it would save me so much money
id love to see a video where you do to the store today and buy all the same things and then compare the cost...inflation has bee awful here...that same bag of chicken is like double that price where i live
Your videos are always so packed with such good info. Thanks.
The chili dog recipe is my favorite. 👍
This is my first time to your channel. I enjoyed watching you cook all of your budget meals. I like the tips you add in. Adding spices on hand and comparing marinara sauce to pizza sauce. The bread was an excellent bargain. 👍
Welcome 🤗
Thank you so much for sharing this video!! I loved it!! You definitely inspired me!!
All the recipes look great! Thanks for sharing!!
Thank you for doing this! Really enjoyed your meals.
Sis as of right now feeding 11. I need as many ideas as I can get.
I freaking loved this one! 👏🏽 also thank you for yesterdays video! So important to prep right now 💕
Awesome video! Thanks!
Left over night at my home is called Must Goes
If you want to do it freeze up your cheese first then it will grate up easier