How to live on £1 a day | extreme food challenge UK | day 2 | foraging and Olio
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Day 2 of my extreme budget food challenge where I spend just £1 a day on food (£7 for the week).
Today I take a packed lunch on a work road trip, do some foraging at my local park and use Olio.
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I use olio all the time, I actually collected this evening. I can keep my food budget down to under £45 per month and eat really well too.
Wow love it xx
yep i too use olio quite a bit. had been on it years but didnt use it until last year when food prices became ridiculously high and utility bills & mortgage was becoming more expensive every month. im lucky there are quite a few people local to me that are olio distributors so im grateful to them for letting us have stuff to help out with the food budget, even if sometimes it is just greens or salad stuff for my guinea pigs & tortoise but sometimes get lots if great food items given away❤
Excellent foraging job! I agree with everything you said about the chemicals and how far removed we have become from our food sources.
Thank you Amanda xx
As a 22 year old just starting to live independently in expensive London, your videos are really helpful and refreshing.
Glad you like them! Wow! Extending to London how fab xx
Jam is equal quantity of fruit and sugar boiled to a temperature of 105deg then put into sterile jars . Can keep for up to a year. Fruit Compote is just cooked fruit to be eaten soon as. I have just made raspberry, gooseberry and rhubarb jam, delicious 😋 xx
Ah so I’ve made a compote x
I remember when I was a kid, my brother and I were stripping a mulberry bush and shoving as much as we could in our mouths. Another kid was horrified, thinking we were going to poison ourselves.
We looked at him like he was crazy for not knowing a mulberry bush, and then I heard my dad yelling at other parents who were helping clear the brush from the baseball field edges to not touch poison oak with their bare hands.
That was the day I learned that my family was not your usual family. It’s been crazy to me ever since how removed people are from the origins of their food.
So true and great memory! X
I love seeing your channel grow! You deserve it for the joy your videos give us!
Thank you so much! X
Ooh great vid! You could mix a little of your jam in wth your rice pudding...we always had that as kids to sweeten it up a little. I have never used olio for pick up or donate, but am headed there to investigate. Thanks for sharing. I know you arent using what you have already, but a treat coffee towards the end of the week can be your reward for doing so well maybe. Im weaning off of Pepsi Max right now!! The money im going to save!!!! 😮 Thanks again, tucked up in bed watching you, thanks for your company. Love Lou in Southport xx
Ooh yes yummy I might have that for breakfast today xx well done on the Pepsi max lou! X
Amazing - I found out Olio this week too! I’ve ‘foraged’ acrylic paints for my art, though. Brilliant app! Also, I was appalled at seeing a massive load of cherries off of a big cherry tree, strewn and smashed on the floor in a nearby street. If I think of their price per Kg….what a waste ….
Oh yes did you manage to scoop up any cherries? Well done on foraging art materials! X
Olio used to be great here but now all of the collections go to our local surplus pantries to be redistributed.
I pop along to a few close ones and usually get a fair amount of things - lots of bread !
You can often find a copy of Richard Mabey’s Food For Free in the library (or charity shop) - a great little foraging guide.
Oooh I’ll check that book out thanks for sharing x
Another superb show. I loved tagging along for your nostalgic walk to collect some seasonal fruits. You’re absolutely right, we a so removed from eating seasonal blessings. It was a delightful reset from the, ‘buy, buy, buy experience we are continuously plugged with. Well done lovely lady. I’m going to put my feet now I’ve finished work, and enjoy watching some more of your delightfully entertaining, hard work. Thank you 👍
Glad you enjoyed it xx
@@TheBudgetFoodieJuly is blackberry season. Love picking these.👍😁
Coffee, Waitrose does free coffee with purchase maybe you could have got a 10p potato or something and got a coffee when you really wanted one, just don’t forget your own cup
Fab tip! X
Great video, i use olio, and also put things on olio too to give away. Its a brilliant app and saves so much food waste. We forage every year, and look forward to our blackberry picking, as well as hazel nuts and sloes, wild garlic etc. Also you can pick dandelion leaves/flowers, packed full of nutrition. The nettles are a brilliant source of goodness👍
Ooh yes dandelion! X
I picked blackberries one year. Popped them in the fridge. When I took them out, maggots started crawling out of them. I can't bring myself to pick them again.
@@Arwen_Evenstars oh no! I take them home and dump them all in a huge bowl with 1 part white vinegar to 4 parts water and leave them for 15 mins then rinse several times, gets rid of everything and any bacteria on the fruit. Helps to keep them for longer too.
@caroldaviddaviejohnson2225 that's interesting, maybe I should try that.
I'm so happy I found your channel! Really enjoying your content and fantastic attitude - so this is all about saving to buy a house? I can't fault you. 🤗
Welcome aboard! Yes trying to save for a deposit but I am crap xx
loving following your journey, i have binge watched your content 😝i would definately buy a bottle of honey next week, add it to your oats, rice pud, add it to sweeten any recipes x
Great idea!! And thanks for following me Kelly x
I love the Olio app. I have been a member just over 7 years, I have had so much stuff over that time. Our freezer has about 6 or 7 bread products from Olio in it. I even got a Tesco large chicken back in April, just before my birthday. It was use by that day so I cooked it when I got home, chopped it up and put it in the fridge. It did 8 of us for my birthday gathering 2 days later with salad, cold potatoes, wraps etc. I love the app because you are saving food that would be thrown away and are cutting down on food waste. We even have a vase of roses and carnations in our living room, the flowers were on Olio.
Good luck with your week and hope you get plenty of Olio items.
Tesco large chicken! I’d love one of those xx
@@TheBudgetFoodie it was about 15 minute drive each way to collect it, but I always try and collect a few items if I am driving to get them. Seems a waste to drive like that for 1 item. Another time, from the same person, I collected a box of 6 Ginsters chicken and mushroom slices, box of 6 Ginsters sausage rolls, a pack of hot cross buns and a bag of oranges. They are regular posters, collecting regularly from Tesco and other stores and putting it all on the app.
Great haul xx
Bless you hun i am sending positivity your way . Your mum is with you always sweet heart❤
Thanks so much xxxxx
Awww ❤❤ I love Jack's meow! Beautiful boy!
He is so sweet xx
Well done; love blackberries, I wish we could all do this street by street, I’m sure no one would ever go hungry if we did. It’s a really good experiment.
I know we’d have enough if we all pooled our resources x
Consider watching Atomic Shrimp. He does a lot of foraging.
I love the shrimp! X
Olio is great , I gave away two packets of cream cheese to a lady that cooks in a community kitchen. She had just done a food hero pick up from pret and left me six baguettes , a salad and a Mac cheese 😋
Oh wow that was an amazing exchange!
Completely agree about the crap in our food and the things we use. Real food from real places! Natural is always best.
Yes! X
In Springtime Mousehold Heath has loads of Ransoms garlic, of which greens and flowers can be eaten.
Ooh I need to forage there x
Great foraging you could of done nettle soup or tea the shortbread I think you do half butter half lard same as the pastry I seem to remember my mum and Nan using that method you are doing a brilliant job
Thanks for the tips! Oh yes nettle soup, I need to get some more x
@BudgetFoodieUK
You can easily grow Nettles in your garden in a tub or bucket to prevent them spreading. I make tea with them every day, adding a bit of black tea or red bush. I also use them in smoothies and add them to dishes. I'm also growing lettuces, on the window sill in my kitchen (no snails), and bought some garlic bulbs to sprout. They grow outside. I use the green shoots in my food, and harvest the bulbs when the green dies off. Good on you, saving up for a house!
You're doing a great job on £7 a week! 🎉 from Aotearoa (NZ)
Wow!!! Awesome! I’ve just signed up for Olio. I’d never heard of it. Thanks 🙏
It's so good!
Nice idea foraging and olio, fried banana with yoghurt and honey would make a nice dessert one week for you. I’m trying to cook more :)
Sounds great!
Well done on discovering Olio. It's great isn't it. I've been on it for several years now and I'm a Food Hero (volunteer) it's such a lovely community and I must have saved so much money and food from going to landfill. It's a double winner!
I love your videos by the way!! Keep up the good work xx😊
Oh thank you! What’s it like being a volunteer? X
I’ve done it for a couple of years, so can’t be that bad! Very gratifying to know it’s preventing waste and helping people out. Everyone is so grateful. As a bonus I get to keep 10% of the collection and also anything that doesn’t get requested. I’d recommend it if there are any slots available in your area x
Thank you! So inspirational. Cheered me up.
You are so welcome!
Love your positive attitude. How resourceful you are! Amazing. I wish you much success. Subscribed.❤
Thank you so much!
Crumble the shortbread over a mashed piece of your banana for a “crumble”Or spice it up over your roasted veg. You (if you like foraging) could try the book Food for Free by Richard Madley my spelling google his name he is very interesting. 2nd video I’ve watched and I’m hooked. Love this!❤
Brilliant idea!!!!
Plant some lemonbalm..grows fast. You make tea with it. Good for anxiety too xx
Lemon verbena is lovely, too!
Hello luv..do you know that chickweed is full of iron and vitamins..washed along with salad leaves makes a great salad..also chickweed pesto..instead of basil etc..😉💐x
Ooh I did not know thanks for the excellent tip x
hahah made me chucke when you said this cucumber had legs...not literally haaaaa
Next time brew some nettle tea. Very good for you :)
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This is so cute! We get so many blackberries as we live next to allotments... watching you forage makes me feel so cosy! Would love to see more foraging content if possible ♥️
I will certainly try’ x
Nettle soup is lovely & so easy to make. Apples aren't out until later in the year. I'm quite lucky where I live as there are a couple of apple trees dotted about. Then theres cherry trees & some plum trees, but the plums are very small ( they could be greengages, but I'm not sure) & also blackberries & some sloe trees & of course nettles. Up on the moors nearby theres lots of windberries which are like blueberries.
This is so helpful thank you! 🙏 x
Remember the rice pudding and jam, it was a regular treat when I was a kid and cheap to make😊
Apples and blackberries come into season late summer/early autumn.
Nice country walk
Fun following your budget week,✔️🇦🇺
Mmm yes so good childhoods favourites are the best! Thanks for tuning in x
Actually, when you eat a lot of local products that are in season, it is very beneficial on your health! The mint tea and nettle are a great idea! Also you could have put rosemary into your quiche
Great idea!
Excellent idea to forage and the Olio app is great for picking up unwanted food. Keep going. You’re doing great.
Thank you! Will do! X
Thank you Rechenda (And cutie Jack) they were some great free bits when you said you were looking for blackberries I thought it was a bit early and apple a couple more weeks and you would have both but once again you have done well I do have the olio app but have’nt used it yet only to good to go the jam idea was so good for a sweet treat .xx
Thanks for the tips! Do you know when apples will appear? X
@@TheBudgetFoodie well mine in the garden come end Aug but you might get a few earlier if you look to churches they do the harvest festivals to celebrate mother earths bounty and sometimes they give away donations to people ..well they used to I don’t know about now xx
Great when you can get olio. None near me unfortunately and I don't drive. About to start stocking my cupboards with tins pulses and spices because I got handed my redundancy notice today. As of 28th September I'll be unemployed unless I can find something that will work for me. Maybe I'll start my own little channel!
Definitely start your channel Isobel! X
The strawberry leaves can be used as tea as well, they are extremely high in vitamins A & C
I had no idea thanks for the tip x
I've just bottled 35 small bottles of blackberry syrup, made from 12lb of foraged blackberries, to have on homemade yoghurt, porridge or rice pudding over the winter months. Also 3 litres of blackberry cordial.
Oh wow that is super impressive! X
How do you make yoghurt?
@@TheBudgetFoodie I bought Probio7 Life Yogurt Maker Machine off Amazon that makes it extremely simple to do. I tend to strain it once done as we prefer greek yoghurt. To start my own yoghurt off I bought some live (with the bacteria) yoghurt and used that as my starter. It's super simple as you just whisk a 1/4 cup of the live yoghurt with long life full fat milk and put it in the 2 x 500ml containers supplied and set it going on yoghurt mode. This makes a litre of yoghurt but as we prefer thicker yoghurt I put it in the strainer supplied and in the fridge overnight. I make yoghurt every 2 to 3 days as we love it so much. Hubby suffers with his tum and since making our own yoghurt it's gone. To make the next batch of yoghurt you just use a 1/4 cup of the last batch made and the cycle begins again. The machine I have also makes cheese but haven't tried this yet.
This challenge is really inspiring, you're doing so well! I downloaded the Olio app and haven't used it, am going to be have a look now. I couldn't to without my homemade iced coffee every day x
I feel so upset that I can’t have coffee this week :( xx
Plaintain is fabulously nutritious if you can find some of those, and it grows like a weed! Warning with acorns, make sure you learn how to process them safely. It takes some time and experience. Do not eat them as-is.
Ooh fab tip about the plantain and I will research more about acorns! X
One issue i have with olio is there are people who are on there everyday like its a job who specifically go round the shops buying up all the reduced items to put on the site, all good intentions but I regularly miss out on reduced items in the shop as they camp out and grab the items when being priced, where i see them later on the site! lol i then have to go out of my way to drive and get items if i really want them...
Its a bit like people who scourer charity shops for labels and anything worth more money on ebay... denying the people its intended for. Most things and people are great on olio but the over zealous do gooders do my swede in
Oh n that sounds terrible xx
Hi Rechenda, love your content. I don’t know whether your local council does free compost, but they do here in Wales, because I thought I would mention this, as you could also ask for another free recycling big tub, that is used for glass or plastics, they are very deep tubs and fill will free compost and grow spinach leaves from seed and lettuce, amoungst other things. I would happily send you seeds as I have so many. I have half an allotment plot, but I’m growing peas and cucumbers in a little tiny greenhouse in my garden. You’re doing so well and a lovely lady. Xx
Ooh that’s a fab idea I’ll investigate x how long have you had the allotment? X
I’ve had it for only just over a year, it’s a half plot, and honestly the amount of food I get is ridiculous, it’s at a stage now where it’s easy to manage and most things I grow from seed. The tiny greenhouse in my garden I was lucky to snap up from our local recycling shop for £5. It’s only plastic and the size of a portoloo! Also the shopmium app is really good, I’ve had lquite a bit of free items from that, and if you refer a friend you get a voucher to spend. I think we got £5 from referring a friend, I think the amount changes, you could refer your niece and when she gets her first cash back, you get a cash voucher.
If I lived in your neck of the woods I would give you loads off my allotment as I end up giving a lot to friends. Xx
A future idea you could do for breakfast (instead of dairy milk) is to make banana milk- mix together mashed banana and water.
I didn’t even know this was a thing thank you! X
@@TheBudgetFoodie You’re welcome. It’s a vegan recipe for when there’s no plant milk in the house. Optional ingredients are things like vanilla, peanut butter, some kind of sweetener, cinnamon, …
Olio is brilliant if there are some rescuers locally.. Some of the stuff needs using up quickly but you can meal plan around it.
Yes it seems fab x
Just found this channel love it
Keep up the good work 🎉
Welcome aboard!
Very interesting. I slice up bananas that are rather over ripe and freeze. That way there is no waste and I can use a small amount in a smoothie or another recipe when I want.
Great tip!
Just found your chanel
What great meal ideas you've come up with
I also love a challenge so am definitely going to try this I need to save as much as I can right now to pay off a stupidly high out of hours vet bill
So glad I found your channel 😊
Awesome! Thank you!
Hello👋👋 love the box idea for the 30 days. Going to give it ago with my kitchen drawers. 👍👍👍
Have fun! Xx
I only just subscribed, but oh my you brought back a great memory for me with the blackberry's, when i was about 6 we lived right next to my school field, Dad had blackberry bushes and they were poking out of the fence onto the school field, well in school we went on a hunt for blackberry's low and behold they were picking our ones haha, i never said anything and we all made jam in the classroom. That is all i remember i am 60 now Thinking back they were the only bushes so the teacher must have seen them.
A lovely memory! Blackberries are brilliant xx
Totaly behind and just found your chanel, love it❤. Side note there is an App called falling fruit that is a foraging map! Its free and is comunity based so its just a huge map of things other foragers have found. Unfortunately no one else really uses it in my area so not much is recorded, but definitely worth a look. Xx
I'll check it out! That is awesome!!
Raspberries are red. You picked blackberries, and the sugarless jam looks lovely. 😊
I know haha was having a ‘Rechenda’ moment 😹
Ive used Olio once after i picked my son up, wasted all that fuel to drive 23mins, they were inside and didnt open the door, probably raci*s*t* so ive learned my lesson, i can afford vegetables on sales inside the shops. NEVER again going to this app, deleted it off.
Oh no that sounds awful sending hugs xxx
Olio is brilliant very handy even if you do a shop pick up the amount you get is amazing
Yea seems fab! X
You could also start making a sourdough starter and make a no discard one to make bread instead of instant yeast using just flour and water
Also Olio is really good, and I've enjoyed watching your creativity!!
Thanks for the tip!
We have lots of blackberries in the forest here, and crabapples come later. We walk the dog daily and from what we have witness always best to pick the high fruit 😂😂
Yummy!
oh wow, i just downloaded the Olio app immediately after you mentioned it, and i looks incredible, what a wonderful idea, i will have to try it out
Hope you enjoy it!
Love your channel, and the cucumber with legs bit made me lol. Foraging - there's a book called "Food for Free" by Richard Mabey, good for UK foraging! Give it a test drive from the library maybe?
I'll check it out!
BlackBerry compote! Yum! 😋
And lovely Jack being a cutie x
It was so tasty x
I gave up on the Olio app ages ago, everything I applied for had already gone, some people must just sit in front of the computer or phone and grab anything as soon as it is offered ! I think it depends on where you live, some areas are better than others, also you have to consider how far you will have to travel to pick stuff up, sometimes the cost of petrol wipes out any saving. I've also tried Supermarkets own too good to go boxes but they're also not what they're cracked up to be, usually full of bread ! I hope you have better luck, but for me it was a waste of money.
I have t used it since xx
You did great finding the blackberries they looked lovely and as usual great relatable vlog Rechendra, so natural and normal 😊
Thank you so much 😊
Must try olio I’m on it but never collected yet love the jam and all free x
I must say olio has been fantastic!
Vanilla essence is a great taste booster and sweetener for your rice pud!
Thanks for the tip! Xx
Love this videos!
Thanks John
Probably costs more to feed the cat 😂😂😂
Wow you are doing amazing at this challenge you are so creative ❤
Thank you 🤗
Olio is great if you don’t mind driving around but getting loads off food, or you can be trained , picking food up and upload the listings yourself and keeping some
Very true!
Great job. When I'm running low on milk I add water to it to stretch it out 👍🏻
Great tip! Xx
Olio app is great if it’s in your local area. 😊
It really is! Xx
Worth checking out other apps. Too good to go i think is the one where you get cheap bags of food from certain shops. Also community fridge's. ❤
Oooh will check it out x
Oh my goodness your cat, i help cat protection feed the cats here, currently have one that sleeps in my greenhouse and stays in my yard, if i put the oven on he sits crying thinking i have chicken cooking, extreme weather he comes inside with his blanket and toys, but always crys to get out again. He has white paws like yours and black, at first he did scratch u, he had been ferral for a while but chose to live here sort of thing and we do look after him.
Oh lovely Jackie I’m so pleased you are looking after cats at cat protection so sweet xx
A jam woyk would be great with the blackberries if you wanted to just an idea
You read my mind haha
Sounds fab!
Do you follow Atomic shrimp, (English content) I'm canadian 😋 He has so much info
Yes I do! X love shrimpy
I make my own 🍕 🍕 🍕 🍕 for a 💷 pound just evry veggies in the fridge and cheese 🧀 and garlic 😋 👌 😄 😊
If you needs greens then you can use dandilion leaf and four leaf clover.
Yummy!
There are free apps you can download to check greens when foraging ❤
Oooh x
Love your vids always watch so funny. Am a Cambridgeshire girl myself. Only thought is have you factored in the cost of fuel when driving just to pick up a free Olio cucumber? Surely it's alot more than just buying a cucumber at the shop. Also, the fuel costs of cooking all the meals as they all seem to require electric? Surely it adds up?
Am also a cat lover my cat is called Lucky 😉
Also, have you thought about downsizing to a one bedroom or even a bedsit or house share to save up for that deposit quicker? I lived in 1 room for years to save for a place of my own and it helped alot 😉 could never have afforded to rent a 2 bedroom place.
Yeah exactly fuel is definitely a factor xx hello to your feline lucky xx
❤You videos are so funny and entertaining. They are my guilty pleasure. Where did you get the idea from? Xx
I am 44, also a single woman. Can relate to much of this
One of my biggest issues is food waste, as a single person. Used to go to Norfolk all the time, lovely coast. I can't believe you tried to eat a rhubarb leaf, how funny! 🤣 That was very entertaining
Yeah I’m considering getting a housemate
Ah shame you don't live near me...I have an allotment. I'd give you some fruit and veg.😊
So nice of you! D
Hi chock new sub here loving you content . Can you do a budget update. also maybe a q and a .your food looks gorg hun ❤toni😊
Thanks for subscribing toni! Finances are all up the creek due to going on a spending binge after mum died and also £1k personal tax bill
Well done xx
Thank you 🤗
Do onion skins taste ok? Blackberries? Finding this series interesting.
Yes all lovely nosh haha x
If you don't mind me asking what kind of cat food do you get? I'm spending too much for my boy and looking for alternatives. Thank you
I get him purina one dry food, he has dreamies and table scraps x
Are they glass meal prep containers? I'm looking for some need to get away from all the rubbish plastic
They are Amazon! Link here for similar ones www.amazon.co.uk/MEETOZ-Glass-Food-Storage-Containers/dp/B0CNPT6N77/ref=pd_aw_ci_mcx_mh_pe_im_v3_t2_cao_p_12?pd_rd_i=B0CNPT6N77&pd_rd_w=1DLUV&content-id=amzn1.sym.64b13bd8-6f1c-4cdc-a03e-aeed4d769c98&pf_rd_p=64b13bd8-6f1c-4cdc-a03e-aeed4d769c98&pf_rd_r=54SWDSN183WB1Z73Q8FD&pd_rd_wg=mTGOU&pd_rd_r=53776d91-c400-46e5-869d-df2fe6e9207a
Just a polite question: why do many Brits want free or very cheap stuff? Every time we visit England we find it more and more expensive but here you are showing how much you can get for free. I wonder : do you not have jobs available for the locals, so they can make enough to feed their families? Are the salaries low?
I think there is some of that but food prices have also gone berserk aka olive oil now about £7 a bottle x
Ooh how did you pick the nettles? I worry about getting stung but they are so nutritious.
I had to improvise so I used a plastic food bag and almost used it as a glove then ‘inside out’ it xx
You just pick stinging nettles ? And boil them and eat like cabbage ?x
Forege wild spples raspberries strawberrys mi.y yes
Yes love a forage
I'd rather save the petrol money than get free food. Its a great app though!
Yes totally thought the same! X
I didnt know you could eat onion skin. Isnt it really dry
Not when you cut it finely and roast it xx
Next thing we know dwp has stopped all bemefits and thrown you all a fiver food voucher
I’m not on benefits lol but thank you for your contribution
Raspberries or blackberries?
Oh gosh you’re right they were blackberries!! Mind blank lol x
@@TheBudgetFoodie Happens to me all the time ❤ xx
Jam and blackcurrants look fab. Nice to see some lovely shots of Jack today. Is he still with his girlfriend? x
I haven’t seen his girlfriend for ages perhaps she has a new man in her life?
We almost live off of Olio
It is fabulous xx
I'm in Australia & there's a Web site & an app called "ripe near me",which is basically if you have any trees with excess fruit or veg from your own garden & want to share for free or sell or swap for other produce that you need you advertise & anyone looking for certain produce can go on the sites to find out where to go pick up what they need.maybe there is also a site for people in the uk.
Don’t eat nettles when in flower
Oh no! Too late xx
So sorry Rechenda! Hate getting someone's name wrong😅
No worries! X
The app looks handy, however I hope you don't take clearance items and giveaways which people struggling need. ❤
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