Feeding 2 On Less Than $50/Week! Day 4, 5, & 6!
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- Day 4 Meals:
Breakfast: Egg Strata with Peppers & Onions
Lunch: Leftover taco rice with black bean salsa (burrito bowl)
Dinner: Shepherd's Pie
Day 5 Meals:
Breakfast: Scrambled Egg Tacos with black bean salsa
Lunch: Leftover Shepherd's Pie
Dinner: Unstuffed Pepper Skillet
Day 6 Meals:
Breakfast: Potato and Egg Scramble with Diced Onion & Smoked sausage (Made into Tacos)
Lunch: Leftover Unstuffed Pepper Skillet
Dinner Tuna Casserole
Day 7 options
Breakfast: Fruit & Yogurt Parfait, Leftover Strata, Leftover Potato Breakfast Tacos
Lunch: Leftover Tuna Casserole
Dinner: Eat out, frozen pizza, or finish off any leftovers from throughout the week
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Would love to see the hybrid Walmart/Dollar Tree meal plans. Would also like to see more slow cooker recipes when you want dinner done when you get home after a long day out of the house! You don't know what an indispensable aid your meal planning videos are for some people, especially me. 😉
Good idea!
This would be a great idea! I'm always curious too whether the Dollar store or Walmart have the better prices per portion too. There will be some things that are better at one then the other
My mom would come home and have meals on the table within 30 minutes or less using her pressure cooker. I shipped hers from Germany so now I am making her recipes.
DITTO TO THIS
I also think that would be an awesome idea to see a Dollar tree and Walmart combo show.
these meals are so accessible! she doesn't "assume" the person knows how to cook, and explains everything beautifully. this would be perfect for the young person just starting out, maybe sharing with a roommate like $25 and $25 per person and budgeting that way.
I think a mixed-market video is a great idea. Some things are cheaper at WalMart and some are cheaper at Dollar Tree, so it would be cool to get the cheapest price total. That's how I like to shop, and I would assume that the majority of people are like me; get the items where they're the least expensive. There are always going to be people who aren't able to do that, but I feel like most people are able to.
I would enjoy the Dollar Tree and Walmart combination store list and menu
If you wet your knife or take a piece of wet paper towel and set it on the corner of the cutting board, the acid in the onion will be drawn to either of those moisture sources instead of your eyes. I’ve been doing this for the last few years and haven’t cried from an onion burn since. Just a tip to help.
Or just have a damp dish cloth nearby on the counter
.... you are a hero
I love the idea of mixing Dollar Tree items with grocery store items. That's how we shop. I see what DT has, then hit the sales at the grocery store! Last night we had ham and bean soup over rice, as you suggested in a previous video. Hubby and I both loved it and plan to have it again. We added some carving board ham since we had it. Great job, Rebecca! Keep these awesome videos coming! We appreciate you!
I always mix groc store and dollar tree
That recipe works with potatoes in the soup too, I grew up eating that.
Im not someone who comments about health and safety things (I’m a food safety inspector for my province) but becuase I care about you and your family…please know this ❤Putting shells into the carton where there is still intact eggs causes bacteria from the opened shells to seep into your uncracked eggs, and all over your hands.Pasteurized commercials eggs don’t have the protective vernix farm fresh eggs have and that’s why we refrigerate them. Please throw away or compost your shells immediately after cracking. This would def cause diarrhea and vomiting without you knowing why because salmonella is invisible but nasty!
Thank you for sharing! Old habits die hard but I’ll do my best :)
Stupid question then @mamastyles, does it really matter then cuz the eggs are getting cooked, and will cook off any bacteria? (Honest question, trying to learn....)
I was going to say the same thing, I’m not a health inspector but I was raised to throw them out for that reason.
I can't even type a reply because of all the ads... Anyway, if shells could contaminate other eggs in a carton then contaminated whole eggs should as well because of the lack of protective coating. If you use a contaminated egg you are contaminating other foods that come in contact with it. But cooking to the proper temp for long enough reduces salmonella to undetectable levels. If you eat undercooked eggs there's a risk anyway because you never know if one is contaminated. If you always fully cook eggs and foods that touch raw egg then you are good. If the egg was already in the carton, and shells are porous and don't stop the spread, then nothing changes when you throw that egg shell back in. Eggs not touching may reduce the spread, but I know I touch multiple eggs when I grab one.
I love the idea of cutting back on the amount of meat to make it stretch further! Great idea! Most times I just add more veggies and no one knows the difference!
Wahoo!!! I can watch this and tweak my grocery delivery for tomorrow!! Maybe. I really want to make the black bean tacos from Day 2. You are a rock star Rebecca!! Thank you for all of our hard work on this channel. I don't think you truly appreciate how many lives you have touched and how many people you have helped!!!
I know you will love it!!
Put some worcestershire sauce in your ground turkey, and it will give the taste of beef
Good tip!
🤔 worth trying
So thankful for this channel. Due to recent health issues, I am unable to drive (and live out in the country, so no delivery) and your recipes with limited ingredients makes it so much easier to put together meals from my pantry/freezer. Even if I don't make the recipes exact, it helps to spark some creativity lol
i hope your health issues get better soon...
I feel like a shake of sage would turn that strata into a thanksgiving-style meal with how close it is to homemade stuffing! I'm floored at the variety of meals you've been able to get out of this $50 series. Keep it up, Rebecca!
Yes if she had made double of the bread and veggies half could be saved for stuffing, just add chicken seasoning and broth. To make it. Complete meal, add apples and sausage, mushrooms and ham, or chicken and either apples or mushrooms.
I grew up basically poor, but never went hungry. My grandmother was the one pot meal queen. She would start with a cheap cut of beef or pork chops, add rice or pasta, or even vegetables and it was delicious. Cabbage and pork chops was the bomb. We didn't always have meat, but we always had something tasty to eat. She made homemade tortillas nearly every day and we always had beans and rice. Seasonings are important and they're fairly inexpensive at the Dollar Tree and Walmart. Don't have onion? Keep a jar of chopped onions from the seasoning section and just rehydrate those. It works out great in recipes. Dried herbs and seasonings are great when you don't have fresh. I love your videos. You've given me so many great ideas. Keep em coming. :)
And me.
My mom was the same. Bought cheap meat at the commissary and pressure cooked it and dinner was on the table in minutes
Just a side note as I’m British, Shepherd’s Pie is made with lamb mince, hence the Shepherd in the name. When made with beef, we call it Cottage Pie. I have to say it looked pretty good what you made. What I use to do when I was on government assistance was to bulk it out with lentils, another thing we Brits do, which I highly recommend is to top it with grated cheddar cheese, 10 minutes before it finishes cooking 😋
A fantastic easy budget meal is curry! Especially vegetarian curry. I feel like a lot of ppl are intimidated by curry, but it's simple if you use curry powder instead of buying all the separate spices (less cost effective though).
We made veggie curry last night using potatoes, carrots, onion, curry powder, salt, a can of chickpeas, a small can of crushed tomatoes, some chicken broth that I made from bouillon, and a can of coconut milk (but using some plain yogurt would be cheaper!!). Served over white rice. If you thinned it with more broth you could probably just eat it as a soup instead of over rice. It makes a TON of food.
I made an fantastic chickpea and potato curry the other night. It was amazing. :)
I love the Great Depression meals btw! And the dollar tree/Walmart combo idea sounds great. Let’s be honest, we’ll watch anything you great.
I saw someone else's channel where they were making a shepherds pie with ground turkey. They called it Pilgrim's Pie.
I love that!
I love these videos more than the Dollar Tree videos! The DT ones have a lot of great ideas but not the healthiest of meals to eat regularly lol. With fresh meats and vegetables from Walmart your budget friendly meals are much healthier.
I Appreciate that your servings are generous and would actually fill up the average person.😊
Tip for chopping onion!! If you wet a dish towel or paper towel and sit it on or right next to your cutting board while you're chopping onions, it'll stop the eye burning!
This is such a great video, love seeing all of your ideas! Speaking as someone who knows a lot of potato farmers (from Idaho lol), I would try to avoid green potatoes when you can, I know there’s not always great options, but green doesn’t mean underripe for potatoes, it’s where’s the solanine (toxin) is concentrated. Even just peeling away or cutting that part off is better for you! Said with love 💕
I think my husband and I goofed and used green potatoes in our curry last night. We've both been in the bathroom a lot today lmfao. Definitely going to have to pay better attention next time 😅
Yes that’s true, no green potato parts they’re poisonous!
Yes, and this is extra hard on people with immune issues... Like arthritis, those with allergies and food sensitivities, anyone with even very mild nightshade sensitivity or allergies and those with the MTHR gene variant because of reduced ability to eliminate toxins.
I think you should do a shopping trip just to stock your pantry. Sugar, flour, a few spices like cinnamon, powdered milk or canned milk, shelf stable milk, pasta and canned vegs, fruit, gravy mixes, and canned meat. With a well stocked pantry one could spend less each week for groceries. This would help young people just starting out.
That's a good idea
This could honestly make a really good semi-long term series: a 4 week "starter pack" for home cooking on a budget, where the first week goes towards stocking up as well as making meals, and then weeks 2, 3, and 4 have maybe a smaller budget but use the stocked pantry from week 1.
I think a video showing dinner ideas combining Walmart and Dollar Tree foods would be great, because as you said a lot of people shop both stores.
One thing I love to do on a tight budget on cold days is make vege chili. Can be done stovetop or crockpot. A can of black beans, some other bean of choice, canned diced tomatoes and canned corn, and whatever chili spice I have on hand. Can add onion/pepper/garlic if you want. Add some jiffy mix cornbread on the side. Put it over rice or serve on its own. Another lunch dish is rice with skillet roasted canned chick peas (garbanzos). Sometimes I put cabbage slaw with it.
The ability to use only 1/2 or 3/4 pound of beef is one of the reasons I buy the frozen formed patties at Walmart. There is, more or less, little to no price difference. The other two reasons are I don't have to worry about how quickly I use it up or have to remember to freeze it if I don't use it; and I don't have to remember to pre-thaw it prior to a meal (as they thaw quickly in the pan).
That is really clever, I hadn't thought of that!
I do this with chicken breasts. I remove the chicken tenders of each breast and set them aside for a meal of their own. Nobody notices the tenders are missing. It's a great way to get another meal from the chicken breasts without spending more money!
Very clever!
The upside down shepherds pie idea would be great for us. My son doesn’t like potatoes (I know) but I do and then he could have it over rice or pasta or bread (his favorite). 😊
I call that a Shephard's pie bowl and do it when I'm lazy. Potatoes are my favorite, so I've never thought of varying it, but that's a great idea.
i get the unflavored potatoes and flavor it myself...i have dried ranch, chives, garlic, bacon bits, cheese powder at home.
If you can stock these items it's worth it. They really play a large role in giving affordable budget friendly items such as pasta, rice and potatoes much needed variety.
@@yvonnepalmquist8676 they don't cost much, but i also have a working pantry as well as a linger term pantry...most of these i find at our dollartree
For the tuna casserole don’t forget about canned chopped beef. You could make a stroganoff like meal just by replacing that tuna with 2 small cans of chopped beef.
I have to tell you I’ve been binge watching your videos. I don’t necessarily need to live on such a limited budget but you are still giving me plenty ideas to save money with these recipes. You talk about finding a balance of creativity and accessibility and I think you nail it. Thank you for your content and dedication to the channel - it shows!
The strata looked so good. I love Eureka, if you haven’t seen it Warehouse 13 is a good one.
I’ll check that out, we loved Eureka!
A big second endorsement for Warehouse 13 from another Eureka! loving family.
I've watched you for a long time, I'm still amazed at how many different meals you come up with. Thank you for sharing with everyone!
🙏💜 Rebecca, thank you so much! I was inspired by one of your videos earlier this week to make the black bean salsa, but I added 1 pound of ground turkey that I prepared, like "taco meat," with taco seasoning first. If you do this...brown the meat, drain it, bloom the seasoning packet like Rebecca says while the meat is draining (it really works!), add the meat back to the pan, add the can of Ro-tel (store brand works great) and the liquid from that is probably enough that you don't need to add water (or as much), add your can of drained corn, add your can of rinsed black beans, and heat through until beans are tender--likely less than 10 minutes with stirring and covered.
I've been eating this "salsa and meat base" on small tortillas, in a bowl on top of rice with refried beans and cheese (if you can have cheese), etc. You could also eat it like a dip with chips or use other toppings you may have. It is SO full of flavor (I forget it's ground turkey), protein, and fiber that I look forward to thinking of new ways of using it. I may try it on top of a baked potato later today, hmm...LOL! Thanks again for the inspiration, Rebecca! 🙏💜
Nice! That sounds like it would make great burritos and nachos too.
Back in the day when I worked for PBS we had a chef come in to film a pledge drive segment for her cooking pledge program. I remember she made a strada like baked brunch dish, she used brioche or french bread slices, a lot of butter, heavy cream, eggs and fake lobster. I forget what seasonings she used, I do remember it was not Old Bay. I remember people in studio saying it might be good with lump bluefin crab meat and Old Bay.
I've had a sweet version of that with the bread soaked in a mixture of the eggs and heavy cream with vanilla and sugar and topped with dried cherries, pineapple and raisins and dollops of cream cheese. It was dusted with powdered sugar after baking, it made a really nice brunch dish. Yum!
Which show? Do you remember?
If you change out the tuna for chicken. You might want to do a can of cream of celery with a can of cream of mushroom soup. Add some onion powder and garlic powder to taste.
I was waiting for the movie night nachos using your tortillas crisped in the oven. Topped with the left over turkey, salsa, and cheese. Thank you for inspiring many ideas from your meal plan. 🎉❤ 🏆
I patiently wait for your videos. I love them. I enjoy watching them on snowy days.
My daughter loves shepherds pie but I’ve started doing a kind of deconstructed shepherds pie in the skillet with hash browns. Either way…there’s never leftovers😊
Hashbrowns or tater tots work. Bonus if you have garlic powder and a bit of butter, olive oil, or cheese for the top. Even dried powdered parm works.
When you cook up the raw potatoes and stuff I put mine in my air fryer just spray them with a little cooking spray and add Mrs Dash garlic and herb but I cut mine small like you do and I don't cook them or whatever ahead of time and I just put them in the air fryer for a 400 on air fry for 20 minutes where I get them crispy where I like them and oh my gosh they are so good
I do similar with olive oil, garlic powder, and sometimes parmesan at the end in the toaster oven. This also works for sweet potatoes, broccoli, and cauliflower, smash and add parm toward the end.
That's okay. I say it all the time, too. "One of your best videos yet!" 😂
I use 1/2 lb of ground beef for most recipes that call for a lb. I add extra veggies instead. My family doesn’t notice the difference. It works with anything like Shepard’s Pie or pastas, etc. Obviously not if you were making burgers or something. Mushrooms are a great way to make up for less meat too and they go with everything. My HEB puts them on sale often too.
Rebecca..It’s fine to have a “chill evening”! Sometimes we all need a well-needed rest from daily responsibilities, and especially from stressful times at work, with family, or etc.! That being said, I love watching your creativity with the different budget meals, you are providing a great service to many people!!!
I made the black bean salsa it was so good my 9 year old grandson asked me to put avocado in and we both loved it.
I love that! Thank you for trying it!
To make instant potatoes brown... you gotta used less water than the box says and make them on the thicker side❤❤❤❤❤
I always look forward to your videos, no matter what your plan for the week is. I love watching you cook and all the creative things you come up with. I don't think anyone would feel deprived of a good meal, even tho you have kept it on a budget. You really inspire us.
Rebecca, Great meal options, even for us vegetarians. Keep up the great work. 😊
Loved this series! I can only imagine the amount of work, research and planning that goes into your videos but I know a LOT of people appreciate it! With the cost of groceries nowadays, there are so many people who are needing to shop and cook on a budget. Grateful for the helpful content you put out!
One of the things that is great about you is your authentic approach. You keep it real. And there was nothing more real today than your reaction to the onions. So relatable. The stuff pepper skillet was my favorite of all your recipes.
I use coffee creamer all the time to make frence toast because some of them or lactose free and gluten-free
Another good thing to use for French toast is eggnog. I always make it a couple of times around Christmas when I can buy the eggnot already prepared.
Add shredded cheese to the top of the shepherds pie if possible :) Your skillet rice meal is my kind of yumminess. 20/10 once again Rebecca !!!
I don't care for cheese on my shepherds pie, but i absolutely love it on tuna casserole.
Using the coffee creamer is a brilliant idea!!! I didn't think of that.
If you'd move the Shepard's Pie up to the top rack in your oven and turn the setting to broil the tip would probably brown pretty quickly.
Or add a bit of an egg wash… that will help with browning as well
I thought maybe panko? I know there are midwesterners who crush potato chips over their casseroles for a crunchy finished top, my ma just wasn’t one of them.
It needs fat... Butter or cheese would do it.
My Walmart and Dollar Tree are in the same parking lot. Dollar Tree always has the best price on rice and dried beans.
Not the same plaza for me, but the same intersection across from each other. I wouldn't be surprised to find that's intentional (like Taco Bell are always close to a McDonalds).
Pam here….someone has probably already told you this, but when you think you can’t use up an onion or pepper, you can chop and freeze without blanching. I freeze extra from my garden on cookie sheet and can grab a handful to cook with when I need it.
I think it would be great to see a Walmart/Dollar Tree combo. You could show how to stretch a certain budget by getting items cheaper at either store to get the best of both worlds. This series was great as well. You do a terrific job.
I really liked the two weeks back-to-back meal plans. As usual, you've inspired me to carefully plan out what interesting combos I can throw together. I looked at the canned chicken options (for your chicken pot pie pasta suggestion) but I've never bought canned chicken before since it isn't as cost efficient as buying chicken and cooking it. But maybe that's because I'm comparing the cost of the uncooked chicken to cooked? I'm sure there's weight lost during cooking, but I wouldn't have thought it was that much? At my grocer, cooked canned chicken breast sells for 1.79 a 5 oz can (or $5.73/lb), and raw boneless/skinless chicken boobs are $2.99/lb. Or thighs for 99 cents/lb. I feel like I must be overlooking something here, beyond the convenience and raw/cooked weight.
Also, be aware that the labeled weight on a can of chicken is not all meat, the liquid counts toward it as well, so a "12 oz" can of chicken might only have about 7 oz of actual chicken meat inside, once you drain it. (I was using canned chicken quite a bit, until I actually weighed it once for calorie-counting purposes. I was shocked at how little actual chicken I was getting for the money!)
Canned chicken is more expensive that buying a whole chicken or just legs or thighs. If you have already cooked chicken in your freezer you can use that. She is trying to show younger people how to budget. Us old cooks know to buy a whole chicken and cut it up, boil the bones for broth, package up the meat to use for casseroles. Due to my extremely tight budget right now I'm not grocery shopping and using the canned chicken I bought 2 years ago is coming in handy.
It is usually cheaper per pound to get the raw chicken then cook and shred it. But usually you have to buy a multi pound package of chicken so if you only need it for the one meal a can of chicken can be more practical sometimes
whenever a pepper or two is looking a bit old [I buy them in bags], I stab it a couple times and throw it in the oven to roast til the skin puffs up, then skin and core it, slice it into batons, and spoon the slurpy pile into an ice cube tray to make toss-it-in cubes of roasted pepper that go in late in the cooking process [rather than at the beginning to sauté with the raw onion]
I do a tuna casserole/one pot meal similar to yours but.... lol I use mac and cheese, peas and tuna. My spouse loves it.
I have been binge watching your videos. Super neat to see the evolution of you sampling the food. From the early days when you took big bites and then things seem to get awkward while we watch you eat to now where you sample to give an opinion but cut out the chewing - neat
Possible idea is usually a town has a bargain barn or a grocery outlet or one of those bargain outlet stores that has all the almost expired or Best buy used a you can get some really good bargains there you could do a generic if you have a store like that anywhere area I tend to shop at my grocery outlet bargain barns quite often we never know what you're going to get and sometimes they have quite healthy stuff that people don't can't afford but it gets pushed down to the bargain barn at cheap prices just a thought I kind of make up meal plans on the fly depending on what's in the freezer section we're at the store at that time of day
I am a super fan! Love love love your content every video. As a vegetarian I have used many of your ideas and techniques and wonder if you would do an episode strictly vegetarian. Vegetarian food is cost effective too!!
i think I'll try that 1st recipe but make it with a bit of ground sausage. 😋 and like you suggested some white pepper gravy on top...OMG sounds so yummy
Combining the Dollar Tree and Walmart shopping is one I'd like to view. Thanks
I will say that when my husband and I were raising our 3 boys, I made mostly one pot meals! They are easy usually and cheaper than trying to feed a family on a meat, starch and veggies. I think that this week of meals was wonderful! thanks for sharing xoxo. I think the combo of dollar tree and walmart would be great!
Amen to the comment section. It rocks. I tend to get into a rut and don't mind it most of the time. But there are those days when you just cannot face yet another same old same old. The variations and tweaks folks mention are priceless! The same old basic ingredients become something totally different. I even enjoy the tweaks that are not perfectly tasty because they change things up enough to hit reset on my same old humdrums.
Question: On an upcoming severe limitation video (equipment, etc) could you consider doing a how-to-basic cleanup safely in situations where you have limited water or room to wash up, etc? Once, an Army cook showed me some tricks to ensure clean up left dishes sanitized and clean without any hot water. Would love to know some more such tips.
what was his secret??
Why not share what the cook showed you?
🙏💜 I shop weekly at both Dollar Tree & Walmart for the best value meal plans so of course I’d love a combo video 🎉
They sell onion goggles on Amazon, I have a pair and they work, I can't chop onions without them, they look stupid, but, I don't care, nobody's going to see me🤣
Or if you’ve got college students that had to take chemistry, ask for their lab goggles if they don’t need them for other courses (we had to buy our own).
Dollar Tree and Walmart together sounds great. Looking forward to it
I would LOVE to see you do some meal plans, or even full weeks with a certain dollar amount budget, using both Walmart and Dollar Tree, or any 2 stores, really! I think it would be a great chance for you to talk about why you bought which ingredients from each store rather than the other, in order to make the most of your dollar. Shopping at different stores is something that I've always found very important for helping with a grocery budget.
Yes, I'd love the combo store. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
if you have a little bit of the "shaky cheese" parmesan cheese could help the potatoes brown a little.
Your strata looks delicious! I can’t wait to try it! ❤😋
To brown ur potatoes put pan on top shelf and turn broiler on hi and broil Shepard's pie for 5-10 minutes until browned. Just make sure to watch will cook fast on broil.
I put my potatoes in the microwave for about 6 minutes. When they’re cool enough to handle I dice/cube them and finish cooking them with in a skillet with olive oil and butter. I season with salt and pepper! They come out so good! I add eggs as the potatoes are cooking and scramble them! Add salsa
My meal plan was decided this week when I found a pork roast for 99¢/lb. All our dinners came from this $5 of meat. (And it was plenty of meat for the two of us!) I tried to make a variety of flavors with the same meat. Cut some off to make chow mein, cooked the rest as a traditional roast and potatoes meal, and then made pork noodles with the leftover roast and gravy. Each of these made enough for two nights.
We grab pork shoulder when it is that price and cook in the crock pot with BBQ dry rub over a rough chopped onion and a few chopped apples. Add BBQ seasoning and beans to make tacos, nachos, or burritos. Add over beans and rice. Add to a stir fry. Leftover cooked pork goes into a gallon zip, smashed thin and frozen flat so that I can break off a piece to add to other weeks. We even like it over noodles or rice with a creamy or cheesy sauce with mushrooms and onions, broccoli or spinach.
I am really enjoying these $50 walmart dinner plans. I do most of my shopping at walmart and have 2 adults and a teen to feed. So these ideas would work well for my family as we are also on a tight budget. Thank you for your hard work. Love your channel. Also even though I did not get around to commenting on the other video you mentioned it in, I think you should keep your channel name the same. It is established and people know who you are. I love that you are adding in more content of a different variety too. I also love the idea of the dollar tree/ walmart dinner plan combo you mentioned. Looking forward to all your new ideas. Keep up the great work!
Tex-mex is my favorite, too! That strata thing looks good! I didn't know there was such a thing...going to have to try that this weekend!
Due to health issues for some and wildly differing palates in my family, I don’t underseason but I do lowball the *salt* on the regular so people can self-serve their finished preference from the salt pig at the table.
I would like to see a video with Walmart and dollar tree. Great idea. Ours are together here in TN.
I would love a video with dollar tree and Walmart supplies! They are my main stores for shopping
So many different varieties of meals in this week! I really appreciated the different textures of each and every ingredient. I appreicate all the work that went into this.
Yep, it is just a hop, skip, and jump from our Walmart to our Dollar Tree. ❤
Good to see you back. I really love your content and look forward to watching ❤
We always made that kind of tuna while camping. It went by the ultra fancy name of tuna noodle glop :)
I think that you are so ingenious with what you make with so little money. The price of food in England has sky rocketed so I have been looking at making more affordable meals. You have given me great inspiration. Thank you ❤
These looked delicious and as always, so well thought out. Thank you for the hard work, effort and consideration of all of us. Yes PLEASE Dollar Tree & Walmart! That’d be FANTASTIC! You’re a joy and a delight, Rebecca! God Bless!
I use unflavored powdered coffee creamer and milk isn't in the budget. It tastes like half/half which is great for things like mashed potatoes. It's a pantry staple. I don't drive so I need walmart delivery. I wish there was s way to fix budget meals without so much simple carbs like pasta, rice, bread, but I haven't figured out how.
The french toast mixture would make a nice bread pudding or breakfast casserole with the addition of some sugar or creamer to sweeten it up.
Thank you, you are doing a great service!
A Dollar Tree Walmart combo sounds like a really practical idea. I think that's a ln excellent idea for several videos. I think shoppingnat Dollar Tree first to see what they have and then go to Walmart to add the "fresh" ingredients and meats. Also good to compare what is better value between the 2 stores. Sometimes Dollar tree is better even if smaller packaging because of a tight weekly budget.
I would be interested in a household items Dollar tree /Walmart haul too. Like toiletries, health and beauty, toilet paper, laundry soap, dish soap...etc. The stuff we all need .
Love watching these. Always enjoy the options given as well. So many ideas and it goes to show you really can manage a good weekly menu with a super tight budget (said as I just spent $530 for stocking the pantry and freezer). Look forward to each future video as your content is always fun and helpful!
Glad you like them!
I LOVE EUREKA!!! Was not expecting to see my little obscure show pop up on this channel lmao!
I have enjoyed this series very much much. It’s obvious that you put a lot of thought into planning these meals. Thank you for sharing with all of us. 😊
A combo shopping meal plan would be terrific
Yes Rebecca, I'd really enjoy what you'd come up with for a hybrid Dollar Tree & Walmart meal plan. I have WM+ Delivery, and my Dollar Tree is a 10 min mobility scooter ride away (altho right now I'm using Instacart cos of the snow & ice for my safety). The thoughtfulness you put into your videos & the needs of your viewers really comes thru, and that is so rare with YT creators. Thank You for doing this to help us out in sooo many ways. ❤ ☺️
Great video as always! I tend to use instant potatoes half the time i make shepard's pie too..I use a fork for optimal texture and blast it under the broiler (keeping a close eye, of course) at the end of baking for more brown bits!
The way my mom made shepherds pie was with ground beef, a can of tomato soup, and a can of drained green beans for the bottom layer. You should try.
You have the smoothest and most peaceful voice ever... I feel my blood pressure go down to the sound of your voice... Oh, and you have amazing cooking ideas!
I really enjoy watching you cook on a budget. I wish I had the motivation to experiment with the combinations you make.
It's sounds great I liked and shared this video 📹 out your welcome Dollar 💵 Tree 🎄 Dinners 🍲
I really appreciate you
Thank you!
A hybrid meal plan would be awesome! You could really show the best of 2 stores to make the absolute most out of a budget and have a lot more variety for meals.