Making a $20 Dollar Tree 4th Of July Dinner for 4 | Dollar Tree Dinners | Budget Holiday Meals
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
- Full Cost Breakdown and Recipes:
Chili Dip $5
1 block of cream cheese blend $1.25
1 can of chili $1.25
1 bag of shredded cheddar $1.25
Tortilla chips $1.25
Soften cream cheese to room temperature and spread in a thin layer at the bottom of a baking dish. Top with chili and cheese and bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes.
Sloppy Joe Dogs $6.25
Hot dog buns $1.25
Hot Dogs $1.25
Sloppy Joe sauce $1.25
Beef Patties $1.25
Shredded cheddar cheese $1.25
Brown and crumble beef patties (rinse and drain) add sloppy joe sauce and cook over medium heat until thickened. Cook hot dogs via your preferred method (I cut slits into them and baked them for 12 minutes), warm buns, and top with sloppy joe mixture and cheese.
Esquites (Mexican Street Corn Salad) $5.00
1 can of corn $1.25
Mayonnaise $1.25
Parmesan cheese $1.25
Tajin (or cilantro lime seasoning) $1.25
drain corn and sautee in oil until it begins to brown, while warm toss in 1/4 cup of mayonnaise and season with tajin and parmesan cheese. Add to a bowl and top with more tajin and parmesan for presentation if desired.
Other sides / dessert $3.75
Classic pasta salad $1.25 (prepare per box instructions)
Baked Beans $1.25 (add to a bowl and heat in microwave)
Mrs. Fields cookies $1.25 (bake per package instructions)
Total 4th of July Dinner total $20.00! enjoy! 
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It's comforting to me to watch these to know that even someone on a small budget can celebrate the holidays with a full meal. You always come up with very diverse recipes so a family can have variety even for a small amount of money.
It’s fun and affordable to be able to eat a home cooked meal on the cheap! I definitely need that to fit in my small budget years ago!
I once chose to be alone one year for Thanksgiving or Easter, I had been overwhelmed with family dinners and get together that year, my family understood, so I got all my fixings for a turkey dinner, stuffing, potatoes and pumpkin pie, ate on my comfy sofa, watched a Netflix show, went back for seconds and never regretted it, but just one year, I need to not make that a habit! 😂
@@stephaniepapaleo9001 After years of being the one to cook for Thanksgiving and many other holidays, I should take a lesson from you. Just one year as you said.🙂🙂🙂
@@tynaedwards8452 yes! One time out of years, is ok, or you could pop in at dessert time! 😝 And don’t feel guilty, when you do, people will understand!
Not only is this a great way to do a holiday meal on a budget, but it also brings us back to a simpler time when holidays were more about the company and less about a stressed out host/hostess trying to go over the top to impress. Your menu of good tasty food, some sparklers, and a couple of lawn games (or board games), would all make for a great holiday memory. Thank you.
Agreed 💯🥂💃🏼
Yes! Stressing over food, decor, cleaning, etc just makes the event not as fun, so keeping it simple makes the event a great event to cherish for years !
I would be interested to see what kind of desserts you could make for a tea party or birthday party using DT items...and maybe one or two just on a bunch of side dishes...I know those aren't rounded meals but sometimes with things get-togethers like potlucks or something, we get assigned one type of item to bring like a dessert or like a side dish.
oh that sounds fun - a Dollar Tree Tea Party! Love that idea!
Yeah they have some really good short bread cookies that I love.
You can mix a cake mix with a can of soda and bake - no eggs!
@@bryanbond7919I love those!!!
Oh a tea party is a fun idea!
Just a suggestion on the Esquite if your local Dollar Tree carries it: We use white corn and squeeze lemon on your corn before the mayo. Butter goes on after the mayo and before the queso cotija.The other ingredient is Tapatio or Valentina you put on before the Tajín. My DT carries all the items but idk if all do. You were pretty close to authentic for what you had but just wanted to mention the actual ingredients we use that copycat the "eloteros" (street vendors) 😊. Just a friendly FYI ~ Esquite is boiled corn served loose in a cup. Elote are also boiled served on a stick. Street corn is grilled 😊.
I was just at my local DT and unfortunately it doesn't have Tapatio, Valentina, or Queso Cotija. Also, she was doing a $20 meal so those extras would put her over $20.
She is making it similiar with the ingredients available and affordable. It is not meant to be exact. The way you make yours, I make mine. However, if I was on an extreme budget it wouldn’t be pratical.
....I suppose certain items are available or plentiful depending on the ethnicity of the demographic area. I live in a predominantly Mexican neighborhood and our DT carries Tapatio and Cholula. And there's a variety of canned corn products I've run into that issue a few times in wanting to try a recipe that looked easy and tasty. My local DT didn't have either the main ingredient (usually a freezer item) or a canned good that was necessary to complete the dish. And regarding the $20 budget....in my case because I know my family...I would've forgone the baked beans because no one likes them allowing that money to go towards hot sauce. And I assumed the majority of viewers have butter or margarine and mayo so that mayo money can buy lemon juice. It wasn't a comment pointing out that she was wrong in her way of recreating esquites, it was posted just to let others know how they can make it at home and share a couple ingredients they might not have known were used to make authentic esquite.😊
My comment wasn't intended as an affront to her idea or ingredients used. It was merely a suggestion on how we make elotes for an authentic taste. Because people can sometimes misread or take a comment differently than was intended, I was careful with my words and started with "Just a suggestion...". Because that's all it was.
It wasn't me saying she was going about it the wrong way or that my way is the only way it should be done exactly. I also understand every DT carries different items so I wrote "if your local DT carries it..." because what's available in abundance at my closest DT may not even be an item they ever carry at the DT on the other side of town.
Like I mentioned to the commenter before you...I live in a town that is predominantly Mexican and my town's DT has a lot Hispanic foods in their inventory but the one just outside of town does not.
I also wrote that if we're staying under $20, I would not have purchased the baked beans (we don't eat them) and used that $ to purchase the hot sauce. I assumed that the majority of viewers most likely have butter/margarine and mayo. So the $ for mayo could instead buy lemon juice.
My aim was not to takeaway from her dish on a budget. It was just to share the items one can use, in case they weren't aware, for the real and authentic elote taste. Of course, if you're on an extreme budget and don't have the assumed ingredients on hand, her method and items are a good way to go.
But, I posted my comment to share how we make it and, if anyone has the ingredients on hand, they might want to try it that way. Then they'll know how to make authentic elotes at home in the future if they maybe get a craving for it. I just wanted to share my steps, as a suggestion, for how to make elotes at home with ingredients from the DT...IF your DT carries them or you just happen to have them on hand at home.
This is not me trying to say "Do it this way..." or "Buy these instead..." especially if one is really struggling to stay under $20. So...practical? Maybe not. Doable when budget allows or if you've got everything on hand? Absolutely.
I hope you had a safe and happy 4th with family and friends. Be blessed.
Thank you for all of the added tips and suggestions. They are appreciated. It is nice to have so many options depending on what we have available!
Great ideas! I made veg enchiladas with flour tortillas, 2 drained cans of rotel, cream cheese and cheddar cheese and enchilada sauce everyone loved them! I got 4 packages of the smoked sausages to grill, and for dessert cool whip, biscuit mix and frozen strawberries to make strawberry short cake . And a bag of frozen pepper and onions to go with the sausage . Hot dog buns and 3 bottles os soda. I spent $22.50
A staple summer time lunch at my house is 2 of those suddenly pasta salad boxes with 1 or 2 cans of chicken tossed in.
Cook a box of pasta and mix with italian dressing instead
Add a bag of the seasoning mix if youre feeling feisty
I grew up on suddenly salad in the summer time. Definitely a nostalgic taste
I've been binging your videos lately! Love your voice and delivery. I think you have a great imagination in putting these dinners together from $Tree foods.
Thank you so much!
Me too!
Such a great affordable plan! You have such a sweet spirit and kindness about you. Your brand is thoughtful and helpful. When the trolls are after you remember that there are more of us supporting you and cheering for you than there are trolls.
I'm not using the oven these days but I do like air-frying the dogs or using my cast iron fry pan with the grill style. You did a great job sharing this 4th of July meal. Thank you!
Air fried hot dogs are shockingly sooo good. Im never eating boiled hot dogs again
Our family has taken notes and headed to DT to make this exact meal tomorrow, thank you ☺️
I’m always excited when a video from you pops up! That is a ton of food and more than I could eat. I appreciate your taste tests and thoughtful feedback about what works, what doesn’t, and how you would alter your approach to improve through reflection. Happy Independence Day to you!
I appreciate that! Happy Independence Day to you as well! 🥰
I always get excited when one of her vids pops up too!!! I have watched ALL them, recently came across her channel.. so when a new one comes up it feels like Christmas! I love that she makes simple/easy dishes, and in general just love her personality!
@@DollarTreeDinners As far as budgets go, 1) A small pumpkin skinned and de-seeded cut into chunks, a can of yellow corn, a diced onion and a diced can of spam topped with a box of vegetable broth and you have a great fall soup. 2) For the kids, a 1lb frozen roll of sausage or ground beef cut into 1/4" slices and fried stacked on a plate with a bowl of dinner rolls and some fixings and condiments and they can pretend they're making crabby-patties. 3) A small bag of rice, steamed then fried with diced spam and a can of seasoned field peas & snaps makes a great fried rice dish, season to taste with anything else but the seasoned peas is enough. 4) 2 cans potatoes (sliced or diced if available), 8oz jar mayo, spoon of vinegar, spoon of sugar, spoon of relish, jar of pimentos (diced) and mix together adding potatoes last so you don't smash them mixing. Instant no cook potato salad (if too juicy add spoonful of instant potatoes to thicken).
I've been on SSI for 4 yrs now due to medical, waiting for full retirement age, I'm getting really good at budgeting.
Before anyone asks, I was declared fully disabled in court but one of my last 3 yearly incomes was $45 over the limit so SS cut it back to SSI which is basically welfare. I've only got 2 more years to claim full retirement which is cheaper than going through court again to get upgraded to disability status.
Ive never tried baking hot dogs but dang it looks good.
Me too! I'm going to try it!
You will never go back to any other way once you bake ur hotdogs, so so good!
I agree I'm going to try it
Suggestion. Consider this. Turn your Suddenly Salad into a light summer meal. Make you salad as per directions, then add left over chicken and some cheese. I usually do Blue cheese of Feta cheese crumbles.
I like your suggestion of plating things...because with my group, some of the parents really load their kids plates up and the kids don't eat even half of the food, so it wastes so much. The plating for people really saves from one person taking (and possibly wasting) everything and makes it fair.
I lived in a developing country for a couple years and something interesting to me was that the hostess always prepared the plates. As a picky eater it definitely wasn't my favorite thing, but it was easy to see how it prevented people taking too large of portions or running out of some things. And when food was served buffet or family style the leftovers were often taken to other people so if the host wanted food for another day it was better to not put it out.
That dip is my kids favorite! We do it with corn chips instead of tortilla chips. I would love to see you get a rotisserie chicken & see how many meals you can make from the whole bird! I'm a single empty nester and a rotisserie chicken from Costco is $5 & feeds me lunch and dinner for an entire week!
I certainly wouldnt complain about this dinner!
I too love suddenly salad as a jump off recipe. I like to go through my fridge and take stalk on the veggies that absolutely need to be used up before they go bad. I then add some cheese olives and some kind of meat pepperoni salami or ham that I might have in the freezer and boom dinner 😊 Thanks I'm going to bake my hot dogs and check it out.
We are grilling hamburgers tomorrow. I was looking for a side dish idea that wouldn't break the bank. The corn dish will be perfect. Later this week, I was planning hot dogs for one night. The sloppy joes would be so yummy. Due to allergies we can't do the canned sloppy joes. If anyone else has that problem, I found an easy sauce of ketchup, mustard, and brown sugar. Mix it to taste and heat throughly before adding cooked meat.
Your personality is what makes these videos enjoyable to watch whether you shop at Dollar Tree or not. 🤗
Just found you a couple days ago! Now binge watching. The vacuuming can wait. You are amazing what you can do with so little.
Those cookies can be split in half flat wise giving you 12 thinner cookies Or they can be cut into quarters giving you 24 mini cookies. Some coloured sprinkles on too before baking would give it a nice finish.
The corn niblets you pan fried would have been yummy in your pasta salad
you are super articulate when describing food. great videos! i hope u get 500k more followers gurl!
I love your videos, and have started shopping more at dollar tree since finding your channel. My favorite find so far are the Elies bagels! They are so good, better than any expensive ones I've tried
I wish stores near me sold the bagels! They’re great, I also used to be able to buy pita bread back in the day
@DollarTreeDinners whenever our store has them I stock up and freeze them 😆 that's the only critique I have about dollar tree, the randomness of the products they have in stock, but I understand why it happens. From your videos it looks like you have a nice store near you!
Agree the Elie's bagels are
excellent. I try to stock up on the bagels and English muffins if I see them. Price at Dollar Tree is cheaper than even Walmart or other supermarkets around here.
This is a great dinner idea! I love the "cookout without a grill" theme. I would've loved to do this when we were in our apartment and didn't have a grill nor a backyard. It would've saved me from going to my in laws for summer holidays! 😂
It looks as if you have an air fryer, and I just wanted to suggest that you try cooking hotdogs using it. I do that almost exclusively now, and it reminds me a lot of how the oven hotdogs turn out.
I air fry my hotdogs now. So good.
I just had to try your ideas out. Everything came out so awesome!!! But I did add my twist to it. I took a Cole slaw mix and added Ken's Sweet Vidalia Onion dressing to it.
You popped up in the algorithm and watched and i have to say, Im hooked. I just retired from 36 years as a butcher. I loved thrifting when I was living in Waco and treasure hunting in Dollar Trees. It is a necessity for some families and you are doing an amazing thing.
A winner dinner once again ! 🥰💐🪷🌸🌼🌞💗✝💖🇺🇲
Buttering the outside of the bun before heating it up and serving it is divine…try it!
What a beautiful feast! Thank you! Great budget tip about pre-portioning the food. That’s what we do when we need everyone to have “ some”. 🙂
Everyone knows that hotdogs shrivel up when they get cold. Been happening for thousands of years!😂
Well done. As always watching from Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
Have you ever tried making the hotdogs in the air fryer? We just took a trip to Disneyland and I cooked up a couple pack of Bar-S hotdogs and while still hot wrapped them up in foil and all we had to do was add a little ketchup mustard and relish. They come out really good!!!
Great video. I never severed appetizers because everyone would eat them and not the main dish. So I severed them later at night when we had the munchies, this way they eat dinner and not a lot of wasted food. If people where drinking they would have something in their stomach to off set the alcohol.
That's such a good idea 💡
I like how you mix homemade and ready prepared dishes together to make your holiday meals.
There are always lots of inspiration in your videos for elevating DT items.
Happy Independence Day! 🎆🎇🇺🇸
Air fried hot dogs are amazing also. Love your channel!❤
Everything looked amazing 🤩. We always use Parmesan cheese when we run out of Cotija cheese lol it’s about the same 💕
ALL GREAT IDEAS!!!! I’m always excited to see a post pop up from you!!!! 😊
I absolutely love your videos you seem so down-to-earth genuine and likeable. Keep the videos coming
Never baked hotdogs before- love that idea & they looked really good! Enjoy your channel!
I think I've said this before, but I really appreciate your no nonsense approach to making these videos. Thank you, I enjoyed it!
This channel is very wholesome. Gives a comforting family vibe. Sometimes in life you work w what you got & how much you have. But you make the most out of everything! Hope your channel gains more traction. 💪🏾💯
Ooh...that dip looks delicious! I'm going to have to make it (and maybe make a vegan version for my allergy-restricted family members). I often make street corn as a side and it is so good! I think you gave some great options for delicious but slightly different than just a standard menu items. If you have a little lime just, it would be great to add to the street corn.
If you have one, hot dogs in the air fryer!! Bomb! P.S. Everything looks delicious AND those cookies are the best!
I love how you always show so many ways to cook foods for people who may not have certain things like a grill or oven or instapot and also if you can’t afford certain ingredients or don’t have them available that you can substitute them for other ingredients we may have
I'm going to try the baked hot dogs, never thought about doing it that way. Thanks!
this is the best channel I've seen it help the low income folks and I am one of those and they are easy recipe to make and I love watching you do this and come up with recipe your beautiful and great charming adorable person and I respect you for that thanks for sharing
thanks for another great video. Hot dogs in the oven are good, but yes, they do tend to shrivel up some. Must be from something they are putting in the meat. My favorite way to do hot dogs is in the air fryer at 400 for about 10 minutes, depending on how dark you like your hot dogs. You can also throw in an ear of corn with them and it will taste like fresh, grilled corn. That is by far my favorite way to cook both things. Happy 4th. Stay safe everyone!!!!
I have followed you since you had 300 or so subs on tiktok. I didnt know you had a RUclips channel! My husband is losing his job of 24 years and things are about to get really really hard as he has a lot of physical limitations. Thank you for all these awesome ideas!
I bought a bacon ranch pasta salad kit, blue cheese dressing, mayonnaise, shredded pepper jack, and a packet of Buddig roast beef at my local Dollar Tree. I made the pasta but altered the sauce by using 2 tablespoons of mayo and two table spoons of blue cheese dressing with the included seasonings, and shredded the lunch meat. I mixed the meat, sauce, cheese, and pasta together. It was awesome! The next day, we added some crumbled feta, bacon bits, and a tablespoon of ranch dressing to change it up a bit and served it with our crudites, fruit and nut tray, and some tatziki for a nice summer lunch.
I am so glad I found this channel, I have been binge watching all your videos! Thank you!!!
I do my hotdogs in the air fryer. Just have to cut a slit so they don't explode. I also do them by frying in a pan.
Love the puppy in the background! 😀😀😀😀
Haha he’s always lurking around 😂
The cookies made into ice cream sandwiches would be a fun idea as well.
Amazing job!! You are very creative 👌 Blessings!!
Everything looks delicious!
My kids love them in the air fryer
Looking forward to having this on the 4th. Kids can help make and definitely good on my wallet. Tfs have a great 4th!🩵❤️
We make that same dip! Sometimes we use refried beans in place of the chili. Easy and delicious!
Baked hot dogs are the best, one pan meal hot dogs and french fries, you can add the chili and cheese at the end just slice open the hot dog add the chili and cheese and put it back in oven for a few minutes and it's done, I use foil so I don't have to wash anything.
I agree with baked hot dogs. I actually put the oven on broil and they are so yummy and so much easier than messing with a grill.
Looks great! I have found frying hot dogs in my cast iron to be my favorite way of making my dogs. Great job!!
Love this video! Great ideas on a budget. Glad to see I am not the only one that ends up with spots on my top from cooking 😅
So glad your back!!! Just be YOU!!! Luv and Miss you!! 🫶🏽
Love all your meals. I’ve never tried wiennies in oven. I am going to try that way next time. TFS
Just a tip if ur gonna dry roast canned corn use a cast iron if you have it much easier and a great flavor added
Ohh i never thought to bake the hot dogs but I think I'm gna try that tomor. I have to make a ton and my niece is gonna be my helper so maybe I can teach her something new. ❤ I love the recipes you come up with!
Thanks for sharing, very brilliant idea, on a budget.
I've shopped at Dollar Tree for a long time, but not in the food section. The refrigerated food section in ours is very small and filled with a lot of processed food. I recently came across your channel and have been binge watching for ideas. I'm going to try the Mexican Corn Salad today. I'd never heard of baking hotdogs in the oven, but I suppose it makes sense since dogs are put on the grill. I want to try it in the oven sometime. Your Manwich hotdogs look delicious. As for the Suddenly Salad Pasta Kit, for 40 cents more you can get twice the size box at Walmart.
Great job on this for only $20!! I'm impressed! As far as the hot dogs of that size, what I do sometimes is boil them in a sauté skillet with about half the size of the hotdog with water and kind of roll them around until the cook inside, then I dump any excess water and add a little bit of oil to brown them up a little bit. It works great because they don't dry out and have a nice snap. :)
Yum!
appreciate your comment on cotija cheese, you know your stuff and you made do! this is an amazing video for a budget 4th of july dinner :)
These are such great ideas, no matter the budget! Thanks for your creativity!
Absolutely brilliantly done ❤❤❤
You are so creative and have a great talent for putting foods together to make meals! Blessings!
I love that your doggy gets interested and shows up behind you, checking in case you dropped anything lol. Love it!
Those baked hot dogs looked really good to me
Great ideas, Thank you so much for sharing...Funny thing is, I always use leftover sloppy joe meat for coney dogs. I freeze it and use iy later. Hot dogs are great in the air fryer for those who have one!! QUICK & TASTY
Life saver per usual! Happy 4th! ❤
You really do bring some greatness in preparing the dishes 😀
Putting a small amount of oil in a skillet and sautéing the hot dogs is the best way I’ve ever found to cook hotdogs. SO GOOD!!
For a second I thought you were going to put mayo on a cookie lol! Great video. I love the holiday series
Haha my bad! I didn’t even consider that 😂
Me too 😂
Great 4th of July Dinner!!!
I'm watching this on the 4th. Wishing you a happy safe and wonderful 4th 2023! Thanks for the video
make 'casket' baked hotdogs..i cook my hotdogs in airfryer, buns on a baking dish(don't open the bun,but cut into the topto make a 'casket' and puch the bun into itself to make a type of bread 'bowl') load the cooked hotdogs into top of bun casket, add toppings(i did chili) and shredded cheddar cheese. bake til toasted..top with any hotdog toppings you like when their done..i like raw sweet onion and mustard 😋
This is a great plan and i love how everyone gets a little bit of lots of different sides. Those Dollar Tree boxes of pasta salad are small but i only cook for two and it's actually perfect for my son and i. I miss Sloppy Joes so much. My son typically doesn't like them so they haven't been in my rotation for years. Every now and again he'll agree to letting me cook them but even when he was small he never really cared for them. Maybe he would be interested in trying a Sloppy Joe Dog!🙂 Thank you so much for sharing these ideas.
Always great presentation. Happy c4th!
I always use the George Foreman to cook hotdogs,,,,easy and tastes grilled
Everything looks delicious and great budget friendly.
This is excellent for a young family trying to get on their feet or a family with a lot of children. Excellent and delicious ideas for a fun family meal.
Great video! And, honestly, most of us don’t need to really eat as much as we do….I know I don’t, so this meal looks like more than enough!!
❤Your amazing❤. Love those dishes and ideas you come up with! And Elotes are the bomb!!!🎉🎉🎉
Great video!!
I, too LOVE the Suddenly Salads .
I chop tomatoes, cukes, onions, and cheese , sometimes celery ( real fine) and Spam or Ham , sometimes I add black olives . And mix all that with a box of the Ranch flavored and a box of the Italian flavored. I also add a little more mayo, dressing …
Anyway My family eats it up!! They love it .
You can really get creative with it! 😊
Good ideas for the 4th of July meal, for sure I’m trying the hotdogs, and street corn! Happy 4th of July!🇺🇸
i make corn similarly at home. i suggest you add it to the skillet when the corn is dry and just let it sit for a few minutes without movement, that allows a crust to form aka the brown grilled look!
Everything looks so delicious 😋
Excellent video! Great choices for easy, Dollar Tree 4th!!! ❤🎉
Great job! Now I want to try a sloppy Joe dog!
The sloppy joe sauce is very creative. Nice job. My favorite way to cook dogs are in the oven. Glad it worked for you.