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$50 Meal Plan Secrets: Groceries For A Week On A Shoestring Budget
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- Опубликовано: 27 ноя 2023
- In this video, I'm sharing a $50 meal plan to help you save money on groceries. Whether you are feeding your family for a week or buying food for one for a month, this meal plan is perfect for anyone who wants to lower their food costs on a budget!
If you are anything like me, I'm always looking for ways to be more frugal and feed my family. We are all struggling with inflation and price increases. From low income to middle class, it's affecting us all.
This meal plan contains delicious and healthy ideas that will save you money on groceries and has everything you need to eat on a budget and enjoy great food! If you're looking for ideas on saving money on groceries, check out this meal plan!
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I think one of the biggest food saver, for any size family, is to shop your fridge and freezer and pantry first! Make a list, and pray!!
Last night I made a fantastic Chicken Chow Mein from a packet of ramen, a handful of frozen stir-fry veg, some leftover chicken, a little oil, and minced ginger and garlic. It was seriously yummy, took 10 minutes to make, produced very little washing up, and cost around 60p. All from the pantry!
1) PRAY
2) GO TO FREE FOOD PANTY
3) USE THE REFRIGERATOR AND FREEZER FOOD FIRST.
4)make a list of REQUIRED ITEMS NEEDED to complete a meal
5) CHECK LIST AGAINST PANTY
RETRIVE anything on list from storage ,TAKE TO KITCHEN AND MARK OFF LIST.
6) rewrite list.
7) if you have less than 5 items on list do without for a week.
8) if you have more than 5 items on the list over 2 weeks, go shopping.
I love the 'use it up' vibe - like using the last bits of bacon in the egg bake! I think all the cooking shows make us think every meal has to be a magnificent gourmet extravaganza - when in the real world, tasty, healthy and affordable hits the mark. Some great ideas here Sara, and your attitude is cream on the cake!
Your content is getting better and better! Really appreciate all these tips.
At the grocery, I focus on fresh and frozen vegetables, tofu, and fruit on sale. I make my own bread at home. 2 cups of flour makes one loaf of sandwich bread. Definitely cheaper to make bread. I make my own seitan. I get the store brand coffee. Gotta have coffee.
Money has been so tight lately we are not grocery shopping at all. I took stock of what is in my pantry (it's a big pantry) and my freezer. I picked all those strange bags of small leftovers from the freezer and put them together in a bag in the freezer. Some have writing on them so I know what is in the bag the rest is a surprise, that's what we are eating first. I'll be able to tell what is in the bag once it's thawed out. Since I have lots of pancake mix just add water we will be having pancakes on my husbands days off, we just needed to buy syrup (I wanted to just use sugar water but, he said no, he had to have syrup) So I spent 4.00 on groceries this week just for his precious syrup. I want 900 dollars by the end of the month, 400 is needed. Making due with what I have, lights off, because the heat is on. Thanks for the video
Sounds like such a fun idea! The Great Pantry Cleanout! Great job!
Because they have a goal. It’s not about the $4 syrup. It’s about the goal.
I think she said that money has been so tight lately. Sometimes there is no money for anything at all, been there myself😥
I always use the super cheap 1" masking tape from the dollar store, and a sharpie marker to label and date everything I put in the freezer. That really helps me.
I use pieces of old paper and a marker to mark what is in a package for the freezer. I either tape it on with cheap tape or slip in to another bag that encloses the first with the items being frozen
Hi Sara, this is Sarah watching from Ohio. My husband is a hunter but never has time to go hunting. So my tip is during hunting season is contact your local butcher for deer that people bring in that they don’t want they have to give it away for free. If you can’t or not able to butcher it yourself they can process it for a lot less then you can buy meat at the store. I use venison in all my dishes instead of ground beef. Loving your tips Thanks!❤
My oldest son is a hunter. We get a few packs of venison every year. Make friends with a hunter. There’s always more than most will eat.
Yum! Chili made with venison is so good!!
These all look delicious! I will note this video on my meal plan idea list. I’m gearing up for a shelf-cooking month in December. I made an excel list of all the food in my freezer, pantry and fridge. I have the three separate lists and on each list is the item, amount/size and expiration date. For the couple things that don’t have a date, I give a 6-month date to use up. I then combined all three lists into one list and put in order of the expiration date with the closest date on top. I now have a food plan ready to go for the month! I’ve also allowed a few dollars a week for fresh produce & dairy.
Loved this video! You’ve inspired me to organize my pantry and take inventory. I need to use up the items that will expire first. Please make more of these videos. Thank you!
Your enthusiasm is exactly what I needed to see tonight. Sara you outdid yourself. I am under the electric blanket tomorrow I need to screen shot your recipe. It really was a cool video to take my mind to a different place. You rock. Waving to you from Michigan
I just had to share this (from the UK). Yesterday, I bought 2 Chickens, 2kg Chicken Thighs, ½ Peking Duck, 30 quality sausages, 1kg butter, and a pack of stir fry veggies from the freezer shop for *£25!* I live alone, so that's enough chicken for 6 months. The butter, which freezes well, was a thief's bargain: £2 cheaper a kilo even than Aldi!
(In a couple of weeks I'll have enough chicken batch meals cooked to buy the bulk fish).
I just love this idea. Especially for one person but really for families too! Great job!!
Where did you shop?! Aldi shopper here, also from UK. Thanks
@klnamab4872 I bought that lot at "Farm Foods". They've got some very good offers: the whole chickens were £1.99, the 2kg of chicken thighs £4.99, etc. Tip. Go early, as the loss-leaders are cleared by lunchtime and not restocked until the following day.
@@annalieff-saxby568 fair play. Enjoy. I'll have to check it out 😃
Great work!
Can’t beat the price of a Costco rotisserie chicken :)
Their Italian sausages are also very inexpensive and can used in a million recipes
I wish we had a Costco here. Still waiting.
This lady is so cute. Im already a thrifty champlon, but i love the sound of her voice 😂
Neat idea, $50.00 challenge. I do wish you had emphasized that you were challenging your viewers to show how they would spend $50.00 to feed four (even if they don't have four, they could just do meals for four and freeze the remainder).
I actually spend way too much on food. However, just sticking to what you purchased and substituting only a few things: With the sausage/brats - I'd made Toad In the Hole, which is baked sausage & Yorkshire pudding. That feeds four hungry people easily. (Yorkshire pudding is a quick bread.) All is baked in one casserole dish, so easy clean up.
I'd bought a whole chicken and used the carcass for a pot of soup. I'd roasted the rest. I'd poured the combined leftovers of soup and chicken meat into a blender and added ~4T unflavored gelatin, either red food color or ½ beetroot, and poured the puree into water bottles, let set up overnight and had homemade bologna next day.
I'd put an egg in each muffin space of my muffin pan; Cut the bacon down the center and placed the halved strips onto a baking tray; I don't like tuna, so I would've made Tuna Pancakes as that's the only way I can stomach tuna: to pancake batter, add drained tuna, ½ tsp dry mustard powder, worcestershire sauce, and bacos. Serve with scrambled eggs, and White Gravy over the top. FYI baked eggs come out the same as boiled eggs, so egg salad sandwiches or deviled eggs. Of course you do have the makings of spaghetti; ground beef, pasta sauce, spag noodles; leftover spag into spag casserole, topped with lots of cheese. I like to fill every rack when I bake in the oven to not waste electric - casseroles, bacon and eggs would've been done on a single day, then parsed out during the week. So that's how I'd approached the grocery list you had. Cheers.
It's very nice to see some alternative recipes! For me, one of the nicest things about Frugal Food is how creative it becomes. I got a really good deal on frozen sausages this week, and I felt really chuffed when I found a recipe that used that leftover red pepper, and those surplus mushrooms, in a sausage casserole - and I can fit Soda Bread and a Lentil & Cheese Bake into the oven at the same time!
I'll definitely be making Sausage Toad, also. Thanks for reminding me of it.
@@annalieff-saxby568 Sweet!
I cooked up a whole chicken last week. Had my meals all planned out.
Unfortunately, I had a TIA Sunday night and have been in the hospital since. I'm so looking forward to going home tomorrow (hopefully) and eating my own cooking again!
Here's an easy soup that I make.
Remove the meat from a chicken carcass. You don't need to have it all off. Place in a pot of water and cook for several hours. Put in fridge overnight.
Remove the next day and get the rest of the meat off.
While you're working on that, return the stock to a boil. Add onion, celery, carrots, regular rice (about 1/3-1/2 cup)and a package of frozen spinach. Season to taste with salt, pepper and poultry seasoning. Once you have all the meat off the bones, add that to your soup. Cook until the veggies are tender and the rice is cooked.
I'm so sorry to hear of your hospital stay. God's blessings to you always. ❤🙏
@@lanamichalski3208 thanks
I am glad that you will be going home! Please take care!
@@1mourningdove54 I'm home. It feels good.
@@dizzysdoings Oh good! I have been in the hospital 3 times in the last year with heart problems. Home is SO much better! There's nothing worse than trying to sleep in a hospital bed, especially with people coming in to wake you up over and over again!!
So many great tips Sara!! We can all use new ideas on how to batch cook and how to use frugal recipes. Tomorrow is chili making day here!!
Thank you it's teaching us so much❤
Hi Kerry! I'm so glad! And thank you for watching!
Breakfast is wheatbix with milk and fruit lunch egg cheese salad sand which dinner protein vegies fruit for afternoon tea
May I ask what wheatbix is? I have not heard of that.
@@1mourningdove54 it's biscuit made from wheat it's a cereal here in Australia
@@user-gm1kl6xy4m OK, thank you!!
@@1mourningdove54 Maybe shredded wheat?
The large-size shredded wheat, unsweetened.
You did it! Love this content.
Hey just thought id tell u ,
I watched somone make muffins the other day and she filled one of the muffin tin holes with water before filling the rest of the tray with mixture ,she allways bakes mufins and said she allways does it that way with water in one ,for ba,ing ,as the steam helps them rise
They were huge
Hope this advice come in handy ,i for one is certainly going try it
She allso sprinkles sugar in bottom of cake cases
You’re a genius. I’m using this meal plan. Love 💕 and Hugs. ❤❤❤
I have focused so much over the past several years on stocking and preserving that I could easily not hit the stores for 2- to 2-1/2 weeks at a time and that’s only because we would need to restock the milk and heavy cream. I think the key is to making foods from scratch and even foods you wouldn’t think to make from scratch..bread products as on English muffins, bagels, raisin bagels, cinnamon bagels, rolls , biscuits, pastas, pizza crust, egg noodles, hash browns, French fries, tator tots, mashed potatoes a 5-lb bag regularly runs on sale $2.99 a bag that 5-lb bag can yield a lot of food depending on size of family and portion control..I have never made tator tots but it’s actually really easy from the recipes I have found…now who would think about making your own? Making all deserts from scratch most alway is cheaper and gives you more.. chicken is the cheapest meat to buy in my area I would go with chicken thighs and legs if I were to doing a $50 a week budget..so for me it would be meat, onions, potatoes and veggies , jars of spaghetti sauce, cheese..WE love pizza in this house..I’m going to try this starting next week..not sure if it would be fair though because I’m stocked..but I challenges..
Yes, I like the chicken thighs and legs too. They are often on sale for 99 cents a pound where I shop. I separate them. bake them, and freeze them individually. They usually come out to about 44 cents per meal for me.
@@1mourningdove54 ~Great idea!
Your videos are so amazing. I just found your channel and loving it! 😊
How to save $50+
I like to buy Spiral boneless ham @ Sam’s Club. It’s 2.98/ pound now. I cook it, cut it up, & freeze it in quart bags. I use it in for sandwiches, casseroles & breakfast sandwiches. It is so yummy & saves so much money!!
You can get some really good deals on Ham after the holiday. Thank you for the idea!!
@@latoranorfleet-adanu368 My pleasure! Thank you for the after holiday sales advice.😁👍🏼
Nice! We are making potato patties from the last of the Tday Mashhad (actually Saturday as I had big mash potato eaters) and wrapping up leftovers. I stretch Hamburger with onions for our sloppy joes, so 8oz will serve four meals. I will make something from the other 1/2 of the # of ground beef tomorrow. Love your ideas!
I’m making pumpkin patties to use up some pumpkin I grew😁
❤❤This has helped us greatly. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks Sara for the video you got a lot of meals out of that $50! I too use my pantry and shop the weekly lose leaders at the stores. I like making bundt cakes out of a box mix and 1 can of pumpkin always turn out perfect! Your peppy attitude is so contagious love your videos! Cute hair today too : )
Yes, I just saw another frugal website where they used a spice cake mix and a can of pumpkin, no other ingredients, to make muffins. They looked delicious.
They taste yummy too!@@1mourningdove54
Great prices. Great meal prep
Definitely shop your pantry and freezer. Also make your own powdered sugar and brown sugar. Make your own bread and do not buy prepackaged rice! Buy plain rice, it’s cheaper hands down. Got overripe fruit? Make jelly/jam!
Shop from your pantry first - such a great tip !
We buy the big bag of bakers flour from Costco and make our own pizza dough and bread once a week. We also make our own barbeque and other sauces using ketchup, mustard and other basics like soy sauce. We also enjoy a box of Kraft DInner for late night snacks 😂
LOL. See - it all balances out 😆
I always purchase the rotisserie chicken at Sams Club. As well as most of my groceries. I also shop at Walmart.
All my prices are definitely tripled from yours. But your video is fun to watch. I have been trying to cut my budget for 3 years with NO LUCK it is only getting higher if you only eat organic foods.
Our prices are so much higher as well- even on sale. That size of sour cream is $4 or more, cream soup is close to $2.00 - chicken breasts are outrageous-a pack that big would be $30
Great menu. We call the egg bake a frittata here if it has cheese 😊
Groceries for me are $100-150 a month, im single so only need to worry about self.
I drink water not soda's, use dry milk so less risk milk going bad (stores here dont seem to last to expiration date, try to build meals like hamburger 1 nite, leftover can be used in chili, or meatloaf, meatballs, etc.
If make something can put leftovers in smaller portions for future meals, etc
Thats a simple fix milk comes in pints in quarts in half gallons and in gallons so should not go bad. If you live alone and it's just you,you can certainly buy the size milk needed. Duh for this and use a little common sense.
@@cissylanier7035 powdered milk works where Iix it up as I need it so doesnt risk any going bad either. So already do what works best for me. Never said anyone else had to do it my way. Thank you for your input however
@@sandralmoore1360 I'm near 70, single, healthy, and I sure don't feel the need or have a desire to drink milk like when I was a kid, lol. I keep some dry milk for recipes. I can certainly get my calcium in cheese or in other ways. I keep a pitcher of water and a pitcher of "refrigerator" tea (3 teabags to 2 quarts water) in the fridge. I love my coffee, which I've stocked up on. I quit pop a long time ago.
I'm gonna have to do this till I get my $$ back up to where I want it. ...and I have got to use up some cream soups. Let's do this! .. I have a lot of stuff on hand actually.
Have fun experimenting! I always can find a casserole recipe for cream soups.
Great video! Thank you for sharing!
I cook all meals at home which saves a ton of money. We just had homemade chicken noodle soup for 2 nights for our family of 3 adults. I cook so we get at least 2 meals. Thank goodness we’re not fussy eaters. I buy fresh vegetables and chop and freeze them. I have a loose meal plan. I know what I’m cooking for the weekend but don’t have it set for certain days
I know that the chicken breasts were cheaper over all than the whole chicken but what was the price per pound? I prefer the whole chicken because there is a lot of bone and skin that helps make a flavorful broth for your soup and not a bouillon cube. I also like that it doesn't come out dry unless you overcook it. I would still go with a whole chicken and maybe cut out some of the canned stuff
Thanks for the feedback
I agree - for 2 of us, one whole chicken goes a LONG way. If it's especially big, I'll remove and freeze the chicken breasts and roast the rest, so a thigh and leg each for dinner, a couple of wings is lunch for one (I always leave a little breast meat attached), the carcass, bones and all the yummy brown bits on the baking tray make a great stock, and there's 2 good meals for 2 from the chicken breasts - especially if it's crumbed (a treat!). Every family is different, every cook is different, every country's grocery prices and choices are different - but isn't it wonderful how we can all learn from each other!! Oh and when I die and go to heaven, there will be roast chook for dinner everyday LOL. Cheers from Oz!
I love to get ground turkey I see it for 3.99 a lot! That’s two meals for my husband and i
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The closest Aldi's to me is 35 miles away, I want an Aldi's to open in my hometown for Christmas!
I take the Costco Chicken. Debone. Divide into 1 cup packs and freeze.
Cover the SKIN & BONES with water in a soup pot with a stick of celery, scraps from carrots and onions. Add a bay leaf, sage, rosemary and thyme. Or what's on hand. Boil for 30 mins on med heat. (I usually have a bag with everything in it that I save a little bit at a time in the freezer.) Scoop out the remains. Pull the bits off of the bone to put in soup at the end. Make your favorite soup. If you want more chicken in it add one of the cups you deboned at the end.
I have a very similar plan: I remove the legs from a raw chicken, roast the breast and wings, and casserole the legs with onions, carrots and celery in the bottom of the same oven. I have one breast for a roast dinner, then chop the remaining breast and freeze the chopped meat and the two portions of casserole for future meals. I strip the carcass and make a stock from it and the trimmings from the casserole veg, and reserve the chicken pickings in the fridge, as you do. One small chicken can go a long way. 🇬🇧
Thanks for the tip.
A cheap meal is homemade chicken noodle soup. Homemade or store bought noodles, leftover broth from turkey or chicken that was in freezer, carrots, celery, and four boullion cubes. It was so good. Threw in a can of chicken from the Walmart that was $2.50 a can.
I always build around my pantry. This is trickier to budget with celiac though.
Hi! I'm your newest sub! It is nice to meet you.
Hi! Thanks so much for that! And thanks for stopping by! 🙂
Cook up 1kilo of dry beans and freeze in ziploc freezer bags, much much healthier than canned beans and a lot cheaper too. You can make burritos, tacos, beans soup, chile dogs ect...
I was wondering, just today, if that would work. I just got back from the shop with tins and tins of kidney beans, canellini beans, and chickpeas. I have a pressure cooker, so dried beans are quick and easy for me to cook, but not worth doing in small quantities. Do you freeze them in some of the cooking liquid, or dry?
@@annalieff-saxby568 with some some of the liquid ☺️. First I cool.the beans in the fridge and once cooled I put them un freezer bags.
@@cilantroyepazote5160 Thank you. I shall start as I clear the tins from my shelf.
Honey I batch cook divide meals into portions including soups stews and batch freeze sandwiches
I buy chicken bullion powder in Hispanic or Asian markets and add that to plain rice as loads cheaper. If I want rice a roni, I just fry some broken dry spaghettini noodles in a little oil. Then I cook it in the rice pan. Look up rice a roni clone recipe. Loads cheaper and tastier than the little envelopes of flavored rice.
Great job! Did you actually calculate the cost of the items you already had? While you only spent $50 this time, all the items you already had did add a cost to the overall meal plan. I always try to stock up and have a large livable (items your family will actually eat) pantry staples to shop from. I also try to budget in money for those things you find at chance, like yesterday at Aldi many of the organic chicken was 50% so I stocked up on it even though it wasn’t technically needed for this weeks menu.
My family is going to be doing a pantry challenge for as long as we can to rotate out many of our pantry items. We still haven’t come up with a budget for fresh produce but currently are thinking $10 for those loss leader items each week. We have 3 hefty financial goals to meet this coming year and this will push us closer to that goal.
I did not calculate what I already had. My challenge for this was to use what I already had and only spend $50. Great ideas!
I think that's why it's always important to slowly stock up on some pantry items when we have a little extra money. Buying spices gradually is a must, and I always get the cheaper little containers. I didn't use to think that far ahead or have the extra space, but I am doing better now.
I would love a challenge for 50 dollars except for basic spices!
I have tried hot dog cut up into peace's with cooked pasta peas yummu
Can you please give us ideas on how to build p*antry ideas so some us can start cooking on home? I never cook at home and its very expensive. I cannot cook and as a result my budget is shot. Some simple but economically ideas would be greatly appreciated.
I would start with the basic meals you like to eat. Do you like spaghetti and meat balls? Then buy the spaghetti, sauce, and learn how to make your own meatballs. Once you master those, learn to make your own sauce. Consider taking a little money each week and grabbing those things that last "forever" like pasta, rice (white), canned meats, oats, etc. Watch videos and learn to cook easy meals. I think you can do this. Everyone can learn basic cooking strategies.
Soups are insanely easy. When I have no energy I just dump a quart of broth and a bag of frozen veggies into a pan, bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer for ~20 mins. Then I start sniffing whatever spices I have in the cupboard and throw in something that smells good, taste it, and continue repeating until the flavor is something I want to eat. Hate my outcome? Add more broth to dilute and try again. Throw in a bit of leftover precooked grain, or noodles, or instant rice, or chopped cabbage for more body. Change the flavor by adding a can of diced tomatoes.
RUclips finally taught me to cook at the age of 57. It's not too late!
Sloppy Joes!
The cake mix as muffins
really lifts the veil on me pretending muffins are healthy 😅😅 because I’m sure it is basically the same ingredients lol.
That's only 59 cents per meal. Did you and your family members feel this was enough food? Thanks for sharing . Good job 🥰🎅🎄❄☃🎁🩰💖✝
We did. But also remember, there were more things the eat in the house. So if we wanted bread or English muffins, we had them. There were even chips left and cookies in the cupboard. This food purchased for $50 wasn’t the only food we had.
making life decisions over a pack of hot dogs, 8 hot dogs! INSANE
It is not truly just $50 because you had to purchase all those items in your pantry. Try doing it for true $50 sum.
That was the entire point of the video: using what you have on hand and then taking $50 to supplement your weekly meal plan. You may have missed something.
Where are your greens? Your body needs those phytochemicals. What you save on food you will be spending on medical bills. So many glucose-spiking foods! This diet will totally mess up your metabolism. A recipe for diabetes.
Thanks for the feedback.
She said she had food she was using at home as well. Maybe she had frozen veg?
Your pantry looks like a grocery store so what’s the point of this ? It’s not $50. Dont mislead people with your title. People on a shoestring budget dont have a full size pantry like you do.
so she buys prepped foods like hash browns? wth
Yes, Kevin. She goes. Thanks for the feedback. ☺️
@@saraconklinfrozenpennies lol love your response!
@princessbabibear4794 maybe Kevin should write his opinion down and shred it, while he shreds his potatoes that he's so proud of doing himself...