I like that Charles is honest in a nice and respectful way-not just “ wow” to every dish. Everyone has foods they do/dont like and that’s fine! I definitely do. Personal preferences.😊And….. if you like or dont like the same as Charles then his review is especially helpful to those people…..!
Lots of great meals here to choose from. Charles is so gracious when he doesn't like something as much as another. Love that. It is O.K. to have favorites. But ..he is a good sport to try them all. Thanks Noel for creating all these easy to make and good looking meals and cheap to boot. That is so helpful in this day and age!!
I love how honest your husband is. Some couple cooking shows I watch, the husband says “everything is awesome! Or Amazing”. I love his honesty!!! Keep it up!
I enjoy your channel so much. Thank you for all the recipes. Charles is very supportive of you too. He makes a great food tester for you. I very much appreciate your showing us new easy recipes that are cheap. Thank you!
I really like the way you say what you could add to it to make it even better if we have the money for it. That way you’re covering everyone you are both awesome.
Thank you, for giving us many great ideas. I love your channel. Also, thank you to your hubby for being your taste tester. May GOD bless u and your beautiful family.
Did you guys see the Eclipse! ? It was so emotional for me . I like the pizza bread with soup . I got asparagus for 99 cents at Kroger . When I was in home economics class we took hotdogs and split them (but not all the way through) and stuffed them with mashed potatoes and topped with shredded cheese and baked on a cookie sheet in the oven . I still make them today cheap and good . Great video ! Thank you ! 🌸🦋🌸
We only got to about %95 here but the girls sent me pictures from school and it looked so cool . Great deal on the asparagus 😊 It is probably my favorite vegetable . We really need to plant some this year
I would have to say hubby does have a good point on the corn being a green vegetable cause he's correct on "it comes with a green husk!!!! Lol I like the way he thinks!!! New to channel and loving it so much! Can't wait to binge watch past videos!! Thank you for your time and great meal ideas 🎉
I new to your site but so far I think it’s awesome. I would appreciate knowing the temperature of your oven and the time it takes to cook. You’ll be looking forward to seeing you more. I always acknowledge the likes or not. From what I’m seeing it will always be like for you. I also love the idea of knowing what it’s going to cost me.
I love comfort foods! And easy to make seeing I'm 76! I am on a 1,200 calorie diet and have taken recipes and made all of them that I'm able to eat! I've gone from 400 pounds to 225so far. I'm headed to 150 pounds. Thank you for ALL of these that are inexpensive, too! I'm going to make each one of them, making them so that they are something I can eat on my diet!
I found you this morning and really like your recipes. You are using things I already have in my pantry.. thank you so much.. I'm definitely subscribing😂
Great ideas! One thought for the tuna casserole- I always use crushed potato chips on top. Give those a try and see what you think! I do make my own cream sauce too, plus two cans of tuna. I really enjoyed this video!❤
Hi Noel sweet Friend your meals look delicious and Charles is so good trying them all The Family is blessed to have You sweet Friend Cathy 🙏🏻✝️☮️🌹🌺💐💗💙🍀💜💝❤️
This is off topic. I was wondering what your plans are for the homestead this year? What will you be planting? How are your fruit trees coming along? I recently watched a Spring video from 2021 around the time the pool was going to be filled in. I couldn't help but marvel how far you have come in such a short time! Lots of hard work of course!
Charles posts on Instagram some of the farm. We are planting corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions , peppers , tomatoes , carrots , luffa , peas . lettuce, spinach , cucumbers , zucchini , green beans , cantaloupe , watermelon , spaghetti squash . acorn squash. butternut squash. pumpkin, okra , peanuts, herbs and I am sure I am forgetting a few things lol I will show some of what is happening here soon. ❤️as far as fruit our strawberries do great and so do our blackberries but we still have not gotten any blueberries or grapes. Our fruit trees are doing great but still no fruit ( probably next year ) We have apple . pear . cherry . peach and persimmon. The animals are all doing great we added 60 new chicks and should have piglets soon. A stray cat found us and just had 5 kittens 😊 We plan on getting 2 new calves and a few dairy goats this spring and summer. We sold our dairy cow and she will be leaving soon 🥲 Still deciding on turkeys . We are defiantly busy but I wanted to do this budget series for the kids. We are also working on a lot of home remolding so I will try to share some of that all with you guys, Soon as summer hits we slow down a lot
The protein is definitely small amounts but these are meant to get someone dinner on the table without much money. I am doing a video later in the week that will be a high protein healthy meal plan for the week
@@bluejayacreshomestead6529 I think that many of us are not really used to seeing what budget meals look like and sometimes a person with limited funds has to do the best they can do. I am sure that the protein in the meal was more than adequate. Also, everything looked delicious. I love watching you cook!
Hi there, I just subscribed today after watching the first recipe. I like how you change up the proteins with the grains, definitely going to try some of these. Thank you. I look forward to more content.
I make a similar dinner of your 4 way......chili mac. Made with macaroni ( I use penne), 2 cans of chili and beans mixed in, topped with onions and cheddar cheese. I serve it with a salad and garlic bread. A favorite of my boys.
My husband has gotten so difficult to cook for-when I had seven people here, we ate about anything. Now, he has turned into a pain, and there are only three of us. Exact things your husband would not eat, definitely. We have always eaten high carbs, also, now trying to cut carbs. Can you do any meals semi cheap low carb? Trust me, I think every bite I eat has sugar or carbs. I can do eggs & meat, but besides that I think it is difficult to do low carb & be satisfied. Any ideas 💡??? Thank you!☺️
I LOVE chili cheese dogs but id see how that way would last for leftovers. To me thats an eat rt away meal like the chili cheese fries(ok the fries i could personally eat reheated but rest of family no way)
Instead of using the package of small pasta, why not save it to make a pasta salad out of it…the small pasta out of that Mac & cheese cooks up quickly, because it is so thin and small. It will cook a lot faster than the larger pasta you added to it. I would have cooked the smaller up by itself if that is what you wanted to do, but could have stretched the meals by using the boxed dinner noodles in another meal. I still think someone is better off using one something large( like Rotisserie Chicken), to make a lot of meals out of: chicken & dumplings, chicken pot pie, cheesy chicken & rice casserole, wonderfully seasoned broth to use in your dishes, chicken & noodles and out of micro pieces that most people throw away, you can make potstickers! This way you have utilized the entire chicken! A bag of flour will help you make the dumplings with only water, salt & flour…same with the noodles. A bag of $1.00 rice can produce the chicken casserole that feeds 4-6 producing a 13x9x2” casserole, you can make your own chicken soup by making a roux and adding in some chicken broth or the cream of mushroom soup by making a white gravy and adding in some diced mushrooms that was sautéed in butter before adding in the flour. Is it more work than convince foods…yes, but saves you a lot of money and feeds your family healthier meals. Another suggestion with the flour is a real pizza crust. I make my own marinara sauce out of crushed or whole tomatoes makes up two quart size jars. Another way to save is to buy a 2 /lb package of sausage and cook the entire package and put in containers of 1/3 to 1/4 servings and make: beef stroganoff ( I have even bought the hamburger helper on sale and used the small amount of sausage in two boxes of it), make stuffed bell peppers, pasta bake, make a Mexican Pizza…takes very little sausage, because the base is refried beans. It takes very little to make sausage gravy and very little saved up with any sources of meat that we do not eat( sausage, bacon, pork roast, any kind of beef). I took a cauliflower crust pizza and doctored it up with: crumbled up bacon, around five leftover slices of pepperoni cut into fourths, added very small amount of cooked breakfast sausage, jalapeño slices, around 2 tablespoons of leftover mushrooms. It even pleased my son that hates cauliflower 😂. You can make a barbecue pizza out of small amounts of leftover chicken or pork. Make a five meat pizza…so many options with pizza that you can use vegetables and small amounts of meat to make a large pizza with whatever you have and save $20.00 or more from making your own. The key is to never throw anything away! Even if it is only a tablespoon of something I keep a large, plastic container in my freezer and every time we have any vegetables that we do not eat, they are placed in this container along with either: pork or beef to make a large pot of vegetable soup( yes even the sausage if any is left. It is all about planning. This soup will serve a lot of hungry people served with a large pan of homemade cornbread and a dessert…like a homemade peach cobbler ( again made from the flour… what would we do without flour!!!). There are just so many ways we can save if we just plan ahead!
These are all great suggestions.❤️ The point of this video was only to use $5 a meal. We actually cook everything from scratch and raise all of our own meat and can most of our vegetables from our garden and I mostly buy my whole grains in bulk from Azure standard . I actually feed my family of 6 to 9 people ( depending on who is home ) for under $400 a month. But how we live is not something most people can do so I started this serries to help my older children but ended up helping other as well.
I would use a can of baked beans with the hot dog caserole. I make the tamale pie in a pie plate, with cornbread on the bottom, the rest on top. You can cut it like a pie, and the cornbread is cakelike.
@@bluejayacreshomestead6529 I've been trying to find out what is going to happen to me and my cat's. It's got me a nervous wreck!!! I'm I've been trying to get another free phone! This one won't hardly work I am still trying to find out everything Love you guys too!!!!
Thank you for the comment but nobody used a cup that was being used for drinking We get all of our water out of our Berkey filter so I use cups or empty jugs to get my water
I like that Charles is honest in a nice and respectful way-not just “ wow” to every dish. Everyone has foods they do/dont like and that’s fine! I definitely do. Personal preferences.😊And….. if you like or dont like the same as Charles then his review is especially helpful to those people…..!
I agree with you that is why I have him taste it. I always tell him honest review
i agree
Lots of great meals here to choose from. Charles is so gracious when he doesn't like something as much as another. Love that. It is O.K. to have favorites. But ..he is a good sport to try them all. Thanks Noel for creating all these easy to make and good looking meals and cheap to boot. That is so helpful in this day and age!!
Thanks so much
I love how honest your husband is. Some couple cooking shows I watch, the husband says “everything is awesome! Or Amazing”. I love his honesty!!! Keep it up!
Your husband is so sweet. When I don’t love something, I cant hide it on my face. He’s a sweetheart! ❤️
Thank you. He is such a good sport
Thank you noel I absolutely love these videos bc your doing realistic and saving money type of meals 😊😊
Thank you ❤️
I’m in Hawai’i- our Walmart prices are so much higher here, but still cheaper than most other places. Love your suggestions!!!!
We are very fortunate to have lower prices here . My girls looked into going to college in Hawaii but the cost of everything seemed way more expensive
Hey Noel Charles and fam ❤. This was a great vid. Love the ideas. Keep them coming Noel!
You're doing a great job with the budget series❤
Thank you!! 😊
Indeed she is.
Hi Noel, I like how you show different ways to prepare the food. Very creative.
Thanks so much
I just love all the ideas she has.
I enjoy your channel so much. Thank you for all the recipes. Charles is very supportive of you too. He makes a great food tester for you. I very much appreciate
your showing us new easy recipes that are cheap. Thank you!
Thank you
I really like the way you say what you could add to it to make it even better if we have the money for it. That way you’re covering everyone you are both awesome.
Charles is so cute! And has a sense of humor. He is a great taste tester too. Noel your meals look delicious! Thank you for this video!
Thanks so much! 😊
Thank you, for giving us many great ideas. I love your channel. Also, thank you to your hubby for being your taste tester. May GOD bless u and your beautiful family.
Thank you so much!
Thank you. You re giving me a lot of ideas. Take care.❤❤❤
I don't know how I ended up on your channel.... I'm liking your husband's spirit. 💕💖💕💖😊
Yay! Thank you!
Did you guys see the Eclipse! ? It was so emotional for me . I like the pizza bread with soup . I got asparagus for 99 cents at Kroger . When I was in home economics class we took hotdogs and split them (but not all the way through) and stuffed them with mashed potatoes and topped with shredded cheese and baked on a cookie sheet in the oven . I still make them today cheap and good . Great video ! Thank you ! 🌸🦋🌸
Yes! About the hotdog boats. Been making them for 50+ years. Yummmm
@@nadinefrandsen6087 😋
We only got to about %95 here but the girls sent me pictures from school and it looked so cool . Great deal on the asparagus 😊 It is probably my favorite vegetable . We really need to plant some this year
I would have to say hubby does have a good point on the corn being a green vegetable cause he's correct on "it comes with a green husk!!!! Lol I like the way he thinks!!! New to channel and loving it so much! Can't wait to binge watch past videos!! Thank you for your time and great meal ideas 🎉
I new to your site but so far I think it’s awesome. I would appreciate knowing the temperature of your oven and the time it takes to cook. You’ll be looking forward to seeing you more. I always acknowledge the likes or not. From what I’m seeing it will always be like for you. I also love the idea of knowing what it’s going to cost me.
Great 5 dollar dinners
I love comfort foods! And easy to make seeing I'm 76! I am on a 1,200 calorie diet and have taken recipes and made all of them that I'm able to eat! I've gone from 400 pounds to 225so far. I'm headed to 150 pounds. Thank you for ALL of these that are inexpensive, too! I'm going to make each one of them, making them so that they are something I can eat on my diet!
Hi Noel 🎉so happy you are here !
I found you this morning and really like your recipes. You are using things I already have in my pantry.. thank you so much.. I'm definitely subscribing😂
Thank you so much
nice video lots of good ideas!! thank you
Love your videos thanks have everything to make these ❤😊
Lots of good ideas!
Thank you! 😊
Great ideas! One thought for the tuna casserole- I always use crushed potato chips on top. Give those a try and see what you think! I do make my own cream sauce too, plus two cans of tuna. I really enjoyed this video!❤
Thank you and normally I would make mine like you do as well. It is so good
Everything looks delicious . Some are great for emergency meals❤
Thank you
i always add cinnamin and vanilla to my pancake mixture
Hi, Noel. Thanks for the tips!😍🇨🇦
My pleasure!
Hi Noel sweet Friend your meals look delicious and Charles is so good trying them all The Family is blessed to have You sweet Friend Cathy 🙏🏻✝️☮️🌹🌺💐💗💙🍀💜💝❤️
Thanks so much ❤️❤️
It's been a long time since I had to watch pennies. I wish I would have had these ideas then.
Thank you so muchfor the ideas! I honestly dont think abou the economical side of dinner but Ill be watching and definitely be more mindful! 😊
Charles is so cute on the pancake taste 😂
This is off topic. I was wondering what your plans are for the homestead this year? What will you be planting? How are your fruit trees coming along? I recently watched a Spring video from 2021 around the time the pool was going to be filled in. I couldn't help but marvel how far you have come in such a short time! Lots of hard work of course!
Charles posts on Instagram some of the farm. We are planting corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions , peppers , tomatoes , carrots , luffa , peas . lettuce, spinach , cucumbers , zucchini , green beans , cantaloupe , watermelon , spaghetti squash . acorn squash. butternut squash. pumpkin, okra , peanuts, herbs and I am sure I am forgetting a few things lol I will show some of what is happening here soon. ❤️as far as fruit our strawberries do great and so do our blackberries but we still have not gotten any blueberries or grapes. Our fruit trees are doing great but still no fruit ( probably next year ) We have apple . pear . cherry . peach and persimmon. The animals are all doing great we added 60 new chicks and should have piglets soon. A stray cat found us and just had 5 kittens 😊 We plan on getting 2 new calves and a few dairy goats this spring and summer. We sold our dairy cow and she will be leaving soon 🥲 Still deciding on turkeys . We are defiantly busy but I wanted to do this budget series for the kids. We are also working on a lot of home remolding so I will try to share some of that all with you guys, Soon as summer hits we slow down a lot
@@bluejayacreshomestead6529 Thank you for the update Noel! You guys have sure been busy!
I am cooking pasta add tin tomato soup and beas through it topped gratted cheese broccolli in side
Sounds great!
Awesome Noel thank you ♥️
Patricia
You are so welcome
Mmm I love fresh lemon and sugar on my pancakes or fruit and maple syrup or Nutella you are making me peckish at 00:19 in the uk 😂
really helpful ideas, thank you 😊
Love cutting the sausages with scissors!
Me too!!
The gentleman.sincere with his comments with his comments
Everything looks good.
She does have beans, cheese, bacon bits, sausage and other proteins to offset the small amounts of chicken or tuna.
That was probably a 5.5 oz can as I don't think that Walmart sells 3 oz cans of chicken breast.
Thank you
The protein is definitely small amounts but these are meant to get someone dinner on the table without much money. I am doing a video later in the week that will be a high protein healthy meal plan for the week
@@bluejayacreshomestead6529 I think that many of us are not really used to seeing what budget meals look like and sometimes a person with limited funds has to do the best they can do. I am sure that the protein in the meal was more than adequate. Also, everything looked delicious. I love watching you cook!
Loved it. Thank you.
You are so welcome!
For a picky eater he is very willing to try things❤
I am proud of him for trying things
Great meals Noel….
Thank you
Hi there, I just subscribed today after watching the first recipe. I like how you change up the proteins with the grains, definitely going to try some of these. Thank you. I look forward to more content.
I make a similar dinner of your 4 way......chili mac. Made with macaroni ( I use penne), 2 cans of chili and beans mixed in, topped with onions and cheddar cheese. I serve it with a salad and garlic bread. A favorite of my boys.
That sounds delicious
Don’t worry Noel my husband is a very picky eater also! Drives me crazy!!! 😂
Right!! Good thing we love them 😊
My husband has gotten so difficult to cook for-when I had seven people here, we ate about anything. Now, he has turned into a pain, and there are only three of us. Exact things your husband would not eat, definitely. We have always eaten high carbs, also, now trying to cut carbs. Can you do any meals semi cheap low carb? Trust me, I think every bite I eat has sugar or carbs. I can do eggs & meat, but besides that I think it is difficult to do low carb & be satisfied. Any ideas 💡??? Thank you!☺️
Yes I am doing a dessert video next but after that one I am doing a high protein week on a budget
I use Fritos from the dollar store also!
The Eclipse was so cool !!!😎
Sadly we only got to about %95 here but my girls sent me pictures of it from the college and it looked so cool
Do you have a link to your griddle? I’ve been looking for a good one. Thanks
It is at walmart. So far I love it. It is from the Drew Barrymore collection. I got it as a Christmas gift
I LOVE chili cheese dogs but id see how that way would last for leftovers. To me thats an eat rt away meal like the chili cheese fries(ok the fries i could personally eat reheated but rest of family no way)
I made the Cincinnati chili, I loved it. My family, wouldn’t even try it. It’s different. 😊
We love it . It is defiantly different
Love the recipes the back ground is a bit loud tho with the music
Sorry about that. We are a large family and when all the kids are home it can get loud here
Instead of using the package of small pasta, why not save it to make a pasta salad out of it…the small pasta out of that Mac & cheese cooks up quickly, because it is so thin and small. It will cook a lot faster than the larger pasta you added to it. I would have cooked the smaller up by itself if that is what you wanted to do, but could have stretched the meals by using the boxed dinner noodles in another meal. I still think someone is better off using one something large( like Rotisserie Chicken), to make a lot of meals out of: chicken & dumplings, chicken pot pie, cheesy chicken & rice casserole, wonderfully seasoned broth to use in your dishes, chicken & noodles and out of micro pieces that most people throw away, you can make potstickers! This way you have utilized the entire chicken! A bag of flour will help you make the dumplings with only water, salt & flour…same with the noodles. A bag of $1.00 rice can produce the chicken casserole that feeds 4-6 producing a 13x9x2” casserole, you can make your own chicken soup by making a roux and adding in some chicken broth or the cream of mushroom soup by making a white gravy and adding in some diced mushrooms that was sautéed in butter before adding in the flour. Is it more work than convince foods…yes, but saves you a lot of money and feeds your family healthier meals. Another suggestion with the flour is a real pizza crust. I make my own marinara sauce out of crushed or whole tomatoes makes up two quart size jars. Another way to save is to buy a 2 /lb package of sausage and cook the entire package and put in containers of 1/3 to 1/4 servings and make: beef stroganoff ( I have even bought the hamburger helper on sale and used the small amount of sausage in two boxes of it), make stuffed bell peppers, pasta bake, make a Mexican Pizza…takes very little sausage, because the base is refried beans. It takes very little to make sausage gravy and very little saved up with any sources of meat that we do not eat( sausage, bacon, pork roast, any kind of beef). I took a cauliflower crust pizza and doctored it up with: crumbled up bacon, around five leftover slices of pepperoni cut into fourths, added very small amount of cooked breakfast sausage, jalapeño slices, around 2 tablespoons of leftover mushrooms. It even pleased my son that hates cauliflower 😂. You can make a barbecue pizza out of small amounts of leftover chicken or pork. Make a five meat pizza…so many options with pizza that you can use vegetables and small amounts of meat to make a large pizza with whatever you have and save $20.00 or more from making your own. The key is to never throw anything away! Even if it is only a tablespoon of something I keep a large, plastic container in my freezer and every time we have any vegetables that we do not eat, they are placed in this container along with either: pork or beef to make a large pot of vegetable soup( yes even the sausage if any is left. It is all about planning. This soup will serve a lot of hungry people served with a large pan of homemade cornbread and a dessert…like a homemade peach cobbler ( again made from the flour… what would we do without flour!!!). There are just so many ways we can save if we just plan ahead!
These are all great suggestions.❤️ The point of this video was only to use $5 a meal. We actually cook everything from scratch and raise all of our own meat and can most of our vegetables from our garden and I mostly buy my whole grains in bulk from Azure standard . I actually feed my family of 6 to 9 people ( depending on who is home ) for under $400 a month. But how we live is not something most people can do so I started this serries to help my older children but ended up helping other as well.
I would use a can of baked beans with the hot dog caserole. I make the tamale pie in a pie plate, with cornbread on the bottom, the rest on top. You can cut it like a pie, and the cornbread is cakelike.
That is a great idea
Yes butter goes in home made apple sauce
Hi Angel girl and family ❤ God bless you all ❤❤ I'm going to try to find out tomorrow about,an assistant living ❤ Love you Noel❤❤❤❤
Is that you Erica ? Glad you’re back! 😊
We missed you !!! We were getting worried about you ❤️❤️❤️
@@bluejayacreshomestead6529 I've been trying to find out what is going to happen to me and my cat's. It's got me a nervous wreck!!! I'm I've been trying to get another free phone! This one won't hardly work
I am still trying to find out everything
Love you guys too!!!!
Sausage bake is my fav!
Charles too
They sell the skyline chili in a can pretty cheap..They also sell it frozen
It is pretty good I honestly prefer gold star and they sell that in a can as well
@@bluejayacreshomestead6529 will have to try that. Im from NE ohio
So if you make these all in one day do u eat on them for the rest of the week
I made these meals over a 3 day period and with all my kids home they did not last very long
Hi Roby ❤ love you sweetie ❤😂😂
👍😊❣️
Use a spoon to put your batter in muffin tin
Yum, everything looks and sounds so delicious. Thanks for sharing these tips, Noel.
Hi Alma ! See you tonight! 🙏
@@yvettegerry9862 hey sweet friend. Yes, you'll see me in less than 2 hours on Falon's. How are you doing today?!
@@MrsAlmaTrumble I’m good are your meds helping with your pain? Hope so ! 💐
@@yvettegerry9862 they are, friend. I've only had 2 migraines.
I am still praying 🙏🏻 for you Mrs Alma sweet Friend I am happy the medicine is helping you God bless 🙏🏻✝️☮️🌹💐
What about hot porridge with raising honey and cinnamon
Sounds delicious
you need bigger mixin bowls
You are so clever, great ideas
Thank you! 😊
Hotdogs in chili sauce is not "chili".
Why did you use your drinking cup to put 3/4 cup of water into the cornbread? Completely unsanitary for your family!
Thank you for the comment but nobody used a cup that was being used for drinking We get all of our water out of our Berkey filter so I use cups or empty jugs to get my water
Toooo much background noise. Sounds like a party in the other room.
We are a large family and it is always like a party ❤️ I wouldn't want it any other way
First ❤❤
sad that jojo has made america poor and a 3rd world country
I'm with Charles no cooked canned 🫛. Frozen are so much better and only $.98 at Walmart. Peas and carrots 🤮
Yes we prefer fresh and than frozen but on this video every penny mattered
Hi Roby ❤ love you sweetie ❤😂😂
First ❤❤
Hi Roby ❤ love you sweetie ❤😂😂
Hi Roby ❤ love you sweetie ❤😂😂
It's wonderful to hear from you, Erica❤ I was getting really concerned about you. Love you too.❤
God bless You Erica praying for you also 🙏🏻✝️☮️💐🌹🌺