A Week on £1 a Day DAY 2
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
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A week on mystery tins. Get a bunch of tinned food, remove all labels, 2 random tins per meal per day.
Mike, I really feel you don't have to justify yourself anymore. You made it clear on day 1 what the week is about. I've been in tough times, I had 4€ to spent on a week back in 2002, I lived on cabagge and bread, but at least nobody gave me shit about using vinegar.
You used vinegar? How dare you. If you want to be poverty stricken, you don’t get to enjoy your food. (I’m giving you shit simply because nobody else has.)
Week on basils cat food
....OK it's official, some of Mikes subscribers must hate him! :P
That would make Basil p*ssed.
Hahahaha
Preeeeeety sure the ash in the cat food would literally kill him.
So... if i fill my cupboard with things the previous week, i can eat almost anything during a 1pound a day week?
yer mate
To be fair, if you did have a really tight budget, some weeks you would buy condiments etc. Maybe one week you’d get a tub of gravy granules, the next some herbs etc. I know this because i’ve done it with my own budget. He could have done without the garlic bread from yesterday and afforded gravy so realistically someone would build up their cupboards and you dont get through a whole tub of gravy granules in a week.
So... tonk82 if you were an idiot, could I call you that?
@@KatKaleen I'm not handsome... but you could call me that instead. Being rude is not good.
You can get ketchup, mayo, vinegar, butter etc in places for free like those small packets so if your budget was that small you would have a lot of that stuff in your house just from always taking it from everywhere you can.
Im sorry but the people complaining that he's living on a budget and not literally going out and spending a pound each day are idiots. Literally no one lives like that. If all you had to your name on monday was a pound, where did you get the pound tuesday? The answer is you dont. You budget on monday to last to sunday.
U do if your homeless and collect soda cans for a income or something of that nature but yes u can get more with €7 at once then €1 per day
well said my man! (or woman)
@@JackTalyorD your argument is invalid because you don't understand context
@@TinyChanges
No my point still stands in the Unemployment and under employed that make income daily by what ever means necessary.
And I was and still am agreed with u that a bulk pursh will get you more than 7 individuals purchase.
And while u are more that likey to earn more that €1 a day u might be stupid and spend the other €9 pound u earn on beer and only .....
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And on the other hand if u have nowhere to store food that's well that's a different question
I would love to see you do a week without plastic waste
he would starve
That isn’t about food to the point it’s interesting. If he does it though I’ll throw loads of those plastic beer rings in the ocean to kill a few birds for you.
Pissflaps
Do a week on £10,000 a day
People are hating on Mike for not suffering enough.
A week on Lidl or Aldi plz mike
Aldis is god tier good, depending on what you get there
That is basically my life. ALDI has (at least in germany) some of the best, affordable vegetables arround and the dairy section is pretty nice to. I don't eat much meat so i rarely buy any.
Do they have shops in England? Awesomely weird.
@@KatKaleen I assumed it had originated there, but I live in America and the area I live you cant throw a stone without hitting an aldis
@@scientificbrony agreed. Their food is like M&S but for skint people and I love it
I feel like it would have been better if you calculated the cost of whatever gravy granules/butter you used then included it. It wouldn't have been fair to include the price of the whole thing as they last longer than a week, but pretending they don't count is odd.
technically he is under budget any way at 13.60 for 2 people. so you could count it towards the 40p.
Ignore all the other shit in the cupboard he's using this week, please.
calculate gravy granules ffs wat grain by grain have a day of
He bought them previously they last longer stop being picky this is realistic even poor people have gravy and butter left from the other week or two.
As a student who gets the minimum student loan and is currently unemployed (but looking), I can say this is really interesting to watch. I'm vegan though so I'm currently surviving on a lot of vegetable and lentil soups because they last a long time and with some bread, I can get the majority of the nutrients I need. Costs me maybe 50p a day which is nice. Gives me enough money at the end of the week to have some sort of treat. My dog's decent food actually costs about the same as what I'm living on per day. Luckily, I bought a year's worth of food a couple months ago for him when I actually had a job. 😂
"I found this in the cupboard"
Yeah okay. How about a week on LIES?!
7:15 behind you on the chair Mike. YOU'VE BEEN RUMBLED. Those look like Terry's chocolate oranges 😂😂
Don't you like onions? With the money you've left over you could've added a kilo of onions to your groceries. Tons of possibilities and healthy too!
"playing with it is easier than trying to eat it on camera" -Mike Jeavons
You shouldn't use anything out of your cupboard as if someone genuinely only had £7 a week (£1 a day) to live on, then pantry items would have to come out of that budget at some point... they would gradually build up pantry items by adding a few in their shop each week and by doing so would miss out on other items.
You could have easily done without marmite, gravy or butter. Yes they add flavour but you still would have had food in your belly without them and a lot of people manage on dry toast for breakfast.
As a disabled person, would love to see you do a week on things a disabled person (of my particular flavour) could have. So only things that require no preparation!
A week on Morison savers
Yes I think Morrison's is cheaper and tastier than asda or Tesco
I'm vegeterian and those burgers made my mouth water! 🤤
You going to try one? It will change your life if you have never tried a burger
I've got some meat that'll make your mouth water. 😉😂👌🏻
@@maxscardanelli6185 perv.
Pissflaps
BRUv butter and marmite AND GRAVY
and AIR
@@q3znw6j88aywnwy I KNOW RIGHT, WHAT GIVES MIKE THE RIGHT TO BREATH
C’mon gravy is cheating
I don't like gravy on things. Just salt and pepper is good. He should get them free from convenience stores. If they have free condiments in the UK. I don't know.
Well if £1,- a day would end up with him eating nothing but some ramen and a glass of milk then that would be the point of the week on.
@@Adrastia They do, in the UK its common to get free condiments of ketchup, barbecue etc other sauces, mayo, vinegar, salt, pepper and also butter those little small rectangles. So if someone was on a small budget like this i'd expect them to have loads of these in their home.
Celtic Barry Those are meant to be with your meal NOT free. If you get caught grabbing them you get barred.
you gonna find £60 in the cupboard tomorrow and just go shopping?
You know, Mike, I really do love watching your vids and laughing at the replies. Some of them are so funny. Also, I see I'm not the only one who loves Basil. :)
Do a week on all you can eat buffets
You're not going to get a 100% pork sausage or 100% anything wise it would just be a lump of meat.
Hmm, a lump of something, but not meat. :D Horse maybe? Chicken lips? Hehe.
@@mapesdhs597 to make a pork sausage you need other ingredients, the skin or casing being one. Therefore the pork can't be 100% of the ingredients.
Of course you can … mince a piece of pork shoulder in the blender and put it in sausage casing … it would be 99.99% pork.
Quite interesting to watch, as a student during December last year, I could only afford garlic break from Tesco (20p) and some soups I had bought for emergency through the year, technically £1.20 per week not too shabby but was so hungry 😂
My Christmas dinner was stuffing and gravy last year 😂😂
I have an idea for a week on. Hear me out.
What if Mike did a week on fan food packages? Like fans send in food packages and Mike has to live off of them for a whole week and nothing else?
Probably not a great idea, but let me know what you think.
How about, a pound a meal, but no stuff out the cupboard.
SadisticSlayer Tesco and iceland both do £1 ready meals so it would be piss easy
Tesco's are a bit cheaper, neither are what an active adult would call a full meal(they're quite nice but I find I have one then need another a couple of hours later)@@Rowankeenanx3
@@blindio466 yeah i sometimes get the for work. i wouldn't want to live on them but it would be pretty easy to live on £1 a meal. the quality of diet just wouldn't be very good.
Looking through the comments I really wonder who in this rank of commenters ever HAD to live on a budget.
If you use so much butter, marmite and gravy powder that you have to go out every week to buy some, you're not living on a budget of any kind, shape or form.
Something you buy once a month or every two months or even more seldom only accounts for some pence per use in the long run.
Lmao fuck off. A bag of gravy is like 20p and lasts a month at least
I have to live off 140 a month for food!!! But, I eat out maybe once a week where I get discounts for being a senior.
I like this kind of video, I've seen people do similar ones were they have £10 or less for the week. It's interesting to find out how different people manage to cope with eating as healthily as possible with minimal money like those living in poverty.
I think you do much better if you are actually used to it. It's harder when you don't have to make those choices every day. Live like this for a few months and it starts working out a lot better. You can eat healthy. But it's gonna take more than a week to figure that out. It also helps if you are close enough to a store that has good prices. If you are stuck in a food desert with no supermarket things are much harder. I'm lucky to live near a Walmart I can walk to.
Adrastia thats what I always say, the only shop in my walking distance is co op (if your not english, its a really expensive food shop) so id be fucked. They hardly sell anything under £1
Amused at the notion that people in "poverty" live healthily. :D These days what counts as poverty is not having a smartphone. I'll care more when people who receive state benefits stop walking into high street banks and demanding their "wages"; the attitude of entitlement is extraordinary. If people really cared about resource provision, especially for children, they would not have children if beforehand they already knew they could not support a child, but most don't care, just get free stuff from the state.
@@mapesdhs597 i'm not suggesting that anyone living under the poverty line can truly eat healthy when there is very little healthy food you can buy super cheap.
I agree that there are people out there who take full advantage of the system, there are also those who hate being on the system too and honestly try to get off it, i at least have hope for people who try and get the jobs to get of state benefits.
@@Makreads The dual problem is that on the one hand the benefits system does not incentivise trying to get off them (the levels are far too high), while on the other hand anyone stuck in the system who is genuinely honest gets screwed over because it's structured with the assumption that people will be trying to rip it off (because they do, a lot). When the Poll Tax was launched way back, I moved into a shared flat and the first thing the existing half dozen residents (all on benefits) told me was how to exploit the system, eg. ordering stuff from catalogs using identities of people who didn't live there anymore (details taken from defunct payment booklets). The mere tip of the iceberg. Whenever I travel through a supposed "poor" neighbourhood, I see a heck of a lot of satellite dishes, people with phones, etc. There is no personal responsibility. Fundamentally, if one cannot afford to raise a child then don't have one; expecting other people to pay for it is just a different form of slavery, extracting resources from those who work. The welfare state replaces the father and a proper earned income.
I've been on benefits several times in the past. Most peope who receive such payments are not genuinely trying to get off them. And what was once introduced as temporary helper measures have since become permanent and utterly out of control (tax credits & suchlike). Being an honest person amid the benefit system is a nightmare, on th onehand one gets shafted from the masses who don't give a damn and on the other hand browbeaten by a system that has to be designed to limit the worst of the dishonesty.
There is decently cheap food available, but I don't think that's much of a factor either. Most people don't even know how to cook anymore, and certainly not the basic notions of making enough of something to last several days, reusing leftovers, etc. Far too many just buy takeaways or go to MacDonalds, and moreover they think they're entitled to do this.
Mike, I really love this week. If I can I like to do the same “week on” you do the week following to see how it goes. I know you get flooded with these but I thought I’d like to share a few ideas for week on’s I would like to see.
A week on:
Vintage (1950’s or so) British recipes from an older cookbook
£10 for the week (I know the idea is the same, but it’d be really interesting to see what kind of a difference a few extra pounds would have made. More veg, I’d guess)
Canned/Tinned
Everything from scratch
The same meal all week
Microwave frozen dinners
A week on living extravagantly
A week on Eating Basil
...this post pandemic society has turned me savage.
if ur living on £1 a day i would say 9/10 times u dont suddenly have empty cupboards.. a lot of people get to the point of needing to use only £1 a day after financial hardship and unforseen charges. mike, by using shit in his cupboards, is probably being as accurate as possible. you dont waste anything when you dont have much money, and i can promise you most people have gravy or ketchup already in their cupboards
like im sorry do you want mike to throw out everything he owns apart from the food he brought for the week? think realistically. you dont suddenly have a empty house and only £1 a day, you have a house with the basics and fall into only having £1 a day. and b4 anyones like 'u dont understand!!!!' as a uni student i kinda do
The winging about 53% pork seemed very insincere. Especially when the next most prominent ingredient was water. Even fancy-shmancy sausages aren't going to be 100% meat due to water and spices. The three specific 'scary' ingredients you read make the sausages plumper, have a longer shelf life, and keep it from falling apart.
7:53, I see you hiding those chocolate oranges, you can hide nothing from the internet bwahahaha!
they were on sale for a pound each not long ago... sneaky though ahahahaha
Anyone ever found money in their pockets while doing the laundry?
Found a 20 buck note once when I was running short that week.
Miiiiike!!!!
Oh, yeeeah. Oh, yeeeah. Oh, yeeeeaaaash!
Hey Grace 👋 May this week not be horrendous for you... If Mike’s bitchin’, just scratch his head (if you can be arsed), and he’ll fall to sleep. This is a thoroughly tried and tested method. It works every time I need my partner to sleep immediately. When he’s pissing me off.
Mike... Basil...good luck with your challenge.
Nail it, you will!
(That was Yoda-backwards, I think)
X
Better late than never 😉
I'm curious how much these sundries cost. Probably not much, the amount of gravy granules used probably costs single digit pence, as with the amount of marmite. Maybe more for the butter XD
First result: Bisto reduced salt gravy granules, £1 from Tesco, makes 50 portions, so 2 pence per portion
Second: Marmite, 250g is £2.40, making the 8g suggested portion just under 8 pence
So, yeah, kind of cheap. It's not *that* hard to add that into the budget, and those two things don't break it yet. Not sure on the butter yet XD
(Though Mike, please don't feel the need to meticulously weigh your marmite)
Butter can be free if you just take a big handful of the free butters in places like supermarket, ikea, garden center, M&S canteens. Same with mayo, vinegar, ketchup, salt, pepper and other condiments places have for free.
It's a week on 14 quid over 2 people not 1 pound a day. Your diet would be very different if on your own and going out to spend a pound a day
Yeah, he said something to that effect on day 1.
Who earns £1 a day. No one receives £1 a day, this is just a more realistic way to do it
Technically still the same, people on that little money probably are getting welfare money which is like £70 a week? and im sure they get paid every 2 weeks so like £140 every 2 weeks.
So they dont only have £7 a week, they might only be able to afford like £30 a month on food but they're not dumb they plan it out so they get everything they will need like condiments, butter then main meals like meat, rice, pasta. He's doing fine.
He cant exactly do 1 month on £30 thats too long.
A week on the same three meals every day. Exactly the same meals. I read a comment here about a lack of flavour and variety can have a negative effect on mood. A worthwhile experiment I’d say.
hey dont waste those fleas thats some valuable protein there
Basil is love.....Basil is life
Ingredients are listed in order of size. The other half of the sausages is wheat flour. Better for you than the pork.
My visit to England in August left me astounded at how the English stand eating those low-meat sausages. Whether by themselves or in the additional pastry of a sausage roll, they’re bad. In the U. S., the adulteration of sausages is generally with added animal fat or with organ meats such as heart (usual in bologna) or salivary glands (refrigerated beef chorizo). Not good either, but at least animal products...
Are you from Milton Keynes?? Or do you just travel here to use our m&s (seen in another week on obvs can't do a £1 a day there 😹)
I'm currently doing a sober December challenge. Luckily I stocked up on plenty of booze in November so I can drink that.
A week on one meal a day
A week on 1000 calories a day
A week on £10 (no cupboard stuff allowed at all)
A week on weight watchers
A week on fast food
A week on Aldi
Just some ideas 🤗
Hey Mike, thanks for doing a week on a £! This is something most people can even imagine doing, even though it's something many have to struggle with!!!! Big fan, keep up the good work as always. Much respect 💜
No tea? FFS. Will pray for you.
7:23 are those Terry's Chocolate Orange?
Justin Yeung no they're not Terry's....they're Mike's and Grace's
A week only eating wotsits. Or quavers. Or only eating baby food... Or only eating pineapple... Oh my, the possibilities are endless...
Michael Clark he’s done the baby food one though
I would have to go vegetarian on this sort of budget, I feel sorry for anyone who feels they must eat ultra cheap highly processed animal based products, rather have baked spuds with veg and gravy alone for health reasons.
This week would be easy if you focused on rice, dried lentils / chickpeas ect and oats for breakfast.. Just add some cheap jars of sauce and vegetables. Piece of piss.
Cocogomez I was with you until you mentioned cheap jars lol! You’re telling him he could have used lentils, chickpeas etc (same argument during vegan week), but then buy pre-made sauces, which would ultimately add up to being more expensive than buying a few own branded tins of chopped tomatoes, a tube of tomato purée, & he’s already got herbs in his cupboard. That literally would have lasted both of them the week!
Umair Filling power. Low in glycemic index, so they’ll keep you fuller for longer. They also go a lot further in meals than meat etc. A bag of oats for 2 people can easily last a week if not longer. A bag of lentils, chickpeas etc can make quite a few meals (& lunches too).
@@LauraBidingCitizen A jar of curry type sauce can be bought for a pound or so and can be split into four portions / meals, eg two nights dinners from one jar. Trust me, i'm poor.
@@Cocogomez A bag/tub of curry powder and a tin of tomatoes/yoghurt/milk would be substantially cheaper.
Be great if one person with food allergies tried this. It's way more expensive.☺
I was interested in the videos, but seems your adding more and more things from your cupboard, it should be called £1 a day plus what ever I have in my cupboard, gravy makes a massive difference with veg mash and sausages...
Random foods for the week lovely ☺️
Next May. the food writer and social activist Jack Monroe is bringing out a book, Tin Can Cook, based on recipes involving tinned food. This is because tin cans form the basis of what goes into food banks. That might be an interesting “week on ...” challenge for you, coping on what would be supplied at a food bank. I think you did well here.
Not moaning but typically a £1 a day meal don't include drinks - still ASDA 17p cola, or 6 pack of longlife milks £2 something would last me a week ... not hard ish to budget decent drinks in.
Beans with every meal for a week! I keep commenting but still no action! I will be getting as annoying as the person who comments with the nose to tail crap every video soon!😂✌️
What does a bean diet do? Besides make everyone in the elevator hate you? XD
Adrastia did you know there is 40,000 types of bean? You do now 👍
I see you have a you tube award congrats
So glad you are doing this. Keep it healthy
Hi Mike I love your videos I've watched most of your week on I'm making my way through them all lol 😂
Basil was staring at the phone waiting on a call from the council about that Anti-Flea treatment bill.
"Hands off! dont toucha ma spaget"
So your sausages have Marmite (yeast extract) in them?
If you were a food, you’d be a white potato.
bigbingham boiled with no salt
Do a week on getting pegged by Grace
A week on advent calendars
Nice one mate
A week on noses and tails?
Basil is like oi mate, I'm not on a pound a day so feed me and feed me well this instant!
Keep up the good work, love these week on's
Did you buy butter ?
Do a week on Beer and British pub snacks.
Could you redo this challenge, just yourself not grace, and using nothing you have in the cupboard. So no condiments etc, no gravies or sauces, and £7 for a full week
Week living solely on green skittles
Funny you go on about the sausages, but the majority if not all sausages are between 40-60% pork, plus it doesn't actually mean actual pork, it can be a mix of pork with the rest of the crap off a pig.
Week on ladybugs
Tourette's teen eggs next, a kiwi tics are what we need, protein everywhere and swearing that I'm slightly jealous of.
I get sick of eating the same meal for four days in a row if I am trying to save money. End up freezing the leftovers and then not eating them.
A week on food a day or 2 after the 'best before' date.
Might have to do this after Christmas 😝
I did it for two week before Christmas to raise money for charity. Sure, it's called Living below the Line. But in all honesty, it's more like existing :(
Let me be your sugar daddy
If you're spending that much on gifts you have an obsession with material items.
Hey, Mike, how about a week of no food just gravy? :D
Thing is, this shows the feasibility and lack of foresight of Ian Duncan Smith's declaration that someone can live on £7 a week.
Love baz the cat he is a legend should. Do a Christmas calendar of him
I forgive salt pepper some other seasonings and even butter and cream because you can get those things free at convenience stores, but unless you pay for it yesterday where the f*** are you getting gravy. If that was included in your original budget I don't think it's fair to use it.
Anyone else notice the two Terry's Chocolate Oranges on the chair under the table in the background on 7:30 lol
He could have done it cheaper, even at tesco if he was smarter with his choices. Like he could have gone for the 20 frozen sausages for £1, for example.
I have to do this most the time. You get used to it. Everything else becomes a treat. Spesh if you can’t eat wheat like I can’t
I'm sorry to hear that, Ellen.
These are posted quite late compared to your others Mike!
Although it makes great bed time watching :D
i cant believe you’re wearing clothes, that’s breaking the budget of £1 a day
Hey Mike... just seen the infomercial for the Red Copper 5 minute Chef.. it looks to come with recipes by Mrs Dumpdinners herself! Just in case you want to torture yourself and your better
Half with her "amazing recipes"
Keep up the good work
@0:00 is that a painting of Basil?
Those sausages look fine to me.. yum yum
This is basically a wee on tesco value again
So far it's been pretty good. I wonder how it will be by day 6.
Mike, I highly recommend reading The Way of Kings - fantastic fantasy series if you're into fantasy (you mentioned enjoying YA).
Should have bought more sausage instead of the frozen beef.
Yep completely agree.
Will we get to see Basil have his treatment?😍