วีดีโอ

Great video. At the beginning, did you do an inventory of everything you had in stock? I'm curious if you are finding you are depleting your stock, or increasing it? ( I know the composition of your stock will change over time)

You do a great job of overhead filming when you make your meals. Food looks delicious.

Thank you for sharing. I always enjoy and find your channel inspiring.

Enjoyed your video so much! I stayed out of the grocery store last week, eating from staples and items on hand and we had plenty to eat and some interesting new combos of dishes. Can't wait to see what you have for us next week! Thanks!

make your own greek its just milk and a tiinnnnyyy bit yogurt

I was just thinking if that meat was going to have to last me a week I would have made things that would have stretched it more. I would have cut the pieces of meat chunks in half and separated the amount in half. Then I would have bought vegetables to make a pot of vegetable beef soup( carrots, potatoes, celery, onions, corn, peas, butter beans, green beans, okra. Some beef bouillon if didn’t have it, pasta. A bag of white dried beans and red beans. Do you have flour, sugar cornmeal? These items along with seasonings? These items along with pasta and rice helps to bulk up meals. I would have also made a beef stew by making a nice dark roux with your butter and a touch of oil, then added in my beef bits, some carrots and potato cut into nice bite size pieces, along with some sliced celery and onion. Then served it over rice with some homemade cornbread to go with each of these dishes. Did you know people eat cornbread with molasses or sorghum over hot buttered cornbread for breakfast? Rice can be eaten for every meal, any vegetable that was not used up can be frozen for a later date. Potatoes are one of the best bang for the buck. So many things you can do with this vegetable. I know you are diabetic, but if you can have ice cream you can have a potato once in a while too…also the rice( brown). Everything in moderation and spaced out. The vegetable beef soup can be frozen or just do not make a large bunch. This way you have vegetables for other meals. The celery can be stuffed with the peanut butter for a snack. Wheat bread for a PB& J ( sugar free or made with just juice) sandwich. A grilled cheese and homemade tomato soup or a cheap can of it doctored up. The white beans and pasta with a little tomato product for pasta a fagioli…Italian bean and pasta soup. Instead of having to dumpster dive…have you gone to your local DHS office to see if you qualify for an EBT card? Anyone struggling to put food on their table should qualify. It is worth checking into. I know some people just love the thrill of the hunt, but others do out of necessity. I hope I didn’t upset anyone, but a lot of people just do not know about things. 😌

Thank you for sharing.

Wow - you do such a great job finding those specials and making some nice meals.

There's nothing as good as fresh garden produce. Can't wait to see what you do with it all.

Very nice. Sweet friend.

Nice to have a secret angle!

My first video. What’s dumpster steak?

Those prices are very low compared to my city (Wisconsin) supermarket. I had to look to see if this video was from 4-5 years ago. Eating is difficult when you live on Social Security and a pension that will never get larger. More power to you.

Great job ❤

don't put it on the farmer about the quality and type of food... we've been restricted to what seed that we can buy and plant. we've been restricted by how we can farm. we've been restricted by where we can farm. we've been restricted on when we can farm and use tractors and equipment. we've been restricted by the government, banks, insurance companies, college kids protesting in our fields about the "environment" we've been restricted to who and how we can sell our produce to (yeah, that's right, i can't sell food directly to the people who want to eat it and i can get in trouble if i give it away as well) ... the list goes on and on... a head of lettuce costs over $2.00 at the store and i get about 3 cents for that head of lettuce... where does the other $1.97 go?... feeding the billions and billions of people is a daily miracle (and it feels good to feed people, it's kinda doing God's work)... please stop making laws and rules that hurt the farmers who are helping to feed people..

You popped in my feed and I love frugal videos. Starting from beginning and will follow your example. Can you say which state you live in so I can compare prices to mine (Utah). Thank you

I noticed the wet towel under your cutting board 😍 I'm so glad that worked!!

That steak would do me for breakfast all week. My favorite is eggs and steak with dry toast.

If you have any tomatoes going bad, just throw them out in yard for the wildlife and the seeds from the tomatoes will soak into the ground and start tomato plants.

I have oranges pop corn crackers breakfasts porridge lunch sandwiches dinners soup or Mac and cheese or any meal preps in freezer

If your food store has a produce mark down cart or section go there for produce. They get rid of perfectly good produce by bagging and the price is usually $.99! Also you can make a good ham and white bean soup with dome of that ham. It goes a long way. Buy bags of dried beans because they are a good source of vitamin and go with just about everything.

Great video.

Your meals always look so healthy.

I just watched all of your videos. I loved them! What is the song? I’m mesmerized ❤ you inspired me to do a pantry and freezer inventory to see what I can use up before buying more. I love the simplicity and freshness in your meals. Do you freeze portions of the bigger casseroles, or invite friends for dinner?

What State do you live? You're groceries were cheap.

Are you sure the left over chicken is still good?

I look forward to your weekly challenge update. Your food choices and menu plan is never dull and boring. With prices rising almost weekly do you find it is more challenging to stick to your $25 budget for the items you have on your list or are you flexible and change options while you shop. I know I change options as I shop because I live on a fixed budget and for now don’t want to increase it. I also have a well stocked prepped type pantry which helps immensely. I stock up in pantry staples when they are “half price specials”.

I love this so much! Great work!

Next time you make the corn muffins use some of the chedder you had and cut it into 1" cubes and push a cube into each uncooked muffin making sure the batter covers the cheese. Its one of my favorite treats.

Yumm...your meals looked delicious. I love that you show a person can have foods that are healthy and tasty at an affordable price. I'm sure you also put lots of thought and effort into your weekly choices too

Very patient tiny, tiny, tiny ham dices!!

Yummy!

Very nice haul, both from the stores and your friend!

صبـ(⛅)ـُ(آٍلـٍـً(🌺)ـٍورٍدً)ـ(⛅)ـٍآٍآٍحً

What a nice garden haul from your friend! We love sharing and receiving garden gifts.

Not me watching every single video on your channel today! Thank you so much for doing these videos. You inspired me to be even more frugal with shopping my pantry, fridge, and freezer first. In between watching I did get up and make the black bean salad from your last video and also ham salad using up what I already had in my refrigerator that was just going to eventually rot lol

I just found your channel. Thank you for the black bean salad recipe. I have all the ingredients on hand. Also if you put a kitchen towel or a wet paper towel or napkin underneath your cutting board it won't slide around on the counter.

I would be very careful with the perishables when dumpster diving, some stuff is fine, but the unknown is how long something sat outside of a cooler where a customer may have dumped it, then when they find it it goes into the dumpster....so that bag of cheese, or say a gallon of milk or your chunk of salmon may have sat over in the produce section or cat food aisle for hours before an employee found it and disposed of it....I have had food poisoning three times and do NOT ever want it again so I will pass.....

Your ham salad looks delicious! That was one of my mother's favorite sandwich fillings. Thank you for sharing your thoughtful and healthy approach to eating.

Thanks for sharing. It's amazing how little it costs to eat 'real' food. I wish those struggling with their finances could understand that

Great job! Do you find it hard to stay within the $25 a week? Do you find your stockpile is slowly increasing? My husband and I also eat for about $50 a week (Nova Scotia, Canada)

What state are you in? (I assume you are American?)

just found your challenge...I love challenges. I think it is a great idea to use your Starbucks gift cards for ground coffee

I did this trick too. Looks delisious .

Well fed with creative nutritious meals all under budget.. Looking forward to seeing Julys Budget challenge.

Those frozen yoghurts look so refreshing.

You have to soak the beans before cooking! ❤

I always precook my beans when making any bean dish. Adding salt or tomato products really slows down the cooking especially with older beans. Another way would be if you have a pressure cooker or an Instant pot. I would just add some water to the hard beans and give them another go in the crockpot or the stove.

Great Job, Girl! :) Add some water to the beans and cook them on the stove. They probably just didn't get up to temp in the crock pot.

When you say dumpster dive you don't mean you got those biscuits out of a dumpster. I am not trying to be rude. Jennifer