*Afterthoughts & Addenda:* *Japanese Knotweed:* it's a criminal offence to cause this invasive plant to spread here in the UK. It's not mandatory to report it when you find it, but I contacted the Parish Council, who own the land at Botley Quay - they replied to say they are aware of it and are working on a plan to eradicate it. Why so serious? Japanese knotweed is an invasive species that can reproduce from quite a small piece of the plant and is resistant to herbicides and most control methods short of nuking it from orbit - if I were to pick it and take it home, any of the trimmings would have to be carefully destroyed - if they were thrown in the compost, they could just root. Not worth the risk for something that apparently tastes like an inferior version of rhubarb.
Theres a ticket they usually print for the yeast, or there certainly is one in sainsburys. Looks like you have around 200grams which is about 20p. Sounds like the baker was being nice to you. Sainsburys bakers have been told to stop selling fresh yeast since the pandemic due to a manufacture shortage once everyone started to panic buy and filling there freezers with scratch bread, they still have not changed that policy. Sounds like you got luckily. Surprised you didn't go for a loose potato though. As it's live yeast you don't need any suger, you can dump it straight in, about 35 grams per kg. It's soft cause it's been out of the fridge to long. If it's really fresh, not out of the fridge for longer than 30mins or so, it will break off in striations. Still fair to say you did pretty good for 2 quid.
@@terrytees I did ask (at Tesco) very nicely and politely - and I was actually expecting to pay - I went to the bakery with only flour in my basket and intended to work the rest of my shopping around the cost of flour+yeast. I know other people have been turned away or charged on some occasions, but I also know people do still get it for free - I suppose it depends on a lot of factors - timing, mood, availability of yeast, etc
@@AtomicShrimp It would still have been cheap enough if they made you pay for it, you may have had to buy loose veg instead to bring it under 2 quid but the price for less than 100 gm's should be pennies, maybe 20p tops. I work as a baker for another supermarket and can tell you it looks like there phazing out the scratch bakery's in all the supermarkets, tesco have got rid of a lot already. It will go to frozen over the next few years. Now's the time to master making a sour dough. The pasites looked great btw.
Only problem would be the length of the video. It's a decent amount of effort to do these I assume and he would be left with two choices. Either have a very long video that few would watch through, or condense the cooking process down and miss out on the style of the video and instead get a couple shots of each meal
Whilst I realise now you're referring to the idea of harvesting the cows; I must admit my first thought was that he might start harvesting magic mushrooms... Your sentiment still seemed appropriate!
You know what impresses me about this challenge? I'm not even started yet, and your restriction of "most kitchen cupboard ingredients" makes me so so happy! I've watched a very large number of these types of "tiny budget for multiple meals" challenges and every single one of them just goes "Oh, I'll also have full access to everything in my cupboards!" Like yeah, of course you can make everything edible and delicious when you throw an extra 20 USD of spices and herbs into the dish "for free" thank you for actually taking the challenge seriously.
@@commenter4898 understandably it's not available to everyone but he since he didn't allow himself to use vehicular transport he foraged stuff that most people (not everyone ofc) would have access to
@@commenter4898 as he has clarified in other videos, the point of the challenge isn’t to simulate poverty. “What other people have access to” is irrelevant when it’s him testing his own frugality and creativity
Nutritious food is pretty cheap tho. I eat for like 50 dollars a month off canned and frozen vegetables and dried rice. Whatever meat is cheapest 3 times a week. Honestly I could prly live off like 30 bucks a month and still be healthy. Wish we had so many reduced price goods where I live tho. The price blew my mind in this video. Soo cheap
@@astroposyt2898 Just myself. But my mom raised me and my two sisters on the same shit. Lots of full chickens and canned foods growing up. Not the tastiest dinners but me and my sisters are all a good weight because of it.
@@OrganicGreens You've probably done this, but you should explore around and try and find other shops and stores that could have reduced prices. The Walmart just down the street from me has reduced price greens (and for some reason yogurt is quite often reduced in price, which is good because it's a somewhat cheap protein source anyway) all the time.
he should think more about protein per penny next time, I question whether bacon would be able to beat eggs by that metric. I'm not familiar with British bacon though, it looks like that cut has a better protein/fat ratio than American bacon
I'd like to hope at some point there was a scientific process of titrating the amount of a particular plant someone ate as to see what's poisonous without it killing them.
You do a test. Rub it on your hand, then break up and put it on your lips and the final one is crushing in and adding water. Special name for it. Can't remember.
A loaf of reduced bread/out of date, aldi for a tin of tomatoes, a tin of beans or a tin of spaghetti. Fed me for a day under £1. Water to drink. Walk everywhere. How I survived years back when I was of no fixed abode, yes I ate the tins cold, sometimes a tin of aldi hot dogs. 23 years later I'm fairly well off and own my own home. Whenever anyone makes me food regardless of if I like it or not I make a point of thanking them and eating it all, because I remember real hard times, starving all day then eating a 50p fritter cob after a 7 mile walk because it was either catch the bus n go hungry or walk the 7 mile and eat.
Interesting that Aldi is so cheap over there. Over here (Netherlands), Aldi is currently one of the most expensive supermarkets. And no, I'm not kidding.
This is why I can't stand food snobs and the kind of people who are ungrateful and always complaining about food. That and because I'm a "eh, I'd still eat it" type of person
Also seriously for people saying for him to make ramen noodles, this challenge is exciting since we see him being creative with his cooking, making cool foods with such a minuscule budget
Also, there is like almost zero nutritive value in ramen noodles. They are just cheap belly filler. I’m of the opinion that they are made out of sawdust.
He is the most wholesome man I've ever seen, walking on sock while he cooks, giving cute and informative content, just being himself, he loves his dog and cooks very well, this guy is a national treasure and we got to protect him at all costs
This is exactly what I was thinking, the entire time I was watching this man this was my entire thought process, along with hoping he's making money from these videos because God knows he deserves it for being such a ray of light in the world
@@xyz12345457 Ah, yes, it is a British thing. It's something we like to call 'sarcasm'. I've heard that other countries have tried to replicate it, but I really can't imagine that it's the same. (Basically, he was pointing out the weird name of the bacon - 'cooking bacon' as opposed to... what exactly?It's like saying eating bacon, instead of washing bacon. Just companies trying to make their products seem more interesting.)
i just stumbled upon this(idk why YT recommended this but im happy they did), "this is an exercise that I set myself specifically to try to provoke a creative response; to nurture or develop transferrable skills of creativity and adaptability."
@@AtomicShrimp I've been watching for the past 18 hours (although I had seen one of your videos maybe a year ago, I forgot to subscribe at the time and rediscovered you off a link on Reddit yesterday). I generally like to cook when it's for other people but I currently live alone and really detest cooking for myself. Even though I haven't had a chance to go shopping yet, watching your videos has inspired me to cook two meals for myself that I would never have made before. I combined ingredients that I had never thought of and did a deep dive into the pantry and freezer for ideas. It made the cooking so much more fun than usual and the eating less of a chore. Thank you for making sustaining myself more fun and more of a game! I truly appreciate it because my funds are quite a bit lower than usual and this makes my life more enjoyable and less depressing than my regular attitude might be. 🌻😊
25 yers ago i had a food budget at Uni of £30 a week, was tight, nowadays me and my wife live comfortably on £30 a week on food, inc post chocolate and canned drinks etc. food has got cheaper...
@@neoaliphant hey that's great! The cheaper the food the better :^) This is about as much as I spend weekly on food as well, though it's sort of hard to judge - I should probably keep better track of it. Usually I have a certain amount of money set aside for food and just have to make sure not to get over it - I recalculate it weekly as to take into account what I've saved up before that, or if I went over the budget how that affects the rest of it.
“And as you can tell by the look of this flower it is a member of cabbage family” The only thing I can tell by the look of this flower is that it is most likely a plant :D
i love the foraging aspect and how you’re very mindful of how much is there and what you should take, instead of pulling the entire plant just for a meal. i’m really inspired to start foraging!!
@@mandrew31 Yes, lots of classes are available free from various groups if you look around (bit more restricted now due to covid, but i am sure they're around online
Bravo! I really appreciate your comments in the intro that you're not 'playing poor' nor trying to prove that 'people on benefits could get by with less'. What you have successfully shown is that restriction can be a spur to creativity. A v enjoyable watch.
Right? As a Dutchy, I can't imagine getting these groceries that cheap. Okay, he got lucky with the flour. However, with all the other products? Bananas can be roughly the same price, but carrots would be at least €1, bacon probably more like €3(being conservative), the total would come up to roughly €5-6 if I had to get that here in the Netherlands
I just noticed this, the british prices are utterly absurd! Cheapest you can get 1kg of carrots in swedish COOP is 13 SEK (1.1 GBP), that's almost 3x as expensive!!!
Same here. I wish groceries in Canada were this cheap. Everything he bought would have cost 4 to 5 times more here. It's sickening how much we get scalped.
I just tried making dumplings following your method and using herbs gathered from around my apartment with some beef and chicken broth and it was so good it was demanded that i make it again soon. Thanks for the inspiration and instructions.
@@toastmlg2310 Pierogi are filled dumplings, "Dumpling is a broad class of dishes that consist of pieces of dough (made from a variety of starch sources) wrapped around a filling"
I love his take on cheap meals, because when he says 2 pounds per 2 days he actually goes shopping with that money not breaks down common ingredients. Looking at you Joshua Weismann (I still love your stuff 😘).
Right? All other budget meal videos have you buying large amounts of produce to make one meal that ultimately costs you more if you don't use up all of the produce.
@@AtomicShrimp True. I also like the idea of rules. Some people would drive around several supermarkets to get the best overall value but there would be little point having a budget if you spend much more on fuel lol
People who have a problem with this stuff clearly never went to Uni. It’s not about “let’s play at being poor” it’s more like “if you are poor, here are some options”. I love your content, and I made that nettle soup about 3 days ago. Loved it
Some people literally run around the internet looking for things to get upset about. The same people seem to think that personal resilience shouldn't be 'necessary' and that if you even have to think about it, theres some sort of global systemic failure.
@@shingshongshamalama , back in the days the french used this very practical device for getting rid of people like royalty or clerics. should work on billionaires too. ;-)
Thank you so much for being respectful and putting your dog on a lead as you crossed the field with the cattle! My sister has a dairy farm, and far too often she has to challenge people walking through the field with their dogs loose, as we have had dogs chase the livestock in the past, including one specially scary instance where a dog got into the field where the calves were, and started chasing them around. We don't mind people walking across the pastures but PLEASE keep dogs on a lead at all times. Even if they are well behaved!
I always say that the most focused and creative cooking happens when you're forced to use limited ingredients. It's also a great way to not waste food when you narrow your focus for dinner to what ingredients you have on hand that are nearing the end. I HATE wasting food so I'm guided by this most days as opposed to eating strictly what I fancy at the moment. It's also easy to get overwhelmed in the kitchen with possibilities. Anyway, bravo on those dumplings and broth. Looks like a great success.
Thanks - yeah, one of the other things I found quite interesting was when I subscribed to a veg box delivery service - they would supply mostly seasonal stuff, but I would never know what it was going to be until it turned up - so I had to make stuff with whatever I got, rather than what I could choose.
love the rules, it really cements how much effort goes into these kinds of videos. you never know when you may end up only having a couple bucks to eat
The deadpan delivery of "cooking bacon, as opposed to bacon for eating raw" simply epitomises everything I love about dry British humour. Love it mate.
@@aelthen874 It's first cured yes, but then it's smoked. My point is still valid, bacon is by its definition smoked. Salted pork is what you're thinking about.
I'm a duel-citizen of Canada and the UK, and very confused as to how food is so cheap in England. In Canada, the cheapest 500g pack of "cooking bacon" I could find online was £5.80. And the price discrepancies for the other items were similarly disparate. Wild.
I remember back in Poland my mum and her friends were in the same financial situation and one had eggs and the other potatoes. We went I’ve fyp their house and we (the kids) had potatoes with a Fried egg. It was a great meal but it took me forever to realise that the parents didn’t eat
Yeah, it took me some time to realise just how much money my Polish mum really had. Eggs with potatoes are still kind of a nice throwback meal. Also rice with milk and apples baked together as dinner
I'd like to see a budget recipe roulette where your budget, allowed shops, allowed ingredients ect are all down to the spin of a wheel. Maybe you'd end up with 2 pounds for 1 day or 1 pound for 2 days. Something like that.
@Cringeyness Expressway bruh what the fuck. At least he's not another prank cringe channel. One out of millions whose content has educational value. Edit: he deleted his replies. What he said in the nutshell is something along the lines: "You're too old for TH-cam, boomer". Then said he's 13, which means he most likely added a year or two.
I definitely commend the thrift / resourcefulness... kind of makes me wonder how much I could save if I halved the size of my refrigerator and forced myself to use ALL ingredients down to the last gram before making a grocery store run.
One thing that might help is buying the right quantities of your fridge staples so that they all run out around the same time. I do my grocery runs every few weeks after my chopped veg and/or eggs run out - and the rest can be rotated/changed out so I get crafty for the last few days
I love the fortitude you show in these two videos, there had to be a little pain, but there was also triumph against the odds. It is so inspiring to watch someone take on a challenge like this one, and it is also very entertaining to be along with you on your trip, so I will definitely be back to see what else you come up with in the future....WELL DONE with your challenge...
Yea I saw that. It was incredibly stupid. How to survive on 5quid a day! Just buy some food and if ya dun got enuff dosh on ya just go to ya nan and ask for a tenner!
@@redhulk4048 It can be just a side project. Or maybe even a week long meal plan that he can show he has enough ingredients left, to replicate for the rest of the month.
This might be a little weird but your videos actually help me sleep, I have some really bad insomnia I don’t really know what I would do without your TH-cam, thank you for your videos!
There's a sensible dog owner who keeps his dog on a leash around cattle or livestock. The farmers of the world applaud and thank you! 👏👏 we just wish that others would be like you!
@@gregjones3660 of course, but if you've ever actually seen or used a working dog you'd know those sheep dogs and cattle dogs are trained very well and have a job to do, and they are trained NOT to cause harm to the animal. They don't just go and scare or attack the livestock in the way that untrained animals would as untrained dogs have the natural instinct to prey on livestock. Yes, TRAINED working dogs are fine! The dogs I'm speaking about, such as the dog in this video is more than likely untrained around livestock so should be controlled by a leash, preventing animals being killed!
@@gregjones3660 you act like it’s a no-brainer, but there are signs all over footpaths that go through fields from farmers pleading for people to keep their dogs on leads because they’ve lost livestock to badly trained dogs who are allowed to run amok.
You know here in USA during my very poor days when my dad broke his back and my siblings along with myself had no food for a month, we relied on my grandmother for food. We had a can of beans, mayo and an onion along with a loaf of bread. I made a bean salad and put that on bread and took to school everyday. Kinda got a taste for a bean sandwich.
As a Dutchman, I've always thought the beans-on-toast thing was absolutely weird couldn't possibly be nice, until I tried it one time and was surprised at how well it worked together! I've made it several times since then.
Wholemeal bread for the toast, shit loads of salty butter, and a bit of butter in the beans, make sure the beans are pan cooked, not microwaved. Jobs a good un.
I know it wouldn't meet your rules for having a variation, but I could (and have) survived on cereal for breakfast and beans on toast for the main meal for the weekdays when my wife was away at university. The cereal was probably too expensive, but I could have done toast for breakfast. As you say, extending it over more than one day makes it easier due to scale. A big container of milk costs in well, so does a large container of porridge. A loaf of bread and a few cans of beans. So a week for a fiver is probably do-able easier than your two-day challenge. I do appreciate that you also took into account the nutritional value too, which I wasn't.
there is something oddly calming about a british guy, doing these educational yet entertaining challenge videos (while keeping in mind for some people this is the constant, harsh reality of life). hits close.ish to home, until recently i survived some weeks on a budget of 5€ as a university student, potatoes and beans are a wonderful thing
Lived on rice, tinned tomatoes and Oxo stock cubes for the best part of a year at uni. Think my biggest thing was finding an Asian supermarket that sold rice in freaking massive bags for next to nothing in cost.
Green beans and potatoes were a common meal in my family growing up -- either in a red sauce, or in a garlicky-olive oil "pot liquor", (Sicilian-American family). Someone told me once that they were complimentary proteins; it made sense when I looked into it. In fact, So Many of the foods we ate in our family growing up, were quite nutritionally dense -- all without the benefit of university degrees in 'Nutrition' or 'Dietary Science"! They had simply followed in the footsteps of their forebears, who had managed to survive in very ...um, 'rustic', rural, feudal conditions for generations. And people say "old wives tales" as if it were a 'bad thing'... Ha!
Top tip, if your local supermarket has one of those bougie sushi counters they have free sachets of soysauce, ginger, and wasabi. I know urban foraging wasn't allowed in this one but for more for the referance of those in the comments.
And if you use store cupboard ingredients and work out the cost per gram then the variety is enormous. I set myself this challenge after the previous atomic shrimp video on the subject and for one day did breakfast, lunch(2 courses, ) dinner(3courses) and the only foraging was a wind fall apple. I even had a few pence left over. Of course the wine was extra but that didn’t count.
Surprisingly wholesome. I thought it was going to be yet another youtube video about budget meals, but it's a lot more than that. You really aim to use every little bit you can from what you've bought. The foraging with the doggo is a nice touch too
Watching this with my 6yo daughter who absolutely loves this channel and really wants to do a £1 food challenge. Which we will do, so proud of her being interested in life skills 🥰
I'm loving the foraging segment of the video-it's like surviving through a Oregon Trail while being educated on what's edible and what's not. Keep up the great work!
I appreciate the effort that goes into making these budget videos. You know a lot about foraging. Perhaps you could make a video on one meal completely foraged.
This project is one of the best and most intriguing videos I've ever seen online. Absolutely blown away that you ended up with a dish that had too much food to eat! Really really interesting - so much that my wife who doesn't tend to watch TH-cam much actually sat down and watched both videos all the way through. Fascinating stuff. Well done.
"Wow, uh, that's a lot of yeast. But he cooks a lot and is much better at it than I am, I'm sure he knows what he's doing." > This is way too much yeast. I don't know what I was thinking. "Oh."
Top notch cow awareness spreading! Far too many people leave their dogs off the leads or think only the bulls can be aggressive. Even with well behaved and gentle dogs, the cows can get very protective or startled by them especially when they have calves nearby.
Not to mention the amount of people who completly disregard sheep, let their dogs run wild, and bam you end up with 25 sheep falling off a steep hill or cliff and dying. Some people are just clueless
Once watched a less considerate dog owner walk his unleashed dog in a cow pasture. Against expectation about ten of the cows began giddily chasing the dog around. As a bonus the owner got cornered by them as he tried to keep them from investigating his dog. Everyone was fine at the end of it, but don't think he'll make the same mistake again anytime soon!
I remember this one old masterchef where a Polish lady made pierogies with about four ingredients, onion, fresh tomatoes and the makings for the "shell"--the judges thought they were absolutely amazing, I remember John Torrode in particular saying "I know Michelin-starred chefs who couldn't make a dish with that few ingredients, and certainly not one anywhere near as tasty". She got through pretty far into the competition , finalist, but didn't win. Interesting video, food looked tasty, cheers!
*tomatoes* in pierogi? That's the first time I heard someone using tomatoes to make pierogi. Intresting. I was born in Poland and I still make lots of pierogi to this day despite not living there anymore. It's a great dish, that is relatively inexpensive, and you can make it healthier by choosing healthier fillings. The most basic dough (that my great grandma taught me) consists of just flour, water, salt and oil. My grandad also adds eggs. I personally, like to make a more "melt in your mouth" dough so I add butter as well. Those come out sooo delicious when fried! With a thin, crisp shell that later melts in your mouth. Yum. I actually still have some pierogi in the fridge from 2 days ago and this made me wanna reheat some haha
Your limited budget food challenges are just bangers. This is honestly the point of me watching your channel. Trust me you have invented something very special here. Keep these videos up one in a time and you will grow real fast on TH-cam!
I was thinking "I have never seen food this cheap in my life" and then I realized that British pounds are worth nearly double what Canadian dollars are.
you oughta try chicken parmesan delicious and cheap. $5 for 2 chicken breasts (cut into 3 fillets each), $3 for 1 16oz jar of marinara, and then $1 for a few eggs + spices. I could eat that every day for a week if i had to.
I once had to make £40 last for food for a month for 4 of us and we did it as when you make everything from scratch like you did you can make some really nice meals. Also the dandelions are packed full of vitamins. Especially vitamin C so always best to pick quite a lot in spring and freeze any excess as their so good for you. I make dandelion and daisy cookies, honey, tea from mine. Not quite confident with a lot of green herbs yet though as so many look similar to poisonous plants. Foraging for plants is a mainly lost skill know which almost every household knew many years ago and I think many should go back to doing and we would be much healthier.
you know, im so glad i discovered this channel. youre a man after my own heart! your thriftyness, your knowledge of wild edibles, and your experimental cooking style are awesome! Also your dog is cute. Im looking forward to watching more of your videos, well done!
Hey, just an idea with breads, bagels are fairly simple to make with flour water yeast in a 1:1 ratio of flour to water and 7g yeast for every 500g of the other ingredients! Its something I've really enjoyed the past year!
If the 60-odd million people of the UK all knew how to wild forage, the countryside would experience an extinction event. It would be the worst thing to ever happen to our ecology.
I love the creativity in these meals, something I'd love to see you try is a more 'realistic' budget challenge for a whole week, give yourself £15 and 1 day to get ingredients and see if you can make them last 7 days, it would give you a lot more freedom in terms of ingredients while also presenting the challenge of making things last for 7 days. People could actually try to follow along at home with each video by getting the exact same ingredients too, well, I would anyway lol
I see, Tesco's ministry of propaganda is trying to corrupt you with their overpriced convenience food. Don't be fooled by their claims of "1 pound a week" being reasonable.
I have to say that normally my attention span is about 10 minutes for a TH-cam video. I sat through this entire video and was sad when it was over. So glad I found this channel!
This was surprisingly entertaining, intuitive, ingenious. Definitely the best of the budget meal challenge I’ve seen on TH-cam. I watched the entire video, bravo.
@@arthurfilemon6038 "Playing poor"? Depends on how you perceive it. If you're a salty little bitch, such as yourself.. Then I could see how you would maybe take it as an insult that someone who has money is extreme budgeting. On the other hand, if you're more optimistic, you might view it as an intelligent and resourceful person, sharing valuable knowledge and tips for those who maybe are poor or struggling to get by every week, so that they don't have to feel hopeless when times are tough.
@@arthurfilemon6038 The guy says he's doing it to test his creativity, not to play poor. He has a ton of other videos showcasing that he is in fact, an average citizen
The bread looks so much better than any store-bought loaf I've ever had. And those dumplings looked amazing. Also, I'm american. I've had beans on toast. It's simple and delicious and I highly recommend it to anyone that has not had it yet.
Best reductions tend to happen after about 6pm at most supermarkets got two loaves of bread at 18p each and two 15 packs of eggs for 20p each and three small salad packs filled with carrot and onion for 5p each In aldi bread is 39p spaghetti for 20p jar of sauce for 28p jam 28p tinned veg for 28p etc and I think you can get a pack of 6 sausages for about 50p
I started this video not expecting much, by the time you started foraging I was mildly interested, but once you had the dumplings going my jaw dropped, couldn't in a million years have imagined a 2 quid budget video ending so fantastically impressive
I had to pause at the totting up of the shopping. A similar cart here in Canada, using budget-store brands and cheapest finds would be about £7.46 and I find that absolutely staggering. Thanks for the great video!
Right? As soon as he grabbed the carrots I was thinking "nope, he's doomed". Converted, the 40 pence he spent on carrots is 66 cents Canadian! I genuinely don't think you could complete this challenge here for the $3.40 CDN his budget was. It would be almost exclusively foraging and gardening.
I'm from Montréal, I wrote a similar comment. Here, its 2-3 times more expensive, even in the super bargain deal. And foraging and gardening at -20*C is not an easy task.
for vegetarians with no access to herbs, you could have used the money from 1 pack of flour to buy 3 eggs, scratch the bacon and get some cheese and get potatoes instead of carrots. from 500g flower u can make 4 pizza doughs (1 pizza and 3 flatbreads) - 1 fried egg, beans and 1 flatbread - Breakfast 1 - Potato fritters with the rest of the beans - Lunch 1 - 1 pizza using the tomato sauce from the can and cheese - Dinner 1 - Bananas with flour and even an egg pancakes - Breakfast 2 - 1 egg omelet with the rest of the cheese and 1 flatbread - Lunch 2 - Baked french-fries and 1 flatbread (save some beans sauce for dipping :D ) - Dinner 2 Not the most nutritional but it's filling, easy and 6 in total
For a country that produces as much food as Canada does - it is criminal how expensive food is here. And the FARMER does not get the money - the packagers, wholesalers and retailers make money hand over fist. Recently a number of major retailers were caught fixing the price of bread. Canada is fundamentally a corrupt banana republic. (this from someone who was born here and has lived here all my life)
Yeah I live in Canada and I'm racking my brains trying to figure out why to foods so cheap. a can of beans here is like $1.50 and I've seen bacon as high as 10 bucks!! and its even worse up north, fresh greens are unobtainable for most northerners do to everything needing to be brought in on bush plane and rail.
My husband and I live in western Canada and we hike around our local area on most of our days off. In the spring we bring packages of cheap, dollar store vegetable seeds with us and plant them everywhere. Then during the summer we forage as we hike. The other hikers and wild animals don't often leave us much, but it's fun to look.
Oh wow. This is the best video I've seen in a LONG time. It's interesting, relaxing, has some beautiful nature scenes, and I really like this guy. I'll be binge watching.
Love these self-challenge videos and would love to see how they would go 'now', a year + inflation later and perhaps with broader 'rules' to include more of your viewers.
"500g of cooking bacon, as opposed to bacon for eating raw." Your delivery is so dry, sir, it took me a good few seconds to get that one. Had me giggling for a good while.
Made me laugh too. That was funny. I picked up some Russian hitchhikers in New Zealand. Took them down to queenstown. We stopped of at a supermarket (new world) to get some stuff me the Russians came in with me and my friend we all met back at the car, the Russian guys said they had no money for fuel but brought me some bacon. We sat in the carpark eating raw bacon. They said it was good, didn't belive them at 1st but watched them eat some. It wasn't actually too bad. They had some bananas and we wrapped some bacon around the banana too and we ate that. Was bloody good. Then we parted ways. Good times!
alas frankie boy, that's what they actually call it , here in albion. it's meant for slinging in stews etc, but plebs like me buy it for sarnies. you have to trawl through the packs though, the decent stuff goes quickly.... needs must.
@@augustinevenfalloftarth3036 nah no stomach ache or tape worm or anything, I didn't even think about it, I was more excited to get down to queenstown and meet up with the rest of the mates and crack on with the holiday all logic and common sense went flying out the window. Plus if the Russians were doing it, I didn't want to look like a western spy.
As someone that's lived their entire life in middle class America (north east coast, more specifically), I'm honestly shocked at how much you were able to buy for the equivalent of $2.76. Even if you only went to dollar stores or only shopped in the clearance section of grocery stores, you'd really struggle to find anything priced below a dollar. I'm even more surprised you managed to fit meat in that budget.
South-east coast. Same. Honestly, $2.76, I could buy maybe a coke, tax included. Fucking insane that you are able to get 6 meals for 2 whole days. Watching these videos to make me find cheap meals for my mother cuz' we're not doing so well rn.
@@TheDoosh79 It's the same meat as the 'proper packs', it's just the offcuts that are harder to sell. Worked in the industry for a bit, pretty much only buy offcuts now. ( Except if making a roast dinner for family etc).
@@antonyevans9772 This! Had a friend who's family owned a butchers in my town and he basically said the same that they'd sell offcuts for under £2 it's from the same coe/pig/chicken just the stuff 'nobody wants' but totally edible and nutritious.
@@tanah6962 absolutely. You only have to look at fruit and veg, anything that doesn't 'look right' gets sold for next to nothing, while the pretty looking ones are expensive as hell. Save money, same taste.
Wait...I feel like an idiot, but I did not realize that literally just adding water to flour will get you dough. I thought it at least required an egg or something. I guess I don't know much about flour; it just behaves like edible, explosive sand in my head. Edit: Oh, just after writing this, I got to the part of the video with "This surprises some people.".
really shows why as a human race once we had made flour even the poor could make a huge range of different meals. basic bread,pies,pasta,dumplings etc all from just a bit of flour and water
Thank you thank you thank you for being responsible and respectful with your dog near the cows, people don’t realise the damage it can do to just let your dog roam free
*Afterthoughts & Addenda:*
*Japanese Knotweed:* it's a criminal offence to cause this invasive plant to spread here in the UK. It's not mandatory to report it when you find it, but I contacted the Parish Council, who own the land at Botley Quay - they replied to say they are aware of it and are working on a plan to eradicate it.
Why so serious? Japanese knotweed is an invasive species that can reproduce from quite a small piece of the plant and is resistant to herbicides and most control methods short of nuking it from orbit - if I were to pick it and take it home, any of the trimmings would have to be carefully destroyed - if they were thrown in the compost, they could just root. Not worth the risk for something that apparently tastes like an inferior version of rhubarb.
OK
Sounds difficult
Theres a ticket they usually print for the yeast, or there certainly is one in sainsburys. Looks like you have around 200grams which is about 20p. Sounds like the baker was being nice to you. Sainsburys bakers have been told to stop selling fresh yeast since the pandemic due to a manufacture shortage once everyone started to panic buy and filling there freezers with scratch bread, they still have not changed that policy. Sounds like you got luckily. Surprised you didn't go for a loose potato though. As it's live yeast you don't need any suger, you can dump it straight in, about 35 grams per kg. It's soft cause it's been out of the fridge to long. If it's really fresh, not out of the fridge for longer than 30mins or so, it will break off in striations. Still fair to say you did pretty good for 2 quid.
@@terrytees I did ask (at Tesco) very nicely and politely - and I was actually expecting to pay - I went to the bakery with only flour in my basket and intended to work the rest of my shopping around the cost of flour+yeast. I know other people have been turned away or charged on some occasions, but I also know people do still get it for free - I suppose it depends on a lot of factors - timing, mood, availability of yeast, etc
@@AtomicShrimp It would still have been cheap enough if they made you pay for it, you may have had to buy loose veg instead to bring it under 2 quid but the price for less than 100 gm's should be pennies, maybe 20p tops. I work as a baker for another supermarket and can tell you it looks like there phazing out the scratch bakery's in all the supermarkets, tesco have got rid of a lot already. It will go to frozen over the next few years. Now's the time to master making a sour dough. The pasites looked great btw.
I can remember the days when i could get dinner, pudding sweets and drinks for well under £2. Sadly these days they have security cameras everywhere.
🤣🤣
Lol
Yep I too can remember getting lunch at Tech College for 22 1/2 p soup, lunch, desert and a cup of tea. That was 1973.
😂😂
King
do 7 days for 7 pounds. It seems like the more you can buy at once, the more scale takes play. I think that would be interesting to see.
Hey it’s The Horizon! Love your videos, and it seems like you’re everywhere I go.
Only problem would be the length of the video. It's a decent amount of effort to do these I assume and he would be left with two choices. Either have a very long video that few would watch through, or condense the cooking process down and miss out on the style of the video and instead get a couple shots of each meal
@@arya6085 Theres a third option, which is to make a 3 or 4 video series out of it. It may not be for everyone, but I would enjoy it.
Dude, jacks ramen noodles are 20p per pack, that's 35 packs.
Aslong as he doesn't use the "no same meals" rule, he could do this lol
That would be a really long video
When he couldn't find mushrooms to eat, and cut to the next shot of cows, my first thought was "Well, that escalated quickly"
"Technically foraging"
Whilst I realise now you're referring to the idea of harvesting the cows; I must admit my first thought was that he might start harvesting magic mushrooms... Your sentiment still seemed appropriate!
@@tsawy6 i thought about Both haha, Saw the Cows and thought of Meat, and then Saw the shit and thought of shrooms
escalated*
…that’s EXACTLY what I was thinking!!
You know what impresses me about this challenge? I'm not even started yet, and your restriction of "most kitchen cupboard ingredients" makes me so so happy! I've watched a very large number of these types of "tiny budget for multiple meals" challenges and every single one of them just goes "Oh, I'll also have full access to everything in my cupboards!" Like yeah, of course you can make everything edible and delicious when you throw an extra 20 USD of spices and herbs into the dish "for free" thank you for actually taking the challenge seriously.
I agree that cupboard is cheating, but he also used his garden and went foraging. That's not possible for a lot of people.
@@commenter4898 understandably it's not available to everyone but he since he didn't allow himself to use vehicular transport he foraged stuff that most people (not everyone ofc) would have access to
@@commenter4898 as he has clarified in other videos, the point of the challenge isn’t to simulate poverty. “What other people have access to” is irrelevant when it’s him testing his own frugality and creativity
@@commenter4898 I live in a desert, foraging is definitely limited lol
@@5erase eat the sand
I'm glad that you considered nutrition over price. You are actually addressing a HUGE concern with many low income grocery budgets.
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Nutritious food is pretty cheap tho. I eat for like 50 dollars a month off canned and frozen vegetables and dried rice. Whatever meat is cheapest 3 times a week. Honestly I could prly live off like 30 bucks a month and still be healthy. Wish we had so many reduced price goods where I live tho. The price blew my mind in this video. Soo cheap
@@OrganicGreens how many you feeding?
@@astroposyt2898 Just myself. But my mom raised me and my two sisters on the same shit. Lots of full chickens and canned foods growing up. Not the tastiest dinners but me and my sisters are all a good weight because of it.
@@OrganicGreens You've probably done this, but you should explore around and try and find other shops and stores that could have reduced prices. The Walmart just down the street from me has reduced price greens (and for some reason yogurt is quite often reduced in price, which is good because it's a somewhat cheap protein source anyway) all the time.
This man is doing calculations on the scale of energy per penny. You’re a legend.
On extreme budget that how it should be to get best out of nothing
Pence*
he should think more about protein per penny next time, I question whether bacon would be able to beat eggs by that metric. I'm not familiar with British bacon though, it looks like that cut has a better protein/fat ratio than American bacon
@@robotalbotross8128 3:54 penny
@@einerjeti I know but I don’t feel like correcting myself
Hats off to all the people who died for us in the trial and error process of finding out which plants are edible and which ones aren't.
True heroes without a doubt!!! 👏👏👏
I mean, they were gonna die anyway if they didn’t eat.
I'd like to hope at some point there was a scientific process of titrating the amount of a particular plant someone ate as to see what's poisonous without it killing them.
You do a test. Rub it on your hand, then break up and put it on your lips and the final one is crushing in and adding water.
Special name for it. Can't remember.
All plants are edible.... However, some plants are only edible once!
Everyone: amazed by his cooking skills
me: amazed by how knowledgable he is on different subjects
What different subjects?
The jack of all trades
@@MrPrice-bb2gn also have you seen his channel at all
@@ElliHarper The way the world is going being a jack of all trades master of none is probably more beneficial
@@ElliHarper the real one actually goes like "a jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one"
Tesco employee here. Get yourself to the reduction shelves at 7:00pm or abit later and everything is reduced by 75%.
That is amazing.
Everything in Israel is super expensive. And almost no special discounts , they rather throw it to the bin.
@@DreadVille1 same in Canada no discounts 😂
But their is always that one big boy that takes all of itr
*a bit
It's almost as if the happy merchant meme is true.
Gotta love how he pays attention to the nutritional value of all the food and meals
You have to... Unless you want joint pain and diphtheria early in life.
Yes I love that to
And how he respects the local wildlife. Not taking too many plants from one place
@@geesegoose6174 bro do you even know what diphtheria is? 😂😂😂
if it were i would've just gone with anything that looked tasty and cheap lol
This man’s foraging knowledge never ceases to amaze me. So interesting to learn this stuff!
Ikr
Dumb mouser
And what NOT to eat
I never knew there were so many plants that could kill me 😅
@@Nathan-kw2hs If a plant exists, it will probably kill you...probably
A loaf of reduced bread/out of date, aldi for a tin of tomatoes, a tin of beans or a tin of spaghetti. Fed me for a day under £1. Water to drink. Walk everywhere. How I survived years back when I was of no fixed abode, yes I ate the tins cold, sometimes a tin of aldi hot dogs. 23 years later I'm fairly well off and own my own home. Whenever anyone makes me food regardless of if I like it or not I make a point of thanking them and eating it all, because I remember real hard times, starving all day then eating a 50p fritter cob after a 7 mile walk because it was either catch the bus n go hungry or walk the 7 mile and eat.
Shit man, I'm 25 and I don't at all have my shit together. Kudos homie!
Good for you pal. ❤
Interesting that Aldi is so cheap over there. Over here (Netherlands), Aldi is currently one of the most expensive supermarkets. And no, I'm not kidding.
@@OneKnifeYeHand Thats weird to think, how expensive is it compared to other supermarkets?
This is why I can't stand food snobs and the kind of people who are ungrateful and always complaining about food. That and because I'm a "eh, I'd still eat it" type of person
Also seriously for people saying for him to make ramen noodles, this challenge is exciting since we see him being creative with his cooking, making cool foods with such a minuscule budget
Also, there is like almost zero nutritive value in ramen noodles. They are just cheap belly filler. I’m of the opinion that they are made out of sawdust.
@@Catmoore60 raw sawdust tastes better ngl
@@Catmoore60 ]q0q
Mixing the ramen into other dishes would probably work okay.
He is the most wholesome man I've ever seen, walking on sock while he cooks, giving cute and informative content, just being himself, he loves his dog and cooks very well, this guy is a national treasure and we got to protect him at all costs
This is exactly what I was thinking, the entire time I was watching this man this was my entire thought process, along with hoping he's making money from these videos because God knows he deserves it for being such a ray of light in the world
What else would ya walk on when cooking?
Erwin Saunders is also a national treasure that must be protected at ALL costs ❤️🧚
@@xyz12345457 Ah, yes, it is a British thing. It's something we like to call 'sarcasm'. I've heard that other countries have tried to replicate it, but I really can't imagine that it's the same.
(Basically, he was pointing out the weird name of the bacon - 'cooking bacon' as opposed to... what exactly?It's like saying eating bacon, instead of washing bacon. Just companies trying to make their products seem more interesting.)
Bro he’s not a dog
"Tea doesn't count"
Quite literally the most British rule out there.
And the most Turkish as well
(Turk here)
@@Adat151 wtf?
@@Adat151 what, why?
@@weme7223 probably someone who thinks their country is the only one allowed to drink tea
@@Adat151 lol reported rasist
i just stumbled upon this(idk why YT recommended this but im happy they did), "this is an exercise that I set myself specifically to try to provoke a creative response; to nurture or develop transferrable skills of creativity and adaptability."
Thank you. It makes my day when someone actually understands what this is all about!
@@AtomicShrimp I've been watching for the past 18 hours (although I had seen one of your videos maybe a year ago, I forgot to subscribe at the time and rediscovered you off a link on Reddit yesterday). I generally like to cook when it's for other people but I currently live alone and really detest cooking for myself. Even though I haven't had a chance to go shopping yet, watching your videos has inspired me to cook two meals for myself that I would never have made before. I combined ingredients that I had never thought of and did a deep dive into the pantry and freezer for ideas. It made the cooking so much more fun than usual and the eating less of a chore.
Thank you for making sustaining myself more fun and more of a game! I truly appreciate it because my funds are quite a bit lower than usual and this makes my life more enjoyable and less depressing than my regular attitude might be. 🌻😊
Im a college student, and while my budget will never be quite this bad, it is very informative to watch!
Don't jinx yourself!
I agree!
25 yers ago i had a food budget at Uni of £30 a week, was tight, nowadays me and my wife live comfortably on £30 a week on food, inc post chocolate and canned drinks etc. food has got cheaper...
Never say never.
@@neoaliphant hey that's great! The cheaper the food the better :^)
This is about as much as I spend weekly on food as well, though it's sort of hard to judge - I should probably keep better track of it. Usually I have a certain amount of money set aside for food and just have to make sure not to get over it - I recalculate it weekly as to take into account what I've saved up before that, or if I went over the budget how that affects the rest of it.
“And as you can tell by the look of this flower it is a member of cabbage family”
The only thing I can tell by the look of this flower is that it is most likely a plant :D
I've got a video in planning about this
@@AtomicShrimp that would be really great!
I was gonna say daisy :0
Funny.....true 4 me
i love the foraging aspect and how you’re very mindful of how much is there and what you should take, instead of pulling the entire plant just for a meal. i’m really inspired to start foraging!!
Yeah, I very much admire this but wouldn't risk it personally.
Definitely suggest you to take a class and educate yourself thoroughly before foraging, and be safe!
Enjoy, and be careful!
I was thinking the same thing!
@@mandrew31 Yes, lots of classes are available free from various groups if you look around (bit more restricted now due to covid, but i am sure they're around online
Bravo! I really appreciate your comments in the intro that you're not 'playing poor' nor trying to prove that 'people on benefits could get by with less'.
What you have successfully shown is that restriction can be a spur to creativity. A v enjoyable watch.
These challenges always make me surprised how cheap groceries are in the UK.
Right? As a Dutchy, I can't imagine getting these groceries that cheap. Okay, he got lucky with the flour. However, with all the other products? Bananas can be roughly the same price, but carrots would be at least €1, bacon probably more like €3(being conservative), the total would come up to roughly €5-6 if I had to get that here in the Netherlands
@@WizardKagdan He had to work very very carefully to be that economical. You could easily spend much more to get the same things.
I just noticed this, the british prices are utterly absurd! Cheapest you can get 1kg of carrots in swedish COOP is 13 SEK (1.1 GBP), that's almost 3x as expensive!!!
Same here. I wish groceries in Canada were this cheap. Everything he bought would have cost 4 to 5 times more here. It's sickening how much we get scalped.
@@swedneck 😲 carrots are 20p/kg in asda
I just tried making dumplings following your method and using herbs gathered from around my apartment with some beef and chicken broth and it was so good it was demanded that i make it again soon. Thanks for the inspiration and instructions.
u mean pierogi?
@@toastmlg2310 Idk he called them dumplings so I presumed that's what they were called.
@@toastmlg2310 varenyky
What he made are pierogy, dumpling are similir in Concept but look and taste a bit different,
@@toastmlg2310 Pierogi are filled dumplings, "Dumpling is a broad class of dishes that consist of pieces of dough (made from a variety of starch sources) wrapped around a filling"
I love his take on cheap meals, because when he says 2 pounds per 2 days he actually goes shopping with that money not breaks down common ingredients. Looking at you Joshua Weismann (I still love your stuff 😘).
Right? All other budget meal videos have you buying large amounts of produce to make one meal that ultimately costs you more if you don't use up all of the produce.
Yeah, doing a pro-rata budget thing isn't really a challenge
@@AtomicShrimp True. I also like the idea of rules. Some people would drive around several supermarkets to get the best overall value but there would be little point having a budget if you spend much more on fuel lol
but the point of Joshua's videos is using those ingredients to make many meals, not just use them once
@@kb24072001 yeah but not everyone has the fridge/freezer space to make meals that last so it doesn't apply to everyone
Thank you for reminding me food just has to be food. It doesn’t always have to look gourmet or “asthetic” it’s ok to have simple filling meals
People who have a problem with this stuff clearly never went to Uni. It’s not about “let’s play at being poor” it’s more like “if you are poor, here are some options”. I love your content, and I made that nettle soup about 3 days ago. Loved it
Some people literally run around the internet looking for things to get upset about. The same people seem to think that personal resilience shouldn't be 'necessary' and that if you even have to think about it, theres some sort of global systemic failure.
There's a way better option than this though:
Stop letting billionaires hoard food when there's more than enough for everyone.
@@shingshongshamalama , back in the days the french used this very practical device for getting rid of people like royalty or clerics. should work on billionaires too. ;-)
Thank you so much for being respectful and putting your dog on a lead as you crossed the field with the cattle! My sister has a dairy farm, and far too often she has to challenge people walking through the field with their dogs loose, as we have had dogs chase the livestock in the past, including one specially scary instance where a dog got into the field where the calves were, and started chasing them around.
We don't mind people walking across the pastures but PLEASE keep dogs on a lead at all times. Even if they are well behaved!
I always say that the most focused and creative cooking happens when you're forced to use limited ingredients. It's also a great way to not waste food when you narrow your focus for dinner to what ingredients you have on hand that are nearing the end. I HATE wasting food so I'm guided by this most days as opposed to eating strictly what I fancy at the moment. It's also easy to get overwhelmed in the kitchen with possibilities. Anyway, bravo on those dumplings and broth. Looks like a great success.
Thanks - yeah, one of the other things I found quite interesting was when I subscribed to a veg box delivery service - they would supply mostly seasonal stuff, but I would never know what it was going to be until it turned up - so I had to make stuff with whatever I got, rather than what I could choose.
@@AtomicShrimp and this reply was sponsored by...
@@MuddyAxolotl If it was sponsored, I suppose I would have mentioned the name
@@AtomicShrimp i know i know
I agree with you, John!
love the rules, it really cements how much effort goes into these kinds of videos. you never know when you may end up only having a couple bucks to eat
I did not expect to have the patience to pledge 42 mins towards this, but I watched every second with full attention, you're a wizard.
... harry.
Exactly the same here, it's just as entertaining as a summoning salt video
Wow, that did not seem like 42 minutes at all
The deadpan delivery of "cooking bacon, as opposed to bacon for eating raw" simply epitomises everything I love about dry British humour. Love it mate.
Bacon is never raw. Bacon by its definition is smoked.
@@mangethegamer Bacon is cured, not smoked. I'd get into the habit of fact-checking yourself before you look dumb.
@@aelthen874 It's first cured yes, but then it's smoked. My point is still valid, bacon is by its definition smoked. Salted pork is what you're thinking about.
@@mangethegamer Nope. Bacon is defined by the curing of the cut of the meat, not being smoked. You can buy unsmoked bacon.
Literally google define bacon. Its not something worth arguing over when there's a clear definition.
You literally improve the quality of my life.
@@teethntoothbrush Yes his vocabulary is amazing.
Mine too even though the bar is pretty low anyways.
I'm a duel-citizen of Canada and the UK, and very confused as to how food is so cheap in England. In Canada, the cheapest 500g pack of "cooking bacon" I could find online was £5.80. And the price discrepancies for the other items were similarly disparate. Wild.
We are paid much less over here in the UK.
@@BsYtHandle I'm sorry but that is absolute rubbish. The average wage is very close between Canada and the UK.
try living in Australia then, everything is expensive here
@@FuryousD yes but we live in London and rent is high as f......
I'm confused about the prices in general, 1£ is 10 swedish crowns but for 10 crowns you can get like a kg of potatoes thats it.
I remember back in Poland my mum and her friends were in the same financial situation and one had eggs and the other potatoes. We went I’ve fyp their house and we (the kids) had potatoes with a Fried egg. It was a great meal but it took me forever to realise that the parents didn’t eat
Yeah, it took me some time to realise just how much money my Polish mum really had. Eggs with potatoes are still kind of a nice throwback meal. Also rice with milk and apples baked together as dinner
Ah fuck man that's sad
@@justme-et3sr
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Have you ever tried Milk Soup?
Its like Milked boiled and put pasta into it and then you eat it with spoon and its very good.
I'd like to see a budget recipe roulette where your budget, allowed shops, allowed ingredients ect are all down to the spin of a wheel. Maybe you'd end up with 2 pounds for 1 day or 1 pound for 2 days. Something like that.
and the viewers would push the wheel or something
This is such a fun idea!
I like your thinking!
"Using self-checkout on budget shopping is for cowards. I have no shame."
This really made me laugh. 😁
It's true. I mean, have you seen my shirts?
@@AtomicShrimp I prefer to call it not a lack of shame, but sheer, unbridled, unfathomable confidence!
@Cringeyness Expressway bruh what the fuck. At least he's not another prank cringe channel. One out of millions whose content has educational value.
Edit: he deleted his replies. What he said in the nutshell is something along the lines: "You're too old for TH-cam, boomer". Then said he's 13, which means he most likely added a year or two.
Should be printed on a shirt
@@AtomicShrimp hey if you ever try making dumplings again try crimping them with a fork its quick and simple
I definitely commend the thrift / resourcefulness... kind of makes me wonder how much I could save if I halved the size of my refrigerator and forced myself to use ALL ingredients down to the last gram before making a grocery store run.
One thing that might help is buying the right quantities of your fridge staples so that they all run out around the same time. I do my grocery runs every few weeks after my chopped veg and/or eggs run out - and the rest can be rotated/changed out so I get crafty for the last few days
I love that you don't just go cheap, but make tasty meals during these challenges.
when did you get to taste it? unlucky if you did.
@@ADayInTheLifeOfAYeti all the stuff he cooked had herbs and/or salt and pepper in them. You can make anything taste good with enough salt and pepper
this close to my current budget, glad to see someone trying it a bit more seriously than a lot of those 'trendy' limited budget challenges
I love the fortitude you show in these two videos, there had to be a little pain, but there was also triumph against the odds. It is so inspiring to watch someone take on a challenge like this one, and it is also very entertaining to be along with you on your trip, so I will definitely be back to see what else you come up with in the future....WELL DONE with your challenge...
I've got a 5 day/5 pounds series in production right now. It's been quite interesting (and exhausting)
Finally someone that doesn’t “cheats” in these challenges by going to soup kitchens and begging for free food
man people really do that? What a shame
@@shaquilleoseal1390 london hack yt
Yea I saw that. It was incredibly stupid. How to survive on 5quid a day! Just buy some food and if ya dun got enuff dosh on ya just go to ya nan and ask for a tenner!
@Worldwide Remix Is she dead?
Ehm, did he not "beg" for the yeast?
I love how you consider the environmental impacts of your foraging when looking for what you want to put into your meal
I'd love to see a series on living on 60 pounds for 30 days. The increased budget will allow you to buy in bulk and be a lot more creative.
Yes!! This would be amazing
Fantastic idea! I really hope he sees your comment.
That's too long of a time to be doing a challenge, a week would be the most he should do :\
£30 for 30 days and £60 for 30 days. would be really interesting. A lot of work to do it for such a long period though.
@@redhulk4048 It can be just a side project. Or maybe even a week long meal plan that he can show he has enough ingredients left, to replicate for the rest of the month.
This might be a little weird but your videos actually help me sleep, I have some really bad insomnia I don’t really know what I would do without your TH-cam, thank you for your videos!
Me too! Find his voice so soothing and comforting, like a warm hug 😊
Place your bets, folks! Are we going to see some banana bread action tomorrow?
Without milk and sugar?
@@shyleish Gotta think outside of that box - we're on a limited budget here!
You've got me all riled up before bed now. I won't sleep tonight
Banana peels can be cooked to make a vegan version of pulled pork.
@@danielcondon3611 haha dude just finished this one at 3am not sure I can sleep after that!
There's a sensible dog owner who keeps his dog on a leash around cattle or livestock. The farmers of the world applaud and thank you! 👏👏 we just wish that others would be like you!
Nah theyre fine. Ever herd of a sheep dog?
@@gregjones3660 of course, but if you've ever actually seen or used a working dog you'd know those sheep dogs and cattle dogs are trained very well and have a job to do, and they are trained NOT to cause harm to the animal. They don't just go and scare or attack the livestock in the way that untrained animals would as untrained dogs have the natural instinct to prey on livestock. Yes, TRAINED working dogs are fine! The dogs I'm speaking about, such as the dog in this video is more than likely untrained around livestock so should be controlled by a leash, preventing animals being killed!
@@caoimhesheridan502 uh yeah...
@@gregjones3660 you act like it’s a no-brainer, but there are signs all over footpaths that go through fields from farmers pleading for people to keep their dogs on leads because they’ve lost livestock to badly trained dogs who are allowed to run amok.
@@caoimhesheridan502 Farmers kill animals anyway.
You know here in USA during my very poor days when my dad broke his back and my siblings along with myself had no food for a month, we relied on my grandmother for food. We had a can of beans, mayo and an onion along with a loaf of bread. I made a bean salad and put that on bread and took to school everyday. Kinda got a taste for a bean sandwich.
Feel bad for you bro
Your story moved me Bob. Hope you are well and much better now. Take care brother.
Take care man.
As a Dutchman, I've always thought the beans-on-toast thing was absolutely weird couldn't possibly be nice, until I tried it one time and was surprised at how well it worked together! I've made it several times since then.
Try beans AND cheese on toast…game changer! The cheese goes under the beans so it melts though 👌
@@kelkel1609 I like to melt the cheese into the beans. Love it
No, beans with the cheese on the top .
A trip the the NL introduced me to chips with mayonaise. Great comfort food.
Wholemeal bread for the toast, shit loads of salty butter, and a bit of butter in the beans, make sure the beans are pan cooked, not microwaved. Jobs a good un.
This is the only channel where I'll watch a 40+ minute video without skipping
100
You should watch the budget videos by delish too.
I know it wouldn't meet your rules for having a variation, but I could (and have) survived on cereal for breakfast and beans on toast for the main meal for the weekdays when my wife was away at university. The cereal was probably too expensive, but I could have done toast for breakfast. As you say, extending it over more than one day makes it easier due to scale. A big container of milk costs in well, so does a large container of porridge. A loaf of bread and a few cans of beans. So a week for a fiver is probably do-able easier than your two-day challenge. I do appreciate that you also took into account the nutritional value too, which I wasn't.
there is something oddly calming about a british guy, doing these educational yet entertaining challenge videos (while keeping in mind for some people this is the constant, harsh reality of life). hits close.ish to home, until recently i survived some weeks on a budget of 5€ as a university student, potatoes and beans are a wonderful thing
Lived on rice, tinned tomatoes and Oxo stock cubes for the best part of a year at uni. Think my biggest thing was finding an Asian supermarket that sold rice in freaking massive bags for next to nothing in cost.
Green beans and potatoes were a common meal in my family growing up -- either in a red sauce, or in a garlicky-olive oil "pot liquor", (Sicilian-American family). Someone told me once that they were complimentary proteins; it made sense when I looked into it. In fact, So Many of the foods we ate in our family growing up, were quite nutritionally dense -- all without the benefit of university degrees in 'Nutrition' or 'Dietary Science"! They had simply followed in the footsteps of their forebears, who had managed to survive in very ...um, 'rustic', rural, feudal conditions for generations. And people say "old wives tales" as if it were a 'bad thing'... Ha!
Hats off to you. Out of all the challenges I've seen, yours are the most creative. You eat like a king for less than a pauper.
Lunch: Elaborate Dumplings that he spends tons of time on
Dinner: B E A N
He made fuckin B E A N S
@@schnitzelmike727 WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
Top tip, if your local supermarket has one of those bougie sushi counters they have free sachets of soysauce, ginger, and wasabi. I know urban foraging wasn't allowed in this one but for more for the referance of those in the comments.
I love these budget challenges, the amount you can cook for so little money and your creativity with ingredients is amazing
And if you use store cupboard ingredients and work out the cost per gram then the variety is enormous. I set myself this challenge after the previous atomic shrimp video on the subject and for one day did breakfast, lunch(2 courses, ) dinner(3courses) and the only foraging was a wind fall apple. I even had a few pence left over. Of course the wine was extra but that didn’t count.
I agree.
Surprisingly wholesome. I thought it was going to be yet another youtube video about budget meals, but it's a lot more than that. You really aim to use every little bit you can from what you've bought. The foraging with the doggo is a nice touch too
"Using self-checkout on budget shopping is for cowards. I have no shame." This is the moment when I subscribed 🤣🤣🤣
Watching this with my 6yo daughter who absolutely loves this channel and really wants to do a £1 food challenge. Which we will do, so proud of her being interested in life skills 🥰
I want to but Tesco is the nearest big store and it's 5 miles away
Sounds like good fun
So wholesome
That's awesome. Whenever I make a good shopping score, I am apt to brag about it. I really watch the specials and the markdowns
Teach her baking!!! :)
The horror when he uses like 5 loaves of breads worth of yeast
F
I dont bake but i even knew it was an excessive amount of yeast
I'm loving the foraging segment of the video-it's like surviving through a Oregon Trail while being educated on what's edible and what's not. Keep up the great work!
I appreciate the effort that goes into making these budget videos. You know a lot about foraging. Perhaps you could make a video on one meal completely foraged.
That would be awesome
Atomic Shrimp is the kind of person you want to be on your side during the apocalypse
omg yes
Name checks out
So true
What?? Not according to this video dude doesn't even know the proper amount of yeast to use
He’d be able to tell you everything that would be edible if it weren’t for the radiation.
This is no joke to me. I've lived for almost 3 years with 2£/day of food in average. Lots of reduced and cooking expertise.
Me too…been living on Manager Specials for years now. Stretching money while also eating nutritious food…that’s where creativity comes in real handy.
@Astolfo Desu well there's something to be said for "getting your money's worth" :D
This project is one of the best and most intriguing videos I've ever seen online. Absolutely blown away that you ended up with a dish that had too much food to eat! Really really interesting - so much that my wife who doesn't tend to watch TH-cam much actually sat down and watched both videos all the way through. Fascinating stuff. Well done.
"Wow, uh, that's a lot of yeast. But he cooks a lot and is much better at it than I am, I'm sure he knows what he's doing."
> This is way too much yeast. I don't know what I was thinking.
"Oh."
but it smelled so good
I THOUGHT THE SAME 💀🤚
I got so stressed when he said that, but was so curious to see what would happen.
When you get paid monthly, this challenge is life for the last week. It honestly makes you feel good.
So true!!!😓😓😓
i am monthly paid whole my life and i very´few time havent money for last week :-D i split food money right after money ring to my account :-D
Ah yes, the good ol’ end of the month “what’s in the pantry” soup!
Hhahaha I’m currently on £20 😬😬
@@LazyGamerScotland keep the faith!
Top notch cow awareness spreading! Far too many people leave their dogs off the leads or think only the bulls can be aggressive. Even with well behaved and gentle dogs, the cows can get very protective or startled by them especially when they have calves nearby.
Not to mention the amount of people who completly disregard sheep, let their dogs run wild, and bam you end up with 25 sheep falling off a steep hill or cliff and dying. Some people are just clueless
Once watched a less considerate dog owner walk his unleashed dog in a cow pasture. Against expectation about ten of the cows began giddily chasing the dog around. As a bonus the owner got cornered by them as he tried to keep them from investigating his dog. Everyone was fine at the end of it, but don't think he'll make the same mistake again anytime soon!
Thanks for making my Saturday morning, I’m really struggling at the moment and you’re videos really cheer me up.
I remember this one old masterchef where a Polish lady made pierogies with about four ingredients, onion, fresh tomatoes and the makings for the "shell"--the judges thought they were absolutely amazing, I remember John Torrode in particular saying "I know Michelin-starred chefs who couldn't make a dish with that few ingredients, and certainly not one anywhere near as tasty". She got through pretty far into the competition , finalist, but didn't win.
Interesting video, food looked tasty, cheers!
*tomatoes* in pierogi? That's the first time I heard someone using tomatoes to make pierogi. Intresting. I was born in Poland and I still make lots of pierogi to this day despite not living there anymore. It's a great dish, that is relatively inexpensive, and you can make it healthier by choosing healthier fillings. The most basic dough (that my great grandma taught me) consists of just flour, water, salt and oil. My grandad also adds eggs. I personally, like to make a more "melt in your mouth" dough so I add butter as well. Those come out sooo delicious when fried! With a thin, crisp shell that later melts in your mouth. Yum. I actually still have some pierogi in the fridge from 2 days ago and this made me wanna reheat some haha
@@aBunnyThatWillChewOnYourCables my mouth waters
@@aBunnyThatWillChewOnYourCables im polish too and i can say that pierogy are a Simple and tasty dish
Your limited budget food challenges are just bangers. This is honestly the point of me watching your channel. Trust me you have invented something very special here. Keep these videos up one in a time and you will grow real fast on TH-cam!
True. I also love them
I've just had a huge unexpected expense so your challenge has concentrated my mind for budgeting over the next couple of months. Thank you!
when he said "there's a caterpillar in that leaf, im going to be careful not to pick that one." that gave me a little more hope for humanity.
He also probably just didn't fancy eating a caterpillar
The way things are going this could well be one of the most important channels ever
I was thinking "I have never seen food this cheap in my life" and then I realized that British pounds are worth nearly double what Canadian dollars are.
But the groceries are still much cheaper. Could you eat for 2 days on a fiver?
@@OrcActual on even one meal a day in America no
@@nibs991 feel your pain man
you oughta try chicken parmesan delicious and cheap. $5 for 2 chicken breasts (cut into 3 fillets each), $3 for 1 16oz jar of marinara, and then $1 for a few eggs + spices. I could eat that every day for a week if i had to.
@@OrcActual I wouldn't think so, but maybe I just don't know grocery stores that well. A bag of flour like that would usually cost a couple dollars.
I once had to make £40 last for food for a month for 4 of us and we did it as when you make everything from scratch like you did you can make some really nice meals. Also the dandelions are packed full of vitamins. Especially vitamin C so always best to pick quite a lot in spring and freeze any excess as their so good for you. I make dandelion and daisy cookies, honey, tea from mine. Not quite confident with a lot of green herbs yet though as so many look similar to poisonous plants. Foraging for plants is a mainly lost skill know which almost every household knew many years ago and I think many should go back to doing and we would be much healthier.
you know, im so glad i discovered this channel. youre a man after my own heart!
your thriftyness, your knowledge of wild edibles, and your experimental cooking style are awesome!
Also your dog is cute.
Im looking forward to watching more of your videos, well done!
Hey, just an idea with breads, bagels are fairly simple to make with flour water yeast in a 1:1 ratio of flour to water and 7g yeast for every 500g of the other ingredients! Its something I've really enjoyed the past year!
the types of plants that are safe and poisonous should be taught in schools
It was at some point. At least here in Finland
If the 60-odd million people of the UK all knew how to wild forage, the countryside would experience an extinction event. It would be the worst thing to ever happen to our ecology.
@@theoriginaldylangreene you act like people don’t forget 70% what they learn after elementary school
@@Framlii You act like you pull numbers out of your arse and they mean something.
Yeah... but teachers seem to think the Titanic is more important to know about.
i just love that dog, she's so gentle and will eat anything you give her
Like mackems expect their not gentle
@@JimInProgress lmaooo
It's excellent to watch these older videos, to see how much prices have changed. Your videos really capture a moment in time .
I love the creativity in these meals, something I'd love to see you try is a more 'realistic' budget challenge for a whole week, give yourself £15 and 1 day to get ingredients and see if you can make them last 7 days, it would give you a lot more freedom in terms of ingredients while also presenting the challenge of making things last for 7 days. People could actually try to follow along at home with each video by getting the exact same ingredients too, well, I would anyway lol
I would, but honestly, the effort required for these videos is immense. I think a 7 day one might have to wait until I can employ a production team!
@@AtomicShrimp Looking at the awesome stuff you already make, can you imagine how incredible the videos will be when you have a production team?! 🤯
I see, Tesco's ministry of propaganda is trying to corrupt you with their overpriced convenience food. Don't be fooled by their claims of "1 pound a week" being reasonable.
@@AtomicShrimp Would you be willing to perhaps do a challenge for 5 days "Monday through Friday?"
@@fafski1199 get over yourself
I have to say that normally my attention span is about 10 minutes for a TH-cam video. I sat through this entire video and was sad when it was over. So glad I found this channel!
there is a pt2?
This was surprisingly entertaining, intuitive, ingenious. Definitely the best of the budget meal challenge I’ve seen on TH-cam. I watched the entire video, bravo.
Oh, how beautiful, and thanks god, comforting, to watch someone else play poor. Bravissimo, indeed.
@@arthurfilemon6038 "Playing poor"? Depends on how you perceive it. If you're a salty little bitch, such as yourself.. Then I could see how you would maybe take it as an insult that someone who has money is extreme budgeting. On the other hand, if you're more optimistic, you might view it as an intelligent and resourceful person, sharing valuable knowledge and tips for those who maybe are poor or struggling to get by every week, so that they don't have to feel hopeless when times are tough.
@@arthurfilemon6038 The guy says he's doing it to test his creativity, not to play poor. He has a ton of other videos showcasing that he is in fact, an average citizen
I agree. Most of the other videos are rice, beans and beans and rice with some potato here and there.
@@arthurfilemon6038 you must be a fun person
The bread looks so much better than any store-bought loaf I've ever had. And those dumplings looked amazing.
Also, I'm american. I've had beans on toast. It's simple and delicious and I highly recommend it to anyone that has not had it yet.
Best reductions tend to happen after about 6pm at most supermarkets got two loaves of bread at 18p each and two 15 packs of eggs for 20p each and three small salad packs filled with carrot and onion for 5p each
In aldi bread is 39p spaghetti for 20p jar of sauce for 28p jam 28p tinned veg for 28p etc and I think you can get a pack of 6 sausages for about 50p
6.45 at our local. Hover til 7 when they finish. Bush bash bosh. A few items to freeze and some to eat that night.
6pm and 7:30 gotta be quick where I live people come and clear the whole reduced section out in minutes lol
Bread for 18p...? Thats like 50 cents u.s...what the fuck
@@giantdad1661 yep usually reduced and I've only ever seen it that low at one supermarket
@@giantdad1661 No, 18p is 0.18£ so about 0.24$ very low I know but its better so sell it at this price than just waste it!
It's honestly amazing how creative you can be with your limited resources, and still make things so mouthwatering like those dumplings
I started this video not expecting much, by the time you started foraging I was mildly interested, but once you had the dumplings going my jaw dropped, couldn't in a million years have imagined a 2 quid budget video ending so fantastically impressive
I had to pause at the totting up of the shopping. A similar cart here in Canada, using budget-store brands and cheapest finds would be about £7.46 and I find that absolutely staggering. Thanks for the great video!
Right? As soon as he grabbed the carrots I was thinking "nope, he's doomed". Converted, the 40 pence he spent on carrots is 66 cents Canadian! I genuinely don't think you could complete this challenge here for the $3.40 CDN his budget was. It would be almost exclusively foraging and gardening.
I'm from Montréal, I wrote a similar comment.
Here, its 2-3 times more expensive, even in the super bargain deal.
And foraging and gardening at -20*C is not an easy task.
in america your best bet is to forage in trash cans and then pay $500 in trespassing fees
nah my dad used to take me hunting for wild mushrooms and asparagus and I live in bumfuck ohio. both very yummy btw.
Mmm asparagus
@@EruditeFeline Ohio is pretty neat man
Thats how my dad died! /j
@@robotalbotross8128 while hunting?
for vegetarians with no access to herbs, you could have used the money from 1 pack of flour to buy 3 eggs, scratch the bacon and get some cheese and get potatoes instead of carrots.
from 500g flower u can make 4 pizza doughs (1 pizza and 3 flatbreads)
- 1 fried egg, beans and 1 flatbread - Breakfast 1
- Potato fritters with the rest of the beans - Lunch 1
- 1 pizza using the tomato sauce from the can and cheese - Dinner 1
- Bananas with flour and even an egg pancakes - Breakfast 2
- 1 egg omelet with the rest of the cheese and 1 flatbread - Lunch 2
- Baked french-fries and 1 flatbread (save some beans sauce for dipping :D ) - Dinner 2
Not the most nutritional but it's filling, easy and 6 in total
Andrei, hey, thanks for that😊
@@ElliHarper vegan and vegetarian is not same
@@ElliHarper Nobody cares.
@argeras people so stupid nowadays it amazes me how ignorant people are to themselves 😂
who asked?
After spending the past two years in Canada, all I can say is - wow, I completely took for granted how cheap a lot of staple foods are back home.
For a country that produces as much food as Canada does - it is criminal how expensive food is here. And the FARMER does not get the money - the packagers, wholesalers and retailers make money hand over fist. Recently a number of major retailers were caught fixing the price of bread. Canada is fundamentally a corrupt banana republic. (this from someone who was born here and has lived here all my life)
It's not the food that's expensive, it's the currency that's devalued. That's inflation for ya
@@ryan.1990 it's not just inflation. We are fleeced on food prices here. It's been bad for 20 years
Yeah I live in Canada and I'm racking my brains trying to figure out why to foods so cheap. a can of beans here is like $1.50 and I've seen bacon as high as 10 bucks!! and its even worse up north, fresh greens are unobtainable for most northerners do to everything needing to be brought in on bush plane and rail.
My husband and I live in western Canada and we hike around our local area on most of our days off. In the spring we bring packages of cheap, dollar store vegetable seeds with us and plant them everywhere. Then during the summer we forage as we hike. The other hikers and wild animals don't often leave us much, but it's fun to look.
Oh wow. This is the best video I've seen in a LONG time. It's interesting, relaxing, has some beautiful nature scenes, and I really like this guy. I'll be binge watching.
Here we go again, I absolutely love these budget challenges!
These are the best
@@farewell4545 They really are yeah, just so entertaining, I also really enjoy challenges like "turning 1 cent into 1000 dollars"
Same
I think it’s just cool seeing him get creative with what he has
Me too
Your respect for nature is wonderfully inspiring. Your knowledge is interesting to listen to. It's amazing how you pull this all together!
You could do some eggless pasta with some bacon, wild garlic and herb sauce :) maybe a couple teaspoons of the baked beans sauce and some pasta water
Love these self-challenge videos and would love to see how they would go 'now', a year + inflation later and perhaps with broader 'rules' to include more of your viewers.
"500g of cooking bacon, as opposed to bacon for eating raw."
Your delivery is so dry, sir, it took me a good few seconds to get that one. Had me giggling for a good while.
Made me laugh too. That was funny.
I picked up some Russian hitchhikers in New Zealand. Took them down to queenstown. We stopped of at a supermarket (new world) to get some stuff me the Russians came in with me and my friend we all met back at the car, the Russian guys said they had no money for fuel but brought me some bacon. We sat in the carpark eating raw bacon. They said it was good, didn't belive them at 1st but watched them eat some. It wasn't actually too bad. They had some bananas and we wrapped some bacon around the banana too and we ate that. Was bloody good. Then we parted ways. Good times!
alas frankie boy, that's what they actually call it , here in albion. it's meant for slinging in stews etc, but plebs like me buy it for sarnies. you have to trawl through the packs though, the decent stuff goes quickly.... needs must.
@@timfagan816 No stomach ache afterwards? Raw pork is very dangerous to eat, especially when it's bacon. There's a chance of getting a tapeworm
@@augustinevenfalloftarth3036 bacon isnt raw
@@augustinevenfalloftarth3036 nah no stomach ache or tape worm or anything, I didn't even think about it, I was more excited to get down to queenstown and meet up with the rest of the mates and crack on with the holiday all logic and common sense went flying out the window.
Plus if the Russians were doing it, I didn't want to look like a western spy.
As someone that's lived their entire life in middle class America (north east coast, more specifically), I'm honestly shocked at how much you were able to buy for the equivalent of $2.76. Even if you only went to dollar stores or only shopped in the clearance section of grocery stores, you'd really struggle to find anything priced below a dollar. I'm even more surprised you managed to fit meat in that budget.
It's debatable if it is classed as meat, only just I think.
South-east coast. Same. Honestly, $2.76, I could buy maybe a coke, tax included. Fucking insane that you are able to get 6 meals for 2 whole days. Watching these videos to make me find cheap meals for my mother cuz' we're not doing so well rn.
@@TheDoosh79 It's the same meat as the 'proper packs', it's just the offcuts that are harder to sell. Worked in the industry for a bit, pretty much only buy offcuts now. ( Except if making a roast dinner for family etc).
@@antonyevans9772 This! Had a friend who's family owned a butchers in my town and he basically said the same that they'd sell offcuts for under £2 it's from the same coe/pig/chicken just the stuff 'nobody wants' but totally edible and nutritious.
@@tanah6962 absolutely. You only have to look at fruit and veg, anything that doesn't 'look right' gets sold for next to nothing, while the pretty looking ones are expensive as hell. Save money, same taste.
Wait...I feel like an idiot, but I did not realize that literally just adding water to flour will get you dough. I thought it at least required an egg or something. I guess I don't know much about flour; it just behaves like edible, explosive sand in my head. Edit: Oh, just after writing this, I got to the part of the video with "This surprises some people.".
The magic of gluten
really shows why as a human race once we had made flour even the poor could make a huge range of different meals. basic bread,pies,pasta,dumplings etc all from just a bit of flour and water
The purpose of egg is just making sure the oily bits can stick to the watery bits
Thank you thank you thank you for being responsible and respectful with your dog near the cows, people don’t realise the damage it can do to just let your dog roam free