I Lived On A $5 A Day Budget For A Week In New York City
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- Test kitchen manager, June, shows you how to eat on $35 a week (aka $5 a day) in New York City.
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HOST: June Xie
VIDEO DIRECTOR + PRODUCER: Julia Smith
EDITOR: Zach Lennon-Simon
ART: Allie Folino
ANIMATION: Vineet Sawant
POST-PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR: Philip Swift
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This woman needs her own entire channel. I'd like to see her every week ❤️
I agree. It's so frustrating that she's featured on a channel stuffed with content I don't want to see. I just want to be notified of all her videos, and nothing else
Me toooooo
Absolutely, June is the only one I watch on this channel.
She has her own channel it’s ‘JuneLikeTheMonth’ but she has no videos uploaded yet.
So friggin agree❤️
Loving the extreme "whatever" energy in this video. Sis just straight up didn't explain one recipe and stopped rating her meals like three quarters of the way thru, I live
🤣🤣🤣 she filmed 😍
i live
Jearbear LoL 👊 facts
Yes girl, give us nothing!
😂 Was thinking the same thing.
I’m a wasteful cook but seeing examples of how to repurpose food makes me want to change. Extremely well done video.
Same here! I recently been making spring roll with leftover fried chicken, adding some cabbage and use eggs in scrambled style. I should probably use tofu next time instead of eggs. Lol
@@hypfie wht kind of sauce?
@@hypfie Yummm
Success so far?
Oh yes definitely learnt that from June
Why does this woman not have her own chanel we need more of her more than ever with so many people having to cut their budgets down to to basically nothing with covid effecting so many families
Lacks more professionalism...God Bless.j.p.
Aaron should stay out of the kitchen with his not so nice comments or giving a number to your Dishes!
Joe Posa No she asked for his opinions
@@joeposa4834 That's why she's relatable. We're tired of perfect cooks making perfect dishes in perfect kitchens. None of us in the real world cook like that and most of us don't have environments (or budgets) like that.
She does have a channel (check the pinned comment) but she doesn’t post any videos 🤷🏻♀️
It shows how much of a kitchen genius that June is that she bought two bags of oats and didn't make oatmeal
I'm gonna try turning oatmeal into oat flour like she did. Very healthy.
June is a culinary genius and a treasure, and should be paid as such.
You're right she IS a genius
A bright star 🌟
Inspiring my cuisine
@@lindamon5101 No need to slam one woman to bring up another. I'm sure June would agree.
@@lindamon5101 You are disgusting. They are both fabulous cooks, you dont need to speak badly about Julia Child, and your comment towards Melissa was foul, and uncalled for.
Totally agree
Yup.
You’re doing this in one of the most expensive cities in the US. OK, that’s amazing.
She did a great job in New York
Agreed
I think food is actually cheaper in larger cities! Compare to smaller towns.
Lalaine G nah I live in nyc and there are some great deals if you look for them. Only people who haven’t lived here long enough, don’t live here, or are tourists pay for the expensive shit
It's not that hard tbh. I do $40 a week without trying to budget (in NY). Get your protein, veggies, bread, deli meat, milk, and fruit and it'll easily just be $40. Anything more is seriously a person just indulging in more than what they need or they have others to feed. Nothing wrong with that, it's just looking at reality will make it easier for you to recognize what you're buying to enjoy yourself vs what you need.
Loved the graphic artwork of how much food you had left. Made it seem easy to understand what was left to use.
Totally agree! Great job!
It's one of my favourite parts
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Please give this girl a solid raise!!! Hard to watch such talented and hard working woman cook in cheap ikea pots ! It’s like making a formula one driver race in Toyota Corolla. Please please pay her according to her contributions! She brings all the people to this channel.
For anyone who's interested in cutting out meat or simply eating less of it and are worried about anemia, here are some suggestions for good vegetable/non-meat sources of iron:
Oats - 100g has 38% your daily recommended intake (and it's cheap)
Chickpeas - 100g has 22% of your daily recommended intake (also very cheap if you buy dried)
Lentils - 100g has 25% of your daily recommended intake (again, cheap)
Black beans - 100g has 16% daily intake
You can use fortified nutritional yeast as a source of vitamin B12, or you can eat eggs if you're not going vegan. There are a lot of options out there.
This is a non-exhaustive list, but these ingredients are easy to find and inexpensive. Indian food has great examples of nutritiously complete vegetarian food as well.
Much appreciated!! Thanks!
Tht is great information. Especially now. I've been eating lots of beans rice quinoa.
Also eat some citrus with it if you can! Our bodies have a hard time taking in non-heme (not meat) iron. Citric acid helps with that. So if you have access to some oranges, lemons, grapefruit etc incorporate them!
What is your opinion on how to get calcium intake eating like this?
However, not all people properly process plant proteins and iron.
Wasn't planning on watching the whole thing, but then I watched the whole thing.
Loved the balance of spontaneous creativity, the occasional successes from just moderately winging-it, but also throwing in the towel and eating 2 trays of tortilla chips for dinner.
Ha!!! Exactly! 🙋🏻♀️
Just like my Real life! ;)
June is the chaotic good we need in this pandemic
I love she thinks about the next meal when she’s eating, and that’s totally me. I’m eating lunch and thinking about what to eat for dinner 😂
planning is winning
Oh yeah absolutely me also
Omg.. May be after eating? Or even before eating? Just enjoy the meal dear😊
Big Taurus Energy
Hahhahaha.
When I was still working, we would think of tomorrow's lunch or next fee days' lunches ! E.G. what to order, where to go.
Her being honest Tuesday about how the pancakes from Monday sucked, we stan an honest queen
what we really need from June is a skincare routine.
And a closet vlog cause I’m feelin those sweaters and grey wide leg pants.
Just the fact that she left the kitchen with the whole ass pan of fried rice....it's definitely a mood. I love her. She is a beautiful human being.
I love June’s personality so much! You don’t act like the other bakers on TH-cam to please people, you are like “whatever”
“I’m gunna use butter because ... you can’t stop me “ 😂😂😂
And the alcohol because it's well, Tuesday... Love it.
June, I love that you show us your failures and we go on this eating week with you. You come across so honest and sweet. I watched your $25 week and this one and I have to say, you're amazing at using food in interesting ways.
24:35: "i hate this angle" *pans it down a bit* "better??" ... "maybe i just hate myself" LMAO mood
you can make syrup out of browning sugar, then adding water. my mother made it when the depression was evident and syrup was not in the budget
This video makes me realize how wasteful and lazy I am with food.
This!! Especially the end where she kept the liquid she cooked her chickpeas in 🤯
Recognizing it & changing is cool, @ Julietsg.Your comment’s about appreciation it’s great. You’re not alone;we re-master left-overs so less waste Greetings from Chicago
gabriela aguinaga you can use that cooking water as an egg white substitute, and it can be whipped to make merengue. I might need to try that myself this week.
Tell me about it. Spending like a thousand dollars a month only for me and my husband 😩 We're not vegan though, we go hard on meat. Keto %100! I love her video though.
You’re not alone. It’s a characteristic of our modern society.
I'm baffled by how engaging this video was! I rarely watch these "I survived on..." videos but something about how chill yet professional June is, and how good the meals turned out, and how honest and practical she is... nice job!
1. I didn't think I'd stay for this whole video but she's intriguing 2. I've realized my attention to detail is diminishing in quarantine as it was not until Friday that I realized the animated groceries were reducing as she used them.
I want this type of content to continue post-quarantine. I’m so enjoying all the relatable food people just throwing things together in their home kitchens. And I just discovered June...binge watching all her episodes.
Looks like quarantine has driven June crazy. This video is humorous with the confessions, the dog leaving shots, and June's attitudes.
home girl out here wearing the same pants through the week 🤣 we stan 🙌
i do this too but i wash it before going to bed and let it dry overnight and wear it the next day too😂😂😂😂
She only put on pants for the videos. Might as well 😂😂😂
Thank u ..and the same magenta bra or tank under top
Maybe she has several of the same :D keep consistent style.
Let's be honest. During lock down we ALL did this hahaha no shame in it
Please do more videos with June! I didn’t skip the video at all, I watched it all through. She is wonderful!
I learned something new. I may start grinding oats to use for flour now.
idk how I've been mostly plant/whole grain based diet for over a year and didn't know this - SOOO much cheaper than buying oat flour off the shelf!
@@CinderCass that's crazy! It never dawned on me you could grind things to make something else! 😂
i been making oatmilk. used the pulp for a facial mask and for cooking.
I think the only bummer is that you need a pretty bad ass processor to pulverize it that fine.
@@copyright-ur1sf most juicers (ninja) and blenders come with a milling blade (it's the dull one) which you can use to grind coffee, or mill anything (dehydrated herbs, corn, oatmeal, beet powder from dehydrated beets, etc.) Juicers run about $50, good blenders about the same. A cheap food processor runs about $30 on Amazon.
I never thought to donate oil, ketchup, vinegar, soya sauce, pepper, and hot sauce to food banks, but maybe it would help.
Great idea!
That plus sugar and drinks no one ever thinks about donating koolade powder or anything then the families that come get from our pantry have nothing but water with meals
All donations help. Thank you for donating.
@@AT-nu4fg I've been doing that a lot this year. Still good advice.
@@mamapenguin6376 as they should. Koolade and soft drinks are not gonna help anyone.
It was so hard to watch her eat those pancakes with no syrup...YOU SHOULD’VE JUST PUT IT ON, I would’ve forgiven you!! 😂
😭
I was thinking she could have taken a tablespoon of the peanut butter and melt it and use that as “syrup.”
@@shannonwright7964 or she could have used sugsr , butter and water to make sugar syrup: its delicious.
These videos drive me crazy. I am in Vancouver Canada and you are lucky if you can get out of a cheap green grocer with one bag of veggies for less than $50. Sweet potatoes $2.99 a pound. That is easily $100 of groceries...maybe $150. Celery that's about $9. Bag of carrots that's $8.
@@100daysmic9 yes, but free healthcare 🤷♀️
That was really fun and really impressive. I have spent way more money on groceries without an ounce of the creativity you used for meal planning and execution using 35 bucks! I love watching your videos. Thanks.
Gurl, I relate when you were like "it's tuesday and...just...put alcohol in it. I don't care..just put it in." Hahaha. Love your videos♡!
Being diabetic this diet would send my sugars flying. Im not Keto, but my carb intake would only be 1/2 cup a day. Try canned tuna, 1 chicken for the week, fresh greens, mushrooms, Penut butter is ok. You ate three very filling meals. I would consider nut milk a for breakfat, or fast and eat two meals.
Your recipes looked amazing, very creative. Carbs do give you endless options. Try quinoa as well. Always have onion, eggs, celery, carrot on hand. My mom used to make potatoes, eggs, and onions..
Goodluck.
@@diananoonen2262 I hear you!
My chronic illness demands I don't eat sugar, carbs from grains, whole uncooked veggies, or animal meats. No tomatoes, onion or garlic either (high histamine foods).
The baby food textured stews she makes with lentils and the hummus are my jam lol.
@@diananoonen2262 when my bf was diagnosed with type one he didnt know peanut butter had carbs, it's been a learning experience.
@@diananoonen2262 interesting comment, thanks
Love her but miss kitty
“I need to eat more veggies, get more fiber in my diet” and sis over there eating legumes and rice for every meal, what you mean get more fiber lmao 😂
i thought rice is carbohydrates...its that count as fiber?
@@GoodBoy-wn9sd well.... the brown rice does have more fibre compared to white ones
@@bazli83 Yeah but its still not enough.
Bland food ew
veggies for vitamins not fiber. but beans have tons of vitamins and minerals as well
I NEED JUNE TO HAVE A SERIES
Woah im really impressed with all the leftovers, also at the fact of how nutritious every meal was...it didn't look like you went hungry and everything was basically began as well. This was SUPER helpful to see all the ways you can utilize certain items in recipes (potatoes, chickpeas, oats, rice).
This made me realize how cheap food is where I live, I'll never complain about my grocery cost ever again
“Tom and I are not on speaking terms...” 😂
i'm so broke and live alone and need to save more. you are amazing and you inspire me to me to be ressourceful with the ingredients I have
I just discovered these videos by June, and I love them. First of all, the fact that June is cooking on a budget in a tiny NY apartment is both realistic and relatable. She is so creative in the way she uses ingredients--it's fun to watch to see what she'll try next. Also, the fact that she shows her failures makes these videos far superior to the vast majority of cooking videos. It's hilarious when she fails, because I don't know a SOUL out there who hasn't tried a recipe and EFFed it up royally. If anything, I'd love to see more of her life--where she shops for ingredients, how she's coping through the pandemic, etc.
The appartment isn't that tiny lol. Well in Paris/French standards it isn't....
Those squashed wedges were such a genius idea. Roasted potatoes never taste right after being reheated and I'm absolutely stealing this idea.
Finally someone who knows week means Sunday through Saturday not just Monday through Friday.
Why is no one talking about how cute that precious Weiner retriever is?!
Omg Weiner retriever
She is cute, the dog is too
Omg he's adorable...weener retriever ,♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Rude, he has a name. It's Tom! 🤣 🤣 🤣 and he's adorable.
This sounds dirty af
I like the visual of the food getting used on the day graphic.
So great. I have a family of 5 and have to make everything from scratch because of food allergies. We eat like this often cause its cheaper. I just made granola the other day using seed butter. So good. I also make plant based yogurt at home. Pantry loaded with beans and rice. Lol! I make rice balls and suchi using just veggies cause my kids are allergic to fish. Made potato and leek soup the other night. It easily adds $50 to our grocery bill when my hubby decides he wants meat all week and that's pretty much for him and my eldest son.
People say it takes to much time to cook like tuna even if you do save money but I dont have a choice honestly.
Allergies between the fam are: peanuts, tree nuts, soy, eggs, dairy, fish, shell fish, soy, coconut and chicken.
Sometimes my brain hurts trying to cook for these people 🤣
Wow you have my sympathy. It would be so hard to plan around so many allergies.
So, you're a bean and rice lady?! Now I'm looking for a potato and leek soup recipe. Yum! It's been ages since I ate leeks.
@@kristinatidwell6563 I love it! Especially on cold days.
You basically just listed the top allergens in the world and then some!!! Wow!! You're doing great, Mama!
June, you need to make a cookbook. Like, seriously. I would love to have it
It’s amazing that her cooking skill turned that basic food into so many delicious dishes.
Especially as a vegetarian in this quarantine, this was something I needed. Thank you!!
Indeed, she did used a chicken bullion, but that's an easy swap to vegetables bullion. Bullions, makes everything just taste better
I am dying with Tom's commentary. "what in tarnation" lmao
Yes - I had to rewatch that part a few times as it was so funny!
“I have made consecutive bad decisions” Said June about Thursday. I feel ya June. Love your honesty abs bounce back-ability especially in these times!
June is amazing to watch, I’m inspired to throw random things together to make new recipes and I love how funny she is
When I was struggling to make ends meet in New York one summer, I lived off of rice, raw vegetables, bananas and eggs. Super affordable foods that are very versatile. Good video 👏
that was my diet living in Nepal for 6 months - mainly because I couldn't FIND anything else that was "safe" - it worked for me and kept me full so thats all I can ask for!
Making soup is better for veggies but yeah.
This was the most interesting satisfying thing I've watched on YT in a long time. I like her!!!
When she just walks out with the food. MOOD.
Watching things like this always humbles me down. Too many movies and ads led u believe that only with money you can enjoy the nicest way of life, but little did i know, i need smart way and thinking of life too. And damn this is nice and looks so sustainable. Love you june and your content a lot!
I definitely didn't think I would watch this entire video, maybe just skim through it, and ended up watching the entire thing even though I don't plan on cooking some of the recipes. Let's be honest, I most likely won't attempt any of her recipes due to my laziness 😅.
I love your personality! You are so very likeable. I love that you're straightforward and blunt.
Wow honestly, this video was THE BEST. I wasn't bored once! Great content guys, keep it up!
I can’t believe you had so many leftovers! You could have kept eating them for a couple more days, even. That was impressive. My penny pinching father would have been proud! 👍☀️
So much of this content is so important in the current financial times.
“Did you just black out..?”
😂😂 I feel that, sometimes I get lost in the food too 😅
Wow one of the best episodes ever, for the situation we're in.
You really used the ingredients in very yummy combinations. I love that you didn’t just make a couple of stews/soup/pasta and eat the same thing all week. Great job in transforming basic ingredients into meals! I want your granola.
This was such an amazing video! I wasn't even slightly bored at any given time. Your creativity is so damn impressive. You guys should do this more often!
Thank you June, for the inspiration. It's funny how your video is about cooking on a budget, but after watching you, I feel a lot more hope in life in general. I really do feel happier and thanks again for all the ideas. I was just about to give up on cooking then your channel popped up. 🧡🧡🧡
"Because.. what are days any more"
LOL... so true.
I used to eat rice, tomato and eggs when I was in college. It was delicious too. Or I could eat rice and omelette and I put sweet soy sauce on top of it. Oh also you should try to make nasi goreng when in budget too. Sweet soy sauce is the answer for all of low budget college student here in Indonesia 😂
"When in doubt, add more salt." I think I just found my lifelong mantra
I enjoyed this video and especially your sense of humor.
Been binge watching by June since this videos. and its trigger something in me to make random recipe out of everything i have left in fridge.
Just done making some eggplant curry (1,5 weeks old eggplant, sitting in the corner of my crisp drawer) with chicken katsu and brown rice instead ordering delivery (which i used to do).
Thanks June!
Which did I love more? The creativity, the plantbased options, the sense of humor?
The amount of naps she took made me feel better about myself. Also I miss Tom..
Can i just say, I watched this last night, and when I woke up I was craving for the cheese and tomatoes, and so I cooked it, AND IT WAS SO GOOD.
I love how she drank that “rice milk” from what looked like a beaker 😂
“When it smells good, you know it tastes good too”
idk about that June. I have smelled many delicious things that turns out to taste like crap 🤣
MOARRRRRRRR! I love this. Can she get her own channel? I'm sure she's got other responsibilities, but she is a star so she should just focus on these recipe vids (if she wants). I'd love to see more budget *savory* recipes and maybe 1 Michelin star-ish dish that she shows how to make step by step.
She has her own channel called junelikesthemonth
Your dishes look good, easy to make, and doesn't require a lot of time. I especially like that you didn't use high priced gadgets but used simple things like a clear bowl, a stir pot, a cookie pan, metal mixing bowl, and spices that everyone may have in their cabinets to achieve these dishes.
Two years ago my husband and I challenged ourselves to stay on a 50$/wk groceries and I live in NYC as well . It
Can definitely be done ! We stayed on it for 6 months and then increased it to 75$/week for two persons .
Great job! I live in the mountains of NC and I still spend about $300 a month on groceries. I haven't specifically tried to budget like that or plan my meals but I tend to buy a lot of whole foods and try not to buy pre packaged meals.
This is the content I'm hungry for while Bon Appétit is on fire. Delish yall better capitalize 👀
I have made vanilla syrup for pancakes:
1 cup of water,
2 cups of sugar,
2 tbl spoons of vanilla
And cook it as you're making the pancakes. Enjoy!
PUT THIS WOMAN ON FOOD NETWORK... Your creativity and ability to use everything from your shopping trip, not just in one way, but multiple ways is incredible. This video has inspired me to cook and try new things! It’s so easy to get into a rut, especially when you’re busy, but you make everything look so simple! Love these videos!
Never even heard of this channel nor of June but her energy I love!!!
this is the most creative and entertaining budget meal week video I've watched and i LOVED it
Omg so entertaining and honest ! We need more of this 😊
First June viewing - what a hoot! Like hanging with a good friend....who happens to be hilarious and a food guru! You're brilliant!
The wing it method is so me. I took a simple recipe for sausage, caramelized onions and peppers for hoagies and the next thing I knew it had 2 different peppers, caramelized sweet onions and fried white onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, beef stock, a mountain of spices, ginger and garlic. It became such a great topper, I cooked rice in beef stock while steaming beans, corn, limas, carrots. No leftovers.
“Vegan is expensive” people say, but she had to be plant based to save money
Consumerist culture and advertising idealized lifestyles to further sell unnecessary *things* will make anything more expensive than it has to be.
I love how accurate this comment is
I'm not a vegan but I eat very little meat and no dairy - so about as close as you can get - and she's missing all the fruit and veg I'd normally eat. The "staples" of vegan are not expensive, but the fresh produce in a city is VERY expensive. I'm in downtown Chicago and spend probably $30-$40 weekly just on fruit and veg - everything else on top adds up to about $50-$60 a week. Take away the fruit and veg and sure I could spend just that $35 a week. vegan or primarily plant-based is expensive in cities, when I lived in Michigans countryside there were small farms selling produce EVERYWHERE for so cheap, it would be much cheaper there to be plant-based or vegan.
She spent a ton of time cooking. Sure it can be done, but most people don't have this kind of creativity.
@@CinderCass You can buy frozen fruits and veggies for less. 🤔
Loved this video! No doubt the most creative meals I've ever seen on a budget haul. Also loved Tom's cameo.
Hi. Watched the whole thing, my 3 yr old son also watched some with me. I use oat flour as well, and love to cook as frugally as possible. I love having progressive meals. Cook chicken day 1, roast veggies, soak beans. Day 2 make chicken bone broth, cook beans. Day 3 make soups, refried beans. Etc. Love how food can be brought back to life again in a different meal. Great job.
Girl its "Mah-Juh-duh-ruh", you totally said it like it's French 🤣. Its Arabic and so simple. No herbs traditionally, but we eat it with just yogurt on top. Caramelize onions, salt and pepper, lentils cook 5 mins prior, then add rice and cook until rice is done. Plain yogurt on top. My childhood 🤤
Hahaha same that's what I was thinking
My mom cooks it with burghul and we eat it with either cabbage-tomato-cucumber salad or saltat laban oo qhiar (yogurt-cucumber-garlic salad)
@@rainbowgeekster866 There we go! We would do a salad too, just lettuce, tomatoe, onion, dressed with a mix of lemon, olive oil, salt, and pepper. I'm having cravings just talking about this haha
laughing at “What in tarnation?” I haven’t heard that in ages.
June this is actually an insanely good video and I am so amazed the variety you are able to demonstrate
I'm absolutely stunned with your genius and delicious cooking. Speechless.
“I need a nap” has been my quote all quarantine 🤣
This series is seriously Inspiring. I find sometimes I get into ruts with my cooking or just going recipe to recipe - but seeing these ways of bending ingredients to your will is amazing.
This is the best cooking video I've ever seen! This is like all my favourite themes combined: budgeting, meal planning, vegetarian cooking. I'm so eager to try some of the recipes when I get an oven.
Literally the best commentary! I freaking loved it. Subscribed!
this was hands down the best budget video i‘ve seen.....thank you so much june!!!!
mix together water + cinnamon + sugar and heat them up and you have a cheaper pancake topper than maple syrup
Add equal amounts of white and brown sugar. And a few drops of maple extract works wonders!
Use water w the apple core and peel...add sugar for a pancake syrup.
What can I replace the sugar with?
@@lillyroon5937 anything you would use to sweeten food/beverages. This is a syrup, so it doesn't need anything specific like a jelly would.
Oh snap lol
I am so impressed with June's knowledge and skills with food from all over the world! I love the videos and I will certainly try some stuff out... peanut butter here I come!
This is my new favorite thing to watch! June being real and creating budget eats.
I'm from Omaha Nebraska. And we eat budget friendly and get our spices from tiny Mediterranean grocery store close by. It's how we are able to afford living on 1 income ❤
What kinda budget would you want to see next??
Delish, additional low budget ones, please! Can never have enough of these! Would also love to see budget shopping/cooking with health concerns such as diabetes! 💕
Delish it should be a 1000 dollar budget!
Something for meat eaters on a budget. This was great though.
great vid June! i'd love to see a budget diabetic-friendly/low-carb/insulin-sens weekly menu. thanx! 🙏🍣🍠
You should take it up $5 each time. so $10 a day, $15 a day etc.