@@wakichunuYes and no. If you're poor and only eat cheap carbs you gonna be fat and hungry all the time. Mixing in a struggle salad every now and then would keep you fuller longer and your insides would thank you
@@MXHMustafaXHorror i'll take this wisdom with me for my next poor phase, hope i dont have one before i evaded my quickly communising fully authoritarian piece of shit country tho
i know I was like dang....my family is hillbilly red neck and these lack creativity......they put the sausage and mayo and I'm like.....why not tuna and mayo??? a tuna can is like 75 cent and mayo packets at the deli are usually free. so is salt and pepper packets and relish packets at delis.
"The most important part of a struggle meal is eating it with a heart full of hope" dam didn't expect an inspirational quote out of a struggle meal vid but here i am
oh my goddd i used to eat this all the time when i was a kid. we would also put a little bit of butter on it so the sugar and cinnamon sticks and for more flavor
You know you can just mix flour with water and milk and get european pancakes? Add sugar and you are good to go! Also an egg in the mix if you are feeling rich. I usually skip it anyway. For some reason i will never forget like 4 things from being a young child at my gransmas place and one of them is the sugar pancake.
These recipes people were sending in seem more like they're struggling with depression rather than money😭 All of them could be make so much better with different techniques and some extra steps
right? it's like they set high expectations. if i ever go to england and don't find specimens like these i'll be about as disappointed as if i'd gone to paris and not seen a medieval amount of rats
A good struggle meal is 50/50 corn and macaroni with butter, little bit of salt. Can cut the butter if you're struggling really bad and don't have any. If you're a bit on the higher end of the struggling, you could add cheese.
My go to struggle meal used to be; -flour tortilla +honey mustard+ham Now the new updated version is : -flour tortilla+honey mustard 👍🏽✨ Good luck everybody
Mine is flour torilla that I heat directly on the burner of my gas stove. Then add mayo and shredded cheese. If I have shredded lettuce, put that in and then (optionally) lightly sprinkle with white wine or red wine vinegar. Roll like burrito. If I don't have lettuce or cheese, just the mayo on a warm torilla is good for ultimate struggle.
My struggle meal is a can of ranch style beans (can be substituted for baked beans, chili beans or black beans) mixed with instant rice, topped with salsa and whatever cheese I have at the time. It’s actually pretty bomb as a lazy person’s version Tex-Mex tbh
My struggles meals are: 1: A boiled yellow plantain smashed up, seasoned with salt and garlic, and topped with cheese or Vienna sausages. 2. A boiled potato seasoned with salt and whipped with a soft boiled egg. 3. White rice topped with sunny side up eggs, and I break the yolks to drip on the rice as I eat it.
You can make a crumble following roughly the same recipe except instead of white bread you combine flour sugar and butter and you grill it in a pan on low heat. Add on top of your cooked apples and it makes for a perfectly serviceable apple crumble.
My go-to struggle meal is insanely delucious and only needs 1 pot (no joke give it a try). - Open a can of tomatoes, put them in a pot and mash them - Add heavy cream to taste and mix to form a sauce . Add salt and any spice you enjoy to taste (generally recommend garlic powder, onion powder, dry basil, oregano and paprika) but you can do with just salt. - Put the stove on high heat. - Once the sauce is boiling, crack 3 eggs in there and cook until the whites are settle and the yolk is creamy but still runny. - Use the pot as your plate (or transfer to a plate if you are feeling fancy) and eat alongside some white italian bread to deep in the sauce and in the egg yolk.
@@Goddot 15+ bowls of yogurt with a single granola mix bag is not “expensive” granola mix is like 3-4$ at aldi and last i checked a simple bag of chips at any gas station nowadays is like $2.29 lol, how on earth did you come to that conclusion
@@LUCKIPUPPowdered peanut butter is 10x the cost or regular peanut butter and granola at $4 a bag is overpriced. Comparing a bag of granola from Aldi to chips at a gas station isn’t a comparison.
@@codename495 dawg idk where you live but inflation hittin and everything is expensive lol especially any food that actually has any nutritional value big dawg
The best struggle meal is still this: Cook noodles. Then pour almost all the water out and pour like one teaspoon of lemon-Juice, two tablespoons olive oil and some grated cheese (i like youg gouda) over it. Give it a good mix until the cheese has melted a bit. Add some salt to your taste. Its delicious!
You are wrong. Cook noodles, pour over a teaspoon of olive oil, fresh or granulated garlic and black pepper. Spices are cheap enough for how little of them you need and the olive oil can be replaced with butter or really any edible fat.
I'm a cheese addict, but I don't like cheese on ramen. Lol My doctoring of ramen consists of also straining out the broth, but adding a dash of soya sauce/oyster sauce/hot sauce, and chopping up whatever leftover meat I have from yesterday's dinner. Lmao
@@designator7402 I cashed for proper Parmesan every time. You need very small amounts for a great deal of taste with real parmesan, so it averages out to be really cheap for how much taste it gives you.
Apparently I did struggle meals wrong. In college I started off the month buying a big bag of rice and then would buy meat whenever it was on sale or on clearance. Then spend some money on garlic salt, pepper, soy sauce, and ginger and then went wild with whatever other ingredients were on sale. 5lb of rice 8.98 Garlic salt 4.78 Black pepper 3.77 Ground ginger 2.24 Soy sauce 3.58 Vegetable oil 3.84 Total 27.19 for all the seasons and rice which will last a while. I usually got a few weeks out of the rice and only needed new seasonings every 3-4 months depending on how liberal I was with them. Then for protein and veggies watch for good sales and clearance. Now these prices aren't totally accurate because I'm just going off Walmart prices they could be more or less depending on where you live.
Yeaah so many young adults leave home with no idea how to stretch a dollar. If you're willing to put a little more effort into cooking, for example with dried beans instead of canned, there's money to be saved for spices haha.
Struggle meals are really just for when you struggle to budget, struggle to learn cooking, or are too lazy to go to the store so you make a meal out of random ingredients you had sitting around.
@@cookiemonster2630 yeah like i always hear about other young people saying that they can only afford ramen, but like, ramen is more expensive than healthier options like pasta
@onionring1531 or struggling mentally. Sure, eating a proper meal may be healthier and cheaper, but when you can barely scrape together enough energy to get out of bed, it’s easier to shove a Walmart frozen pizza in the oven and be done with it
Try out some kogel-mogel, dude. 2-4 raw egg yolks, 3-4 tea spoons of sugar, beat until sooth and creamy, or maybe a little gritty, whichever floats your boat. Favorite Soviet era struggle meal.
I think the only dish I can claim as mostly mine without direct influence or intentional following a recipe is taking a can of spam, slice into thin to a medium thickness slabs for slightly easier cooking, fry on a pan with some soyu sauce, not much. Once the spam is at a point you like cut to cubes. Add rice to the pan for maybe a minute or two at most with a little more soyu. To help with the overwhelming salt a tablespoon or two of butter helps with a slightly creamy taste. Enough salt to probably kill you but easy to make, the rice ensures you feel full. And cheap.
A delicious struggle meal is pinto beans. I pressure cook a pound of dry pinto beans with water, chicken bouillon cubes, and taco seasoning. Serve it in a bowl and top with hot sauce, any cheese you have and sour cream. So comforting.
Beans have always been my go-to struggle meal too...cheap, and easy to make. I'd put dried beans (usually black beans) in a crock pot with lots of water and let it cook all day while I was at school/work, with some chicken bouillion, same as you, along with fresh garlic and onion. Come home, add some green chili (yes, I'm from NM...we actually eat such a thing here), and then serve it up in a tortilla with veggies, cheese, salsa and sour cream for a hearty burrito. Nourishing, healthy, cheap, and easy....ticks all the boxes. Ten out of ten would recommend, especially black beans for a more intense flavor. I saved pinto beans for green chili stew; same deal with the beans, but at the end added cooked ground meat along with the chili, and ate in a bowl with either a tortilla or cornbread. Struggle meal, but also comfort meal, esp in winter. FYI - for vegans or vegetarians, Impossible brand makes a ground "meat" that is even better than real meat in green chili stew and tacos and spaghetti...yummy!
Also for even cheaper/easier pancakes you can use those like $1 martha white bag muffin mix mixed with some milk or water (i dont measure just mix til it looks like pancake batter consistency, sometimes i throw in an egg too) and make pancakes! They come in a ton of flavors! My fave is the banana chocolate and especially if u use peanut butter syrup on top (or spread some peanut butter on and use maple syrup), and pumpkin spice, and double chocolate! I feel like most breakfast foods are good struggle meals for dinners
Fried Ramen Ingredients: 1-2 Maruchan Ramen packet(s) 2 Cups water However much butter you can afford or care to use. Just enought to where you're teetering on that edge between "This makes sense" and "I'm gonna have a heart attack." - Use a skillet with a lid instead of a pot. The water will boil more quickly than with the pot. Let the water boil and then put the ramen in with the lid on, do not use seasoning packets yet. - Once noodles are noodley, save about a cup of the water and drain the rest. Leave noodles in the skillet. - Add a spoon of butter into the skillet with the noodles and stir them about. While noodles are still noodling, add a seasoning packet. Continue to stir till you feel the pan is properly coated with butter as well as the noodles. - Leave the noodle bobs alone for a bit so they can crisp up. After about 3-5 minutes, check to see if they've crisped. If so, stir and then flip. If you can't flip, God help you. - After noodz are flipped, add some more butter and repeat the process. Keep sitting, stirring, and flipping till your nods are at the desired crispiness. Add more seasoning during these repetitions as you care too. I'm not your mom. - Once it's all nice and crispy, plate it. Yes, you have just taken some crunchy noodles and just remade them into crunchy noodles. But, they taste better now. Note: I didn't forget about the saved water. Pour some into the skillet every now and then if you feel the noodles are drying up too quicky during cooking or if you feel the seasoning isn't spreading like you'd prefer. Use the water to moisten it and give the seasoning a way to help coat the noodles. But if you're hellbent on that inevitable heart attack, use more butter instead of the starchy water.
I can make a giant pot of bean soup for like 10 bucks from dollar store ingredients. One thing that always makes struggle meals more palatable is having a good selection of dried and powdered spices (which i can also find at the dollar store). Your wallet doesn't have to suffer just to satisfy your tastebuds, and your tastebuds don't have to suffer just to satisfy your wallet. Shop around for deals, and just never be afraid to experiment. If you worry a lot about making things, or just have no idea where to start, then i actually recommend studying recipies from times of scarcity. In the U.S. that would be the great depression and world wars one and two in terms of years i'd start looking into. People really showed a lot of good and bad creativity during eras of rationing. Even if your situation is bad now, i have every faith that you'll be alright.
for really good recipes during times of Scarcity, i HIGHLY recommend checking out B. Dylan Hollis. he makes videos on vintage recipes, and is perfect for pointing out delicious cheap recipes, and telling you which ones to stay away from XD
@@thedorkknight9684 OH I LOVE HIS CONTENT!! I even have a preordered copy of his cookbook. He brings every ounce of his humor into his cookbook and its great.
@@hardywatkins7737 the food bank was a god send for me in college. I'd go with my roommate to get a box for two, then cook loads of stuff before the fresher things could go bad. I can't have dairy so I'd trade the dairy products for other things with friends on and off campus. Lol sometimes I'd even trade home cooked meals for other stuff, like extra ingredients or spices. I know there are lots of people in my age group that feel ashamed or embarrassed to go to a food bank, but honestly its a resource like any other. Damn, sorry I'm rambling, you just brought up funny memories of my little "restaurant" I had back in college.
Savory oatmeal is the hidden gem of struggle meals. I make it with water, pepper, green onion, liquid aminos or low-sodium soy sauce, and a drizzle of sesame oil. If you add sliced sausages, you have protein, too.
my favourite struggle meal is white rice with whatever leftover meat i have in the fridge with hot peppers cut into it and salt, pepper, oregano, and chilli pepper flakes
Struggle meals we ate: 1. in a warm flour tortilla put a slice of yellow cheese and a hot dog and bake at 350 F can't remember how long, maybe 6-8 minutes until the tortilla is crispy. 2. Slice about 2 hot and cook on a skillet until crispy and crack in a couple of eggs and you got winnis con huevo. 3. Take warm corn tortillas, smear some mashed potatos inside and fry and you got taquitos de papa. 4. Slice hot dogs lengthwise or diagonally and fry alongside french fries (storebought or make your own) and you got salchipapas. 5. Canned corn (heat it up heathen) and add butter and parmesan. You can add a squeeze of lime and hot sauce but its optional.
The meal I think was Mum's struggle meal to keep us, her pre-teen and teen kids content, is rice with milk and sugar. Cook some rice, serve it in a bowl and dress with sugar, milk, and maybe even some canned fruit if you have it (like canned peaches are the one my mind goes to). I was trying to decide if cheese-on-toast is struggle, but I think it depends on what types of cheese and tomato condiment one has. The better version is cheddar cheese, with difficulty dictated on whether it is block cheddar or pre-grated, and tomato paste. The more struggle version is processed cheese slices and ketchup. Either way, toast two slices of bread, butter them, spread tomato condiment, top with cheese, then put under the broiler-grill until cheese is melty and maybe has some browning. Meanwhile, on the savoury oatmeal, I eat porridge savoury. FYI, porridge is oatmeal made with rolled oats, very Scottish, very common in Australia. Either way, the old-fashioned non-microwave cooking method is a saucepan, water, a little salt, and oats, and stir until all liquid is thick and light beige, and oats are squishy and cooked. Basic serving can be just salt, pepper, and a slice of butter. Fancy can include some minced herbs, shredded meat, or any other random thing you can think of. Look up Asian congee and it can resemble that, because congee is just rice porridge with mix-ins. I have more than once had my porridge with rotisserie chicken and kalamata olives.
You don't understand how funny this is 2:23 . I once made a huge batch of french toast for my entire family as a kid, and used cumin instead of cinnamon by accident. I specifically remember saying "Owww I love cinnamon, I'm gonna put extra!". IT WAS HORRIBLE!
I used to drink hot milk with cinnamon and honey, and one time I put a fuck ton of cumin in by accident and it was putrid. Idk why spice companies haven't changed the way they label cinnamon and cumin at this point. just make the cumin label yellow or brown and make the cinnamon label red ffs
Struggle meal idea: - kidney beans (from jar, heat up) - lard bacon bits, render in pan, save lard for bedroom or cooking, mix bits with beans - add pouring surup (not maple) - add a spoon or two of the still liquid lard - (optional) Add chopped raw onion - (optional) Add a few pickle slices Mix and eat. Sweet and salty, cheap, calorie dense, and done in 10 minutes.
one of my struggle meals i still make once a week is bechamel sauce with noodles or rice, depending on what i have at home. the catch is, the sauce is also seasoned with a bit of soysauce and a few dashes of tabasco.
Bread ceareal : milk in bowl, break bread into pieces with hands, dump bread bits in, and a bunch of sugar on top, eat quickly before it gets soggy mushy
My bulk struggle meal ( that i still eat to this day) is a potato casserole A bunch of potatoes that are peeled and thinly cut (or diced, personally i never had a dicer, but it makes it easier) A can of tuna A pack of heavy cream( about 250ml, if there is too little liquid you can add water) Salt pepper and a bouillon cube All those things mixed in an oven dish And some cheese sprinkled And into the oven For one person that can be enough for a few days (depending on your appetite) My mother was always persistent that even when money wasn't great, that we still enjoy life, to the best of our abilities and the best way to do that was to eat something good that made us happy, it doesn't have to be complicated or expensive to being a bit of happiness to you
The secret to tasty lazy meals is Lao Gan Ma. Put it on popcorn, rice, microwaved frozen peas, or eggs, or mix it with peanut butter and dip things in it, or use it to spice up mac and cheese or a leftover burrito. It's super versatile. Either the chili crisp or the fried chili in oil depending on how you're feeling.
My struggle meals: Slap two slices of plastic cheese in some bread w mayo and grill it. Hits the spot every time. Sauté sausage slices and put it on toast w some ketchup and mustard. Leftover white rice w ketchup or mayo Scrambled eggs on white rice w ketchup Frozen paratha w hot sauce Instant noodles
Savoury oatmeal is the win here. But my hardest laugh was definitely "and just like many things and activities I enjoy it was calling for some whipped cream"
My favorite struggle meal is what I call poor man's pizza. A flour tortilla, topped with whatever red spaghetti sauce is open, and then whatever shredded cheese is there, usually the HEB fiesta blend. That would be Monterrey jack, cheddar, asadero, and "queso quesadilla" but plain cheddar works fine too. Pretty much the only thing that won't work is low moisture mozzarella cause it just refuses to melt.. Top with whatever meat you have, I've done bacon bits, sausage, meatball, and slim jims. If you can use a 2nd tortilla, do it and then you can melt it all with a stove and put butter on it, otherwise you need to microwave it till the cheese is melted. Once it's all done, sprinkle some shakey parmesan cheese if you have it. Or leftover parm bags from a pizza place.
You said these recipes are for when things can't get any worse. Well, I'm living on the street right now, and I can tell you this shit is aspirational for me.
Fry some small or sliced tomatoes in a pan on some butter or oil. Boil some pasta and put it in the pan, fry it together. Add salt and any seasoning you like (oregano or basil are good for this). Done. You can add other vegetables if you have them or some warm milk mixed with some flour so it’ll have some sauce. You can also add some of the pasta water. Technically all you need is tomatoes, pasta, salt and oil/butter.
my struggle meal during college was: egg fried rice egg and rice is really cheap in my country, so... i just combine them together. with seasoning of course.
Yeah.... my strugle meal was just bread... bread that me and my flat mate dug up from the grocery stores dumpster. For dessert I made pancakes from some sour milk (not spoiled milk, but fermented milk product) that we also got from the dumpster.
My favorite struggle meal is bootleg spaghetti. A packet of ramen cooked with no salt packet and drained, a can of tomato soup (not watered down), some oregano, and some garlic powder. It got me through a lot of lean times.
Food stamps brit tea Take, coffee grounds, green tea, and Louisian black tea and mix them together. Dump them in your cabinet raw style and throw them around to get some added dust. Sweep them back in mto your hand and pour them into a dollar store paper towel. Use a coffee maker with your paper towel filter to brew the tea. Gather up any milk and sweetener you might have. I used dry milk and brown sugar mixed with white sugar. Combine them all and you have food stamps brit tea! (I actually made this when i was 8)
Not a struggle meal - but one of my favorite depression meals is a tostada shell (homemade or storebought) with a thin layer of sourcream on it, a pinch of salt, and optionally a few droplets of Louisiana hot sauce. (Valentina is okay for it, but the extra vinegary flavor of Louisiana really helps cut thought the fat of the sourcream.)
You know its gonna be good when he has to collect food from his bedroom!!! I waited and waited, holding my breath with great anticipation and excitement......he did not disappoint!! Bedroom sausage, some questionable canned beans and a corned tortilla....not just any regular tortilla CORNED tortilla!!
Some of my struggle meals that are actually delicious and really healthy: -Chickpea "fritatta/tortilla": Mix chickpea flour, spices, salt, and water. Chop and sautee some veggies in a pan. Add wet ingredients either in a mixing bowl or pour on top in pan. Use plenty of oil to make it crispier, or less to make it dryer. I recommend adding whatever condiment you want to make it taste less dry. -Red lentil soup: Cook onions and any additional cheap veg in a pan with oil and spices, especially paprika, and garam masala. Add canned tomatoes and a stock cube dissolved in a mug full of water. Add red lentils and any extra water as needed. Taste to seasoning. Cook for at least 30 or more minutes until desired texture. If you wanna be fancy, serve with cheap naan bread covered in garlic butter, or garlic puree. -Cooked rice with mixed veg and sardines. -ditto but with pasta instead of rice. -Hummus sardine salad: (my favourite) Grate carrots and put in a big salad bowl. Chop lettuce or use baby leaves such as rocket/arugala or spinach. Mix with either pre-packed hummus if you see it on offer, or make your own in a blender or pestle and mortar. Add a tin of sardines of whatever flavour, and mash up in the salad with the hummus. Make sure it is all well mixed in. I like to add spicy jerk sauce on top to give some bada bing. The idea is that these are still quite nutritionally balanced and tasty, and average between 80p and £1.50 per serving (convert that to whatever currency you have)
@@roringusanda2837 It's possible to get it in the UK in a lot of shops and it generally costs about £1 per kilogram which could last you several months of eating it once or twice a week!
my bread and butter when i was struggling financially was (aside from bread, duh) onions, carrots, beans and lentils. you can get the dried lentils/beans in the store for very cheap and make lentil soup with that, i had a gigantic pot of lentil soup last me for almost a week and it cost me like 1$ to make
a fun struggle meal for kids. Butterfly bread. you take a piece of bread, put some ketchup on it and fold it over then open it and you'll have different patterns and some look like a red butterfly. I'll never forget my cousins showing me this I was probably 8 or 9
honestly for the brownie one, you probably dont need to add in the yeast... edit: the ending got me so hard. it just reminded me of that period of time where 10 year old me ate pot ramen lunch for 2 years and cooked white rice with luncheon meat for my baby sister.
my best "struggle meal" is pasta, passata, olive oil, basil and garlic (optional: parmigiano reggiano) cook pasta til al dente reduce passata with garlic plate the whole thing 1-2 leaves of basil chop finely sprinkle it on top
If you have time and live in country like UK or any country in EU with 10-15 dollars a weak you can make great food it only lacks protien ,if you are vegan
I should clarify I mean I'm glad They're not struggling to the point where struggle meals aren't made with three cheap items exclusively using a microwave.
My favorite struggle meal - 1 box of stovetop, one can of chicken, 1 jar of chicken gravy, 1 can of corn, 1 pouch of instant mashed potatoes. You can make this on the road just by getting hot water at a gas station, or using their microwave if you need. Drain the chicken and add to the gravy and heat till hot, stirring a little. Stir the instant potatoes into 2 cups hot water and let sit, and stir the stuffing into 1 1/2 cups hot water and let sit. Drain your canned corn. Fluff your stuffing and add your drained canned corn. Then just layer your taters on bottom, some stuffing next, then chicken and gravy on top. Super cheap, can be really good depending on the type of potatoes, stuffing and gravy you get. It take a few cups of hot water and like 10 mins to make, but is cheap.
My nice struggle meal: PB & sliced tomato sandwich. No cooking, has something identified as both fruit and veg, brown bread for carbs and fiber and protein/calories from the peanut butter (we don't add sugar to it here) The $3 in my pocket to see me through 2 weeks struggle meal: Raw soy chunks and water to wash them down. Chew on them long enough and they'll start to taste slightly sweet. Pick a nice brand for the sake of your teeth. The ones I have now are only slightly tougher than cheap puffy corn chips. Don't forget to hydrate to make up for all the saliva the chunks will soak up. It also helps that plant fibre to keep moving... Don't ask how I know 😂
"The most important part of a struggle meal is eating it with a heart full of hope". We came for the cooking, we stayed for the motivational quotes.
Your parents needed to do that or maybe u missed out… stop dick riding bruh it’s not cool
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no the most important part is to get baked first
That actually made me tear up a bit. Solid shit.
Dude changed 2 ingredients out of a 3 ingredient salad. Peak FutureCanoe moment
Whole point of a struggle meal is high calories because you are struggling to sustain yourself. That salad had like 5 calories.
@@wakichunuYes and no. If you're poor and only eat cheap carbs you gonna be fat and hungry all the time. Mixing in a struggle salad every now and then would keep you fuller longer and your insides would thank you
@@Sam-es2gf holy shit i wish i was poor like you guys, seem like so much fun
@@ragimundvonwallat8961 it is fun to remember but not at the moment
@@MXHMustafaXHorror i'll take this wisdom with me for my next poor phase, hope i dont have one before i evaded my quickly communising fully authoritarian piece of shit country tho
Dude takes shortcuts on recipes that are already struggle meals, truly relatable.
Struggling making a struggle meal for us struggling people
Yup. sounds about right.
dudes incompetent as fuck, i mean he has trouble speaking.
IKR
I don't have questionable mystery meat from the back of the fridge, so instead, I'm gonna sub with this brown thing growing out of my dumpster.
I'm just baffled that you interpret these recipes the way you do. Marvelous. Truly a spectacle to behold.
0/5 for taste and 5/5 for easiness is truly a struggle meal
i think the person meant real paprika and not spice :D
@@jbdh6510 Paprika is a spice made from dried and ground red peppers... you mean capsicum?
can't believe insta has the gall to roast your cooking when that's the best struggle meals they have to offer
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Miguel was the one who sent him those recipes
Getting roasted by insta is a canon event
i know I was like dang....my family is hillbilly red neck and these lack creativity......they put the sausage and mayo and I'm like.....why not tuna and mayo??? a tuna can is like 75 cent and mayo packets at the deli are usually free. so is salt and pepper packets and relish packets at delis.
@@angelicdemon1333
These meals aren't for people that get low pay at this point those mfers owe their managers money
That’s literally his whole channel
we can all agree that the comments from instagram on his dishes do not disappoint
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Legit the other day tho, fuck i was eating tortia with cold salsa. Fridge was empty lmao
@@braed6189relatable.
@@braed6189dawg thats a normal meal
"The most important part of a struggle meal is eating it with a heart full of hope" dam didn't expect an inspirational quote out of a struggle meal vid but here i am
butter a tortilla, sprinkle cinnamon and sugar, and put it under the broiler until it gets crunchy. one of my favorite low-rent sweet treats.
oh my goddd i used to eat this all the time when i was a kid. we would also put a little bit of butter on it so the sugar and cinnamon sticks and for more flavor
You know you can just mix flour with water and milk and get european pancakes? Add sugar and you are good to go! Also an egg in the mix if you are feeling rich. I usually skip it anyway.
For some reason i will never forget like 4 things from being a young child at my gransmas place and one of them is the sugar pancake.
@@KorianHUN if you're gonna mix flour and water and milk into this recipe just make cinnamon rolls lol they will be 10x better
Lowkey the last message was really wholesome because I've eaten struggle meals at one point of my life and I felt every single word.
These recipes people were sending in seem more like they're struggling with depression rather than money😭 All of them could be make so much better with different techniques and some extra steps
@@Kipplzthats the point of struggle meals my man.
Some days, you dont wanna wake up and have to make food. So you take things and make “food.”
@@jamzee_ Thought it was financial! Putting together a struggle meal is definitely a better decision than getting fast-food delivery though
@@Kipplz First world problems more or less. Just expensive ultra processed food made worst.
@@Kipplz Its a struggle meal because youre struggling to keep yourself alive... duh. Whether its financial or mental.
These struggle meals look like what I expect British food to look like
right? it's like they set high expectations. if i ever go to england and don't find specimens like these i'll be about as disappointed as if i'd gone to paris and not seen a medieval amount of rats
with the industrial revolution pretty much ALL of British food for the 99% was struggle meals.
yeah pretty much looks the same icl
As someone who used to live in the UK... youre not that far off xD
@@Goddot"The industrial revolution and its consequences" 🤓☝️
The sausage one can be done: By slicing the sausage into equal pieces & fry with beans, wee-bit of oil. Add pepper. Put in tortilla and add hot sauce
A good struggle meal is 50/50 corn and macaroni with butter, little bit of salt. Can cut the butter if you're struggling really bad and don't have any. If you're a bit on the higher end of the struggling, you could add cheese.
I hate corn in mine, but do like tomatoes... sometimes I add a can of Mexican style diced tomatoes
My struggle meal is just adding more seasoning to a 28p packet of Asda noodles, sometimes I'll crack an egg into it too
we called it Maggi Mee (instant noodles) in South East Asia.
Does Asda noodles tatse good ?
@@yathishb7954 For how cheap they are, sure, they have a decent amount of seasoning in them, just not enough for me.
@@yathishb7954 throw in green onion or egg and it goes decent
I'm not sure if ASDA is a brand or sth, I don't know it from Europe but Asia instant noodles from any brand are pretty good and sell for 60 cent.
6:20 that was the most genuine emotion I’ve ever heard from this man
My go to struggle meal used to be;
-flour tortilla +honey mustard+ham
Now the new updated version is :
-flour tortilla+honey mustard 👍🏽✨
Good luck everybody
If you get ahold of some, using chic fil a sauce for that sounds 10/10
@@ajelly00 Idk mustard has a nice tang that chic fila sauce lacks
if you lose the mustard its time to take it to the palace
Mine is flour torilla that I heat directly on the burner of my gas stove. Then add mayo and shredded cheese. If I have shredded lettuce, put that in and then (optionally) lightly sprinkle with white wine or red wine vinegar. Roll like burrito. If I don't have lettuce or cheese, just the mayo on a warm torilla is good for ultimate struggle.
90% of struggle meals seem to start with tortillas lol
My struggle meal is a can of ranch style beans (can be substituted for baked beans, chili beans or black beans) mixed with instant rice, topped with salsa and whatever cheese I have at the time. It’s actually pretty bomb as a lazy person’s version Tex-Mex tbh
rice and beans with cheese is pretty classic. You can make burritos and tacos with it too
That sounds pretty good rn honestly
For anybody reading this later, I like doing this recipe Moon_Samurai said, and just pour it over Fritos chips, love it
My struggles meals are:
1: A boiled yellow plantain smashed up, seasoned with salt and garlic, and topped with cheese or Vienna sausages.
2. A boiled potato seasoned with salt and whipped with a soft boiled egg.
3. White rice topped with sunny side up eggs, and I break the yolks to drip on the rice as I eat it.
That "apple pie" actually seems like a really good idea, I'll have to try that one of these days
would be better toasted i think.
You can make a crumble following roughly the same recipe except instead of white bread you combine flour sugar and butter and you grill it in a pan on low heat.
Add on top of your cooked apples and it makes for a perfectly serviceable apple crumble.
@@bunnyraggitthats what i was thinking
I bet it'd be bomb if you fried it in a pan with a little butter.
My go-to struggle meal is insanely delucious and only needs 1 pot (no joke give it a try).
- Open a can of tomatoes, put them in a pot and mash them
- Add heavy cream to taste and mix to form a sauce
. Add salt and any spice you enjoy to taste (generally recommend garlic powder, onion powder, dry basil, oregano and paprika) but you can do with just salt.
- Put the stove on high heat.
- Once the sauce is boiling, crack 3 eggs in there and cook until the whites are settle and the yolk is creamy but still runny.
- Use the pot as your plate (or transfer to a plate if you are feeling fancy) and eat alongside some white italian bread to deep in the sauce and in the egg yolk.
Butter bread, never fails. My dad used to prepare for us when he was going through a divorce.❤ Still love it.
an underrated struggle meal is plain greek yogurt with powdered peanut butter and granola mix, its cheap, fills you up, and tastes mighty good
granola mix is too expensive
@@Goddot 15+ bowls of yogurt with a single granola mix bag is not “expensive” granola mix is like 3-4$ at aldi and last i checked a simple bag of chips at any gas station nowadays is like $2.29 lol, how on earth did you come to that conclusion
@@LUCKIPUPPowdered peanut butter is 10x the cost or regular peanut butter and granola at $4 a bag is overpriced. Comparing a bag of granola from Aldi to chips at a gas station isn’t a comparison.
@@codename495 dawg idk where you live but inflation hittin and everything is expensive lol especially any food that actually has any nutritional value big dawg
Sounds like a great meal. Lots of protein and some fiber. Also probably under $1.
I’m eating a struggle meal right now watching this haha.
Canned black beans
Instant white rice
Pickled jalapeños and Valentina
That actually sounds really good!
Ngl that sounds totally decent
there's instant white rice?????
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That cinnamon thing happened to me in reverse just last week 😂. I’m like “guess I’m having cinnamon flavored tacos tonight” 🤷🏽♀️
Was it good 👀
Cinnamon and nutmeg can actually go really well with ground meat
I think you just discovered how Skyline chili was invented
I had a cumin porridge the other day 😅
I did that once making chicken fajita tortilla soup, the cinnamon actually wasn't awful in there! But I'll stick to cumin lol
The best struggle meal is still this: Cook noodles. Then pour almost all the water out and pour like one teaspoon of lemon-Juice, two tablespoons olive oil and some grated cheese (i like youg gouda) over it. Give it a good mix until the cheese has melted a bit. Add some salt to your taste. Its delicious!
People sometimes call it pasta
Imagine being able to afford cheese these days.
You are wrong. Cook noodles, pour over a teaspoon of olive oil, fresh or granulated garlic and black pepper. Spices are cheap enough for how little of them you need and the olive oil can be replaced with butter or really any edible fat.
I'm a cheese addict, but I don't like cheese on ramen. Lol
My doctoring of ramen consists of also straining out the broth, but adding a dash of soya sauce/oyster sauce/hot sauce, and chopping up whatever leftover meat I have from yesterday's dinner. Lmao
@@designator7402 I cashed for proper Parmesan every time. You need very small amounts for a great deal of taste with real parmesan, so it averages out to be really cheap for how much taste it gives you.
Apparently I did struggle meals wrong. In college I started off the month buying a big bag of rice and then would buy meat whenever it was on sale or on clearance. Then spend some money on garlic salt, pepper, soy sauce, and ginger and then went wild with whatever other ingredients were on sale.
5lb of rice 8.98
Garlic salt 4.78
Black pepper 3.77
Ground ginger 2.24
Soy sauce 3.58
Vegetable oil 3.84
Total 27.19 for all the seasons and rice which will last a while. I usually got a few weeks out of the rice and only needed new seasonings every 3-4 months depending on how liberal I was with them. Then for protein and veggies watch for good sales and clearance. Now these prices aren't totally accurate because I'm just going off Walmart prices they could be more or less depending on where you live.
Yeaah so many young adults leave home with no idea how to stretch a dollar. If you're willing to put a little more effort into cooking, for example with dried beans instead of canned, there's money to be saved for spices haha.
Struggle meals are really just for when you struggle to budget, struggle to learn cooking, or are too lazy to go to the store so you make a meal out of random ingredients you had sitting around.
@@cookiemonster2630 yeah like i always hear about other young people saying that they can only afford ramen, but like, ramen is more expensive than healthier options like pasta
@onionring1531 or struggling mentally. Sure, eating a proper meal may be healthier and cheaper, but when you can barely scrape together enough energy to get out of bed, it’s easier to shove a Walmart frozen pizza in the oven and be done with it
Try out some kogel-mogel, dude.
2-4 raw egg yolks, 3-4 tea spoons of sugar, beat until sooth and creamy, or maybe a little gritty, whichever floats your boat. Favorite Soviet era struggle meal.
I think the only dish I can claim as mostly mine without direct influence or intentional following a recipe is taking a can of spam, slice into thin to a medium thickness slabs for slightly easier cooking, fry on a pan with some soyu sauce, not much. Once the spam is at a point you like cut to cubes. Add rice to the pan for maybe a minute or two at most with a little more soyu. To help with the overwhelming salt a tablespoon or two of butter helps with a slightly creamy taste.
Enough salt to probably kill you but easy to make, the rice ensures you feel full. And cheap.
A delicious struggle meal is pinto beans. I pressure cook a pound of dry pinto beans with water, chicken bouillon cubes, and taco seasoning. Serve it in a bowl and top with hot sauce, any cheese you have and sour cream. So comforting.
I love pinto beans for Mediterranean ful medames and making chips out of whatever tf I have around
Beans have always been my go-to struggle meal too...cheap, and easy to make. I'd put dried beans (usually black beans) in a crock pot with lots of water and let it cook all day while I was at school/work, with some chicken bouillion, same as you, along with fresh garlic and onion. Come home, add some green chili (yes, I'm from NM...we actually eat such a thing here), and then serve it up in a tortilla with veggies, cheese, salsa and sour cream for a hearty burrito. Nourishing, healthy, cheap, and easy....ticks all the boxes. Ten out of ten would recommend, especially black beans for a more intense flavor. I saved pinto beans for green chili stew; same deal with the beans, but at the end added cooked ground meat along with the chili, and ate in a bowl with either a tortilla or cornbread. Struggle meal, but also comfort meal, esp in winter. FYI - for vegans or vegetarians, Impossible brand makes a ground "meat" that is even better than real meat in green chili stew and tacos and spaghetti...yummy!
Great channel for weight loss! Anytime I watch a video and see the food I instantaneously lose my appetite!
Also for even cheaper/easier pancakes you can use those like $1 martha white bag muffin mix mixed with some milk or water (i dont measure just mix til it looks like pancake batter consistency, sometimes i throw in an egg too) and make pancakes! They come in a ton of flavors! My fave is the banana chocolate and especially if u use peanut butter syrup on top (or spread some peanut butter on and use maple syrup), and pumpkin spice, and double chocolate! I feel like most breakfast foods are good struggle meals for dinners
"TRUST ME BROOO"
I think I subconsciously knew that recipe was headed for disaster
This channel has been an amazing help in my mission to shred down for summer, thank you!
Same. His videos are so helpful for making me lose my appetite😊❤
A cup of cold water is the best struggle meal hands down
the tap water and sleep combo>>>
😮🛏️ you guys got water?!!
Fried Ramen
Ingredients:
1-2 Maruchan Ramen packet(s)
2 Cups water
However much butter you can afford or care to use. Just enought to where you're teetering on that edge between "This makes sense" and "I'm gonna have a heart attack."
- Use a skillet with a lid instead of a pot. The water will boil more quickly than with the pot. Let the water boil and then put the ramen in with the lid on, do not use seasoning packets yet.
- Once noodles are noodley, save about a cup of the water and drain the rest. Leave noodles in the skillet.
- Add a spoon of butter into the skillet with the noodles and stir them about. While noodles are still noodling, add a seasoning packet. Continue to stir till you feel the pan is properly coated with butter as well as the noodles.
- Leave the noodle bobs alone for a bit so they can crisp up. After about 3-5 minutes, check to see if they've crisped. If so, stir and then flip. If you can't flip, God help you.
- After noodz are flipped, add some more butter and repeat the process. Keep sitting, stirring, and flipping till your nods are at the desired crispiness. Add more seasoning during these repetitions as you care too. I'm not your mom.
- Once it's all nice and crispy, plate it. Yes, you have just taken some crunchy noodles and just remade them into crunchy noodles. But, they taste better now.
Note: I didn't forget about the saved water. Pour some into the skillet every now and then if you feel the noodles are drying up too quicky during cooking or if you feel the seasoning isn't spreading like you'd prefer. Use the water to moisten it and give the seasoning a way to help coat the noodles. But if you're hellbent on that inevitable heart attack, use more butter instead of the starchy water.
😂 😂 😂 you can also sniff it to get high 😂😂😂 most days I don't watch for the recipe I watch for the dry humor
I love how he substituted everything with what he had lol 😂
His sense of humor is def the best ingredient here ❤
4:35 I’m dying 😂😊😅
Dude your sense of humor kills me in a good way
And a bite of his food would do it the other way
I can make a giant pot of bean soup for like 10 bucks from dollar store ingredients. One thing that always makes struggle meals more palatable is having a good selection of dried and powdered spices (which i can also find at the dollar store). Your wallet doesn't have to suffer just to satisfy your tastebuds, and your tastebuds don't have to suffer just to satisfy your wallet. Shop around for deals, and just never be afraid to experiment. If you worry a lot about making things, or just have no idea where to start, then i actually recommend studying recipies from times of scarcity. In the U.S. that would be the great depression and world wars one and two in terms of years i'd start looking into. People really showed a lot of good and bad creativity during eras of rationing. Even if your situation is bad now, i have every faith that you'll be alright.
for really good recipes during times of Scarcity, i HIGHLY recommend checking out B. Dylan Hollis. he makes videos on vintage recipes, and is perfect for pointing out delicious cheap recipes, and telling you which ones to stay away from XD
@@thedorkknight9684 OH I LOVE HIS CONTENT!! I even have a preordered copy of his cookbook. He brings every ounce of his humor into his cookbook and its great.
@@murasakirin8998 YOOOOOOOOO!!! I WANT A COPY SO BADLY, THE MAN IS HILARIOUS
Yeah whenever i go to the foodbank they always have a surplus of tins of chickpeas, kidney beans, mixed beans and so naturally i make bean stews.
@@hardywatkins7737 the food bank was a god send for me in college. I'd go with my roommate to get a box for two, then cook loads of stuff before the fresher things could go bad. I can't have dairy so I'd trade the dairy products for other things with friends on and off campus. Lol sometimes I'd even trade home cooked meals for other stuff, like extra ingredients or spices. I know there are lots of people in my age group that feel ashamed or embarrassed to go to a food bank, but honestly its a resource like any other. Damn, sorry I'm rambling, you just brought up funny memories of my little "restaurant" I had back in college.
Savory oatmeal is the hidden gem of struggle meals. I make it with water, pepper, green onion, liquid aminos or low-sodium soy sauce, and a drizzle of sesame oil. If you add sliced sausages, you have protein, too.
nice job team 🤓
Nice job team 🤓
Bro shut yo bitch ass up nicd job team 🤓 bro tryna be the main character ion wayy
Team 🤓 nice job
Bro come on you gotta do a revisit of the oreo one- That isn't even remotely chemically or SPIRITUALLY similar.
my favourite struggle meal is white rice with whatever leftover meat i have in the fridge with hot peppers cut into it and salt, pepper, oregano, and chilli pepper flakes
Struggle meals we ate: 1. in a warm flour tortilla put a slice of yellow cheese and a hot dog and bake at 350 F can't remember how long, maybe 6-8 minutes until the tortilla is crispy. 2. Slice about 2 hot and cook on a skillet until crispy and crack in a couple of eggs and you got winnis con huevo. 3. Take warm corn tortillas, smear some mashed potatos inside and fry and you got taquitos de papa. 4. Slice hot dogs lengthwise or diagonally and fry alongside french fries (storebought or make your own) and you got salchipapas. 5. Canned corn (heat it up heathen) and add butter and parmesan. You can add a squeeze of lime and hot sauce but its optional.
You are going to become something even bigger in the near future. Keep going and do you!
He's already pretty big
@@tdb517280k in this day and age isn't big anymore
i mean he almost has 300k subs that’s a lot of people
@@sionk166 Depends on how you define big. 300K followers is a comfortable, well above average income and some decent fame.
@@tdb517
only 4 weeks later and he doubled it to 600k. Thats some proper pace
Burns spices instead using the broiler to melt the cheese "hm tastes not very good"
Dude… it’s cinnamon and cheese. Was always going to be bad.
@ash_11117 You'd be amazed actually.
How do people reach these dire situations?? wtf can be easier than a fried egg?????????????????????????
Eggs are more expensive than a few cans of vegetables and sauce
a raw egg
@Cannonized_ Also, not true, eggs are like 10¢ each
A struggle meal for me means I don't need to use dishes, because all of them are dirty if I'm struggling for sure. lol
The meal I think was Mum's struggle meal to keep us, her pre-teen and teen kids content, is rice with milk and sugar. Cook some rice, serve it in a bowl and dress with sugar, milk, and maybe even some canned fruit if you have it (like canned peaches are the one my mind goes to).
I was trying to decide if cheese-on-toast is struggle, but I think it depends on what types of cheese and tomato condiment one has. The better version is cheddar cheese, with difficulty dictated on whether it is block cheddar or pre-grated, and tomato paste. The more struggle version is processed cheese slices and ketchup.
Either way, toast two slices of bread, butter them, spread tomato condiment, top with cheese, then put under the broiler-grill until cheese is melty and maybe has some browning.
Meanwhile, on the savoury oatmeal, I eat porridge savoury. FYI, porridge is oatmeal made with rolled oats, very Scottish, very common in Australia. Either way, the old-fashioned non-microwave cooking method is a saucepan, water, a little salt, and oats, and stir until all liquid is thick and light beige, and oats are squishy and cooked.
Basic serving can be just salt, pepper, and a slice of butter. Fancy can include some minced herbs, shredded meat, or any other random thing you can think of. Look up Asian congee and it can resemble that, because congee is just rice porridge with mix-ins. I have more than once had my porridge with rotisserie chicken and kalamata olives.
You don't understand how funny this is 2:23 . I once made a huge batch of french toast for my entire family as a kid, and used cumin instead of cinnamon by accident. I specifically remember saying "Owww I love cinnamon, I'm gonna put extra!". IT WAS HORRIBLE!
My dad did the exact same thing, my sister thought it tasted good too 🤷😂
I used to drink hot milk with cinnamon and honey, and one time I put a fuck ton of cumin in by accident and it was putrid.
Idk why spice companies haven't changed the way they label cinnamon and cumin at this point. just make the cumin label yellow or brown and make the cinnamon label red ffs
Buttered pasta was my struggle meal as a student. Good times. 😅
My struggle meal used to be a salmon patty that I shredded up and put in a bowl of white rice with Japanese BBQ sauce
Struggle meal idea:
- kidney beans (from jar, heat up)
- lard bacon bits, render in pan, save lard for bedroom or cooking, mix bits with beans
- add pouring surup (not maple)
- add a spoon or two of the still liquid lard
- (optional) Add chopped raw onion
- (optional) Add a few pickle slices
Mix and eat. Sweet and salty, cheap, calorie dense, and done in 10 minutes.
one of my struggle meals i still make once a week is bechamel sauce with noodles or rice, depending on what i have at home. the catch is, the sauce is also seasoned with a bit of soysauce and a few dashes of tabasco.
2:09 bro that's sad 😂
Bread ceareal : milk in bowl, break bread into pieces with hands, dump bread bits in, and a bunch of sugar on top, eat quickly before it gets soggy mushy
you can actually bake your bread in your oven to get it harder, adds a little crunch
My bulk struggle meal ( that i still eat to this day) is a potato casserole
A bunch of potatoes that are peeled and thinly cut (or diced, personally i never had a dicer, but it makes it easier)
A can of tuna
A pack of heavy cream( about 250ml, if there is too little liquid you can add water)
Salt pepper and a bouillon cube
All those things mixed in an oven dish
And some cheese sprinkled
And into the oven
For one person that can be enough for a few days (depending on your appetite)
My mother was always persistent that even when money wasn't great, that we still enjoy life, to the best of our abilities and the best way to do that was to eat something good that made us happy, it doesn't have to be complicated or expensive to being a bit of happiness to you
Also microwaved potatoes
With cheese and sour cream (and when i was able to be fancier raw prosciutto)
This genuinely made me sick to my stomach. You are a strong man
*LOL*
The secret to tasty lazy meals is Lao Gan Ma. Put it on popcorn, rice, microwaved frozen peas, or eggs, or mix it with peanut butter and dip things in it, or use it to spice up mac and cheese or a leftover burrito. It's super versatile. Either the chili crisp or the fried chili in oil depending on how you're feeling.
2:46 that one M4 driver who perfectly timed the pause in the video🤌🏾🔥😂😂
My struggle meals:
Slap two slices of plastic cheese in some bread w mayo and grill it. Hits the spot every time.
Sauté sausage slices and put it on toast w some ketchup and mustard.
Leftover white rice w ketchup or mayo
Scrambled eggs on white rice w ketchup
Frozen paratha w hot sauce
Instant noodles
Savoury oatmeal is the win here.
But my hardest laugh was definitely "and just like many things and activities I enjoy it was calling for some whipped cream"
My favorite struggle meal is what I call poor man's pizza. A flour tortilla, topped with whatever red spaghetti sauce is open, and then whatever shredded cheese is there, usually the HEB fiesta blend. That would be Monterrey jack, cheddar, asadero, and "queso quesadilla" but plain cheddar works fine too. Pretty much the only thing that won't work is low moisture mozzarella cause it just refuses to melt.. Top with whatever meat you have, I've done bacon bits, sausage, meatball, and slim jims. If you can use a 2nd tortilla, do it and then you can melt it all with a stove and put butter on it, otherwise you need to microwave it till the cheese is melted. Once it's all done, sprinkle some shakey parmesan cheese if you have it. Or leftover parm bags from a pizza place.
Yup i used to do this 😂 when you get good at it, it gets really hard to not just do it for every meal. Too tasty and convenient
I’d recommend this, but with fresh soda bread. It tastes delicious
the “nice job team” gets me everytime idk why
'Just grab it from my bedroom quickly' really got me 😆
Cinnamon on top of American cheese bread is truly deranged
I make any struggle meals feel like struggle meals
His jokes never miss 😂
8:55, ah yes 3.7.
You said these recipes are for when things can't get any worse. Well, I'm living on the street right now, and I can tell you this shit is aspirational for me.
Fry some small or sliced tomatoes in a pan on some butter or oil. Boil some pasta and put it in the pan, fry it together. Add salt and any seasoning you like (oregano or basil are good for this). Done. You can add other vegetables if you have them or some warm milk mixed with some flour so it’ll have some sauce. You can also add some of the pasta water.
Technically all you need is tomatoes, pasta, salt and oil/butter.
Dont worry, you're not the only one who confused cinnamon for cumin
It’s starting to get embarrassing how happy I was to see a new vid 😭😭😭
bruh, I understand that these are struggle meals ... but what in the hell are you people struggling with 😢
Poverty
@@nomchomsley854 😭 noooo I meant like cooking wise 😭😭 man I'm poor as well but I like to put efforts into whatever I'm making 🙌
Lost my appetite after this video.
Gonna come back to this video whenever i feel hungry at midnight 👍🏻❤
my struggle meal during college was: egg fried rice
egg and rice is really cheap in my country, so... i just combine them together.
with seasoning of course.
Yeah.... my strugle meal was just bread... bread that me and my flat mate dug up from the grocery stores dumpster. For dessert I made pancakes from some sour milk (not spoiled milk, but fermented milk product) that we also got from the dumpster.
hope you're doing better these days =)
My favorite struggle meal is bootleg spaghetti. A packet of ramen cooked with no salt packet and drained, a can of tomato soup (not watered down), some oregano, and some garlic powder. It got me through a lot of lean times.
Food stamps brit tea
Take, coffee grounds, green tea, and Louisian black tea and mix them together. Dump them in your cabinet raw style and throw them around to get some added dust.
Sweep them back in mto your hand and pour them into a dollar store paper towel. Use a coffee maker with your paper towel filter to brew the tea.
Gather up any milk and sweetener you might have. I used dry milk and brown sugar mixed with white sugar.
Combine them all and you have food stamps brit tea!
(I actually made this when i was 8)
Not a struggle meal - but one of my favorite depression meals is a tostada shell (homemade or storebought) with a thin layer of sourcream on it, a pinch of salt, and optionally a few droplets of Louisiana hot sauce. (Valentina is okay for it, but the extra vinegary flavor of Louisiana really helps cut thought the fat of the sourcream.)
This is my favorite channel ATM, please keep it up!!
You know its gonna be good when he has to collect food from his bedroom!!! I waited and waited, holding my breath with great anticipation and excitement......he did not disappoint!! Bedroom sausage, some questionable canned beans and a corned tortilla....not just any regular tortilla CORNED tortilla!!
the scariest part of these videos is realizing I'm always eating struggle meals.
This cooking video has one of the most hopeful messages I've ever received, wow ❤
Some of my struggle meals that are actually delicious and really healthy:
-Chickpea "fritatta/tortilla":
Mix chickpea flour, spices, salt, and water. Chop and sautee some veggies in a pan. Add wet ingredients either in a mixing bowl or pour on top in pan. Use plenty of oil to make it crispier, or less to make it dryer. I recommend adding whatever condiment you want to make it taste less dry.
-Red lentil soup:
Cook onions and any additional cheap veg in a pan with oil and spices, especially paprika, and garam masala. Add canned tomatoes and a stock cube dissolved in a mug full of water. Add red lentils and any extra water as needed. Taste to seasoning. Cook for at least 30 or more minutes until desired texture. If you wanna be fancy, serve with cheap naan bread covered in garlic butter, or garlic puree.
-Cooked rice with mixed veg and sardines.
-ditto but with pasta instead of rice.
-Hummus sardine salad: (my favourite)
Grate carrots and put in a big salad bowl. Chop lettuce or use baby leaves such as rocket/arugala or spinach. Mix with either pre-packed hummus if you see it on offer, or make your own in a blender or pestle and mortar. Add a tin of sardines of whatever flavour, and mash up in the salad with the hummus. Make sure it is all well mixed in. I like to add spicy jerk sauce on top to give some bada bing.
The idea is that these are still quite nutritionally balanced and tasty, and average between 80p and £1.50 per serving (convert that to whatever currency you have)
Tf is rocket?
@@wolfetteplays8894 The english word for arugala. I can't remember the history but it's something to do with Italian lmao
The fuq you find chickpeas flour?!! They don't sell that around here...and if they did it would be expensive!
@@roringusanda2837 It's possible to get it in the UK in a lot of shops and it generally costs about £1 per kilogram which could last you several months of eating it once or twice a week!
@@jameswilkes451 USA, small-town, just not something that's commonly available.
my bread and butter when i was struggling financially was (aside from bread, duh) onions, carrots, beans and lentils. you can get the dried lentils/beans in the store for very cheap and make lentil soup with that, i had a gigantic pot of lentil soup last me for almost a week and it cost me like 1$ to make
a fun struggle meal for kids. Butterfly bread. you take a piece of bread, put some ketchup on it and fold it over then open it and you'll have different patterns and some look like a red butterfly. I'll never forget my cousins showing me this I was probably 8 or 9
honestly for the brownie one, you probably dont need to add in the yeast...
edit: the ending got me so hard. it just reminded me of that period of time where 10 year old me ate pot ramen lunch for 2 years and cooked white rice with luncheon meat for my baby sister.
As a Swede growing up on oatmeal porridge breakfast, I need to try the "potatoes"
3:48 you used cabage instead of lettuce and paprika instead of chilli powder, of course it tastes like ass 😂
To b fair these r makedo recipes
And Hes just make doin
Bread slice, little slab of butter, sprinkle of suggar and cinnamon, put it on the oven till golden brown, best munchies ever
my best "struggle meal" is pasta, passata, olive oil, basil and garlic (optional: parmigiano reggiano)
cook pasta til al dente
reduce passata with garlic
plate the whole thing
1-2 leaves of basil chop finely
sprinkle it on top
3:18 That caught me off guard 😭
That ending was so wholesome! Great video!
here's a meal: plate of ice with water glaze, water and ice soap with ice, and a cup of air.
rice + tuna + white onions chopped + mayo + hotsauce
done!!
Some people dont know what struggle meals are...And I'm glad they don't. Keep up the good work! 😊❤
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If you have time and live in country like UK or any country in EU with 10-15 dollars a weak you can make great food it only lacks protien ,if you are vegan
I should clarify I mean I'm glad They're not struggling to the point where struggle meals aren't made with three cheap items exclusively using a microwave.
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I love struggle meals....the more ratchet it is...the better 😂
My favorite struggle meal - 1 box of stovetop, one can of chicken, 1 jar of chicken gravy, 1 can of corn, 1 pouch of instant mashed potatoes. You can make this on the road just by getting hot water at a gas station, or using their microwave if you need. Drain the chicken and add to the gravy and heat till hot, stirring a little. Stir the instant potatoes into 2 cups hot water and let sit, and stir the stuffing into 1 1/2 cups hot water and let sit. Drain your canned corn. Fluff your stuffing and add your drained canned corn. Then just layer your taters on bottom, some stuffing next, then chicken and gravy on top. Super cheap, can be really good depending on the type of potatoes, stuffing and gravy you get. It take a few cups of hot water and like 10 mins to make, but is cheap.
My nice struggle meal: PB & sliced tomato sandwich. No cooking, has something identified as both fruit and veg, brown bread for carbs and fiber and protein/calories from the peanut butter (we don't add sugar to it here)
The $3 in my pocket to see me through 2 weeks struggle meal: Raw soy chunks and water to wash them down. Chew on them long enough and they'll start to taste slightly sweet. Pick a nice brand for the sake of your teeth. The ones I have now are only slightly tougher than cheap puffy corn chips. Don't forget to hydrate to make up for all the saliva the chunks will soak up. It also helps that plant fibre to keep moving... Don't ask how I know 😂