Last week I was gifted a box of 50 small apples from a relative who had a glut from her apple tree. I wondered how I was going to use them up until I watched this video. We love butternut squash soup so out to Lidl for a butternut which was €1.26 (£1.06 Stg), chopped it up, added two limp carrots I had and a sad half of a red pepper, plus an onion and three of the apples. It made 8 servings of soup, 6 servings are now stored in my freezer. Omigosh it was delicious, thanks for the tip of using apples in the soup. Then I made a chicken curry and added three small chopped apples and a sad half tin of leftover Lidl coconut milk. That was also delicious. I'm getting through the apples at last! Apple tarts tomorrow! Yay!
Hi Ali ! I am a 70 year old pensioner, living on my own ; and you've made me realise how much money I've been spending recently on 'ready meals'. Who needs Nigella when you are here now, with so many tasty recipes⁉
Am vegan and could happily eat roast veg, pasta, beans, rice,lentils etc. every day. You use herbs and spices and season well, so looks really tasty. Having said that don’t cook so will just watch!
I used to try to live on £5 per week when paying off debt some 3 years ago. I succeeded and often wondered if it could be done now. You have proved that it can. Thank you! I really hope this helps folk.
I think it can be done if you can get a really good Lidl box and some items from a community shop. I'm not sure I'll ever get as good a box as this one again 🙂
A few years ago I discovered dried red lentils. They are so easy to use to bulk up for example a bolognese sauce or cottage pie (using less mince)They are also a good source of protein.
AMAZING! Good nutritious food. I told my husband once I could live for one week on £5. We treat ourselves sometimes to eating out on a Friday and we would SHARE a fish supper (we've worked all our lives but the price is now shocking). We will fridge up left over cooked veg and use with another meal. I know people who hand over £35 in the chippy. Think what you'd get in the supermarket for that amount and then say they are struggling with money!
Yep I know people who go out drinking/socialising all weekend then moan about having no money to save. I keep saying there's no secret magic solution to what I'm doing. It's taken years of hard work and planning. Thanks for the great comment! :-)
This is a real service for those on a budget. I love your ideas for meals and using all the space in the oven. Your tips are so needed in these times of austerity. Thankyou😊
Some really good ideas here for cheap and nutritious meals- even if you aren't lucky enough to get free or very discounted groceries. It's so easy to spend unthinkingly by not planning well. My inspirationfrom watching you today is to go out into the garden and rescue the windfall apples off my tree before they become unusable - lots of 'apple' ideas in your menu!
Just found your channel, thank you so much for sharing. I am guilty of food waste however I am going to stop procrastinating. I buy the food, I put off preparing and cooking it and then it ends up wasted which causes me to feel incredibly upset with myself. Since watching this video I have gone to my fridge, taken everything out, made notes on how I can make the best out of my ingredients. I have A.P.E.d assessed the situation, prepared the equipment and executed the action. Feeling very inspired. Looking forward to watching more of your vlogs, see you in the next one.
Hi Ali, just wanted to say how much I’m enjoying your frugal videos. Though I am fortunate in not having to budget so tightly, I do want to control my food spending which has really risen over the past few years. I plan my meals, cook double and freeze the extra, don’t buy extravagantly or waste food either! Loved your meal plan ideas and am looking forward to more good tips from you and other commenters.
I think that the meals you planned were very nice I will be trying some of them. I love a few very cheap meals for the weeks I want to really cut down on the food budget.
As a new subscriber, i just want to say this menu is very well done. Lots of nutrition in the meals planned. I try and keep to a very frugal budget. If it was just myself to cater for, i would try for a fiver a week too. Very inspiring, i will now buy a squash if i can find one , makes beautiful soup.
Yes, there certainly IS a need for the help you can share with us! With today's rising food prices, we all need to be more creative with our meals! Just today, here in the US [Northeast], for some reason, there were absolutely NO eggs to be seen in our local Walmart! Very concerning, indeed. We need to use our ingenuity now more than ever when meal planning, for sure! I love what you've done with this week's staples, by the way. Very inspiring! Please keep bringing us these great videos, and we'll all learn together : )
Thanks! What a great comment!! We absolutely need to be food resilient and use up whatever we have. I used to keep chickens but am not allowed in my new house. Eggs are an essential part of my diet! 🙂
Just want to say that bird flu has meant the destruction of 36 million chickens in 2022 and then 20 million more in 2023. I realize that may not explain what happened at your Walmart but it's certainly a very big contributing factor.
Hi Ali, your channel seems to be growing by the hundreds every day, that's wonderful! Really great ideas here - I often make a butternut squash soup, but it's usually just with curry flavouring, so I'll have to try adding apples next time. I think the video with the photos of the prepared veggies and the finished items worked really well - much easier than cooking it all in real time! 😊
Thanks, I can't believe how quickly it's growing! I'm still finding my way making and uploading the clips to make a video. Good to know that photos work well as they upload in seconds compared to an hour for a wee 5 min clip!! 🙂
Thanks! Planning is the key. I don't always plan meals but I cook and plan the separate ingredients to mix and match to create different meals with same ingredients 🙂
I can't believe the contents of the Lidl box, what a brilliant bargain. I've occasionally seen them in my branch but they don't seem as varied or good quality. ..unless some customers are ' rearranging them' :)
That is what was happening in my local Lidils - just a few folk wrecked it for the rest of us. Now they deliberately put the boxes out at varied times - so it's now pot luck if you get a box.
This was an exceptional box! There were 4 pretty identical ones but yeah I think they get 'rearranged' by some folk. Even the cashier said they were good ones that day! 🙂
Thank you for sharing your meal plan Ali, you have some excellent suggestions and I like the idea of prepping several dishes of veggies at the same time. You will be eating well for under a fiver! Angie 👍
@@aliliveswellonless It’s so good to know that you are sharing your positive approach to life on a low income. I so admire you as it sometimes feels like those around us don’t quite understand. Thank you so much.
Thanks, if you eat potatoes filling then with tin beans and plenty of veggies ,or sardines , tuna and salad can be a nice change. I guess you could add bread and butter pudding or rice pudding in the oven while it’s hot would be good too I like the way you roast ed all the vegs together a bit tempting to hop in and eat them as soon as possible 😂
@@paulaevans2555 I always ask myself 'Where will moaning get you?' I'm at that stage in life where I genuinely don't give 2 hoots what anyone thinks! But it took a while to get here 🙂
@@peterdybing7127 I could have scoffed all the aubergines and tomatoes with a spoon the minute they came out the oven!! Love love love potatoes but couldn't get them into my £5 budget this time! 🙂
Hi Ali i am watching from Austria and are so surprised how cheap Tesco is in Scottland. Every product on your least is at least Double the Price here in Austria. For Health reasons I only can work Part time for the Moment so i am very frugal. Even the Lidl Box is 3 Euros witch is still agood Deal but compared to the UK Scottland I Feel ripped off😢
Am vegan and could happily eat roast veg, pasta, beans, rice,lentils etc. every day. You use herbs and spices and season well, so looks really tasty. Having said that don’t cook so will just watch! 😏
Love your channel! Hopefully you will put out more content! I'm going to have a 3 months no-spend period this fall to save money, of course not including food, but I hope to really cut down on our food costs too. I have done this before and really enjoy being super frugal. One of my goals is to try eat porridge. I hated it my whole life, but haven't really eaten it since I was a child. Time for a change😊. The veg boxes with "eat soon" veg can be a great deal, but here they usually go fast and I haven't pin pointed what time they put them out at my Lidl. I live extremely close to a big shopping center with 3 grocery stores so I have a great chance to get good deals. Thanks again for a great video
Yes I'm planning on doing more videos. I hated porridge as a kid. My dad forced me to eat it once and I promptly puked it all back up. It was only as an adult I realised I didn't like it with salt and I didn't like it made with milk the way he made it. Blooming love my porridge in the Winter! I used to give it to my chickens on really frosty mornings 🐔 🙂
Hi Ali, I have only just found your channel so I'm binge watching. You've done really well there to come up with some delicious nutritious meals, lots of them are my favourites. I do have one observation, it may be personal choice on your part, or the financial aspect, but there is an absence of red meat. I'm not a lover of red meat, and would much rather have fish, but, I had a very scarey episode earlier in the year when my Serum folate levels dipped to just 7, and apparently it should be 500. I had severe palpitations and high Bp,( I thought i was dying) which has never been the case for me. I swim 8 miles per week so didn't think logically it could be my heart. Turns out all to do with low folate. I was prescribed a mega dose of iron and B12 and told to have 1 good steak a week and drink the gravy. I don't want anyone to feel like I did, and I was wondering how you keep on top of that? I'm 65, I know you're younger than me, but I was told it may be age related as well! I hope you don't mind me raising this.
I live in Canada. Our food prices are crazy. I’m a celiac and can’t eat dairy. Food is so expensive for me! For example, a loaf of bread (which does not have many slices) is $7.99! Thankfully I can eat fruit and veg and meat at regular prices! Sometimes GF food is cheaper via Amazon! For example, sometimes you just want a childhood comfort food….one of those for me is KD and hotdogs. GF Kraft Dinner (which is really hard to find) is $6.49/at the store. I found a case of 12 available on Amazon for $45.99. A GF friend gave me a great recipe for cookies but buying the ingredients was expensive! I am retired on a decent pension but want those dollars to last!
I have an electric hob so I bought a camping gas hob in January off Amazon it came with 5 bottles of gas (they say not to use indoors but I can't think why in a kitchen), and I've not used my hob since I bought it and have just used one of the new gas bottles. I got 5 of the bottle gas for £6, they will last me for ages, in fact I just made broccolli and stilton soup today :-) saves on electric :-)
Gas from a small bottle will work out loads more expensive to run than electric. I’ve had to point this out to several people on TH-cam who don’t understand the cost of different sources of energy.
It’s so hard for me as I have to keep carbs really low (type 2 diabetic) so no pasta, rice or potatoes 😢 I used to have porridge every morning but had to stop them now 🤦♀️
Hi, first time seeing your channel. This is amazing! How did you get the meat & beans so cheap? Subscribing! I’m from the US. I got 9 apples today for $1 & thought I was doing great.
That was a Lidl box. I was in the right time and right place. From reading the comments lots of people rarely see them and some Lidls don't even do them. Sainsbury's do a £2 veg box but I've never ever seen one 🙂
I mainly enjoy your videos Ali. I too am a frugal pensioner living on state pension. I am glad you advised these menu tips are not for regular eating, because I would hate to see anyone eating that way often. This didn't look like eating frugally but more like poverty food. There wasn't , in my opinion, anything appetising or healthy in the long run. Ending with this, reading through the comments as far as i could see everyone would be happy with these recipes.
There is definitely a need for these videos with such good ideas.Everything getting so expensive.xx
Aubergines or cougettes are gorgeous drizzled with oil salt pepper and grated parmesan. Elevates these veg to another level
Last week I was gifted a box of 50 small apples from a relative who had a glut from her apple tree. I wondered how I was going to use them up until I watched this video. We love butternut squash soup so out to Lidl for a butternut which was €1.26 (£1.06 Stg), chopped it up, added two limp carrots I had and a sad half of a red pepper, plus an onion and three of the apples. It made 8 servings of soup, 6 servings are now stored in my freezer. Omigosh it was delicious, thanks for the tip of using apples in the soup. Then I made a chicken curry and added three small chopped apples and a sad half tin of leftover Lidl coconut milk. That was also delicious. I'm getting through the apples at last! Apple tarts tomorrow! Yay!
Oh that's brilliant! Well done you! :-)
Hi Ali ! I am a 70 year old pensioner, living on my own ; and you've made me realise how much money I've been spending recently on 'ready meals'. Who needs Nigella when you are here now, with so many tasty recipes⁉
Am vegan and could happily eat roast veg, pasta, beans, rice,lentils etc. every day. You use herbs and spices and season well, so looks really tasty. Having said that don’t cook so will just watch!
I used to try to live on £5 per week when paying off debt some 3 years ago. I succeeded and often wondered if it could be done now. You have proved that it can. Thank you! I really hope this helps folk.
I think it can be done if you can get a really good Lidl box and some items from a community shop. I'm not sure I'll ever get as good a box as this one again 🙂
A few years ago I discovered dried red lentils. They are so easy to use to bulk up for example a bolognese sauce or cottage pie (using less mince)They are also a good source of protein.
Agreed...red lentils are brilliant. I use them in veggie soup or for pasta sauce or an Indian dahl. No need to soak and they cook quickly.
Yes!!! I flipping love red lentils! Red lentils and grated carrot can stretch a wee bit of mince! :-)
I use red lentils to make homemade red lentil burgers/patties. They're high in protein and easy to make.
AMAZING! Good nutritious food. I told my husband once I could live for one week on £5. We treat ourselves sometimes to eating out on a Friday and we would SHARE a fish supper (we've worked all our lives but the price is now shocking). We will fridge up left over cooked veg and use with another meal. I know people who hand over £35 in the chippy. Think what you'd get in the supermarket for that amount and then say they are struggling with money!
Yep I know people who go out drinking/socialising all weekend then moan about having no money to save. I keep saying there's no secret magic solution to what I'm doing. It's taken years of hard work and planning. Thanks for the great comment! :-)
This is a real service for those on a budget. I love your ideas for meals and using all the space in the oven. Your tips are so needed in these times of austerity. Thankyou😊
Excellent video! I love how you emphasize spending less while not feeling deprived. It is all in the mindset!
Definitely believe in a positive mindset 🙂
Some really good ideas here for cheap and nutritious meals- even if you aren't lucky enough to get free or very discounted groceries. It's so easy to spend unthinkingly by not planning well. My inspirationfrom watching you today is to go out into the garden and rescue the windfall apples off my tree before they become unusable - lots of 'apple' ideas in your menu!
You did very well with your menu plans using the items you got from your shopping. Menu planning is the way to go.
I think so too! Sometimes I just plan a lot of mix and match stuff rather than whole meals :-)
Just found your channel, thank you so much for sharing. I am guilty of food waste however I am going to stop procrastinating. I buy the food, I put off preparing and cooking it and then it ends up wasted which causes me to feel incredibly upset with myself. Since watching this video I have gone to my fridge, taken everything out, made notes on how I can make the best out of my ingredients. I have A.P.E.d assessed the situation, prepared the equipment and executed the action. Feeling very inspired. Looking forward to watching more of your vlogs, see you in the next one.
The freezer is my best friend in stopping food waste! :-)
Hi Ali, just wanted to say how much I’m enjoying your frugal videos. Though I am fortunate in not having to budget so tightly, I do want to control my food spending which has really risen over the past few years. I plan my meals, cook double and freeze the extra, don’t buy extravagantly or waste food either! Loved your meal plan ideas and am looking forward to more good tips from you and other commenters.
Sounds like you can give me tips! I always cook double and extra where I can. That definitely helps 🙂
Great ideas, you can live well on those things.
I think that the meals you planned were very nice I will be trying some of them. I love a few very cheap meals for the weeks I want to really cut down on the food budget.
When I want to save some money cheap healthy meals definitely help the budget. I don't mind eating the same thing a few days in a row 🙂
As a new subscriber, i just want to say this menu is very well done. Lots of nutrition in the meals planned. I try and keep to a very frugal budget. If it was just myself to cater for, i would try for a fiver a week too. Very inspiring, i will now buy a squash if i can find one , makes beautiful soup.
Thanks! It's not possible to do this every week but now and again it does help stretch the budget :-)
Thank you for the inspirational suggestions!
You're very welcome 🙂
Yes, there certainly IS a need for the help you can share with us! With today's rising food prices, we all need to be more creative with our meals! Just today, here in the US [Northeast], for some reason, there were absolutely NO eggs to be seen in our local Walmart! Very concerning, indeed. We need to use our ingenuity now more than ever when meal planning, for sure! I love what you've done with this week's staples, by the way. Very inspiring! Please keep bringing us these great videos, and we'll all learn together : )
Thanks! What a great comment!! We absolutely need to be food resilient and use up whatever we have. I used to keep chickens but am not allowed in my new house. Eggs are an essential part of my diet! 🙂
Just want to say that bird flu has meant the destruction of 36 million chickens in 2022 and then 20 million more in 2023. I realize that may not explain what happened at your Walmart but it's certainly a very big contributing factor.
Thanks very much I will use some of these ideas. I feel guilty for spending £3.50 on a take-away coffee when that could feed me for a week!
Don't feel guilty! I don't eat like this all the time. It was an exceptional week in getting all the bargains :-)
Hi Ali, your channel seems to be growing by the hundreds every day, that's wonderful! Really great ideas here - I often make a butternut squash soup, but it's usually just with curry flavouring, so I'll have to try adding apples next time. I think the video with the photos of the prepared veggies and the finished items worked really well - much easier than cooking it all in real time! 😊
Thanks, I can't believe how quickly it's growing! I'm still finding my way making and uploading the clips to make a video. Good to know that photos work well as they upload in seconds compared to an hour for a wee 5 min clip!! 🙂
You have great ideas 👍
ive got an aldi nearby so go in the evening picking up reductions saving pounds
I think meal planning is the key. I need to do that more often. Your menu was fabulous!
Thanks! Planning is the key. I don't always plan meals but I cook and plan the separate ingredients to mix and match to create different meals with same ingredients 🙂
I can't believe the contents of the Lidl box, what a brilliant bargain. I've occasionally seen them in my branch but they don't seem as varied or good quality. ..unless some customers are ' rearranging them' :)
That is what was happening in my local Lidils - just a few folk wrecked it for the rest of us. Now they deliberately put the boxes out at varied times - so it's now pot luck if you get a box.
This was an exceptional box! There were 4 pretty identical ones but yeah I think they get 'rearranged' by some folk. Even the cashier said they were good ones that day! 🙂
@@lynnoorman2144 Such a shame people spoil it for everyone. Fingers crossed you get lucky soon 🙂
I saw two women going through the boxes and putting all the good stuff in theirs! The staff are too busy to be bothered with policing it, I suppose.
@@lightdancer4146 That's awful! There are always idiots that spoil it for everyone
Thank you for sharing your meal plan Ali, you have some excellent suggestions and I like the idea of prepping several dishes of veggies at the same time. You will be eating well for under a fiver!
Angie 👍
I'm a big fan of filling the oven if has to be on!! I reheat stuff in the microwave or even eat it just cold 🙂
Thanks Ali, this is really helpful and a great variety too. That freezer will come in handy. Hugs to lovely Luna 🐾🐾
Glad it was useful. When I was working out the plan I realised I've got enough food to last even longer than a week if I'm creative 🙂
@@aliliveswellonless It’s so good to know that you are sharing your positive approach to life on a low income. I so admire you as it sometimes feels like those around us don’t quite understand. Thank you so much.
Thanks, if you eat potatoes filling then with tin beans and plenty of veggies ,or sardines , tuna and salad can be a nice change. I guess you could add bread and butter pudding or rice pudding in the oven while it’s hot would be good too I like the way you roast ed all the vegs together a bit tempting to hop in and eat them as soon as possible 😂
@@paulaevans2555 I always ask myself 'Where will moaning get you?' I'm at that stage in life where I genuinely don't give 2 hoots what anyone thinks! But it took a while to get here 🙂
@@peterdybing7127 I could have scoffed all the aubergines and tomatoes with a spoon the minute they came out the oven!! Love love love potatoes but couldn't get them into my £5 budget this time! 🙂
Hi Ali i am watching from Austria and are so surprised how cheap Tesco is in Scottland. Every product on your least is at least Double the Price here in Austria. For Health reasons I only can work Part time for the Moment so i am very frugal. Even the Lidl Box is 3 Euros witch is still agood Deal but compared to the UK Scottland I Feel ripped off😢
Great suggestions. Thanks
Am vegan and could happily eat roast veg, pasta, beans, rice,lentils etc. every day. You use herbs and spices and season well, so looks really tasty. Having said that don’t cook so will just watch! 😏
Love your channel! Hopefully you will put out more content! I'm going to have a 3 months no-spend period this fall to save money, of course not including food, but I hope to really cut down on our food costs too. I have done this before and really enjoy being super frugal. One of my goals is to try eat porridge. I hated it my whole life, but haven't really eaten it since I was a child. Time for a change😊. The veg boxes with "eat soon" veg can be a great deal, but here they usually go fast and I haven't pin pointed what time they put them out at my Lidl. I live extremely close to a big shopping center with 3 grocery stores so I have a great chance to get good deals. Thanks again for a great video
Yes I'm planning on doing more videos. I hated porridge as a kid. My dad forced me to eat it once and I promptly puked it all back up. It was only as an adult I realised I didn't like it with salt and I didn't like it made with milk the way he made it. Blooming love my porridge in the Winter! I used to give it to my chickens on really frosty mornings 🐔 🙂
@@aliliveswellonless it does sound nice with warm porridge in the winter!
Thank you, very helpful meal plan.
Glad it was helpful! :-)
Hi Ali, I have only just found your channel so I'm binge watching. You've done really well there to come up with some delicious nutritious meals, lots of them are my favourites. I do have one observation, it may be personal choice on your part, or the financial aspect, but there is an absence of red meat. I'm not a lover of red meat, and would much rather have fish, but, I had a very scarey episode earlier in the year when my Serum folate levels dipped to just 7, and apparently it should be 500. I had severe palpitations and high Bp,( I thought i was dying) which has never been the case for me. I swim 8 miles per week so didn't think logically it could be my heart. Turns out all to do with low folate. I was prescribed a mega dose of iron and B12 and told to have 1 good steak a week and drink the gravy. I don't want anyone to feel like I did, and I was wondering how you keep on top of that? I'm 65, I know you're younger than me, but I was told it may be age related as well! I hope you don't mind me raising this.
Not at all. I do have red meat when I find a good price. I mostly do stews in the Winter months :-)
I love the ideas ..... that’s what I’m bad at - ideas on what to do with stuff
And too right! not enough older ladies on TH-cam!
Thanks! Yeay for the older ladies!! 🙂
Am a very old lady and on you tube most nights, I love this Lady Ali I just came across her last night .
@@fredacameron9227 So am I in my eighties and still learning - well done Ali!
Very impressive. Good ideas. The cooked food looked delicious.
Thank you! That means a lot 🙂
Thank you very enlightening x
Hope there was something useful for you 🙂
That was a fantastic meal plan!
Thanks! Glad it was useful :-)
Well I’ve got a butternut squash and donated apples so guess what we’re having for lunch?! Thankyou Ali.
I live in Canada. Our food prices are crazy. I’m a celiac and can’t eat dairy. Food is so expensive for me! For example, a loaf of bread (which does not have many slices) is $7.99! Thankfully I can eat fruit and veg and meat at regular prices! Sometimes GF food is cheaper via Amazon! For example, sometimes you just want a childhood comfort food….one of those for me is KD and hotdogs. GF Kraft Dinner (which is really hard to find) is $6.49/at the store. I found a case of 12 available on Amazon for $45.99. A GF friend gave me a great recipe for cookies but buying the ingredients was expensive! I am retired on a decent pension but want those dollars to last!
I'm not celiac but do have issues with gluten and dairy. I was gluten and dairy free for many years but find now that limiting them works for me now 🙂
Ps: good to see REAL people living REAL life
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I have an electric hob so I bought a camping gas hob in January off Amazon it came with 5 bottles of gas (they say not to use indoors but I can't think why in a kitchen), and I've not used my hob since I bought it and have just used one of the new gas bottles. I got 5 of the bottle gas for £6, they will last me for ages, in fact I just made broccolli and stilton soup today :-) saves on electric :-)
Gas from a small bottle will work out loads more expensive to run than electric. I’ve had to point this out to several people on TH-cam who don’t understand the cost of different sources of energy.
It’s so hard for me as I have to keep carbs really low (type 2 diabetic) so no pasta, rice or potatoes 😢 I used to have porridge every morning but had to stop them now 🤦♀️
Hi from nz... Wonderful video... So much cheaper than here 😢
Thanks! 🙂
Hi, first time seeing your channel. This is amazing! How did you get the meat & beans so cheap? Subscribing! I’m from the US. I got 9 apples today for $1 & thought I was doing great.
I explain how I use my reward credit card and supermarket loyalty card to get vouchers in my latest video. 9 apples for $1 is a great bargain 🙂
Very good. Where did you get the veg box from for that price?😮
That was a Lidl box. I was in the right time and right place. From reading the comments lots of people rarely see them and some Lidls don't even do them. Sainsbury's do a £2 veg box but I've never ever seen one 🙂
@@aliliveswellonless Oh do you order them or see them in the shop? Will have to keep a look out xxx
@@bridiesilver They're in the shop usually beyond the tills so you have go looking for them. Good luck finding one! 🙂
@@aliliveswellonless ok thankyou :)
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I mainly enjoy your videos Ali. I too am a frugal pensioner living on state pension. I am glad you advised these menu tips are not for regular eating, because I would hate to see anyone eating that way often. This didn't look like eating frugally but more like poverty food. There wasn't , in my opinion, anything appetising or healthy in the long run. Ending with this, reading through the comments as far as i could see everyone would be happy with these recipes.
It was definitely intended as inspiration for a tough week if you have no funds. Hopefully other videos will have more ideas for you :-)
Eventually you will need to purchase the items you have used