Soy sauce tip of the day: Look for the one with the most protein in it. Often what's called soy sauce ist just 50% soy sauce and 50% salted water. Trust me, you'll be blown away by how little good soy sauce you need for fried rice and stuff like that. Way less salty, way more umami.
I like to think I have experience in cooking on a budget; but my comfort zone is very domestic North Indian food, and now that I'll be away from India for two years for grad school, I'm a little intimidated by having to figure how to cook without breaking the bank in a situation where ingredients that I'm used to are either unavailable or expensive. Your channel's helped me a lot with that one anxiety (only about twenty million others to go!), so thanks a bunch for doing what you do. I already have grocery lists planned around your recipe videos that I have flagged and saved.
Chickpea curry with homemade pita/flatbread (flour, salt, yeast, about 60% hydration) and some greek yogurt to add on top. Insanely good and cheap, I like to skip rice entirely because I'm addicted to scooping curry up with bread. Curry can be as simple as come canned tomatoes, ginger, carlic and onion. Ofc you also need spices. Hummus and this curry are my staples because I just like chickpeas.
This is my favourite video of yours. The spontaneity doesn't feel forced or overdone with jokes, and it's just so relatable, love it. Tremendously useful content for people on a budget.
Brother this is honestly one of the most helpful content I've stumbled upon to date for cheap and well tasting cooking. What's the cooktop you use in all this?
Frugal chef after my own heart! By the way rice and peas is called rizsli bizsli here in Hungary. Love it! Cooking for yourself with simple ingredients is not only gratifying, but cost effective and most times super tasty. Thanks for posting and good luck!
Inlfation hit really hard on these kind of videos. All this stuff would now come to 3-4€ here where i live xx. All of these ingrediatns got so much expensive, it's crazy. But even so, this was really helpfull.
tip from a costa rican: put the dough on top of a clean cloth rag. make sure to place it to the side of the cloth so you can put the other side on top of it (like a quesadilla) and start slapping it with your palm while moving the whole thing in a circle with the other hand. Its called tortillas palmeadas and itll be much raounder
Thanks for your work. My wife and I have been implementing trying new dishes from around the world due to your channel. It has made my life more wholesome with variety and it has been as we have been getting our kids involved in the process
6:00 "deposit into a bowl" *tosses the entire tuna can into the bowl* extra minerals, man Edit: also I just started college this year & your videos have been really helpful! You've got lots of affordable, doable recipes and a great sense of humor. Thank you so much :)
Right now a dozen eggs at my store costs $3 (US) ... and that's factory farm eggs, not organic or anything. That would make 2 eggs $0.50 alone. A 12-16 oz can of veggies of any kind would be $0.75 at least. A 5lb bag of plain white flour (store brand) is $2.12. A 2lb bag of brown rice is $1.37. A 3lb package of oats is about $4. Et cetera. Short of going to a food pantry or dumpster diving, I'm not eating all of the recipes in this video for $1 a day.
I discovered you on instagram and I just love your videos. The recipes all look so great and super super easy to make! For students it's great too because the budget is not too high! I enjoy a lot watching your videos and I must say I really appreciate that you speak quite slowly (which is super cool for a Frenchy like me haha) ! Keep doing that :D
The thing that I took away from this is that I need to buy chickpeas, peas and beans oh and something to substitute blueberries because they are so expensive here
The tortilla dough is basically the same recipe as a scallion pancake dough, roll your dough balls into snakes, cover them in oil and scallions roll the snakes into a disk, flatten your disks and you have yourself scallion pancakes the way my roommate used to make them. I sometimes make them with herbs instead of scallions and dip them into soup.
Cos/romaine lettuce grows easily and prolifically. You only take outer leaves and it keeps going! Cherry tomatoes- ditto! These can be blanched/frozen for later use.
this is really inspirational for people who aren't that experienced with cooking. lovely stuff. wouldn't recommend buying cheap tuna tho, might be of questionable quality. all your cooking is really beautiful tho, idk how you manage to make it look so good. great job.
Google: What is the secret to great fried rice? Use cold, leftover cooked rice. Left in the fridge overnight, the rice grains will firm up, making it easier to separate and decreasing the chances of your fried rice turning out mushy. If you can't wait, air freshly cooked rice to remove moisture and refrigerate the rice for a few hours before cooking'
An Aldi opened up near my house and I was blown away that I can get a whole week of groceries for £14. That includes chicken, veggies and some fruit. Not down to the £1 a day, but I'll see if I can pull it off with some bulk ingredients that last more than 1 week.
My weekly shop is £20, its usually chicken thigh 2kg, 15 pack of eggs, greek yogurt, wholewheat bread, mixed frozen veggies, 1kg of oats, some cheese, tortillas and some fruit like tangerines. Per day thats around 1800 calories, i can easily bump that up with some oil.
@@bradturner7678 2kg of chicken thigh and all this extra stuff for 20£, wow. Here where i live the cheapest chicken i get is 7-9€ for 600g. And thats the factory farm stuff xx. Inflation hits hard here.
People who live in Asian countries or other countries were blueberries are crazy expensive, SUBSTITUTION is your friend. Use peanuts/walnuts/bananas/apples whatever is cheap. It makes it taste amazing. Also milk > water all day. Also low fat milk is an abomination
Today I learnt that Tortillas are what we call ‘Roti’ in India. Because many people in other countries just buy them pre-made, I used to think it was something different. We've always made them by hand.
Tortillas are made from corn or wheat. Wheat tortillas come from Northern Mexico and are just as "traditional" as corn. I prefer corn and corn tend to be made in a healthier way, but neither is bad or non traditional. Also, roti tends to be made from Whole grain flour and is usually a bit denser. Tortillas are thinner, usually from white flour and tend to have some fat added.
Totia or chapapthi as we call it here in India, to get circle shape roll it, spin it around a bit, roll it spin it again. Repeat that and practice and you ll easily get a circular one. (Or there abouts). For youtube you can also use a steel circular tub or whatever to punch a circular tortia from your sorry excuse for a circular tortia for better presentation 😃
Hey! I have a suggestion for something you could make! It's called Hoover Stew, and the traditional recipe is just: 1 box of pasta (~2) 1 lb of hot dogs (~$4) 1 can of corn (~$1) 1 can of diced tomatoes (~$1) This makes like 6-8 servings, which comes to like $1-$1.33/serving, and it's extremely filling and easy. The kind I make is a little more expensive because I'm gluten free and don't really like hot dogs or putting corn in pasta, plus I add onion, but it's still a really cheap struggle meal.
Just found this video, and loved it! Just moved out on my own to pursue UNI, so it works out well for me! Maybe you could do an update video, with high-protein in focus? :D
The lunch and dinner are actually pretty reasonable for protein. Add a scoop of whey protein to the oats, which is super cheap, and you would have 30+ grams per meal.
Thanks for the great ideas, I love your recipes but I feel like my appetite is too big and I would eat way bigger portions throughout the day... I will still try them out and see how expensive would it be for me.
Frankly, I'd be happy to get down to 5$ a day, but that's about 1/3 of what I spend now... Plus three meals is just not enough, gotta count the snacks inbetween.
@@vlc-cosplayer You say that, but two eggs are already 0.4EUR minimum. Cheap legumes are around 0.3EUR per kg. Tofu would be around 10EUR per kg, soy is a bit cheaper, but not much. If I really try to cut costs for a meal without losing all nutrition I can maybe get the meal down to 2-3 EUR, which still leaves me at around 8-10 EUR for the day. I can’t skip meals in between as a diabetic so those have to be accounted for, but don’t necessarily have to be more expensive than 1.5EUR. Perhaps the prices could be brought down a bit by going to a mass grocer or huge supermarket, but at that point I’m spending more than an hour extra just shopping and planning and I’m better of just working for that hour. Don’t get me wrong though, I’m not complaining (too much). Wages here are relatively high to offset the living costs. Just think it’s worth shedding a light on how titles like the video are in fact unachievable for many watching simply due to food costs.
BRO ONE recipe that doesnt use greek yogurt please jesus christ ive seen 80 of your recipies and every single god damn one uses greek yogurt holy shit.
yeah thats true that healthy food dont have to be expansive unlees you want bulk, cuz that three dishes had maybe around 1800-2000 kcal which is not too much. i pay only for breakfast around 2 dollars so that is 60 dollars monthly and im living in poland so this is one tenth of my monthly earnings.
When you made the tortilla wraps and you covered the dough you said you did this to make them rise but they didnt? That is not what is meant to hapoen as you are covering them to rest not rise as resting the dough helps the gluten relax after kneading which makes it easier to roll and softer when made👍🏼
Sir...sir... you are aware that a cup in an American recipe is a standardized unit, not just any cup or scoop... right? We have specific measuring cups for cooking
I love how he doesn't seem to actually know what he's doing himself, just goes with the flow + it turns out great
Do efd r
That’s cooking for ya.
@@bobbywong3544 facts
he is V I B I N G
Hey I’m a seat of the pants cook too. Never yet had to give my improvised food to the doggo.
Soy sauce tip of the day:
Look for the one with the most protein in it. Often what's called soy sauce ist just 50% soy sauce and 50% salted water.
Trust me, you'll be blown away by how little good soy sauce you need for fried rice and stuff like that. Way less salty, way more umami.
thank you for this info, i'll be on the lookout for em
got some dark soy sauce 3~5 drops and a whole pan worth of food is seasoned well with it
I like to think I have experience in cooking on a budget; but my comfort zone is very domestic North Indian food, and now that I'll be away from India for two years for grad school, I'm a little intimidated by having to figure how to cook without breaking the bank in a situation where ingredients that I'm used to are either unavailable or expensive. Your channel's helped me a lot with that one anxiety (only about twenty million others to go!), so thanks a bunch for doing what you do. I already have grocery lists planned around your recipe videos that I have flagged and saved.
You should make a channel yourself with North Indidan comfort food on a budget! I'll subscribe :)
You got this
What's a couple dishes you'd recommend from North India that I could try to make?
@@abhilasha6503 Excellent, thank you! I'll give that a go. Potato sabji is speaking to me as an irishman, I'll go with that
I am in the exact same situation
This is exactly what I've been looking for. Keep making videos like this!
Thanks so much! I will
Add the yogurt last, so you don't kill the probiotic bacteria. 👍❤
Once the oatmeal is cooked? Regardless, good to know!
nice tip
Chickpea curry with homemade pita/flatbread (flour, salt, yeast, about 60% hydration) and some greek yogurt to add on top. Insanely good and cheap, I like to skip rice entirely because I'm addicted to scooping curry up with bread. Curry can be as simple as come canned tomatoes, ginger, carlic and onion. Ofc you also need spices.
Hummus and this curry are my staples because I just like chickpeas.
you had me at "that looks like something out of a restaurant, not a good restaurant but a restaurant nonetheless" 🤣
motherless
This is my favourite video of yours. The spontaneity doesn't feel forced or overdone with jokes, and it's just so relatable, love it. Tremendously useful content for people on a budget.
Brother this is honestly one of the most helpful content I've stumbled upon to date for cheap and well tasting cooking. What's the cooktop you use in all this?
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Looks like the IKEA cooktop, it's not expensive at all
@@letsKWOOWK bro forgot to answer the question
Frugal chef after my own heart! By the way rice and peas is called rizsli bizsli here in Hungary. Love it! Cooking for yourself with simple ingredients is not only gratifying, but cost effective and most times super tasty. Thanks for posting and good luck!
Amazing! In northern Italy (Veneto) it's called risi e bisi. I wonder if there's any linguistic influence
@@mauro6847 I'm sure there is!
in austria it's called risi bisi so also really similar!
Taste Chart
Breakfast: not ass
Lunch: not cat food
Dinner: not a good restaurant
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"top it off with honey so it doesn't taste like ass" I'd buy your cookbook if you wrote one
It happened!)
Inlfation hit really hard on these kind of videos. All this stuff would now come to 3-4€ here where i live xx. All of these ingrediatns got so much expensive, it's crazy. But even so, this was really helpfull.
Recipe from Lunch for the Tortillas should be:
500 gr Flour
320 ml Water
60 ml Oil
Btw love your videos❤
That seems a bit much for two tortilla's.
Looks more like a recipe for ten tortilla's
I'd love more £1 - ish style videos like this! I have all of those ingredients all ready, for once!
You the man! Glad I found this channel.. keep making simple, quick recipes because i hate standing in the kitchen for hours.
2023 here. Eggs are now almost $1 each. $6.99 per dozen is the cheapest I see, I’ve actually seen $11.99/dozen (for brown eggs).
tip from a costa rican: put the dough on top of a clean cloth rag. make sure to place it to the side of the cloth so you can put the other side on top of it (like a quesadilla) and start slapping it with your palm while moving the whole thing in a circle with the other hand. Its called tortillas palmeadas and itll be much raounder
Thanks for your work. My wife and I have been implementing trying new dishes from around the world due to your channel. It has made my life more wholesome with variety and it has been as we have been getting our kids involved in the process
6:00 "deposit into a bowl" *tosses the entire tuna can into the bowl* extra minerals, man
Edit: also I just started college this year & your videos have been really helpful! You've got lots of affordable, doable recipes and a great sense of humor. Thank you so much :)
The two eggs would cost about a dollar here, so It'd be a bit more expensive for me, but amazing video, thank you
wow, that's some high cost of living
Right now a dozen eggs at my store costs $3 (US) ... and that's factory farm eggs, not organic or anything. That would make 2 eggs $0.50 alone. A 12-16 oz can of veggies of any kind would be $0.75 at least. A 5lb bag of plain white flour (store brand) is $2.12. A 2lb bag of brown rice is $1.37. A 3lb package of oats is about $4. Et cetera. Short of going to a food pantry or dumpster diving, I'm not eating all of the recipes in this video for $1 a day.
Damn, $6 for a dozen eggs? That's crazy, it's less than $2 where I'm at
I discovered you on instagram and I just love your videos. The recipes all look so great and super super easy to make! For students it's great too because the budget is not too high! I enjoy a lot watching your videos and I must say I really appreciate that you speak quite slowly (which is super cool for a Frenchy like me haha) ! Keep doing that :D
Shakshuka is an amazing option for a cooking on a budget. It really got me through my student days'
Yum! I personally go heavy on the oregano and top it off with cheese 😋
Super healthy and can be made rather low calorie too.
Wow...watching you gave me hope for my growing son. Now, I'll worry less; you've proved he'll be fine. Thank you, keep up good work.
My dude, these videos are amazing!
Thanks a ton!
"honey so it doesn't taste like ass" - Kwoowk
I love this guy
The thing that I took away from this is that I need to buy chickpeas, peas and beans oh and something to substitute blueberries because they are so expensive here
Maybe forage berries go for local walks see what is about is blackberries, raspberry depending on time of year. You could also had jam
I love watching someone that shares my passion for frozen blueberries and peas
Vietnamese street food breakfast: 2 sunny side eggs, toasted French bread, sriracha and soy sauce (add some f green onions if you’re feeling fancy). 😊
I'd love to do this but sadly in Canada the cheapest thing woild be around $5-6
The tortilla dough is basically the same recipe as a scallion pancake dough, roll your dough balls into snakes, cover them in oil and scallions roll the snakes into a disk, flatten your disks and you have yourself scallion pancakes the way my roommate used to make them. I sometimes make them with herbs instead of scallions and dip them into soup.
Cos/romaine lettuce grows easily and prolifically. You only take outer leaves and it keeps going! Cherry tomatoes- ditto! These can be blanched/frozen for later use.
In the Netherlands you could also buy a piece of frozen salmon (around €3 for 250grams) en cook it yourself..
Boil
frozen tho.... its so much better fresh and healthier
This video is so so good! I just found you and I’m gonna binge all your videos lol
The last dish could easily been a simple egg fried rice for basically the same cost, maybe cheaper. Overall, great content
Hello 🤗
Thank you so much
This really helps me as a student!
The Dutch-ness is just oozing out of this video :D
I love how much effort went in this video just to make it rly cheap!
kwoowk u should try getting a rice cooker for cooking rice, it cooks it perfectly everytims
Yes! I cook quinoa in my rice cooker.
Love those tortillas! I want to make some now. BTW tuna fishing kills dolphins, even the tuna brands that say it is "dolphin safe", so, yeah.
*Eats tuna anyways*
Still eating tuna kid
"NOT CAT FOOD"
I'm DYING😭😭😭😭
Eyy, worker at Aldi here. I’ve always shopped at Albert Heijn, so seeing the difference in price really surprised me!
Echt top dat je uit NL komt, ik heb precies dezelfde spullen staan van de Aldi hahaha
"probably won't die" - KWOOWK
The ass comment was hilarious😂 I did not see that coming
your channel is so underratted!
Thanks lady gaga
this is really inspirational for people who aren't that experienced with cooking. lovely stuff. wouldn't recommend buying cheap tuna tho, might be of questionable quality. all your cooking is really beautiful tho, idk how you manage to make it look so good. great job.
Actually, cheap tuna is often better "quality" from a nutritional perspective. Smaller fish, less mercury.
Google: What is the secret to great fried rice?
Use cold, leftover cooked rice. Left in the fridge overnight, the rice grains will firm up, making it easier to separate and decreasing the chances of your fried rice turning out mushy. If you can't wait, air freshly cooked rice to remove moisture and refrigerate the rice for a few hours before cooking'
An Aldi opened up near my house and I was blown away that I can get a whole week of groceries for £14. That includes chicken, veggies and some fruit.
Not down to the £1 a day, but I'll see if I can pull it off with some bulk ingredients that last more than 1 week.
My weekly shop is £20, its usually chicken thigh 2kg, 15 pack of eggs, greek yogurt, wholewheat bread, mixed frozen veggies, 1kg of oats, some cheese, tortillas and some fruit like tangerines. Per day thats around 1800 calories, i can easily bump that up with some oil.
@@bradturner7678 2kg of chicken thigh and all this extra stuff for 20£, wow. Here where i live the cheapest chicken i get is 7-9€ for 600g. And thats the factory farm stuff xx. Inflation hits hard here.
People who live in Asian countries or other countries were blueberries are crazy expensive, SUBSTITUTION is your friend. Use peanuts/walnuts/bananas/apples whatever is cheap. It makes it taste amazing.
Also milk > water all day.
Also low fat milk is an abomination
Today I learnt that Tortillas are what we call ‘Roti’ in India. Because many people in other countries just buy them pre-made, I used to think it was something different. We've always made them by hand.
i wouldn't call that a tortilla. maybe a flour tortilla, but not what i think when i heard the word "tortilla"
@@mattlox3981 ya tortillas are made from maize, he just made flatbread
Tortillas are made from corn or wheat. Wheat tortillas come from Northern Mexico and are just as "traditional" as corn. I prefer corn and corn tend to be made in a healthier way, but neither is bad or non traditional.
Also, roti tends to be made from Whole grain flour and is usually a bit denser. Tortillas are thinner, usually from white flour and tend to have some fat added.
Can't get enough of this content... 👉🏻👈🏻
9:08 egg on rice
3:04 berry porridge
I have seen struggle meals that fail to be as good as these masterpieces!
Totia or chapapthi as we call it here in India, to get circle shape roll it, spin it around a bit, roll it spin it again. Repeat that and practice and you ll easily get a circular one. (Or there abouts). For youtube you can also use a steel circular tub or whatever to punch a circular tortia from your sorry excuse for a circular tortia for better presentation 😃
hi i dont cook oatmeal i just let it sit in water and it becomes soft and produce its own milk
pd ily
bro you are hilarious and helpful. W channel
Hey! I have a suggestion for something you could make! It's called Hoover Stew, and the traditional recipe is just:
1 box of pasta (~2)
1 lb of hot dogs (~$4)
1 can of corn (~$1)
1 can of diced tomatoes (~$1)
This makes like 6-8 servings, which comes to like $1-$1.33/serving, and it's extremely filling and easy.
The kind I make is a little more expensive because I'm gluten free and don't really like hot dogs or putting corn in pasta, plus I add onion, but it's still a really cheap struggle meal.
hysterical and truthful and imformative
I am inspired to cook up something today…. This is what i need
Just found this video, and loved it! Just moved out on my own to pursue UNI, so it works out well for me! Maybe you could do an update video, with high-protein in focus? :D
The lunch and dinner are actually pretty reasonable for protein. Add a scoop of whey protein to the oats, which is super cheap, and you would have 30+ grams per meal.
lives in netherlands and roasts netherlands breakfast
Awesome for these times! Please do another
The best one yet!
This is a good video. I'm not just ok with how dinner was made but understandable 🙂
All these meals look fabulous ❤
thanks for the recipes, i find it really helpful as a student
I love your videos, Can you make one with lentils instead of peas? it's one of my cheap healthy meals
Bro I loved this video so funny much better than the new ones 😂😂
Heej Kevin...we need more cheap recepices....i hope you love Holland...and your Dutch girl 😍😍😍😍
rinses rice because that always helps (i think). Truer words have never been spoken
Such high quality videos, I thought they'd be like 6
300-600k views at least. Keep up the good work chief.
PLEASE START ADDING TIME STAMPS WITH INGREDIENT LIST IN DESCRIPTION WITH INSTRUCTIONS FOR THOSE ON THE GO
Bro you are a Saint
Suuuuper ideea💪🥰
Thanks for the great ideas, I love your recipes but I feel like my appetite is too big and I would eat way bigger portions throughout the day... I will still try them out and see how expensive would it be for me.
Hello Kristina
I highly recommend giving corn tortillas a shot. They are a lot easier to make
Frankly, I'd be happy to get down to 5$ a day, but that's about 1/3 of what I spend now... Plus three meals is just not enough, gotta count the snacks inbetween.
@@vlc-cosplayer You say that, but two eggs are already 0.4EUR minimum. Cheap legumes are around 0.3EUR per kg. Tofu would be around 10EUR per kg, soy is a bit cheaper, but not much. If I really try to cut costs for a meal without losing all nutrition I can maybe get the meal down to 2-3 EUR, which still leaves me at around 8-10 EUR for the day. I can’t skip meals in between as a diabetic so those have to be accounted for, but don’t necessarily have to be more expensive than 1.5EUR.
Perhaps the prices could be brought down a bit by going to a mass grocer or huge supermarket, but at that point I’m spending more than an hour extra just shopping and planning and I’m better of just working for that hour.
Don’t get me wrong though, I’m not complaining (too much). Wages here are relatively high to offset the living costs. Just think it’s worth shedding a light on how titles like the video are in fact unachievable for many watching simply due to food costs.
I immediately felt better that I spend $10 a day on food
This video belongs in interdimensional cable
Bro for totias try the recipe of Indian bread called Roti
i love this guy
I love your vids!
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Would never work in my country cus food in general is hella expensive
I am broke. I love this ❤
Oke wow hele handige video... Ik probeer op mn budget te letten en heb toevallig alles al in huis... HELD
Damn - you weren't lying about a LOT of cinnamon in that oatmeal!
Love me some runny yolks-ie egg gravy!
Now do the neutron style
BRO ONE recipe that doesnt use greek yogurt please jesus christ ive seen 80 of your recipies and every single god damn one uses greek yogurt holy shit.
"I asume you have water" 26% of the world population be like D:
Nice video by the way. Saves me some money to pay for my studies :D
yeah thats true that healthy food dont have to be expansive unlees you want bulk, cuz that three dishes had maybe around 1800-2000 kcal which is not too much. i pay only for breakfast around 2 dollars so that is 60 dollars monthly and im living in poland so this is one tenth of my monthly earnings.
Ngl, as an American, I did not know that other people don't use cups.
Coming from an American, I'm sorry you had to use our measuring system
Microwaved oatmeal porridge can taste just as well.
i really wanna live with this guy and eat everything he makes T-T
When you made the tortilla wraps and you covered the dough you said you did this to make them rise but they didnt? That is not what is meant to hapoen as you are covering them to rest not rise as resting the dough helps the gluten relax after kneading which makes it easier to roll and softer when made👍🏼
You are hilarious 😂
"cheapest frozen blueberries" sounds like oxymoron
Sir...sir... you are aware that a cup in an American recipe is a standardized unit, not just any cup or scoop... right? We have specific measuring cups for cooking