$45 Grocery Budget Makes 80 Individual Meals || Budget Meals For Families
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Also, you have a very nice family that includes cooperative children. I watch a lot of TH-cam and these people overall have terrible children. Their children never work for anything, they beg for everything, and complain about everything that is done for them. I’m now 77 and my kids (1 daughter, 1 son) are adults now but when they were young they were very good kids, I was lucky I also had a wonderful husband. Your family appears to be very nice, count your blessings.
Your sons are wonderful. They’re always appreciative and I love they compliment your cooking. It’s a small gesture that means so much.
I just want to say you amaze me and I've been blessed tremendously by watching your channel. We've hit a season in our lives where we are struggling badly financially. Many times I sit and try to figure out what to fix with what we have and I get so overwhelmed and end up crying. I feed up to nine people on a nightly basis. You encourage me so much with your videos. Thank you for the videos you make. You help so many people. Bless you!
I’m going through a lean season also. I swallowed my pride and visited a local church food pantry. It helped me tremendously! I’ve had to go a couple times in the last year. I urge you to reach out for help. We all need it sometimes ❤❤
Brooke, I Googled "Italian Potatoes and Tomato," and many recipes came up. You used past experience to make food today. Great job! I did that the other day with Tomato Bread Pudding. I had it once back in the late 1970's. I made the dish according to my memories. It came out just like I wanted. I like your style of thinking on your feet. Tonight, I'm having a baked potato with plain Greek yogurt, freshly grated parmesan cheese, roasted zucchini and carrots, and green beans cooked with a bit of onion and nutritional yeast and some Mexican cornbread. No meat 'cause I need to go to the grocery store. I don't feel like driving 10 miles to the store, so I eating from my fridge and pantry. Just making do with what I have. It's just me now; my husband is deceased (17 years), and the children are grown and on their own. I eat whatever I want these days. No worry about who likes what. The dessert will be the homemade blackberry cobbler with some cream I made the other night! I love "Great Depression Cooking With Clara," God Rest Her Soul. Simple is excellent. Great video, Brooke.
I love this. You are so real. Pajamas before dinner, skipping breakfast, etc. You understand what it means to be a mom.
No scrambled eggs in ur fried rice?
Its so funny that we say sweating like a pig... And pigs can not sweat. You do a great job Brooke 👏
You could have used the oatmeal in your meatballs as a filler. You could also take your apples and make an apple crisp with the oatmeal. And the peaches I would have made a peach cobbler with the left over pancake mix. Put butter in a baking pan and melt, add the can of peaches with syrup to pan then top with pancake batter! I’m gluten free so I use oats for everything!! Like your video! I don’t know how you feed 4 boys with such a small amount of food!! When my boys lived at home I had to double everything. I felt like I cooked for an army!! Kyle is sooo cute! He cracks me up!! You did a great job stretching that out!!
Yes. He's adorable!
Omgosh, over an hour of Southern Frugal Momma, I’m so excited! 🤩
Me too, she's Awesome!!!👏👍🙏💕
Same!!
I was afraid to post it in one part. I tried so hard to make it less time. I was like I’m gonna bore everybody lol
This is exciting to have more then an hour video from you!!!!!
@SouthernFrugalMomma I am so glad you posted. Love all your cute hairstyles as well. Absolutely beautiful in your glasses with it curly.
I have never seen ravioli cooked that way before. You taught this old woman something new today! I am SOOO going to have to try this! LOL
Kind of like toasted ravioli which is popular in the St. Louis area.
I love your family's reaction to your meals. Every time Kyle collapses to the floor I have to laugh because he is so adorable! What a wonderful family you have! May God bless you all.
Showing others the foods you make on a budget is educational and eye opening. Your boys are gorgeous. May God keep blessing you and your family.
I need to say thank you so much Brooke for all you are doing to encourage people to go to the food pantry and helping with food boxes for the people in need. I'm sad to say that the hard times you are talking about hit me this November. So glad I was watching you so it does help. I was so blessed by the church up the street from me hi got a food box and three paper bags of food and some other things. I also was blessed by my neighbor with a big paper bag of food Bless you and your family so much. ❤
I’m so glad you found a helping hand! If we all stick together, no one will go without ❤
I use food and clothing banks in my city. It sure takes the sting out of food and clothing shopping. I find staple items like jeans, blouses and a sweater or two. Then, I donate items I'm tired of wearing, but they still have a lot of life left in them.
I just found your videos, and I'm getting inspiration for ways to change things up and stretch the food, too! Thank you!
After you make your rice, then put it on a baking sheet and toast it in the oven until it’s golden brown. It is a game changer for fried rice. It helps the texture a whole bunch.
Ohhhh I’m gonna try this!!!
How long and what temp
I honestly never paid attention. Probably 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes. Just watch it and take it out when the rice is slightly golden brown. It just helps dry out the rice and makes it firmer.
Love your smile face turner
Sounds good. I will try that the next time I make fried rice
Your blessed your kids eat vegetables and they love and appreciate everything u make. Idk how you fed 3 boys and a husband on such a budget, great job!!
"I remembered my bag, give me a cookie"
Yes! I feel that! 😂
We don’t get bags unless we buy them. I have bought too many. Now it’s only the expensive ones or paper. I often just load stuff loose in the truck and have to chase it when I get home to my bags and totes. Extra careful not to leave anything perishable under a seat!
@nancyanne1402 I am always forgetting our bags. So now everytime I remember I'm going to repeat this to myself "I remembered! Give me a cookie" Love it!
I always forget my bag... so I just shop for a nice box too while going down the Aldi's aisles. LOL
You did a remarkable job of deciding what to cook out of your choices! Your little guy is so funny!
I like her little "yeah" when she decides on a grocery item. Makes me smile!
Another good affordable fried rice option, is spam fried rice. Cube the spam up and then fry it with the veggies then add the rice and eggs. So yummy.
I’ve done that a few times and I agree with you! It’s so good!
Add some pineapple and uou have Hawaiian fried rice!
Spam is the best when cubed and fried and then added to anything. Remember not to add salt to the anything becuz the spam is really salty. U can also soak and rinse the spam before frying. Just sayin' for those who need to mind their salt. Love this channel.
Oh yes, you get a few meals out of a can of spam. Rice, fried potatoes, soup beans. Just add a bit of spam and you have a yummy meal.
I love this and we also add frozen peas to ours.
Best video I’ve seen! $45 is realistic for a lot of families. My cousin only gets $23 in food stamps a month and is drawing a little less than $900 month in disability; he had a stroke and had to quit working after 40 years. And yes, use churches or food banks, whatever it takes. Fantastic job, bestie 👏🏻
Only $23/month?! That's terrible. It's amazing what humans can do when we have no other options!❤ I have finally allowed myself to accept food pantries❤
Just want to put this out there. I am a retired SW and I had clients in the same boat. They would get meals on wheels as well since they are like TV dinners they could freeze them. Disabled and under 65 should qualify simple application for free meals. Also it is delivered once a week.
I don't see how they can expect anyone to eat on 23 a month. I mean obviously one person can eat very very frugal but that's just insane.
@Vgp-rp4iu I totally agree. Ask our Government how?
@@Vgp-rp4iu when we were on very low FS. Our worker told me that FS were only supposed to be a supplement not an entire food budget
This was an incredible the way you stretched $45 for 6 days. So creative brooke!! This was amazing!!❤
One or two eggs for your fried rice is a pantry item in my opinion, same as flour for gravy. It's only when you make a whole quiche or loaf of bread that they become grocery items. :D
My (incredibly) picky child loves the tortilla pizzas, and she often wants me to fold it in half and cook it in the pan for her so she has a “pizza quesadilla”!
Pizzadilla is a favorite here 🎉
Excellent idea!!! Smart girl, your daughter.
Peel and cut apples mix up pancake batter put apples in batter then fry when it's done put cinnamon sugar on it
My situation,im not mad about it! Im 67 i spend my days drinking coffee, binge watching your videos while i diamond paint (best hobby EVER) ❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤😂😂😂😂 life is good here in the south! Thank you
Thank you for taking the time to film these videos. We so appreciate you and your heart for helping others.
Save your scrap potato skins and cook in that cast iron skillet. Fry with oil and add fried sausage and shredded cheese. Yum!!😍
Hey there girl.
Love the idea of 45 for 6 days of meals. However in my country..it would be next to impossible to do this .
Sometimes i just want to cry when prices keep getting higher . I think how are ppl to live /eat when many things are simply unobtainable for those who don't have much money .
I love your videos Brooke cuz you give me/ us realistic goals
. Cheap / Frugal is normal these days ..pardon me I shouls say ', these years
Your channel kicks ass girl
I watch you a lot !!
Keep cooking Girl !
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If you don’t mind, what country are you from? I’ve been thinking about doing a video based on other countries prices. I have a lot of Canadians who watch, and I have a friend who moved to Canada! I was going to ask her to show me prices.
Im from Canada ..born & raised lol
Today at grocery store..
1 package with 5 green onions in..1.69 each bunch ! Im like whoa !
Few wks ago ..a small package of English cucumbers , ya ready..8.99
Im like wth ?
A great idea Brooke !
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Yes Queensland /Aussie prices seem to be 4 times higher then our prices Southern Mama
Just dont forget the exchange rate when comparing prices.
@@wendyrosedavis1037 I figured that you were from Canada like me. I never see prices like she got. Giant Tiger price matches everything other than Costco and other wholesale places. I slso price match at Superstore and No Frills I need to start using more lentils, quinoa and beans. I am making homemade bread - 2 loaves 50% whole wheat - way cheaper, slice them and put them in freezer to use as needed. Homemade pancakes are cheap to make and I perfected the recipe that my son has used in a restaurant.
Dearest, I’m loving this video ❤. Groceries, in the south must be way less expensive than here, Northern Illinois. I think it’s fabulous how you show everyone it’s possible to live on a shoestring budget ❤. I am a single, senior women and I watch all your videos for ideas. Living on a seniors low income, it’s no different than than having a family like yours, to have meal’s. I appreciate you so much BTW, you have a great singing voice. You should use it more often on your show’s, when you are not speaking. 💕🙏🙏
I am also a single senior woman. I just wrote down so many notes on this video. I also have potatoes to use. I'm definitely going to try the Italian fried potatoes and everything bagel garlic bread!!
I'm a single senior too. I love the ideas and I really love being part of the family for a little while.
I make oven roasted potatoes with carrots and use tomatoes on top with Italian seasonings olive oil. Can serve on side with any meat or add cheese over roasted veggies
Using your hands is where the love comes from when cooking ❤
I watched a channel the other day which did $5 meals for 4 people. Her recipe looked good - a curry with rice. However, she called for what are expensive ingredients for many people - Coconut Milk, Jalepeno Pepper, Bay Leaves and some other seasonings that seem costly. Thank you for keeping your recipes realistic for those of us who cook on a budget.
Some days you can luck out and find coconut milk at the dollar tree!
If you have a Sprouts grocery store, they will put their Coconut Milk & Coconut Cream on sale for 2 for $2. I stock up on them.
@@spicycopper2436 I don't have a Sprouts as I live in the Northeast
Curry with rice would be more like a $10 meal or less depending on where you’re located. If you get the curry cubes ($2.99 at my Walmart), get a couple potatoes and a pack of baby carrots, you have curry. Protein is optional as is Coconut milk. Then use whatever rice you have on hand. Leftovers make an excellent fried rice. I always keep those curry cubes in my pantry for when I’m craving it.
@@CraftyCassie6910For meats sometimes i go to the Mexican butcher shop. Cheaper on meat
I hear ya about using several stores to get the best prices. I have a local grocery store, a dollar tree, a piggly wiggly, a small wallie world, 2 dollar trees, and a small mom & pop grocery store all centrally located.
When we first moved to this town my husband asked why i'd take so long inside. My answer : i'm doing recon. ☺️
And as inflation has made things more expensive it really helps with knowing what items cost
We called it crazy supper night when it was make it to payday! One thing we discovered was hashbrowns, piece's not shredded, onion, and hotdogs , fried up it margarine served with ketchup was a fav that today we call the poor man's feast. Grew up in a fishing town, hard times we never apparent because of the creativity of meals. Keep smiling and enjoy the holidays.
I love your boys..they are the best..good eaters and grateful to their mommy for all she does to keep them fed and happy.
Unfortunately for me our grocery budget is 40.00 for an entire month and let me tell you that you impress me with how you stretch a buck and not many people do, growing up poor myself and knowing fifty different ways to stretch pintos definitely helps
I used to help a friend of mine budget his $60 a month in food stamps, and he ate good every month! I’d like to figure out how to do a video on that.
@@SouthernFrugalMomma That would be a great video. I get foodstamps. My state gives $291/ month for 1 person. It is crazy - I do not spend it all in one month so it lasts me a long time.
I also stock my pantry up so I eat very well.
That would be great as we are elderly and on fixed income and we eat lots of rice ,beans ,and taters I am trying to figure out how to incorporate some meat into it as of right now we can’t afford meat because out here in the sticks they really don’t have a lot to choose from and we can’t afford gas to get to the city, we also don’t get food stamps or get food from any food bank. I do not want pity from anyone because there are people much worse off, however I would love if you made a video. God Bless and Merry Christmas from Oklahoma
@@jillgott6567I’m glad you get help, my state says we are over the poverty limit 😂😂 and we are on social security
@@kimberlyweddel2505🙏🏾❤️Merry Christmas
I tried the Dollar Tree oatmeal when I forgot to pack it for a camping trip & didn't want to buy a big container for the weekend. I really enjoyed it!
Dear Brooke and Dusty, I loved it. I love your boys too. They are getting so big. I'm done with chemotherapy and radiation. I've started immunotherapy infusions this month. Cancer is down to half the size with hollowed out center in the tumors with dead cells, my doctor seems pleased so far. My husband, Josh and I thank God and put out faith in God he has control.
You my friends have helped me so much by budget planning, survival supplies and pantry. I'm finally starting to live again. God knows going from bread winner to making nothing hurts a household. We are building back little by little. And thank y'all for your support and encouragement. God Bless and Merry Christmas.
Amen 🙌🏾🙏🏾❤️Merry Christmas
I had Cancer ♋️ last God bless and be with Sweet Friend 🙏🏻✝️☮️♋️❤️🩹🙏🏻❤️🩹🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
This is my first time seeing your channel as I try to figure out how to cut grocery costs. I am so happy that you include the dinners you create with it. I see a lot of grocery videos where they show what they get, but not how they use it. I struggle to come up with meals looking at the ingredients. I would've never guessed what you were going to do with the tortillas, so thank you for showing us how to make ends meet and what you can do with the ingredients!!!
We have cut our bill a lot by doing the bulk of our shopping at Aldi.😊
I just found you. To be honest. I would give you money to cook for me if we lived closer. I am happy to say I won't starve next week because of your videos. Learning to cook and going to add to my pantry as I can. Not sure if I can get things as cheap where I am at. We only have Family Dollar and a local store here. 45 miles one way to the other stores. Yet, the cooking lessons are priceless. TY!!
You could’ve made five pieces of cinnamon toast, and then top it with the fried apples. That sounds good. This whole video was awesome. I know back when you were doing the fifth day I figure it out and it was a little over two dollars per person per day for the five days so it’s much less if you’re doing six or seven days, this is a great great video.
I cannot believe your got all that food for just $45. You are an amazing shopper!!! Thanks so much for your fun, real life videos! Keep em coming Brooke!
You are very smart with choices and stretching your dollars. I'd love for you to do a series on restaurant copycat dishes on a budget. Some that we do are Chilli's queso dip, Outback Alice Springs chicken, McAlister French dip sandwiches & McAlister Ruben (I leave the sauerkraut out of mine), Panera broccoli & cheese soup, etc. I saw the KFC bowls...would love to see more content like that.
As my mom would say positive thoughts create positive actions and negative thoughts create negative actions. So yes let's be positive and kind to one another.
Love your videos! I’m so old, I remember when their bread was 25 cents for white and 59 cents for wheat! lol you’re videos always give me great ideas! Have a blessed day!
I remember in 2019, I went to North Carolina when my sister had her double lung transplant. We went to a Food Lion and I remember it so vividly, their brand of bread was .47 cents a loaf!
I remember before Aldi came to Michigan. We’d drive down to Toledo Ohio to go shopping there about once a month. The store was so busy that the line for the checkout started at the door and snaked through the aisles and if you missed something when you passed it you were out of luck.😂
I remember.33 cents
1962- bread $ 0.22 a loaf at corner store and milk $0.25 a quart in Ontario.
I am 54 (not old yet) and definitely remember 25 cent loaves of bread.
The spanish make roast potato dish with spicy marinara sauce, its called patatas bravas, its delicious, this sounds like the potato dish you were talking about. Great meals Brooke, thank you for sharing xxx
Your boys are just adorable and so cute! The youngest fallling over after eating is so funny. I'd never heard of fried apples, but they looked good with that cinnamon. You are very creative when you cook.
Growing up fried apples and sausage was a treat. It does take spices, but I guess you could buy apple pie spice combo.
Love fried apples
That Kinders Buttery Steakhouse seasoning goes on everything in my house!!! Adds a great flavor to everything!
Thank you for using your pantry items, I've been saying that because you buying stuff you dont need is stopping you from getting something else you might have wanted or needed. Using your pantry items will give people an idea of what to keep stocked up on.
I've also suggested using your garden items and of course your eggs. You work hard to keep your garden producing and it also shows people how to save by growing their own food. There are thousands of free videos, books (free or cheap) and websites to show you how to have a garden even if you don't have a lot of space.
You can use flower pots, 5 gallon bucket. To garden in.
I am surprised at the Aldi's .. I am in Michigan and ours are fully stocked all the time . Bagels make great pizza.. Love your videos..
I missed these kinda videos from you :) are you planning on doing a "Christmas dinner for cheap" kinda video this year? Sending love to you and yours
That crockpot chicken meal sounds really good, but I like my green beans a bit firm so I probably would put them in just the last 30 minutes or so.
The smiley face spatula is you, Brooke! It suits your positive, sunny personality 💛
Absolutely ❤😂
I love how creative you are with your meals. I also like how you take the time to pull everything out to see what you have left. I am a visual person and I just think it’s great! Merry 🎄 Christmas
For the overnight oats try adding some of the syrup you bought! ❤ & you can heat them up to make them better!
Yum! A little bit of salt in the overnight oats really helps with flavor too
Excellent food choices. The only items I would have done different is I’d have got an 18 ct eggs and not the pancake mix and syrup. You can make pancakes from pantry staples and I consider pancake syrup a staple just like soy sauce, ketchup, mayo, etc. My gang loves eggs and potatoes for breakfast or brinner. Debi in Vicksburg, MS. 🥰🥰
You could have toasted those 5 bread slices that ended up being leftover for bread crumbs in the meat balls! Good to have a meal plan to use up the items evenly over the week.
Also, bread crumbled in a blender can serve as panko crumbs (called "raw panko" in Japan)!
I appreciate you pointing out in another video of those big cans of peaches @ dollar tree! Found 2 cans there yesterday & got em. 🥳
Excellent ideas as always! I noticed i have started trying to guess what you're going to make out of the ingredients you have, but you continue to suprise me 😊 i thought you were going to make gnocchi, but the fried potatoes with marinara is a much easier option i will definitely be trying. I also thought that the last few bread slices could have made some cinnamon sugar toast that could have stretched the pancakes/fried apple vibe (but looks like the mac and cheese was enjoyed thoroughly!) Love the long videos, and LOVE your glasses!!
I never buy marked down meat. It means it's about to go bad, if it hasnt already. Too scary. I used to work at a grocery store. Even the guys in the meat department wouldnt buy it. That told me everything I needed to know.
Great video Brooke! I always feel so embarrassed as a viewer that you have to explain that you have washed you veg/fruit, & your hands. Some people have nothing better to do than pick on people for not filming NORMAL life!
Seriously
You can also smash a few beans on the side of the pot to make them more creamy.
Beans, fried taters and cornbread is my all time favorite meal! I love it when it’s fresh out of the garden. I also like a beefy tomato sliced, a couple of slices of mild cheddar and green onion on the side. 😋 I just cooked a pot of beans and some pork chops.
My grandma makes this all the time. Bell peppers and onions are usually cooked in the fried potatoes.
Brooke sometimes I don't even get out of my jammies...lol.. If I am not going out, I will stay in my Jammies all day, and when I am feeling really lazy I will have a nice hot bath and put new jammies on...lol. Just a heads up, that cheese grater thing you have..you can also use it to make those bread crumbs...works like a charm.....
I tried to do a follow along shopping list using online grocery shopping, and not using walmart. I made a couple of substitutions, and then wrote down your meal plans with a couple of different meals using the substitute foods. It's very helpful to me and others that you make these videos showing us that we can still make lots of healthy foods that taste good on a small budget
A good idea for those who live far from stores is to watch for the ads in the mail. I know this probably sounds like a no brainer but I think it’s something that’s been forgotten over the years. We just get the “junk mail” and throw it out but there are so many hidden sales in them. That way for those who travel to shop for groceries, we will know exactly what stores to hit up
Your meals always look so delicious! You give people great ideas how to use what you have on hand.
Brooke I’d absolutely love to see a video of you and the family’s favorite meals of 2023! Preparing for the new year 🎉❤
Hi from NZ bestie! Sometimes if I have left over fried rice, I add it to the ground meat when I make meatballs or patties. It adds flavour and helps hold the meat together. You can also add egg or a bit of milk or water if you want to. Love your channel.😊🎁
Loads of delicious food for the week Brooke !! You can use oatmeal , saltine crackers or bread as a meat stretcher for hamburger or sausage I do it all the time , my momma always did that’s where I learned to use all 3 ! Great idea about using the pasta sauce on the fried potatoes I’m gonna try that myself it looked delicious ! I’m sure Dusty will save a lot of money on gas using the E-bike , he will just have to dress real warm ok those really cold days !! Brooke I pray you, Dusty and the boys have a blessed Christmas and a bright beautiful New Year!! God bless ❤️🙏🙋🏻🌈🌈🎄🥗
I use oatmeal instead of breadcrumbs in my meatloaf most of the time.
Those potatoes look yummy! They would make a great side dish along chicken, or pork chops, any meat really!
I’m having a hard time putting into words how blessed I’m feeling after watching your video. I am grateful for many things in my life but sometimes don’t deeply appreciate being able to afford whatever food we want. Thank you for your cheerful spirit and helpful advice to everyone. One idea I had for the end of the week was to make potato pancakes with baked apples. A very merry Christmas to you. 🎄
Tell your boys I started out watching your cooking and found out I love to watch the boys reactions your boys are so sweet
This is unbelievable! Wonderful meals that I am sure goingvto give a try. You are helping so many people feed their family. You sweet girl are a true treasure. Thank you so very much. Love 💕 from Debbie and Dexter-Dog 🐶🐾 my sweet tiny rescued Chihuahua companion living a quiet crafty life in southern California.❤😊
You could use those oats and make some no bake chocolate peanut butter cookies!
This has been one of my favorite videos. My daughter is 14 & I think she & your son would be so cute together. She's a great cook & loves Asian foods too.
Brooke, I am from country people in Ky and we eat the same pinto bean meal but instead of chowchow, we eat beet pickles (if they aren’t home canned, you can buy the store ones-says pickled beets). Crumble your cornbread, add the beans and then add the beets! Soooo good!!! I would love to know what you think if you try them!!
Some lettuce onions bacon grease is yummy too in the summer
that sounds so good ! (Mainer here ) i normaly just eat pickled beets out of the can lol
I'm making pickled beets tomorrow!!
I just LOVE you and your videos!!!! You're so down to Earth and literally a breath of fresh air! Much love from Southern VA!❤
All the boys are so cute! I think the smallest one may be a movie star.
So THAT'S what that little, segmented cast iron pan is for!! My husband and I were looking at that this year and scratching our heads. 😂
It's a 🌽 cornbread pan.
I’ve never had breaded ravioli before but I make a past bake with the same ingredients or other veg besides eggplant. I just throw the uncooked ravioli in at the same time as I put the sauce and cheese in the casserole dish. I’m too lazy to bother boiling and then breading and baking the ravioli but you go, girl.
Fried rice is on the agenda this week. Yum, yours looks good. 💖
Hey sweetie. You had bread leftover at the end of the week. You could have added that , toasted, to the meatballs. Or some of the instant rice. Both would have stretched the meatballs. Never tried it myself, but maybe even a mashed tater in the sausage. Of course hind sight, as they say… lol! But ideas for next time to think about.
I love all your videos, can’t get enough, it’s helping me be more frugal
what fun it is to see you make these meals for your family and how they like them, makes me smile, thank you :)
Love this Brooke💗 Love that you are real. To be honest, I would have eaten the baked potato, too. I’m part of the “love taters club”. You couldn’t have known this till the end but you had extra bread for bread crumbs for the meat balls, and I was shouting from the west end of the US- warm up those peachy oats and add some butter and more cinnamon on top. Yumm. Overnight oats don’t always have to be cold⛄️. And/or, just like you enjoyed the Italian potatoes on garlic toast, I always scoop my warm oats by the spoonful on buttered toast before I take a bite. I’m a carb lover, too. 💗Loving your channel.
We must be soul sisters!
@@SouthernFrugalMomma Oh, I’ve felt this since I found your channel. Love your personality and your sweet family. Your channel is going to keep on growing because you are genuinely you.
Oh my goodness, yes, on heating up the oats. I never see that tip in recipes, so I have never tried overnight oats - I couldn't have them cold!
Listening while in the dental chair. Thanks for getting me through! Those tortilla pizza are good!
The Lord Bless You abundantly ! You have love in heart and it shows when you all ways are giving to others to help provide to others with great advice and showing people how to provide for their Families! The Lord has given great wisdom ! Thank you so much Southern FrugalMomma !🥰🤩🙏🙏🙏 ❤Jesus is Lord! Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year My prayer's are with you and your Family!
Wow! You did great Brooke! Hope you all enjoy the holiday! God bless you and your family !
I feel like Aldi is getting too big for their britches. 😂
Most in my area are understaffed
Our Kroger had a coupon for Russet Potatoes $1.99 for 10 pounds! I wanted to use the coupon up to the 5 times, but I only bought 2 lol
Oh that’s a great deal!
50 lbs of potatoes? Unless you have a big family, it might be hard to use that many before they go bad! I have to resist the temptation to over buy deals like that!
@@shariwuebben7280 We have 7 kids. We already finished 1 bag in 2 dinners with some leftover mashed potatoes used for a third meal. But I agree we don’t want any to go bad.
@@randomnielle ah, so it makes sense for you! 7 kids is most definitely a big family! It's just my husband and I now. He likes to cook, but he still cooks like all 3 kids are still home with teenage appetites!
OM we only had 5lbs for 1.99 😢 Y’all got a great deal!
You can find the best deals Brooke!! I love these budget meal plan videos. You are awesome at this girl!!!
I don't know how I forgot about Chow Chow! I haven't heard that word or had any in decades, probably my Mom telling me that my Grandma and my Aunt made us some Chow Chow.
My husband would eat chow chow with everything, lol. His grandma and his mama always made it. Now I guess I gotta learn.
Dear SouthernFrugalMomma, it may be interesting, next time to soak the sliced bread in the pancake batter, before frying it (a bit like French toast), that way it would be bulked up. Hope you will find this suggestion helpful. LOVE he way you think to make the meals strech, just like I do. We also add leftover boiled rice to pancake batter and fry them, it bulks up the batter and tastes FABULOUS. In Scotland, where I am originally from, we call them drop-scones and can be made both sweet and savoury. Here in Denmark (land of the Vikings), where I currently live they have a meal consisting of fried potatoes made from leftover boiled potatoes diced and re-fried with onions and bits of leftover meat also diced. On top we put Worchestershire-sauce, and if possible it can be topped with a fried egg to bulk up the proteine. It put muscles on the Vikings, so it is good hearty stuff. Wishing you and your family a very HAPPY NEW YEAR ❤ ❤ ❤ LOVE, HUGS, PEACE, GOD BLESS & STAY SAFE ❤ ❤ ❤
Love your channel! I use that oatmeal from Dollar Tree and I just Googled quick oat recipe and use 2 parts water to 1 part oatmeal cook for 5 minutes or until desired consistency, it’s good oatmeal.
I love these longer videos! Thanks Brooke😊
When her husband said, "Ten out of Five Stars," I had to smile. One recommendation that I have for the beans is if you can freeze some meat grease when you have it, the beans will taste so much better in my opinion.
For Overnight oats, the chia seeds help with the texture by a mile. They get kind of "gelled" and thicken the overall product.
I totally forgot I have chia seeds. Thanks for reminding me. I like to prep oats. I put 1/2c oats w 1c hot kettle water. How much chia do you add(1T?)? How much do you increase the water.
I add toppings as I'm prepping for work or to eat
Next time add the oats to your meatballs before you roll them up! It makes the meat stretch 🤫 (or you could have made bread crumbs with the leftover bagels to bulk them up too). Blessings!
33:57 You're so right! When it tastes good, you dont feel broke! You and your boys are so fun 😊 I don't like subscribing to a lot of channels, I like to keep it down to the essentials, but darn it, you're checking a lotta boxes -- cooking channel, grocery budgets, meal planning but not rigid or snooty, store shopping trips, home cooking but not ALL from scratch (impossible to maintain), AND it's family AND y'all are funny! 😅
OMGOSH!!!!!!! you made my day!!! i thought i was the only person in the world who orders pizza and says ' and light on the sauce please!!' lol....thank you! i'm not alone!!
Brooke, you did a great job in your shopping and using those ingredients! Also, you can heat up overnight oats. You might have liked them better when warmed up. Merry Christmas 🎄 to you and your family!
I’ll try that!
Yes so much better heated !!
You could have used the oats as filler for your meatballs...they work just fine.
Yes yes yes That's how I like to shop when I can. The markdowns. I also freeze the meats if I'm not ready to use them right away. I also store my produce in glass jars in the fridge. Makes the shelf life longer and keeps the moisture in. Don't wash the vegs b4 storing them. They need to be dry. ❤
You know with having a wonderful grandmother in our life's. We just need to think about how she fed all of us. It was always good, always filling and made with the simplest ingredients and plenty of love. I still use alot of my grandmother's ideals and meals. Thank you for sharing.