Don't forget if you need to go to one of the food pantrys. They are there to help you. I know they give out pasta and canned goods. My husband and I give to our food pantry where I live. I also grow a garden every year (I am 72) and I take fresh veggies there on the days they give out food and also to the shelter where they serve meals.
Agreed. Food pantry resources can be found at churches, charity organizations, schools, even online. Free/buy nothing FB groups. They are there for this reason, so best to take advantage of the resources.
@@theresabouwman750 Don't forget to ask butcher's in the markets for "soup bones", that way you can put these into pots of rice, pasta, grits, potatoes or vegetables to flavor them and add nutrients. Bone broth and bullion cubes are great to have around, liquid soups that you can increase water with and then add in your veggies or rice, etc.
@@theresabouwman750 what kind of meals do you eat? My Granny used to watch us grandchildren during Summers and would cook huge pots of chicken and rice, and potatoes with a can of Corned Beef added, and we always either had bread or cornbread with butter.
I was 63 y.o. when I realized I let my Moma and Granny down! Somewhere along the line, I guess I so slowly stopped doing that the exact second I saw her do that! My Mama was a Depression Baby as my Grandparents had them 9 Stairstep Children before, during and after the Great Depression! 😂 They both taught myself and my Sisters this. Mama said out of the 3 girls I was Always the Uppity one.... Sorry Mother!😂
@@trudydavis6168And depending on the variety, you can save the seeds. Heirlooms are the ones to save. You can also regrow some things from your produce like celery, onions, potatoes & herbs are easily rooted in water. You can grow a lot of potatoes in pots too. If you have room, grow whatever you can. Seeds are cheap
Brooke, I learned this from a young cowboy 50 years ago. If you're eating pinto beans to the point you need a flavor change, you can add a turnip along with your seasonings to a pot of beans while they cook to change up the flavor. He would toss the turnip in whole then fish it out, but I grate the turnip into the pot. The flavor of the beans changes, but they do not taste like turnips. It's an inexpensive way to avoid flavor fatigue if you're eating a lot of soup beans.
I do that too. It bugs me that you can waste a big chunk of tomatoe if the stem is deep down so I too cut around it. But, when she got to the cucumber, she wasted about an inch on both ends (I thought anyway)😊
I've recently had several huge expenses come up that have darn near devastated me. I'm a teacher, and I live alone. This is so perfect, and I appreciate the hard work that goes into these videos! I feel seen and not alone when I watch your videos and read the comments! ❤
@rachelkylie3287 ❤ Much Love ❤️ I'm alone too after my last baby left last yr. I almost don't eat. I feel like "why cook" (😢 I miss them), so watching channels like this makes me feel less alone also 😊 You have a friend in me ❤❤❤
@@terribelle3 It's been quite an adjustment since my last one left. Both of mine now live far away -- one is 4 states away and the other is in Scotland. It so hard to figure out my purpose now.
@@B_Bodziak Love and serve the Lord from your heart. That has always been your purpose hon....Ask Him, and He will show you someone in need to minister to....
I would check the price per pound of dry beans at Walmart, kroger, aldi, dollar tree, and dollar general. Their prices vary depending on sales and time of month plus size of bag of beans and sometimes on brand.
Your channel and Facebook page has been a life saver, I had no clue how I was gonna be able to feed myself after paying my basic bills, being so low income in expensive florida but Thanks to you and everyone that post great ideas on FB, I'm able to to pay all my bills and eat pretty dang good. Being so low income, and realizing you cannot buy enough food for the month can be a death sentence so thank you. Also Your videos are so upbeat and your kids are funny, it makes this process enjoyable rather than humiliating. ❤
That is the best thing you could possibly do. Congrats. Keep it up. We have chickens. You only need 4 hens to have two dozen eggs a week. No rooster needed, just for eggs.
@@HillbillyYEEHAA and chicken/rat snakes!!! We had to remove one last night! I mean my husband had to remove one. I was challenged to hold the flashlight.
@@HillbillyYEEHAA good farm cats sort out vermin. We had chickens, sheep, pigs and goats. We didn't have a vermin problem. I hope that is helpful to consider?
Same here. Been growing and canning for 30 yrs. Now I can stews and soups too cause we’re getting older and don’t eat as much. Added chickens a couple of years ago and that has to be one our best decisions. Going to the grocery store is frightening these days.
If you have eggs & a little pickle relish & mayo, you can make egg salad or deviled eggs. And if you had a tomato plant, a cucumber plant, a pepper plant, a squash plant...you could extend this out a few more days. I love pasta salad with lemon juice & olive oil, parmesan cheese, bacon bits, ripe olives, tomatoes, cuke, & peppers. Seeds are cheap folks. Grow a few things & you can really extend your meals with just a few plants. I planted potatoes in pots & I just dug up my first crop & replanted. Tomorrow, I'm having new potatoes, green beans I canned from my garden, steamed broccoli. & deviled eggs. I have chickens too. I dont know about you, but I'm not eating bugs.😊 I ate plums from my own tree &strawberries from my own strawberry plants. Blueberries and blackberries will be next...I see incoming cobblers.😊 I can squeeze a nickle until the buffalo poops 🦬💩. Give me one tomato seed & I'll have 10 tomato plants before I'm done. There are several foods you can regrow too.
We don't live in America, Thank God, going by these comments. We live in Europe, where we shop at local farmers markets very cheaply. We grow strawberries, potatoes and lettuce in 'grow bags', oranges, lemons and olives from small trees, cucumber, peppers and tomatoes. Many of these can be grown in planters/ tubs. You don't need lots of land, maybe just a small driveway. The seeds to grow food are SO VERY cheap. In the Depression, in the USA, this is how your ancestors made the difference between starving and not.! You can eat healthily AND cheaply and, honestly, it's so easy to do. I hope some of you can give it a go.....as the person in the above comment said, it's a great way to eat fresh, good foods. We also gave chickens for our own eggs.
I am currently teaching children how to grow fruit and vegetables. Little does America know is we are going to have a famine. It is inevitable. I wanted to make sure the children in teach do not starve so i am hoping they take it seriously. I too have chickens for eggs but i may have to get more because they are starting to lay fewer eggs as they age. They all are almost 10 years old. 😢 And i agree you don’t need any land to grow food just space. A porch for containers will work.
I sold my large house and moved to a small property with lots of land. We are paying significantly less money for food. We grow 90% of our vegetables for the year, buy no fruit in the summer ( melons, strawberries, blueberries, ground cherries) and have fruit trees starting to produce so that percentage just goes up. We found that for us it's not worth growing corn. Not a high enough yield for the space. Sunflowers were a more productive crop. We grow green beans but not the bean types you dry. Only grain we grow is amaranth and it's primarily for the birds. Pretty in the front yard. We went plant based 5 days a week and eat meat sparingly on the weekends. I buy coffee, nuts, grains, flours and pasta in bulk. Weekly shopping trip is mainly for dairy and eggs. Petrified of getting chickens because of the coyote, snake, fox and raptor population.
@elianaisraelnc7904 - My daughter got very nervous when I doubled our garden space and added hydroponics during the first summer of the pandemic. I have a solid pantry and can, dehydrate and freeze, so this was more about keeping busy than from worrying. Daughter decided I had done this because we were going to starve. So. Out she went out and creates 3 10x10 gardens. Didn't ask me for seeds. Planted carrot tops. pepper seeds from store bought ones, sprouted beans from one of those 7 bean soup bags. Sprouting potatoes. We called it her salvage garden. And wow did she learn a lot! What a great lesson. She learned taproot don't grow back, but that we could let it go to seed and grow more carrots. I taught her how to make pesto with the greens. Her celery didn't do well but I gave her some lovage, a celery substitute. She got just enough chickpeas, blackbeans and kidney beans for a meal of mixed bean chili. Fir Christmas she got quality garden equipment and seeds. She's still got a great garden 4 years later
Milk, is produced to nourish BABIES anyway. Little innocent male calves are killed, so humans can take & consume the milk their mother's made for them. So, a baby bovine was executed, for every bit of bovine milk you consume. That's so terrible really. The same goes for eggs & hens. For every hen that's alive, a male chick was killed immediately after hatching, because they'll never lay eggs, and are too scrawny to be meat birds.
This was a good video to show that we don’t need an exorbitant amount of food daily to live on. When I was a kid, my dad was on strike for 6 months in the early 70’s. We ate biscuits and gravy for a month.
Two things that help me... 1. Use Barilla Plus pasta. It costs a bit more but adds a considerable amount of protein instead of empty carb calories. 2. Jiffy cornbread mix makes a YUMMY COFFEE CAKE! Add a tablespoon of sugar and 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon to the mix.Then lightly sprinkle a little more sugar and cinnamon on top, then bake as directed. Makes a great, inexpensive treat!
Great video. The challenge I have is with so many food allergies, no flour products, no nightshades like tomatoes, potatoes and peppers, and other common vegetables along with pinto beans. Any ideas?😋😃
@@marieallison7219 I worked at a kiddie care in the 80s. Boss had me cook jiffy cornbread and frost it with pnut butter while warm. To my amazement the kids loved that better then anything. Myself too.😊
You can make the whole batch of beans, portion it out, and put them in the freezer. You can season them any way you want. Season for any type of cuisine you like.
I chop onion, tomatoes, cilantro if you like it, jalapeño or bell pepper carrots and potatoes and then I sautee onions, peppers and potatoes and carrots add tomatoes and cilantro last and then season with salt and pepper and cumin lastly add the beans and some broth or water and allow veggies to cook, it’s soooo yummy as a soup. If you have leftover ham or hot dogs sautee with the onions and continue as stated above . Eat with a yummy bread or warmed tortillas.
We grew up dirt poor too. I really like you and your channel and I watch it. My mom tried to feed 7 kids for several years. My dad left us when we were all llittle for parts unknown. Back then there were no resources to corral him to help. She too was a queen of finding food to feed us. We lived on welfare with bare bones help. This was about 65 years ago. More power to you. I've gone grocery shopping in the same ideas she had.
Brooke, when we were little Mama sometimes made a treat for us that she called sweet biscuits. She made her regular biscuits, but mixed in extra sugar and a little vanilla extract. Those things were delicious warm from the oven. It's an easy way to change the flavor and make a special treat from something so simple. Your banana biscuits brought back that memory.
@@kelliintexas3575 I've never fried homemade biscuits, but I've fried canned biscuits like that. They're so good that I hardly ever do it! 😂 They're dangerous!
I love the way you show people how to prepare meals, not wasting any part of the food etc.. Believe it or not there are people that are grown adults that leave home and can't cook at all. I love your videos, thanks for showing people, how to shop on a budget. ❤
It's not a healthy diet though. Just protein and rubbish to bulk it out. In dire straits, it's survival eating the same stuff every day. If you have any outside space, even room for tubs, you can grow salad and veg VERY cheaply
@@jacqueline8559 Potatoes too, although to plant sprouting potatoes they have to be organic. The non organic ones just rot. Place pieces sprout UP and cover in soil. When that sprouts, continue to add dirt to the pot. This is because the actual TUBERS GROW DOWN.
@@2bbossfree Thank you. I'm gonna be honest as embarrassing as it is, I didn't know if the sprout went up or down. The ppl I've seen do it just say, "plant it".
in college we live on macaroni and cheese with pinto beans in it. and sometimes some ground beef. then we made a chicken pot pie with chicken legs and can of mixed veggies and chicken boullion and a can of biscuits. lots of cinnamon toast for breakfast and sweets. and then the ole ramen noodles.
I'm so thankful that one of my daughters-in-law raises chickens so the eggs are always free! (Good thing she likes me!) Some of my best childhood memories are sitting around the kitchen table snapping green beans and sorting through pintos with my great-grandmother! This video just reminds me of her. She could make a feast with next to nothing!
When I had chickens the cost to feed the chickens resulted in the eggs costing more than if I had purchased eggs at the store, but the chickens were not caged, they roamed free during the day and had a safe night time house.
I became a vegetarian when i was supporting two kids, tgree dogs and a handicapped sister after a divorce. All i could afford was white bread and peanut butter. I learned to enjoy hot water because i couldn't afford coffee or tea. I now have a stockpile of food. It was the toughest period i went through
@@PKr25-R17 thank you. Well, I'm homeless- but I have a van to live in, thank God, am now completely disabled, and...just lost my job. All this, pain, worrying sometimes, but I'm actually happy. I have quietness right now, can doze off, read books, or listen to the radio, listen to thunderstorms - one day at a time. I watch a lot of videos on NDE's and I figure this is just my personally chosen human experience. I enjoy each day now for what it offers, and, what I have to offer.
$1.75 a day is really $2 a day. It's still a great video, and your ideas are fabulous. I especially like that you specifically chose foods that you love. PS, nobody can make it $1 a day anymore.
As a non American, the only part of this I can face eating is the breakfast oatmeal. I love using any left over vegetables, adding stock , salt and black pepper, and making homemade soups for lunches. Delicious
@@jacqueline8559 But do those items supply all the vitamins and minerals your body needs ? (O.K. for a limited time...say a week or so...? You need lots of different vitamins, etc., to stay well.....😊xx💙👍🐒🐔🥑🥕🌈🏆
Brooke would you be willing to share your garden journey. I know you may have already started planting. But I would love to see videos on what all you grow & what you do. I like the videos you do for budget cooking. When you were getting the vegetables it reminded me that last year you would use stuff from your garden. I think people enjoy watching you. Your sweet southern accent, smile, laughter & how honest & real you are. I know when ppl start channels it might be for a specific thing. But clearly your subscribers enjoy all aspects of you are willing to share. From the camping & spending time with your family, to the fun game you & Dusty played. Tell the family hello. God bless you all all ❤
I love to be creative and be frugal, there is no shame in being on a budget! We still can be full with healthy tasty meals! Thanks so much for sharing your recipe and to make it normal to live on a budget 😘
Love all these! I made the toetilla pepper and egg scramble this morning for breakfast, adding some leftover bacon and the last egg I had and some cheddar I had on hand. It fed all 3 of us. Husband and son will be pleasantly surprised not to have cold cereal or instant oatmeal.
Tonight I had Bushes baked beans on about to expire sourdough bread.I put butter and garlic powder with a little parsley then baked to make garlic bread.I put the beans on top .It was surprisingly good.I have a package of hot dogs will add half to the left over beans.This will be lunch and dinner tomorrow.Will still have half the hot dogs for later. Scrambled eggs with cut up hot dogs ,diced green pepper , diced onion and shredded cheese.Yes.Wonderful lady with lots of tips.I am a single senior on SS so love the recipes!
About expiring cans--cans never used to have an expiration date. People knew as long as it wasn't dented or rusting, it was probably okay no matter how old it was. Now the cans are coated with plastic inside, so even less chance of a problem. Tomato acid can rust and metal can. As a kid I ate canned stuff that was probably 10years old. In fact after my grammie died, we found a HOME CANNED jar of sour cherries. Now they didn't live in the house with cherrie trees for more than 10 years. We wondered--are these still good? But we wanted grammie's cherries. All of us ate ONE. We figured if anyone got botulism it wouldn't be too bad with only one cherry. We were all okay, so we ate the rest of the jar. It was delicious and we all cried knowing we would never have grammie's cherries again. I don't think I'd eat food 10 years old, but cans that are recently expired are good unless damaged.
For homemade baked beans, use leftover cooked navy beans or great northern beans. add some ketchup, some onion and some brown sugar. Taste the sauce to see if it taste right and then bake that in the oven for about a half an hour until the onion is cooked better than beans and much cheaper.
Random veggie muffins. When I have a piece of a wilted pepper or some ends of celery that is going bad a few wilted pieces of spinach or soft Carrots, etc. I grind them all up and saute them. Either just freeze those to add to a meatloaf or soup or add a scoop of veggies and one egg- scramble slightly to a muffin pan. Bake at 350 for about 20-30 minutes until the egg is done. You have egg bites to eat for a quick breakfast. They are different every time!
I’m happy to see that you are striving to add vegetables to get those vitamins and minerals, even on such a low budget. It’s important to try to stay healthy isn’t it? Thank you for not adding tons of starches without the good things that are in the vegetables .
Love your video! It’s just 3 of us in my household and our food budget has been blown over time and time again with food prices being insane. I know how to cook and i know how to meal plan, but i almost always take my family grocery shopping and get talked into adding a ridiculous amount of stuff into the cart. I’m gonna have to start doing pickups or leave them at home 😅🤣 i wanted to suggest grabbing a bag of rice, lentils, and keeping a bottle of lime/lemon juice on hand as it doesn’t go bad quickly. The rice can easily be paired with the beans, make fried rice, the pinto beans of course you did amazing but also you can make enfrijoladas as well. Also, you can make a simple chili to change things up as well, if you can find chili powder inexpensive. You can also freeze all of the beans. I always make a big batch and portion them into quart freezer bags- then i can easily grab a bag for dinner and not have to worry about them going bad. My family also loves goulash- it’s super simple. Some elbow noodles, onion, kidney beans, stewed tomatoes, a little ground beef if you have it (it’s good without it too), salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, chili flakes are optional. Serve by itself, with some buttered bread, or garlic bread.
Hi Brooke, you can do 2 more dishes.- * scrambled eggs/beans mixed together-(1st scrambled your egg, then add the refried beans and scramble together, & have it with warm tortillas. The other meal is - * Bean enchiladas (Hispanics call it "Frijoladas"- free-hol-adas) warm up your puree beans in a pan or bowl big enough to place a warmed corn tortilla into it. (some people give tortilla a quick dip fry turnover flip in a frying pan instead- optional) Then the tortilla will be dipped in beans in & out on both sides, place on a plate, sprinkle cheese of choice (Monterey, pepper jack, mozzarella- ideally Hispanics use Queso Fresco, or as last resort cheddar) then just fold like a taco and top with more bean puree sauce & cheese, and as optional add shredded lettuce, pico de gallo & dallop of sour cream (or a drizzle of "Mexican crema") and !Voila!
Thank you!!! This is amazing! I live in rural New York. My challenge is a bit different since I’m allergic to corn, potatoes, peppers eggplant AND all fruit except blueberries. That makes it a LOT harder to accommodate 7:56 this budget since corn is the least expensive food available in the US. I choose lentils instead of pinto beans. I spent two dollars on a one pound package of Tumeric at the Indian market. Its anti inflammatory properties is essential for my arthritis. I also bought garlic. My cheater advantage is that I live among Mennonite farms. My Mennonite neighbors deliver their surplus produce to the senior residence where I live. I am free to glean any harvest left in their greenhouses because I have a car. I do this after canning time in September when tomato plants still Produce but fruits don’t turn red. By harvesting the green tomatoes, I have an abundance of fresh vitamin c to share with my neighbors all winter. I buy canning jars at Goodwill for 10 cents each and new lids at the hardware store. I make green tomato pickles and tomato chutney. I wrap the tomatoes in the leftover newspaper ads that get left here weekly. They ripen by Christmas in the store room downstairs. I serve hot tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches on Christmas Eve, to anyone not visiting family. We sit under the tree and sing carols. So where you have corn, I have cabbages and onions, turnips and Brussels sprouts. And LOTS of kale and broccoli free for the asking. We are very rich. I live better on less money than I ever did while I was working! And I am able to help my neighbors live well too!
When I buying produce that are per item not per lb, I will get 3 of the largest I can find and weight them. I'll buy the heaviest of the 3. I have no shame.
You are such a delight! So glad I found your channel. I grew up poor and my mom always found a way to make homemade dinners on a budget. I have the best memories of the tastiest food. Bless you for being such a great momma and showing people how it doesn’t take much to eat good. Sometimes you have to be creative but I guess that just made me appreciate different kinds of food now. And bonus-I’m great at using up leftovers to be something new the next day.
Good job 👏🏼- I just wanted to say that Mexican dish with the fried “chips” is what the locals here on the border call “chilequiles” (?). Next time pour a little el pato sauce over top, and serve topped with a lil shredded lettuce. Salsa etc to taste 😊👍🏼👍🏼.
This makes me so thankful for food stamps and medicare advantage card. But it's comforting to know if I have to i can and have lived on tiny food budgets.
@@2bbossfree No way , these vendors ask for regular prices at the end and if they are packing up nowadays. Some prepared food places will heavy fill your bags after a purchase though. The mushroom guy gave me a extra variety to try recently. That was nice.
I love your easy quick breakfast quesadilla, gonna make it! Being a southern girl I too was taught how to cook food delicious and with little money. My mom was a divorce mom of 5 that worked as a waitress. She made the best hamburger soup with pinto beans, bell pepper, onion and a little diced tomato. We would eat it over rice and one pot would last a few days for us. Also rice is very in expensive and when combined with pinto beans makes a complete protein. Canned green beans were another staple for us. Mom would dress them up with garlic slivered onion and a few chopped up potatoes. Mama's gumbo was another one pot dish we had often a a pan of cornbread from scratch was good even for breakfast. Thanks for showing your skills to help others!! ❤
You could make some delicious bean cakes with the left over refried beans. A little flour and egg and mixed in your leftover beans and fry them up. So delicious 😊
My family calls the egg scramble dish migas! My abuela would use diced potato instead of the onion & peppers. Now, when I make it, I use the southern style potatoes. 😊
You could also try making flautas (or rolled taquitos) with the blended beans, just add diced cooked potatoes and even a bit of chorizo, you can fry them in a pan or bake them! This would also make a great budget meal!
You need flour, sugar, oil, meal, salt, big bag chicken thighs. Pasta, sauce, dry beans, rice, peanut butter. You can make a lot of stuff with basic ingredients if you cook old ways.
Hey Brooke, I would love to see a cookbook from you on how to make budget fitting meals for a family, for those with super tight budgets. Even if it is a ebook..but paper would be great!
There's a challenge called "live below the line." I think they do about the same amount per day. It's interesting to see what people come up with and at the same time, give ideas to those who live it everyday. ❤😊
I’m stretching my food dollars for one by intermittent fasting and eating only two meals per day. I’m so use to this I don’t even snack anymore. Just a suggestion.
@@jacqueline8559 Same. I've been OMAD for a while now. In the winter, I strangely realized eating keto and fasting, I was not cold and could turn the furnace down.
Brooke...you are making my husbands favorite meal...he passed away 4 years ago and when I saw you eating those beans and cornbread...all these good memories came to me...thank you and you are the best cook ever...
I love eating beans. I usually add dry chicken broth , onion and garlic to my beans. I know this is a challenge vlog for you. I enjoy the instapot but I just love having a pot of beans on my stove cooking slow all day. Thank you for your recipes. Great vlog.
We do not tax food in Oregon because we would rather cigarettes and luxury items. Everyone needs to eat! Also, I make all the beans and freeze them in 1 quart bags. It’s a huge money saver. Just found you❤️❤️❤️
This video was very fun to watch. Being on a budget can allow you to be creative with your meals. Creativity is key. I’m going to put a twist on a few things. Thanks for sharing 😂🎉😂
The title should have said Eating for less than $2 a day since it’s $1.75. But I do love these shows!! I really like how you did day by day! Looked filling and delicious 😋
What did she do 'day by day' ? It was the SAME stuff, EVERY DAY. This only counts if there's, at least, SOME variety in the 'so called' menu. Sorry to me, as a non American, this was vile. I'd have to be truly desperate. I'd rather root in bins as I'm sure I couldn't stomach this 'food' Different cultures, different foods. I'm French...
@@jacqueline8559 have you heard about the so called president we currently have and the cost of groceries in America?? If you don't like what someone cooks then don't watch it and scroll on, no need to be mean!! We are in the southern states of America and these are staples in most of our homes.
I make a similar pasta salad. The only difference is I add a little bit of Greek salad dressing, and a tiny bit of Italian dressing to the pasta and veggies and when I serve it, I put fresh Parmesan on top. It amazing for a full meal you can add grilled chicken
Brooke, I love this video!! It’s absolutely great for those that are struggling with grocery expenses so high!! Thank you so much for sharing this. 💕🙏🙏
You're right everybody should be on a food budget and learn to save money from making their food I never thought of that but that is a great concept God bless you girl😊😊🎉🎉❤❤❤
Thanks, Brooke! I made the beans in Instant Pot. I had a zucchini and some tomatoes that needed to be used. I appreciate your ideas so much because ... I'm tired and burned out on cooking, but we still need to eat! Your mission is more important than ever!
I do not live in the USA, so I could not buy, cook and therefore eat most of what you made there. I do not really enjoy cooking videos, just like frugal stuff, but!.... watching you cook and eat makes me happy! Because it makes you so happy! Love it!
Add pasta or dumplings too the beans it so good. My mother had too stretch her meals too feed 30 people so she stretched the beans and the gravy and lefted over mashed potatoes And the next week my aunt made up a huge pot of chicken and noodles and switched off each week chili ,soup beans 3 times a week. That's was the good old days of no fight just families enjoy each other.
I was very impressed with what you were able to make for meals on such a low budget! The refried beans with the added garlic looked so good! Thank you for all the good ideas!
I'm brand new to watching you. I got to tell you thank you so much for going the extra step in showing the details and really explain things. Especially when it comes to saving money. I appreciate you
I will try the tips with the tortillas: placing one on top of scrambled eggs, then turning into a mini omelette.. and chopping into pieces and creating small chips in an omelette. I already make tortillas into large chips by swiping them with oil and whatever spices you have on hand and then frying.
Hard boiled eggs would be a good protein in tge pasta salad too! Maybe do half with beans and half eggs. Oh, and beans are often in pasta salad! Usually theyre cannelini beans, but pintos work jyst as well!
You want really good protein that is easy to make - buy any type of dry/powdered milk and a small carton of plain yogurt with live cultures. Use 110 degree water - 1 cup of dry milk, four cups of the 110 degree water, mix it up real good, take your live cuture plain yogurt, 1/2 cup of that and add a bit of the warm water/milk mix into the 1/2 cup of yogurt to "prepare it" before adding and mixing the yogurt in, then cover, sit in a warm spot for 12 hours. Six ounces of yogurt can provide more protein (up to 15 grams) which is higher than two egss or two ounces of meat.
Lol, looove your banana biscuit experiment! We often have left-overs on Friday - and that means whatever is left-over gets eaten, generally mixed together creatively... delicious meals that can never be replicated. But those biscuits - those are a repeating keeper!
Once, I couldn't find Salad Supreme, so I looked it up online for the ingredients. Turns out I had everything in my cabinet except the sesame seeds. It tasted practically like it!
@@Linda211looks like her comments have all been fowl. At least, the ones I've seen so far. She seems to be a Negative Nellie or have some kind of chip on her shoulder today.
Take those dried skins off the onions and stems off apples,tops off strawberries, extra vines of tomatoes and grapes, if you're paying by wt. Reduce the excess off. What the difference if you do it at the store or at home? At home you are paying to create extra garbage. Banana stems can get trimmed down also.
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Food should not be taxed! I said what I said.
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Agreed! It's the most basic necessity for survival (besides oxygen lol).
I'm on a 64 dollar budget a month for food on disability so your video gave me a bunch of great ideas thank you you're a lifesaver
Don't forget if you need to go to one of the food pantrys. They are there to help you. I know they give out pasta and canned goods. My husband and I give to our food pantry where I live. I also grow a garden every year (I am 72) and I take fresh veggies there on the days they give out food and also to the shelter where they serve meals.
Agreed. Food pantry resources can be found at churches, charity organizations, schools, even online. Free/buy nothing FB groups. They are there for this reason, so best to take advantage of the resources.
@@theresabouwman750 Don't forget to ask butcher's in the markets for "soup bones", that way you can put these into pots of rice, pasta, grits, potatoes or vegetables to flavor them and add nutrients. Bone broth and bullion cubes are great to have around, liquid soups that you can increase water with and then add in your veggies or rice, etc.
@@theresabouwman750 don't forget to find out if there's a farmer's Food Share in your area.
@@theresabouwman750 what kind of meals do you eat? My Granny used to watch us grandchildren during Summers and would cook huge pots of chicken and rice, and potatoes with a can of Corned Beef added, and we always either had bread or cornbread with butter.
Love this video. I am 80 and on SS. Food budget is very low. This type of video is a life saver for me. Thank you.
It would be great if she did another week or two of these meals with other ingredients on the same budget.
You should do your whole family . $1 per person per meal for 7 days
I love the way she cuts around the top of the tomato. Saves every little bit + no waste.
I was 63 y.o. when I realized I let my Moma and Granny down! Somewhere along the line, I guess I so slowly stopped doing that the exact second I saw her do that! My Mama was a Depression Baby as my Grandparents had them 9 Stairstep Children before, during and after the Great Depression! 😂 They both taught myself and my Sisters this. Mama said out of the 3 girls I was Always the Uppity one.... Sorry Mother!😂
@@trudydavis6168And depending on the variety, you can save the seeds. Heirlooms are the ones to save. You can also regrow some things from your produce like celery, onions, potatoes & herbs are easily rooted in water. You can grow a lot of potatoes in pots too. If you have room, grow whatever you can. Seeds are cheap
I swear folks from the south would never starve! 😂 Something can be made from anything you got!
Country girl will survive. 😀
That’s very true
Yes ma’am
@@tiffanysamuelson9262 Amen. ~A southerner
AMEN! But don’t tell them! They’ll come down here and pounce on us! 😂😂❤️❤️
Brooke, I learned this from a young cowboy 50 years ago. If you're eating pinto beans to the point you need a flavor change, you can add a turnip along with your seasonings to a pot of beans while they cook to change up the flavor. He would toss the turnip in whole then fish it out, but I grate the turnip into the pot. The flavor of the beans changes, but they do not taste like turnips. It's an inexpensive way to avoid flavor fatigue if you're eating a lot of soup beans.
Interesting!
A rutabaga is sweeter.
How much are eggs where you live? Here n Hawaii eggs are 4.99 for 18 large eggs at Walmart
@charlottetaylor6681 ❤ I can't wait to try that!! Thank you 😊
Aha. I wondered why God made turnips!
Finally someone who doesnt waste the tomato that surrounds the stem at the top🎉
I know, love it🍅
I use it as well! 😊
@@marthasarmiento4445oh good there's so much more that way isn't there.i bet you are like me and get all the extra lotion out of bottles too 👍
I do that too. It bugs me that you can waste a big chunk of tomatoe if the stem is deep down so I too cut around it. But, when she got to the cucumber, she wasted about an inch on both ends (I thought anyway)😊
I was thinking the same since I do it this way with all the produce😊
I've recently had several huge expenses come up that have darn near devastated me. I'm a teacher, and I live alone. This is so perfect, and I appreciate the hard work that goes into these videos! I feel seen and not alone when I watch your videos and read the comments! ❤
@rachelkylie3287 ❤ Much Love ❤️
I'm alone too after my last baby left last yr. I almost don't eat. I feel like "why cook" (😢 I miss them), so watching channels like this makes me feel less alone also 😊
You have a friend in me ❤❤❤
@@terribelle3 It's been quite an adjustment since my last one left. Both of mine now live far away -- one is 4 states away and the other is in Scotland. It so hard to figure out my purpose now.
@@B_Bodziak Love and serve the Lord from your heart. That has always been your purpose hon....Ask Him, and He will show you someone in need to minister to....
@@B_Bodziak"make sure of all things, hold fast to what is fine" (1Thess.5 :21, the Bible)
@@terribelle3"hold fast" (1Thess.5 :21, the Bible)
No meat? I'm a vegetarian so this dollar-a-day is perfect. Thank you, southern frugal momma.
I would check the price per pound of dry beans at Walmart, kroger, aldi, dollar tree, and dollar general. Their prices vary depending on sales and time of month plus size of bag of beans and sometimes on brand.
Your channel and Facebook page has been a life saver, I had no clue how I was gonna be able to feed myself after paying my basic bills, being so low income in expensive florida but Thanks to you and everyone that post great ideas on FB, I'm able to to pay all my bills and eat pretty dang good. Being so low income, and realizing you cannot buy enough food for the month can be a death sentence so thank you. Also Your videos are so upbeat and your kids are funny, it makes this process enjoyable rather than humiliating. ❤
I'm in the same boat 😊
@DisabledandPrepping it's a scary boat to be in, but we got this ❤
@@henny8883 Amen 🙏
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No humiliation in being poor and surviving. You are paying your bills and doing your best. I'm proud of you. We will get through this 😊
I grow all my own vegetables. 3 types potatoes, tomatoes, chilli, garlic, onions, garlic, ginger, coriander , tyme , strawberry, raspberries, gooseberry, Bell pepper, aubergine, pears. 🇬🇧
That is the best thing you could possibly do. Congrats. Keep it up. We have chickens. You only need 4 hens to have two dozen eggs a week. No rooster needed, just for eggs.
@siempreseagull2 it puts me off that that attract mice and rats.
Would love chickens otherwise
@@HillbillyYEEHAA and chicken/rat snakes!!! We had to remove one last night! I mean my husband had to remove one. I was challenged to hold the flashlight.
@@HillbillyYEEHAA good farm cats sort out vermin. We had chickens, sheep, pigs and goats. We didn't have a vermin problem.
I hope that is helpful to consider?
Same here. Been growing and canning for 30 yrs. Now I can stews and soups too cause we’re getting older and don’t eat as much. Added chickens a couple of years ago and that has to be one our best decisions. Going to the grocery store is frightening these days.
Boiled egg in the pasta salad would have been a good protein even
I love tuna or salmon with pasta - hot or cold.
Noo 😭 lol ihage eggs haha
Cream cheese makes a good sauce. I like it with a little bullion or just salt and pepper
@@HillbillyYEEHAA Thx. I'm gonna try that :-)
If you have eggs & a little pickle relish & mayo, you can make egg salad or deviled eggs. And if you had a tomato plant, a cucumber plant, a pepper plant, a squash plant...you could extend this out a few more days. I love pasta salad with lemon juice & olive oil, parmesan cheese, bacon bits, ripe olives, tomatoes, cuke, & peppers. Seeds are cheap folks. Grow a few things & you can really extend your meals with just a few plants. I planted potatoes in pots & I just dug up my first crop & replanted. Tomorrow, I'm having new potatoes, green beans I canned from my garden, steamed broccoli. & deviled eggs. I have chickens too. I dont know about you, but I'm not eating bugs.😊 I ate plums from my own tree &strawberries from my own strawberry plants. Blueberries and blackberries will be next...I see incoming cobblers.😊 I can squeeze a nickle until the buffalo poops 🦬💩. Give me one tomato seed & I'll have 10 tomato plants before I'm done. There are several foods you can regrow too.
We don't live in America, Thank God, going by these comments. We live in Europe, where we shop at local farmers markets very cheaply. We grow strawberries, potatoes and lettuce in 'grow bags', oranges, lemons and olives from small trees, cucumber, peppers and tomatoes. Many of these can be grown in planters/ tubs. You don't need lots of land, maybe just a small driveway. The seeds to grow food are SO VERY cheap. In the Depression, in the USA, this is how your ancestors made the difference between starving and not.! You can eat healthily AND cheaply and, honestly, it's so easy to do. I hope some of you can give it a go.....as the person in the above comment said, it's a great way to eat fresh, good foods. We also gave chickens for our own eggs.
I am currently teaching children how to grow fruit and vegetables. Little does America know is we are going to have a famine. It is inevitable. I wanted to make sure the children in teach do not starve so i am hoping they take it seriously. I too have chickens for eggs but i may have to get more because they are starting to lay fewer eggs as they age. They all are almost 10 years old. 😢 And i agree you don’t need any land to grow food just space. A porch for containers will work.
I sold my large house and moved to a small property with lots of land. We are paying significantly less money for food. We grow 90% of our vegetables for the year, buy no fruit in the summer ( melons, strawberries, blueberries, ground cherries) and have fruit trees starting to produce so that percentage just goes up.
We found that for us it's not worth growing corn. Not a high enough yield for the space. Sunflowers were a more productive crop. We grow green beans but not the bean types you dry. Only grain we grow is amaranth and it's primarily for the birds. Pretty in the front yard.
We went plant based 5 days a week and eat meat sparingly on the weekends.
I buy coffee, nuts, grains, flours and pasta in bulk.
Weekly shopping trip is mainly for dairy and eggs. Petrified of getting chickens because of the coyote, snake, fox and raptor population.
@elianaisraelnc7904 - My daughter got very nervous when I doubled our garden space and added hydroponics during the first summer of the pandemic. I have a solid pantry and can, dehydrate and freeze, so this was more about keeping busy than from worrying.
Daughter decided I had done this because we were going to starve. So. Out she went out and creates 3 10x10 gardens. Didn't ask me for seeds. Planted carrot tops. pepper seeds from store bought ones, sprouted beans from one of those 7 bean soup bags. Sprouting potatoes. We called it her salvage garden. And wow did she learn a lot!
What a great lesson. She learned taproot don't grow back, but that we could let it go to seed and grow more carrots. I taught her how to make pesto with the greens. Her celery didn't do well but I gave her some lovage, a celery substitute. She got just enough chickpeas, blackbeans and kidney beans for a meal of mixed bean chili.
Fir Christmas she got quality garden equipment and seeds. She's still got a great garden 4 years later
Awesome❤
Brooke…I am single…on social security…thank you so very much for this…it was amazing…everything looked really good…thank you again…!
Liked that she substituted water for milk in the cornbread mix. Dont have to run to the store for milk.
Milk, is produced to nourish BABIES anyway. Little innocent male calves are killed, so humans can take & consume the milk their mother's made for them.
So, a baby bovine was executed, for every bit of bovine milk you consume.
That's so terrible really.
The same goes for eggs & hens. For every hen that's alive, a male chick was killed immediately after hatching, because they'll never lay eggs, and are too scrawny to be meat birds.
Keep a box of nonrefrigerated milk?
I always have evaporated milk in the cupboard
I always have powdered milk for recipes. Can't tell any difference.
This was a good video to show that we don’t need an exorbitant amount of food daily to live on.
When I was a kid, my dad was on strike for 6 months in the early 70’s. We ate biscuits and gravy for a month.
@@jacquelyndevitte4992 Yes! Eat to live, not live to eat!
@@gracengrit3995Regardles how much you eat we all need variety because despite of proteins we need lots of vitamins and minerals too.
Two things that help me...
1. Use Barilla Plus pasta. It costs a bit more but adds a considerable amount of protein instead of empty carb calories.
2. Jiffy cornbread mix makes a YUMMY COFFEE CAKE! Add a tablespoon of sugar and 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon to the mix.Then lightly sprinkle a little more sugar and cinnamon on top, then bake as directed.
Makes a great, inexpensive treat!
Outstanding tips...love it, thank you❤
Great video. The challenge I have is with so many food allergies, no flour products, no nightshades like tomatoes, potatoes and peppers, and other common vegetables along with pinto beans.
Any ideas?😋😃
@@marieallison7219 I worked at a kiddie care in the 80s. Boss had me cook jiffy cornbread and frost it with pnut butter while warm. To my amazement the kids loved that better then anything.
Myself too.😊
Peanut butter is a great protein. @@Charity-d3k
You can take one of those eggs, wash the tortillas with it, sprinkle with sugar & cinnamon and bake
You can make the whole batch of beans, portion it out, and put them in the freezer. You can season them any way you want. Season for any type of cuisine you like.
I do that. I've got a couple of different beans that I can easily grab to make refried beans or for a delicious dinner.
Exactly my thoughts.
I chop onion, tomatoes, cilantro if you like it, jalapeño or bell pepper carrots and potatoes and then I sautee onions, peppers and potatoes and carrots add tomatoes and cilantro last and then season with salt and pepper and cumin lastly add the beans and some broth or water and allow veggies to cook, it’s soooo yummy as a soup. If you have leftover ham or hot dogs sautee with the onions and continue as stated above . Eat with a yummy bread or warmed tortillas.
@@mollyscott329 I always wait to salt. The beans are more tender
Could you spell it out for me? How would you season for each cuisine?
We grew up dirt poor too. I really like you and your channel and I watch it. My mom tried to feed 7 kids for several years. My dad left us when we were all llittle for parts unknown. Back then there were no resources to corral him to help. She too was a queen of finding food to feed us. We lived on welfare with bare bones help. This was about 65 years ago. More power to you. I've gone grocery shopping in the same ideas she had.
Our mom was really poor too..made home made soap, quilts sold quilts for money to feed us❤
Brooke, when we were little Mama sometimes made a treat for us that she called sweet biscuits. She made her regular biscuits, but mixed in extra sugar and a little vanilla extract. Those things were delicious warm from the oven. It's an easy way to change the flavor and make a special treat from something so simple. Your banana biscuits brought back that memory.
@@marilyncausey9348 cut a hole out of them, deep fry and roll in cinnamon & sugar - AMAZING.
@@kelliintexas3575 I've never fried homemade biscuits, but I've fried canned biscuits like that. They're so good that I hardly ever do it! 😂 They're dangerous!
@@marilyncausey9348 my mom put homemade churned butter and brown sugar from molasses on hot biscuits. What a treat. I’m 70 now.
@@thymenabottle2515 NOW THAT was a real treat! Yum!
I love the way you show people how to prepare meals, not wasting any part of the food etc.. Believe it or not there are people that are grown adults that leave home and can't cook at all. I love your videos, thanks for showing people, how to shop on a budget. ❤
It's not a healthy diet though. Just protein and rubbish to bulk it out. In dire straits, it's survival eating the same stuff every day. If you have any outside space, even room for tubs, you can grow salad and veg VERY cheaply
@@jacqueline8559 Potatoes too, although to plant sprouting potatoes they have to be organic. The non organic ones just rot. Place pieces sprout UP and cover in soil. When that sprouts, continue to add dirt to the pot. This is because the actual TUBERS GROW DOWN.
@@2bbossfree Thank you. I'm gonna be honest as embarrassing as it is, I didn't know if the sprout went up or down. The ppl I've seen do it just say, "plant it".
in college we live on macaroni and cheese with pinto beans in it. and sometimes some ground beef. then we made a chicken pot pie with chicken legs and can of mixed veggies and chicken boullion and a can of biscuits. lots of cinnamon toast for breakfast and sweets. and then the ole ramen noodles.
@louiselynch9267 😊Heck use what you got.
We are lucky here in New Mexico, that our groceries and our prescription medications are tax free !!
Same here in Florida
@@BarbHayes-zn7fi Are you sure? I live in Naples FL and last week I picked up my prescription from CVS and I sure did pay taxes on it, alright!
You pay for it in other ways
@@ledzepgirlnmful but min wage is 12.00 and prices of food is crazy
Also, tax free food items in Iowa and Michigan, Do not know about Rx medicines as I have not had any in several decades.
I'm so thankful that one of my daughters-in-law raises chickens so the eggs are always free! (Good thing she likes me!) Some of my best childhood memories are sitting around the kitchen table snapping green beans and sorting through pintos with my great-grandmother! This video just reminds me of her. She could make a feast with next to nothing!
What a Blessing
You’re Awesome!❤❤❤🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍👍👍
When I had chickens the cost to feed the chickens resulted in the eggs costing more than if I had purchased eggs at the store, but the chickens were not caged, they roamed free during the day and had a safe night time house.
Once upon a time...I had to survive on Hot water cornbread, butter and sweet tea for about 2 weeks - the butter and delicious tea made it tolerable.
Nice to know, we never know what can happen and how we will handle it.
I became a vegetarian when i was supporting two kids, tgree dogs and a handicapped sister after a divorce. All i could afford was white bread and peanut butter. I learned to enjoy hot water because i couldn't afford coffee or tea. I now have a stockpile of food. It was the toughest period i went through
You can buy a ton of beans for 2 bucks.
I hope your life is much easier now ❤
@@PKr25-R17 thank you. Well, I'm homeless- but I have a van to live in, thank God, am now completely disabled, and...just lost my job. All this, pain, worrying sometimes, but I'm actually happy. I have quietness right now, can doze off, read books, or listen to the radio, listen to thunderstorms - one day at a time. I watch a lot of videos on NDE's and I figure this is just my personally chosen human experience. I enjoy each day now for what it offers, and, what I have to offer.
True Lime or Lemon packets are wonderful to keep on hand and none of the lime goes to waste, you use only a pack or 2 at a time
Grow a lime tree indoors, they do wonderful!
$1.75 a day is really $2 a day. It's still a great video, and your ideas are fabulous. I especially like that you specifically chose foods that you love. PS, nobody can make it $1 a day anymore.
A while back I had some bean soup I was tired of. I layered it with tortillas in a lasagna fashion. I did use a bit of cheese. It was so yummy.
One of the reasons I love these types of videos is because it really highlights how doable budget meals can be when aromatics are included.
A little onion and garlic can be a game-changer. And, switching it up by roasting the garlic was genius!
Ideas: Breakfasts(oatmeal); Lunch( PB sandwich ); Dinners ( bean and rice burritos, Mac and cheese, )
I like your meal, oatmeal, P&B sandwich, beans and rice burritos!
As a non American, the only part of this I can face eating is the breakfast oatmeal. I love using any left over vegetables, adding stock , salt and black pepper, and making homemade soups for lunches. Delicious
Peanut butter and cheese for a week would have broke her budget into smithereens. ;)
@@jacqueline8559 But do those items supply all the vitamins and minerals your body needs ? (O.K. for a limited time...say a week or so...?
You need lots of different vitamins, etc., to stay well.....😊xx💙👍🐒🐔🥑🥕🌈🏆
@@rosemariemann1719 our fruits and vegetables have like no vitamins and minerals in them any more
I'm a 1st time male cooker. Found your channel today and I'm sure I'll be glad I did.😊👍
Brooke would you be willing to share your garden journey. I know you may have already started planting. But I would love to see videos on what all you grow & what you do. I like the videos you do for budget cooking. When you were getting the vegetables it reminded me that last year you would use stuff from your garden. I think people enjoy watching you. Your sweet southern accent, smile, laughter & how honest & real you are. I know when ppl start channels it might be for a specific thing. But clearly your subscribers enjoy all aspects of you are willing to share. From the camping & spending time with your family, to the fun game you & Dusty played. Tell the family hello. God bless you all all ❤
I love to be creative and be frugal, there is no shame in being on a budget! We still can be full with healthy tasty meals! Thanks so much for sharing your recipe and to make it normal to live on a budget 😘
Brooke do not listen to haters. You are so precious!
Love all these! I made the toetilla pepper and egg scramble this morning for breakfast, adding some leftover bacon and the last egg I had and some cheddar I had on hand. It fed all 3 of us. Husband and son will be pleasantly surprised not to have cold cereal or instant oatmeal.
Chickpeas work well in cold pasta salads
Tonight I had Bushes baked beans on about to expire sourdough bread.I put butter and garlic powder with a little parsley then baked to make garlic bread.I put the beans on top .It was surprisingly good.I have a package of hot dogs will add half to the left over beans.This will be lunch and dinner tomorrow.Will still have half the hot dogs for later. Scrambled eggs with cut up hot dogs ,diced green pepper , diced onion and shredded cheese.Yes.Wonderful lady with lots of tips.I am a single senior on SS so love the recipes!
About expiring cans--cans never used to have an expiration date. People knew as long as it wasn't dented or rusting, it was probably okay no matter how old it was. Now the cans are coated with plastic inside, so even less chance of a problem. Tomato acid can rust and metal can. As a kid I ate canned stuff that was probably 10years old.
In fact after my grammie died, we found a HOME CANNED jar of sour cherries. Now they didn't live in the house with cherrie trees for more than 10 years. We wondered--are these still good? But we wanted grammie's cherries. All of us ate ONE. We figured if anyone got botulism it wouldn't be too bad with only one cherry. We were all okay, so we ate the rest of the jar. It was delicious and we all cried knowing we would never have grammie's cherries again.
I don't think I'd eat food 10 years old, but cans that are recently expired are good unless damaged.
Wheat bread with butter and BBB on top is one of my all time favorites!
I think it will taste good with banana!
That looks good!
For homemade baked beans, use leftover cooked navy beans or great northern beans. add some ketchup, some onion and some brown sugar. Taste the sauce to see if it taste right and then bake that in the oven for about a half an hour until the onion is cooked better than beans and much cheaper.
Great ideas...I add a little barbecue sauce also❤
Random veggie muffins. When I have a piece of a wilted pepper or some ends of celery that is going bad a few wilted pieces of spinach or soft Carrots, etc. I grind them all up and saute them. Either just freeze those to add to a meatloaf or soup or add a scoop of veggies and one egg- scramble slightly to a muffin pan. Bake at 350 for about 20-30 minutes until the egg is done. You have egg bites to eat for a quick breakfast. They are different every time!
Super ideas...thanks❤
I’m happy to see that you are striving to add vegetables to get those vitamins and minerals, even on such a low budget. It’s important to try to stay healthy isn’t it? Thank you for not adding tons of starches without the good things that are in the vegetables .
That makes eating interesting and healthy.
Love your video! It’s just 3 of us in my household and our food budget has been blown over time and time again with food prices being insane. I know how to cook and i know how to meal plan, but i almost always take my family grocery shopping and get talked into adding a ridiculous amount of stuff into the cart. I’m gonna have to start doing pickups or leave them at home 😅🤣 i wanted to suggest grabbing a bag of rice, lentils, and keeping a bottle of lime/lemon juice on hand as it doesn’t go bad quickly. The rice can easily be paired with the beans, make fried rice, the pinto beans of course you did amazing but also you can make enfrijoladas as well. Also, you can make a simple chili to change things up as well, if you can find chili powder inexpensive. You can also freeze all of the beans. I always make a big batch and portion them into quart freezer bags- then i can easily grab a bag for dinner and not have to worry about them going bad. My family also loves goulash- it’s super simple. Some elbow noodles, onion, kidney beans, stewed tomatoes, a little ground beef if you have it (it’s good without it too), salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, chili flakes are optional. Serve by itself, with some buttered bread, or garlic bread.
Wonderful ideas...thanks❤
This is the first $10 challenge that looked tasty! Amazing. It all looked so delicious.
Ah, roasted garlic, a gift from the gods! But I'm sure you know this. Enjoyable video.
Hi Brooke, you can do 2 more dishes.- * scrambled eggs/beans mixed together-(1st scrambled your egg, then add the refried beans and scramble together, & have it with warm tortillas. The other meal is - * Bean enchiladas (Hispanics call it "Frijoladas"- free-hol-adas) warm up your puree beans in a pan or bowl big enough to place a warmed corn tortilla into it. (some people give tortilla a quick dip fry turnover flip in a frying pan instead- optional) Then the tortilla will be dipped in beans in & out on both sides, place on a plate, sprinkle cheese of choice (Monterey, pepper jack, mozzarella- ideally Hispanics use Queso Fresco, or as last resort cheddar) then just fold like a taco and top with more bean puree sauce & cheese, and as optional add shredded lettuce, pico de gallo & dallop of sour cream (or a drizzle of "Mexican crema") and !Voila!
She has made that before I believe!
@@sonyafox3271Cotija cheese?
Thanks! I took a screenshot 👍🏻 ❤
Lovely...thank you, sounds delicious❤
Thank you!!! This is amazing! I live in rural New York. My challenge is a bit different since I’m allergic to corn, potatoes, peppers eggplant AND all fruit except blueberries. That makes it a LOT harder to accommodate 7:56 this budget since corn is the least expensive food available in the US. I choose lentils instead of pinto beans. I spent two dollars on a one pound package of Tumeric at the Indian market. Its anti inflammatory properties is essential for my arthritis. I also bought garlic.
My cheater advantage is that I live among Mennonite farms. My Mennonite neighbors deliver their surplus produce to the senior residence where I live.
I am free to glean any harvest left in their greenhouses because I have a car.
I do this after canning time in September when tomato plants still
Produce but fruits don’t turn red.
By harvesting the green tomatoes, I have an abundance of fresh vitamin c to share with my neighbors all winter. I buy canning jars at Goodwill for 10 cents each and new lids at the hardware store. I make green tomato pickles and tomato chutney. I wrap the tomatoes in the leftover newspaper ads that get left here weekly. They ripen by Christmas in the store room downstairs.
I serve hot tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches on Christmas Eve, to anyone not visiting family. We sit under the tree and sing carols.
So where you have corn, I have cabbages and onions, turnips and Brussels sprouts. And LOTS of kale and broccoli free for the asking.
We are very rich. I live better on less money than I ever did while I was working! And I am able to help my neighbors live well too!
When I buying produce that are per item not per lb, I will get 3 of the largest I can find and weight them. I'll buy the heaviest of the 3. I have no shame.
I do that too. Baskets of strawberries and such can have as much as 1/3 lb over the states weight if you choose the smaller berries.
Me too 😅
@@sterlling1 😄👍👍
I do the same with bagged produce. The weight listed is the minimum allowed. But most are over that.
I will do it with the roasted chickens or containers of fried chicken...
You are such a delight! So glad I found your channel. I grew up poor and my mom always found a way to make homemade dinners on a budget. I have the best memories of the tastiest food. Bless you for being such a great momma and showing people how it doesn’t take much to eat good. Sometimes you have to be creative but I guess that just made me appreciate different kinds of food now. And bonus-I’m great at using up leftovers to be something new the next day.
Walmart just got their hands slapped for weights not being correct. You should report this store.
@@snowcrash4286 saw that too! Definitely say something, Brooke!
Adding the beans to the pasta salad made it like a minestrone salad
yes...❤
Good job 👏🏼- I just wanted to say that Mexican dish with the fried “chips” is what the locals here on the border call “chilequiles” (?). Next time pour a little el pato sauce over top, and serve topped with a lil shredded lettuce. Salsa etc to taste 😊👍🏼👍🏼.
Wonderful, will try this, thanks❤.
From Texas, yes you are right! Chilaquiles Yum!!
This makes me so thankful for food stamps and medicare advantage card. But it's comforting to know if I have to i can and have lived on tiny food budgets.
@@serenakoleno9338 medicare advantsge is okay until you really get sick
I worked for 25 years and i only get $23 in foot stamps 😒
You are so smart and funny now I know how to eat well with little money ❤ you are such a blessing.
If you have a farmers market and go at the end sometime they don’t want to take produce home so you get it cheaper.
@@2bbossfree that is what I find too
@@2bbossfree No way , these vendors ask for regular prices at the end and if they are packing up nowadays. Some prepared food places will heavy fill your bags after a purchase though. The mushroom guy gave me a extra variety to try recently. That was nice.
I guess it just depends on you and the person and the type of produce.
I agree. Food should not be taxed😊
I love your easy quick breakfast quesadilla, gonna make it! Being a southern girl I too was taught how to cook food delicious and with little money. My mom was a divorce mom of 5 that worked as a waitress. She made the best hamburger soup with pinto beans, bell pepper, onion and a little diced tomato. We would eat it over rice and one pot would last a few days for us. Also rice is very in expensive and when combined with pinto beans makes a complete protein. Canned green beans were another staple for us. Mom would dress them up with garlic slivered onion and a few chopped up potatoes. Mama's gumbo was another one pot dish we had often a a pan of cornbread from scratch was good even for breakfast. Thanks for showing your skills to help others!! ❤
You could make some delicious bean cakes with the left over refried beans. A little flour and egg and mixed in your leftover beans and fry them up. So delicious 😊
Gotta get a recipe for that!
That sounds really good. Thanks.
Add a little sage and it tastes like sausage. My mom did that.
My family calls the egg scramble dish migas! My abuela would use diced potato instead of the onion & peppers. Now, when I make it, I use the southern style potatoes. 😊
If we didn’t have corn tortillas, we would use Fritos just as great as well. I’m from San Antonio Texas people add ketchup or salsa. Yummmmmm
Chilequiles... learned to love them in El paso! Sooooo good
You could also try making flautas (or rolled taquitos) with the blended beans, just add diced cooked potatoes and even a bit of chorizo, you can fry them in a pan or bake them! This would also make a great budget meal!
Lovely, diced potatoes, sounds delicious❤
Yep. Here in Texas migas are pretty common.
If anybody can do this its our bestie Brooke ❤❤❤❤❤
You need flour, sugar, oil, meal, salt, big bag chicken thighs. Pasta, sauce, dry beans, rice, peanut butter. You can make a lot of stuff with basic ingredients if you cook old ways.
Hey Brooke, I would love to see a cookbook from you on how to make budget fitting meals for a family, for those with super tight budgets. Even if it is a ebook..but paper would be great!
I’d say one budget saver would be just like she showed, beans n cornbread. Many a fam would have starved if not for b and b
There's a challenge called "live below the line." I think they do about the same amount per day. It's interesting to see what people come up with and at the same time, give ideas to those who live it everyday. ❤😊
You should be very proud, good for you. Way to go girl.
This budget would be a great way to frontload your food budget if you're working to build a pantry on a small budget, thanks for the ideas!
I’m stretching my food dollars for one by intermittent fasting and eating only two meals per day. I’m so use to this I don’t even snack anymore. Just a suggestion.
Meant to be a very healthy way of eating, and great for weight loss. I'm giving intermittent fasting a try
@@jacqueline8559 Same. I've been OMAD for a while now. In the winter, I strangely realized eating keto and fasting, I was not cold and could turn the furnace down.
I do this also, 2 meals a day❤❤.
Brooke...you are making my husbands favorite meal...he passed away 4 years ago and when I saw you eating those beans and cornbread...all these good memories came to me...thank you and you are the best cook ever...
No food tax in Texas. Like you said it's a human right. No need to profit from it. Great video Brooke! 😊
I love eating beans. I usually add dry chicken broth , onion and garlic to my beans. I know this is a challenge vlog for you. I enjoy the instapot but I just love having a pot of beans on my stove cooking slow all day. Thank you for your recipes. Great vlog.
When my aunt had very bad diabetes she would season everything from beans to turnip greens with either a piece of ckn or ckn bullion
We do not tax food in Oregon because we would rather cigarettes and luxury items. Everyone needs to eat! Also, I make all the beans and freeze them in 1 quart bags. It’s a huge money saver. Just found you❤️❤️❤️
This video was very fun to watch.
Being on a budget can allow you to be creative with your meals.
Creativity is key. I’m going to put a twist on a few things.
Thanks for sharing 😂🎉😂
Thanks for including fruits and veggies
The title should have said Eating for less than $2 a day since it’s $1.75. But I do love these shows!! I really like how you did day by day! Looked filling and delicious 😋
Yes I was hoping to actually see a dollar a day
But she had enough for more meals. Still encouraging. If she bought oats instead of boxed biscuits would save and go further.
What did she do 'day by day' ? It was the SAME stuff, EVERY DAY. This only counts if there's, at least, SOME variety in the 'so called' menu. Sorry to me, as a non American, this was vile. I'd have to be truly desperate. I'd rather root in bins as I'm sure I couldn't stomach this 'food' Different cultures, different foods. I'm French...
@@jacqueline8559 mean comment. Not sure what French has to do with it.
@@jacqueline8559 have you heard about the so called president we currently have and the cost of groceries in America?? If you don't like what someone cooks then don't watch it and scroll on, no need to be mean!! We are in the southern states of America and these are staples in most of our homes.
I would definitely eat all those things. Absolutely chips and bean dip. Yum!
I make a similar pasta salad. The only difference is I add a little bit of Greek salad dressing, and a tiny bit of Italian dressing to the pasta and veggies and when I serve it, I put fresh Parmesan on top. It amazing for a full meal you can add grilled chicken
Brooke, I love this video!! It’s absolutely great for those that are struggling with grocery expenses so high!! Thank you so much for sharing this. 💕🙏🙏
You're right everybody should be on a food budget and learn to save money from making their food I never thought of that but that is a great concept God bless you girl😊😊🎉🎉❤❤❤
I like that you made a bunch of food that looks yummy AND filling, thank you for taking the time to film this
Hi this is what I really need cause we're really struggling! Thank you so much!!!❤
Thanks, Brooke! I made the beans in Instant Pot. I had a zucchini and some tomatoes that needed to be used. I appreciate your ideas so much because ... I'm tired and burned out on cooking, but we still need to eat! Your mission is more important than ever!
I do not live in the USA, so I could not buy, cook and therefore eat most of what you made there. I do not really enjoy cooking videos, just like frugal stuff, but!.... watching you cook and eat makes me happy! Because it makes you so happy! Love it!
Add pasta or dumplings too the beans it so good. My mother had too stretch her meals too feed 30 people so she stretched the beans and the gravy and lefted over mashed potatoes And the next week my aunt made up a huge pot of chicken and noodles and switched off each week chili ,soup beans 3 times a week. That's was the good old days of no fight just families enjoy each other.
I was very impressed with what you were able to make for meals on such a low budget! The refried beans with the added garlic looked so good! Thank you for all the good ideas!
Unbelievable that you made those food items take you through the week. How awesome! I’ve learned a few new recipes from you. 😊
I'm brand new to watching you. I got to tell you thank you so much for going the extra step in showing the details and really explain things. Especially when it comes to saving money. I appreciate you
Canned food outlets would definitely be the best places for this challenge.
Love how you really use things as much as you can - limited waste. Excellent!
This is my first time seeing your channel and I’m very impressed with how you accomplished the challenge!
I love that you used so many fresh veggies! Way to stretch the healthy stuff, girl! You made a dollar a day look yummy 👍
I will try the tips with the tortillas: placing one on top of scrambled eggs, then turning into a mini omelette.. and chopping into pieces and creating small chips in an omelette. I already make tortillas into large chips by swiping them with oil and whatever spices you have on hand and then frying.
This is amazing. Everyone on a budget needs to see this - you are so engaging as well. Thank you!
Absolutely, LOVE, LOVE,your videos, your take on keeping people fed, and the joy you bring to all of us!!! Blessing to you and your beautiful family.
Hard boiled eggs would be a good protein in tge pasta salad too! Maybe do half with beans and half eggs.
Oh, and beans are often in pasta salad! Usually theyre cannelini beans, but pintos work jyst as well!
Could have put a bit of the green pepper in the pico !
Here in Nebraska, we do not pay tax on food! No state should tax food, that is a necessity for people to survive!!!
We do pay tax in Missouri on food.
I just loved when you took a bite of the beans and cornbread! I love me some beans and cornbread ❤
You want really good protein that is easy to make - buy any type of dry/powdered milk and a small carton of plain yogurt with live cultures. Use 110 degree water - 1 cup of dry milk, four cups of the 110 degree water, mix it up real good, take your live cuture plain yogurt, 1/2 cup of that and add a bit of the warm water/milk mix into the 1/2 cup of yogurt to "prepare it" before adding and mixing the yogurt in, then cover, sit in a warm spot for 12 hours. Six ounces of yogurt can provide more protein (up to 15 grams) which is higher than two egss or two ounces of meat.
Awesome❤
Lol, looove your banana biscuit experiment! We often have left-overs on Friday - and that means whatever is left-over gets eaten, generally mixed together creatively... delicious meals that can never be replicated. But those biscuits - those are a repeating keeper!
Once, I couldn't find Salad Supreme, so I looked it up online for the ingredients. Turns out I had everything in my cabinet except the sesame seeds. It tasted practically like it!
That's an excellent idea! I'm going to look it up!👍😊❣️
@@sonyafox3271 That's not nice!!
@@Linda211looks like her comments have all been fowl. At least, the ones I've seen so far. She seems to be a Negative Nellie or have some kind of chip on her shoulder today.
You can do the same with taco seasoning. Look up the ingredients--much cheaper and you control the salt.
All looks yummy.
I watched the video and had to get up out of bed and get something to eat
Same, lol❤
Thank You!! Obviously eating well is possible when the money is so tight! 🎉
I just love your style girlie ❤Appreciate the REAL world no nonsense how to’s!! You’re the best!!
Take those dried skins off the onions and stems off apples,tops off strawberries, extra vines of tomatoes and grapes, if you're paying by wt. Reduce the excess off. What the difference if you do it at the store or at home? At home you are paying to create extra garbage. Banana stems can get trimmed down also.
Tops off strawberries? Unsanitary and uncouth. Nobody does that.
You could put a wet towel underneath the cutting board to keep it still ❤️❤️ Love you Brooke!!