I Tried Living off £10 for a WEEK | $13 Aldi Food Budget Challenge 2022
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- In this video I show you my attempt at living off £10($13) for one week, thats 7 days, 3 meals a day. I did the majority of my shopping in Aldi, I have also included the meal plan that I used in the video so feel free to use it as inspiration.
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I really enjoyed doing this £10 Aldi budget food challenge and i learned a lot in the process, i learned that being vegan really helps me keep my costs down and that you have to make a meal plan if your on a strict food budget
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A budget hint for the future: bags of dried lentils and beans work out far cheaper than the tinned varieties. With tins, half the weight is the liquid they're packed in. Buying dry lentils and beans does meaning planning ahead, as you will need to presoak them unless you have a pressure cooker.
I agree. We eat some kind of beans almost daily and save loads of money. One point: no need to soak lentils.
aldi annoyingly don't sell bags of lentils/beans, and I live too far from the big tesco/asda supermarkets rip...
You have to consider the expensive heating energy!
Keep up the good work man!! I'm on day 11 quit smoking and drinking and videos like this motivate me, love cutting costs to pay for other things
Great way to save money! Hoping you are still successful!
I'm on week 3 of quitting. Hope you're staying strong.
I also just stopped both of those horrible habits 13 days ago. It feels so much healthier.
I’m in that in between stage of thinking and doing the quitting smoking and drinking - drinking would be the first one to go I think?
@@Bessie66 yes the drinking goes first, so you can have more willpower. Try Alan Carr's how to quit smoking audio book. He also makes a audio book called Easy way to control alcohol.
As a nutritionist, I appreciate him choosing to try to pick nutrition over convenience. Finally, someone picked up fruit- bananas!
Did you see him make anything from scratch? Everything was tins and jars, he could get untold vitamins from cabbage, baby spinach and lots of other vegetables... Stir-fry cabbage, onion, chips and rosemary herb is 80pence meal that's got more vitamins in it than those Bananas at 69p, and cost just little more than a tin of soup and cheap bread... He should try baking his own bread, take a couple of hours most of which is proving, you can read a book with a cup of tea and biscuits while it does so. £1.00 of 1.5kg strong bread flour will get you about 4-5 small loaves of bread or 3 large ones that cost 33p each small loaf, plus yer electricity so about 50p but the taste is just delicious.... Seriously if he carried on with that diet for a few months he'd be spotty, a fat gut from all those carbs, and his nervous system won't stand up to winter and viruses, he'll be down the doctor's and he'll walk away from there with pills and that's where it starts.
@@johnmacaroni105 post us yer £10 challenge video for the week then…🤓
@@johnmacaroni105 the problem is that expires quite quickly. Buying fresh food in bulk, works but not in the long run unless you have a freezer.
Thanks for this video. I am going t have to live like this ( and already have been to some extent ) for the forseable future due to the rising costs of living and especially the hikes in fuel prices. I see lots of comments from Americans about how cheap food is here but remember petrol (gas) ia much more expensive here in the UK and the average electrcity and gas bills are rising really fast and by huge amounts. We are also very heavily taxed and wages are comparitively low. I am on a minimum wage of £9.50 per hour and that does not go a far at all. I never eat out, never buy take away - not even drinks, I can't afford biscuits, chocolate, fizzy drinks, meat, and eat low budget food all the time. Some days I do not eat anything as I have no money to buy any food. This is not a pity party, I am just telling it like it is.
Oh no. I hope you don’t go hungry, there are food banks too that are there to help. So many people take the basics for granted. Thanks for sharing!
@@plantbasedwell-being3309 Food banks are great but sadly I am not eligable to use them as I am not in recieipt of benefits...
@@kitchenworker446 you can ask your doctor to refer you even if you work
@@crystalscrochet6484 Really? I have never heard of that before...
@@kitchenworker446 yes you can speak to your doctor and let him/her know your struggling I have one near me and know the owner they give u a referral card to take to your local food bank or contact your local citizens advice my food bank does shop aswell 10 items for £5 and not crap stuff either maybe pop into your local one and see what offers they have on
Im not a vegan but your vid has given me some cheap, nutricious meal ideas.
Thanks for posting.
Be interested to know how much same shop now costs. Excellent demonstration of living frugal and vegan.
It’s awful that The cost of everything is going up so much lately. This video and videos like these will be very helpful to a lot of people. Myself and family included. I do the best I can with budgeting but it’s always great to learn more. I make cooking videos so I cook a lot and I appreciate learning ways to make cooking more budget friendly from you. I hope we can learn more from each other. Thank you so much for sharing your budget friendly tips.
Hi Jonathan, this is another great video. One of the best 10 £ challenges I've seen. Very inspiring, thank you.
Great job Jonny! Content like this is more important than ever so thank you! Wish we had Aldi in Canada. Seems like it would cost me 25 to 35 Canadian dollars if not more for everything you got. Everyone please remember if you are currently facing food insecurities please seek help. Please contact your local food banks, churches, libraries, police and fire stations and schools to see what help they can offer.
I did this and it was $38.85
I have a very different life from you. I have 6 children and I live in Canada, where our food prices are quite a bit higher than yours. But I love seeing challenges like this! It’s so inspiring to see how you make your dollars (pounds) stretch. Thank you for sharing.
I don't eat meat every day but I do buy one whole chicken for bone broth too stretch out over the months meals. I always buy 1 whole chicken,8lbs. Potatoes ,2lbs. Carrots,5lbs. Flour all purpose or self rise, 3lbs onion,2 loaves if bread, 4 dozen eggs,1-48 oz. Bottle of veggie oil,1 bottle knorrs chicken boilloin French dip,1 gallon milk,1 -16 oz of whipping cream. For biscuits. And a head if each cauliflower & broccoli. Prep all veggies and freeze till ready too use them.
So affordable!! Can't get over how much cheaper things are in the UK!!
This would all add up to close to $30 Australian, even taking into account the conversion rate we're still paying sooo much more for our groceries!! If I took this same shopping list to my local Aldi I would have to pick and choose and would need to leave out probably half of the items you bought in order to keep within what this spend would convert to, which is about $17.50 Australian dollars, so you are lucky to be able to buy so many things at such a low cost!
Having said that though I really appreciated that this was a vegan challenge/meal plan being vegan myself and also definitely agree that eating this way does help to keep the costs down.
I'd love to see another one of these kinds of videos if you were up to doing another challenge again sometime so encourage you to consider this, it was really helpful and inspiring! Thanks
i was thinking that as well - we in NZ. Feel like going out and getting same ingredents and seeing how much in NZD.
I’m in Canada and I thought it would be $40 at least here
@@debbieblincoe9880 if you do I would like to know how much it comes to even if you are able to just put it in an online store app and price it out. I live in North Pole Alaska
this isnt normal prices, this is aldi. its similar to lidl. its all cheap and bad quality. its for lower class people.
Lol it’s not bad what are you on? Very good and cheap, I’m in italy
At the beginning of summer, due to the high cost of a loaf of bread, I started to buy the store Italian loaf at $1.00 last week it was $1.47.
Johnny, go for cabbage, chips, onion and rosemary herb stir-fry.. It's on TH-cam, well filling and cost about. 80p a meal.. You'll get 5 meals from a average size cabbage.. Cabbage is really good for you... Ask any Polish person.
I have watched almost all budget meals on TH-cam and i like yours best so far. To me, an Asian living in the US, your meal plan look healthy and tasty.
You did so well! The dinner recipes looked great and the cous cous tofu lunch 😋 Well done! So glad I found your channel today 😁
In my house what I consider staples are herbs & spices, condiments, coffee/tea, rice, beans, butters/spread & breads....great vid, planning & budgeting are definitely keys to success in this ever changing price gouging world
That was really interesting and I think I do try and keep costs down but I would tend to shop for 3-4 weeks cook up larger batches and freeze them also I tend to make a lot of my own soup and freeze it there are many soups you can make very economically which are nutritious - I am really not a fan of pre made food of any kind!.
It is as you said harder but easier as long as you plan, but that is something more of us will have to do I think and actually it is more like the way people used to live and shop!!
Bacon rolls milk Bacon rolls am Bacon rolls pm. Add a few tomatoes or onions. 8 to 9 a week split Bacon into am_ pm lasts longer
It really confuses me when people say being vegan/plant based/vegetarian is more expensive. I went veggie when I moved out and had to be more cost conscious and it was the best way to keep to a budget and made me eat so much healthier!
Quite a bit of food for this challenge! Refreshing to see a challenge w/o eggs everyday for breakfast!
I would be curious to see how much this shop would cost now with rising prices - I really like your selection.
I have seen loads of food budget challenges, but this is the best one so far, regarding nutrition and variety. I think i will steal the ragu and tofu recipies definitely! Well done to you.
It’s easier for a single person to do this. It also requires you being committed to eat left overs. Well done.
Great recipe ideas mate. Think we should all try and budget our meals, even if we don't have to as there might come a time when it's necessary
Brilliant video especially when times are tough for so many ppl, definitely agree with planning ahead. I alternate between Lidl, Aldi & Asda. Organic beans & pulses I buy in bulk packs online works out cheaper than tinned (as long as you have an instant pot & soak overnight).
Great idea, and one 10$ week can stretch over to the next , like garlic and onion . Spices and such . At least now we know this is very doable 😸
I can do it for less money because I like me cigarettes and cider, cook from scratch using all the cheap home grown vegetables and you'll save a small fortune. Baked me own bread for the same price as the cheapest bread in the supermarket and it tastes so much better than the most expensive at the supermarket,,, when Just out the oven it's just absolutely gorgeous with melting real butter none of that artificial stuff. Just just out of this world.
£10, not $10.
You did a great job with this (lm vegan and find if I stay on wholefoods its a lot cheaper)its the treats that take your money!!!😀
Oh, I didn't even notice the lack of meat.
Yeah I stopped drinking over a year ago and since last July I started proply saving abit. coins wise been saving them for years I have my own savings accounts good to have more then one I'll have to try going aldi and try this I get the bus for free so that dun cost keep up the awsome videos bro from wales
Great video! First time watching but definitely want to see more of your content ££££ ☺️
Those prices are shockingly cheap to me. Those items at my cheapest store would cost about $40. The canned tomatoes alone would’ve been $10. The spread, bananas and jam would be another $10. Great job!
which store is that, do you live outside of the UK?
If you consider batch cooking, the extra portions can be frozen in glass (jam jars) since I don't like plastic containers. Just don't fill jars to the top since any liquids expand slightly in the freezing process. This saves on energy costs.
Hey Jonathan hello from the United States can’t wait to watch this video just found it I’m realizing it’s four months old but it’s the first video of yours I’ve come across I’m a new subscriber can’t wait to watch hoping to move to England in the future
A 1 kg bag of rice of rice will be cheaper than a boil in the bag version and you will get at least ten 100g portions from the bag of rice. I'm not vegan and go to the supermarket after Xmas and new year and buy meat that's between 90p and £2 to fill my freezer, I can easily spend £110 on the meats that are reduced by 60% or more.
Could of got some oats! Also cheap and could have put the jam on top for some flavour. Also you can grind them up into flour and make wraps or pancakes out of them
Great ideas here. Thanks
A really creditable effort. Well done. As someone with more time on my hands i could probably shave back a little more by not using the convenience versions of several things you opted to use, but I know that's not always an option if you are very busy in life. The only thing that really surprised me was the white loaf. Wholemeal, such as Hovis is literally twice as filling and much, much better for you than white bread. It's worth paying a little more for this!
That was an eyeopener. Well done you and I shall try this myself. What a great experiment that could be adopted by everyone :-)
In Australia , The tomatoes you bought are 98 cents a tin. The lentils are $1.10 a can . Bananas are $3.99 a kilo Bread is $1.40 for the cheapest white bread Can of soup $1.20 hope this helps a bit .
In 2023, I do this on jobseekers by buying 15 eggs every fortnight, 2pts milk every 4 days, frozen veg and home baked bread (much healthier and more filling than sandwich bread) and several tins of baked beans.
Hey man really enjoyed your video great work. Any chance you could do an updated video which shows the difference in food costs due to the cost of living 🤔 I'm quite the Aldi shopper and seeing this video shocked me on how much the little purchases have increased. Great work keep it up thanks
Excellent informative video. Thank You !
This is the best upload I have seen. So really I could live on £20 per week. Thanks❤
People outside of the UK forget that our food can be so cheap because our serving sizes are typically a lot less than many other countries. We get less for our money but that’s normal to us, it doesn’t mean we are better off, it’s just something the bear in mind. We were raised to eat less so we spend less.
You did so well I must try it myself 💙💙
First. Great video. You put a lot of effort to it. :)
Second. I am really surprised, how cheap is food in uk. In czech, we've got a pretty lower average wage and a lot of items three or four times more expensive. Even worse in this inflation spiral. Lucky you! This is something that will not save our cheap excellent beer :D
This was fab to watch- well done 👏🏼
Honestly, I wasn't sure how you would do this, you did an awesome job!
He could have saved more dosh by cooking from scratch... Too much tin stuff and that cheap bread? Well I don't know, tesco cheap Brown bread comes out the toaster like cardboard... Luckily I learned through watching TH-cam videos how to bake bread, it's easy and it's delicious.
That is impressive! Like your style xxx
I love this plan. I"m going to do it next week. thx
I’m also vegan, live simply and I am frugal even though we don’t have to be anymore. I think it’s important to consume less. Loved this video.
Great meal plan ! Not easy to do at all ! I would of made those tinned tomatoes into a basic tomorrow purée soup so could have that with bread then use other half
For pasta sauce ! I love these types challenges as makes you think outside the box !
Very good. Potato’s are cheap, versatile and filling. I think long term you are a bit short of calories if you have an active lifestyle
Short on calories??? Seems plenty to me unless you're some sort of ultra marathon runner
Wow, the prices are so much cheaper in the UK. I go to Aldi's in the US and even after converting to pounds your bread is only a quarter of the price. It's nearly three dollars for bread here. Everything else is a lot cheaper too.
bull. rip off britain dearest place on the planet
Excellent!
Great video I would of had banana sandwiches with a sprinkle of sugar from store cupboard as I love them. But you did have a lot of choice brilliant for ten pound x
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Great video. Can't believe you got all of that for £10. Good job.
Vegan here and new subscriber😀😀Brilliant menu for 10 quid !! Blessings from S/W Wales 💚
That is incredible!! Amazing job!! Can’t believe all these ingredients were only £10!!
High quality food = high quality health + high quality brain function = Success
Lovely budget🙌👍🤛
Love your videos! I'm just wondering what kind of caloric intake is average per day on the menu plan for that particular week. Our USDA recommends a 1600-3000 calories per day, based on gender /metabolism.
Some of the prices of these basic ingredients have gone up nearly 50% since this video 2 years ago ridiculous inflation 😮😢
In the USA, it would be cheaper and more nutritious to use dry lentils and brown rice, soak them both until they just sprout, then cook. You cook sprouted lentils & rice for less time and they are about 10 times more nutritious. But cans sure make it faster and easier.
That said, you did a great job for this challenge!
I had no idea to soak rice or lentils. I didn’t know they would sprout. It does sound more flavorful. Thank you!
Blimey! £10.00 for a week? ... I'm REALLY tight when it comes to food shopping at Aldi, and with the price rises, my weekly shop is now £30 - £40 per week, just for me, and that's buying the cheapest of the cheap!
More cooking videos would be nice.
Whether we spend £10 or 40, we use cupboard essentials such as herbs.
The frozen peppers are a bonus.
Think I need to go to aldi as I just priced it at asda and it's almost 14 pounds. All the meals look delicious ccc
First of your videos I've seen. New subscriber from the USA> It's interesting to hear "the normal beans on toast". that's not normal here. I love to see how people around the world eat. THanks!
This was an interesting watch! 6 months late, but don’t suppose you know what the kcal & macro content for each day? It looks tasty but looks like it would be quite low in kcals and protein.
Amazing
I liked the spaghetti and other varied meals you made. Different than US videos good job! Do another😊
ive just learnt to jazz up baked beans get some canned tomatoes and add a couple tablespoons of it to the beans and its very saucy. btw where is the fat in this week on, besides the sunflower spread?
Nice video. I see you have not purchased any drinks, so I assume you only drink tap water? I couldn't do without my tea.
White bread, pasta, noodles, all turns into the same stuff in the body, sugar. But it’s fine bc you’re eating w fat and/protein and you’re not overweight and likely don’t have diabetes. Good stuff, keep up the great work! 👍
A great video, with some excellent choices. You even had 13p left over! I envy you being able to shop in an Aldi, as where I live we aren't allowed to have ALDI or LIDL.
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Why aren’t you allowed an Aldi’s or Lidl? Are u allowed to say…🤔
@@plantbasedwell-being3309 I live on an island. The local government are greedy incompetent idiots who strictly control who is allowed to operate here. We have three supermarket chains: Waitrose, Co-op and Morrisons, which is run by a very greedy company here that has friends in government. It's this reason why we'll never be allowed to have a LIDL or an ALDI, even though a lot of the poorer people here would be helped out immensely by it.
Crazy how cheap food is over compared to the US. Great video, some great ideas.
Brilliant
Thanks for this tip I am very frugal as well I even dont have a cell phone bill using Text now wireless on a old I phone SE 2020. 10 dollar is kind of hard for me because I do not drive as as student and the only store that is near are Dollar Tree that has a frozen section which the price of 1.25 per item. Keep it up I will have to also think out side of the box
You did great
Would love to know what the ingredients would cost nowadays???
I like tesco 20p rice pud or 22p beans. Come in very handy.
Never shopped at Aldi.
Clearance section can be really good in coop late at night
Thats very useful right now..They dont seem to do Tofu any more. I priced up everything from their website as described by you as close as poss and including the £1.50 for tofu (which youd have to get elsewhere now and I dont know how that price may have changed) as of today 18 november it comes to £12.86.
i wondered this myself, thank you for finding out, what a huge difference!
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So I think pepper and salt should be included. Sure it is only 2p per use but the pepper mill is £1.49 and the sea salt grinder is another 1.49 so both are £3. If you are living off £10 that £3 is a big part of the budget
That was 10 months ago lol, let's do a re-run !!
Cries in American with your food prices. I know the full cost of living evens out mostly overall, but man I miss how little I could get by on in the UK food wise! Spending about $700/month(£570) buying the bare bones now. When I long for my British faves, its 4-5x as much. And especially bread, it is so sweet here and 10-12x as much for basically a small sugar loaf. I use these plans as a basic budgeting tool though, minus what costs an arm and a leg in the states.
Brilliant video well done yes being vegan helps the budget.
If I were to get the same groceries (although natural, because you can't find canned food in Brazil), I'd be spending around 2020~250 R$, which in turn amounts to €40+. And I'd go hungry, because I probably eat 50% more than that. So make is €55 to live *decently* in Brazil.
Oh how I wish I lived in Europe.
Our canned tomatoes in Australia at Aldi alone are 79 cents
Buy some self raising flour next go to make scones and pancakes or quick bread like banana bread or coffee cake, it's cheap and would give you a lot of options😊
The food seems heavily subsidized in the Uk. Aldi do not have these prices in other countries. The onions in the net tube cost 1.75€ the bread well over a € . The Uk prices are unreal. Congratulations on the planning and the cooking.
All of the major U.K. supermarkets have launched a very basic or essential range for economy shopping Aldi’s didnt used to have a specific ‘essential’ range. With energy/fuel prices & cost of borrowing (mortgages) going much higher now something has so give…
@@plantbasedwell-being3309 That sounds good. In other countries I have always noticed that our shopping list cost is very difficult to reduce, nigh impossible. That ordinary uk supermarkets had alot of extremely cheap food products. However energy prices in the uk were way above quite a few other countries.
Are you do this in uk
Great video. Nice variety.
I also find that going vegan has helped trim my grocery
The prices will not be the actual ones. But even 5 months ago they were incredible. What would all these items cost today?
Aldi is the same
Lentil bolognese sounds good
well done lad i wish my son was this sensible
So I typed it in my supermarket app and found out that in Germany this shop would cost 25 euro with the inflation and stuff its just ridiculous expensive here now. It's 1,5 times as much as you payd but euro pound course is today 1,18€ to 1pound
As a vegan myself thank you so much for sharing this 🌱
Great selection, especially for cooking. Carrots so cheap