28 Lunches for $28 (Extreme Budget Back to School Lunches)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ค. 2024
- This week I challenged myself to do an Extreme budget week of lunches for my kids. 7 days, 4 lunches per day for $1 each! Can I do it? Shop with me, cook with me, and see what's for lunch at our house this week. This will also probably be our cheapest Walmart grocery haul 2020.
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Budget Back to School Lunch Ideas (28 Lunches for $28)
Walmart Shopping list
Veggie straws $1.98
Mach and cheese $.68
Pancake mix $1.64
Peach yogurt $.96
Peanut Butter $1.58
Canned Corn $.50
Eggs $.68
Crackers $1.98
Wheat bread $.84
Ham $2.48
Tortilla $1.33
Oranges $1.24
Baby carrots $.98
Sliced cheese $1.98
Cucumber $.74
Broccoli $1.17
Pepperoni $2.63
Pineapple $1.98
Apple Sauce $1.98
Bananas $.93
TOTAL $28.28
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Jennifer, thank you for touching on the fact that you had leftovers at the end of the week. That’s my biggest problem with most of these extreme budget challenges. If you have hard times it’s not usually for just one week. If you purchase off brands, so they are cheaper, or can buy a larger item, that costs a few cents more, you can stretch those items into the next week and be able to use some of the next week”s budget for different things. Also, Walmart has a wide variety of seasonings for about $1. If you just use $1 of your budget, each week, to buy a different seasoning, before long you’ll have a good collection. Most anything can be tasty if seasoned well! I’m very blessed not to have to worry about my food budget any more, but, I’ve been there! You’re doing a great job of teaching others how to shop smart and stretch their food budget, all while making it fun!
Your welcome LOL
The fact that you literally written this whole message to the family fudge that you didn't have to do means how much family fudge means to you 💖
Love that this is a more "Normal" lunches. Not all of the snacks and ranch. More like we are eating in the Nederlands. With fun ideas.
There’s no such thing as normal. We live in USA and the snacks are normal to us.
I agree and I live in the uk 🇬🇧
Eens
@@annies6566 I live in the USA and this is more "normal" for me and mine as well. Well balanced lunch with out the snacks and sugar. Sweet treat is the fruit.
Same in Sweden!
Can you make some lunches for kids with sensory issues? (Ex: Not too many different textures, not too spicy, "Comfort Foods" mostly.)
Yes please! Great idea!
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Yes! I had sensory issues as a child, and that would have really helped me!
don’t lie to me whoever you are, I’M professor hidgens!!!
@@dorothayy Yesss!
Yesssss budget lunches I'm gonna need them as a high schooler making lunch for my little sis
Wow thanks for all the likes 😁
How about ur mom or dad ples aswer
Fakeha Saleh Its really none of your concern who’s feeding her and why.
Ja’nay period.
Ja’nay ummm u okay luck chill bro u need some help
Fakeha Saleh I’m perfectly fine, that’s just disrespectful..
"I suppose not everybody has an aldi so I went to Walmart instead"
*me living in the UK where I know of 1 Walmart over 2 hours drive away vs the 3 aldi stores within 30 minutes of eachother*
Haha in the US Aldi stores are very regional. The west coast has Trader Joes and Grocery Outlet, the east coast has Aldi. I'd never seen an Aldi until I moved cross country at 36. 🤷 But Walmart is everywhere.
No Aldi in Canada :(
I also live in the uk lol, I know so many Aldis, no walmarts though lol
IridescentEthereal you aren’t missing much, Walmart is horrible.
There is no aldi nor walmart where I live. We only have stores that are nowhere else in the world and some lidls lol
if you keep some of the cooking liquid from the pasta when making mac and cheese, you can add that instead of water and butter to save
Gross
ooooooo I never knew that TYSMMMMMMM!
@@marlenealcaraz-rodriguez4853 I think it's good because the mac water has starch
@@marlenealcaraz-rodriguez4853 lol just be thankful u havent had to be desperate enough to try it
@@marlenealcaraz-rodriguez4853 be happy you haven’t had to struggle
I don’t have any kids but I love using these lunch ideas for myself and roommates. We are college students and all on a tight budget.
We double or triple up on the veggies and it’s still such a great money saving deal!!
.68 cents for eggs?!? That’s amazing! You’re so lucky! I can’t believe most of the items were under a $1.00! Great video! Hope you guys are well!🤗❤️
I know right - here an dozen cost 2.68$ Canadian.
Yes does prices are Craz!! I leave in Chicago Suburbs and is not as cheep as we’re you at lucky 🍀
It happens all the time where i am at
The Prices of these are quite strange as where I live every thing is just a bit more expensive - but the I suppose here in Australia we have Tax or GST (whatever you want to call it) all-ready added on when we look at the price. I find it strange how when you see the price you have to keep in mind tax, I think it would be easier to shop over here because it would be easier to work out the price of an item inc. GST/Tax (bc you get it).
Like when you shop at Aldi it seems quite different to the Aldi over here.
Taxes there r higher than it is here that's y they add it right away cuz it really adds up
@@itsme-mt2fo okay --> I do like them being added our taxes are all over the place. Like one fruit it might be low then on on another it is high.
#taxationistheft
Most grocery food items are exempt from taxation in the majority of states in the US (including Florida, where I believe they were shopping). Candy, soda/bubbly soft drinks, chewing gum, alcohol, prepared food that's ready to eat like grab-and-go salads or sandwiches, and dietary supplements ARE taxable in many states where other groceries are otherwise not taxed.
Many of the items she bought today are "loss leaders" i.e. items that are sold at less of a markup or even below cost as a way to get shoppers to choose their store vs competitors. Milk in some stores costs a DOLLAR per GALLON in my state--which is less than the store usually would pay for it and honestly less than it should cost to produce. They hope that the cheap milk/eggs/meat/whatever will bring shoppers in to do all their shopping...including items that have a larger markup so the store still profits.
My subscriber lunch is!
Main course: Shepard's pie with peas running through it
Veggies: raw carrots with ranch
Fruit: fresh pineapple
Drink: water
Special treat: rice crispy treats
Name: Amy
Live in: Ireland
I've never seen Shepard's pie on this channel and I think you will all like it
Love, Amy❤️
thank you! i am an older sister to a 7 year old and she loves taking her own lunches to school! this gave me a lot of ideas and will hopefully help with future mornings!!
I’m very surprised how far all the 28 dollars is went that was a great video btw
Hello congrats on 600k
thanks :)
Ya congrats!
@@Thefamilyfudge congratulations
I grew up with pancakes served with apple sauce and sugar. Still my favourite combination but I never saw anyone outside Germany do this.
Her :
I was going to go to aldi but not everyone has aldi, so i will go to walmart
Me:👁👄👁
I only have aldi
:)
;)
Lol 😸 I love your chat
I only have walmart what Aldi
Same here.
Yes! Thank you. What I was looking for. My husband has been laid off since March (covid) and we are on such a tight budget. I need good but ridiculously frugal lunches for my school aged kids right now. Thanks!!
Jennifer: Nobody has an Aldi
Me: living in Germany where Aldi is everywhere 👁👄👁
I live in the USA and I’ve never seen an Aldi before 😂😂😂
I live in Canada, no Aldis here =(
she didn’t say nobody has one she said that not everyone have one
Me in Australia loving Aldi
@@sharlalamarche2692 what is your Point?
Darn I wish we could find prices like that here in Hawai'i. Thanks for sharing all your wonderful ideas.
When i grew older i wanna be just like you! You look like an amazing mom!♥️
thank you sm for making budget foods! even though I don't have kids it makes me happy to see that you are making it easy for everyone to get food. love your kids, and your channel! 🥺
Love these ideas! Thank you for sharing. I appreciate all the hard work and details you put into your videos ❤
As a single parent to a toddler I need all the help I can get :)
My estimated total for these items at Walmart here (up in Canada) was almost $51 😅
Exactly I would say double easy!
Agreed my grocery bill with two older teen boys and hubby averages now 330 a week, they eat like men........even for lunch all these meals easily 50 to 60 bucks for the week. Heck mac n cheese here is over 1.49 a box.
Same... even buying cheap/budget, there's no way I could get all of that for anywhere close to $28 CAD, let alone $28 USD.
Agree! I live in rural remote Canada and this would be $50-60 at least. That pineapple alone would be at least $5
Wow! Why so expensive? Tax?
Hi, Jennifer! This was such a helpful video! All of the lunches looked really appetizing. What struck me was how most everything was gobbled up! There was very little left uneaten. Thanks for sharing these budget friendly ideas. I'm certain we all can use a little budget help now and then! 😉
Congrats on 600 k!!! 🎉 Thank you for these great budget friendly lunch ideas!
Thanks, and you are so welcome!
7:01 I love how the mustered looks like a smiley face 😊
Omg congratulations on 600k!!! I’ve been a fan for a long time! I know you have tons of fans but I comment to almost all your vids and you comment back a lot! It means so so much to me! You are so amazing and your family is so organized and when I came across your channel for the first time I got super into making lunches fun and cute! You are an inspiration and I am so happy I get the chance to watch your videos! I hope everyone is staying safe during the time and I hope you all are having a good day/night! Thank you for making this video, I always enjoy your vids!!! ❤️❤️❤️
I love how you put alot of hard work in it so your kids are happy ❤️
I LOVE this! There’s just something about scoring a lot of food for a great price! I love the healthy options too.
Hi family fudge, thank you so much for making all these wonderful videos. They are so fun and I think you should do a "spin the wheel to get your lunch budget, video" I watch your videos all the time and they are always so entertaining!
I only have 1 child and one of her favorite lunch for school is hotdogs! So I send 2$ and have 8 lunches
If u put some butter in a pan and cut ur hotdogs its really good!
Love these budget friendly lunches!! Always want to less money, quick and easy lunch ideas/meals!!
Congratulations on 600K
.....WOW thats honestly SO AMAZIIIIIIIING💞💞💞
YAY SOMETHING TO DO
“It might be cheating, but I don’t mind.”
Me: ye but EVERYONE else might 😂
Yeah bc people genuinely in this situation are forced to mind😭
I mean most people already have Mayo or miracle whip or some kind of condiment like that on hand, and if you don't, a little container of it is super easy to get. And if anything you don't HAVE to have it for a sandwich. I've had plenty of sandwiches with just meat and cheese because we were out of mayo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
love watching your vids so relaxing
I love the added list idea! Awesome job!
Also just so you know! your pancakes are ready to flip when the bubbles at the surface are big, they pop, and when they pop they leave a small hole/crater. That way you don’t have to prematurely flip anymore :)
When are your lunch kits coming back i really want one but if i try to order everything from the kit seperately it ends up being 100$
OMG 600k JENNIFER GIRL LIKE YOU ARE AMAZING CONGRATS!🎊🎈🎉
New to your channel. I think you’re adorable and so inspiring. I guarantee your kids will remember this long after they’re grown. I always put love notes on my girl’s napkins. My mom did too. To this day my daughters talk about it and love when I slip them notes.
Subscriber lunch: Main course: ramen with a fried egg or without. Fruit: cherries. Veggies: cucumbers with French dressing or ranch. Treat: banana muffins Drink: milk or blue raspberry lemonade. Name: Julia. Age: 12. From: Boston Massachusetts please notice me I’ve been watching u for a while with love
Hey Julia! I’m from Massachusetts Too!
I literally used this video to make a meal plan and grocery list for my homeschooled son this next week 🤣 thank you!!
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Love these kind of lunches! Great ideas!
I love budget videos! They help a lot
Love these vids
I find these kind of videos very interesting i love your videos keep on with the great content! 👍 😊
600k yayyyy! Well deserved 👏 my fave channel :)
Love your videos so much... Thanks for all your hard work!!!
I was gunna comment that looks like a courgette but then I heard ya say regular cucumber. And we’re from England so we have the other cucumber. And I also loved the part when ya said “then I can call it banana sushi”. And it made me crave sushi more than I already was
Can you do a week of veggie or vegan lunches? Love all your ideas!
Awesome and very thoughtful video! We appreciate the time and planning you put into your videos😄
Love your videos. I am mom of 3 kiddos and is so nice to try new ideas.
Thank you for sharing
Jackson could be my little brother. My family & I love corn too!! We could eat every day & not get tired of it. Especially since there’s so many ways to eat it. 🌽🌽🌽
$0.68 for a dozen eggs! Here in switzerland a dozen is around $4
We got a lot o chickens in America 💀💀 I dunno
Dident currency
In UAE is 6€, my receipt for all this would be at least 60-70€. 😔
I was gonna say dang about time to get some pet chickens.
Love this, keep them coming! When I went to Walmart there was no cucumbers, ham, bread, pepperoni, tortillas or carrots. I asked about the empty shelves and a worker replied, “We do a lot of online orders!” So had to go to the grocery store for those items, maybe I’ll try online shopping next time. But when all was said and done spent $29.79 because I had Oranges and pancake mix at home. Thank you again.
This is such an awesome idea. I absolutely love this specially since we all are on a budget these days
Please do a day in the life vlog!!✨❤️
I love this channel this school year my sis is starting fifth grade and I’m gonna start making her cool lunches. Not this extreme because I don’t have the time or money because I’m in middle school too but they are gonna be better than chips and a sandwich 🥪
Awesome ideas!! Definitely in times where we need to stretch our money no matter where in the world we are
I just want to say thank you for cool lunch and brunch ideas
I always buy the store brand, it saves me a lot of money 😁😁
Your eggs prices are amazing, here in Australia they range from $3-$6 for 12
Loved these ideas!
This is how much we love your videos
Loved the budget friendly meals. Think many could use them now. So YES, more. I bought WM peanut butter...i do like it better than my name brand. Do buy many wm brands and not had anything i dod not like. We dont have the other store.
Here, a challenge. Buy only from Sam Club and use up in x time?
Me waiting to see if they finished their Thursday meal 👀
Tfs..Enjoy the ideas and that it was through Sunday...more these pls..
This is the kind of mom I wanna be when I have kids👌🏻 them cute lunches are goals.
All that food where I live would be like $100!!! 🤯 I should start shopping at Walmart haha!
I know those kiddos didn’t eat dry broccoli! Where was the ranch dressing in the grocery haul???
I feel like it's the same as the mayo/mustard. She had some on hand, and honestly most people who eat it do too. Yes, it's cheating, but this is still a great video showing that you can feed your children good lunches for a good price.
K Price oh I guess I missed that. I didn’t see her use any! Lol ok yah I totally agree, I just didn’t see it. Her kiddos love their ranch (don’t we all!).
@@catladyallday5884 ive never tried ranch 😭😭
Ye i know but everytime she got broccoli she used ranch veggie straws and thats easy to eat broccoli and chips
I loved this lunches!!!
I cant wait to try them when school starts!! Espacilly the banana tortia one!!!❤❤❤😘💕🥰🥰💖
Thank you so much
For my lunch i want a pasta salad with tuna fish, for my fruit strawberries and pineaple for my vegetable i want some steamed brocolli,for my especial treat i want dehidratated cranberry and for my drink peach lipton
Mona lisa, New york
Omg is your name actually Mona Lisa? That’s so cool!
😝yuck
@@zeefara511 why
@@cheddy2536 yep my mom chosed
@@mona5427 because fish is gross
Anyone else questioning how cheap everything is😂
Every Walmart must be different because where I’m at prices are doubled for those items.
This is super helpful thank you more videos like these please !!
I really like how you show how much they eat!!!
Everything is “off brand”...how do you like the “Great Value” dupes? Things add up & it seems like they are sooo much cheaper
there is not really a noticeable quality difference
The Family Fudge good to know, thanks!
I buy alot of the off brand ! And most of them tast like the normal brans
Most "off brands" are actually name brands sold to stores under private label so the store can sell them as "store brand" for less. (I worked for a food broker for several years and private label branding was part of our contracts)
i always buy knock off..besides mac n cheese. its just not the same
I love how you said not everyone has an Aldi but Walmart isn't even in my country 😂😂
I think it’s because she’s in the us and I also live in the us and I’ve never even heard of aldi lol.
I love this channel! It is so fun to watch your videos!
Fab job! I like to cut my round ham slices in half and put the straight edge to the bread edges, that way if you use your 2 sliced you cover every bit of bread. I also slice cheese slices in strips when I’m stuck to make it spread further 😀
That’s crazy cheap things are! I’m from N.S and food and everything is so expensive here in canada
Really? I thought that everything in the video was pretty expensive but i mean i live in the uk. A cheap loap of bread is about 36p (40 cents i think). A cucumber is usually 40p (45 cents). I thiught that everything was extremely overpriced the the video. What are prices like where you live then?
Tik Tok Canadian $ to American is 1.36canadian for every American dollar
But where I live a loaf of bread is typically 2$ and Kraft dinner is 1$ on sale. So when she said 20$ I was like how I’d that possible
Seriously! Im in AB. I feel you T_T
@@PatPrice-ee5lz 1.50 for a cheap loaf of bread, for starters.
Tik Tok this is definitely a bit inexpensive and I don’t think I would be able to get all of this for that price, she lives in Florida but I live in California and the prices vary
I would love to see more budget lunches!!
Excellent video. So informative and well planned. It's nice to see what's left over, as well. 🌷
I love peach yogurt and peach flavored things
Love budget lunches unfortunately where I live everything you got would be 2 if not 3 times the price 😥
1 view, 78 likes, and 35 comments, makes so much sense! :)
Best video ever! Thx for sharing 😍😍😍
Key to Mac cheese without the milk & butter is to add the cheese powder to pot when there’s still a bit of pasta water, just right before the pasta is done. Works for me and I love this method b/c it’s less fattening without butter.
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I would love to show this to my mom so she can makes me them
Luna’s Midnight or you could just make them yourself. I don’t know how old you are but my 7 year old makes himself ramen so you could probably make most of these yourself
I wish we had those foodprices...I'm crying a little internally... This would be like dubbel or triple the money where I am from 😓
Yasss love this idea
So helpful, thank you! Sending my daughter to Kindergarten this year and lunches are definitely stressing me out 😂
Geez groceries are so inexpensive compared to here in Canada at our Walmart it probably would have cost double.
Jennifer: not everyone has and Aldi so i went to Walmart
Me: I live in the uk so I have Aldi and no Walmart 😒
No hate
same i have an aldi but no walmart :(
I believe Asda is owned by Walmart
Misty The cat is it???!!! 😯 anyways I were talking about Aldi
you guys are so fun
This is probably the earliest I've been for one of these.
I am so shocked at the price of these and how cheap they are especially the eggs, it upsets me you could buy them being that cheap they surely weren’t ethically sourced
As ur typing on ur electronic device created in a Chinese sweatshop
it's me a phone isn’t something purchased regularly and often by a single person nor would you get away with paying 68c for one. Where I live for even unethically sourced eggs your looking around $4-5 so if they’re able to produce and sell eggs at 68c that’s a lot more concerning as people are clearly purchasing them often enough that it’s allowing supply and demand for such a low priced item
It's frustrating for sure to think of how broken the whole system is. I'd love for it to all be sustainably produced and priced, but yikes there would be a lot of poor people hung out to dry if that happened. The whole economy needs a revamp. Vote with the dollars you have, and make the choices you can affors to choose, and vote the people who profit off this ridiculously unbalanced system OUT.
Many are priced low right now because of the virus.
I thought everything apart from eggs were quite expensive tbh. I live in the uk but you can get a cheap loaf here from lidl for 36p (40 cents i thibk) here in the uk for $28 we can get a whole week worth of shopping for 8 people in my family
“And if we have any leftover I’ll just put it in the fridge for later” Me: NO. You cannot reheat that type of Mac n cheese. It’s against God lol and if it’s not, it should be. 😆
Yaas, something to do
Luv your vids
Congrats on 600k
This was a great video. So many great budget friendly ideas. Can't wait to try the Mac and cheese for remote learning lunch.