I'm super impressed with how many different meals you were able to make with what you got! And you did very well with not adding in pantry items you already may have had....
Definitely- A lot of the videos add in a lot of pantry items but I try to stick as close to the budget as possible because some people don’t have a stocked pantry!
Boy, I think you did awesome making so much for so little $, if you had another 5-10 bucks more you could’ve got a little more veg and maybe bananas and some other fruit, another pack of penna or Mac to make the soup more hearty. I am amazed at your adaptability girl, good job!
Really impressed at the variety you go out of what you bought I thought you were gonna have the same meal for 7 days at the beginning of the video you proved me well wrong glad I stuck around!
I really liked this video, you bought some basic items and made different things with them, so there was some sort of variety. Yes you should do more. Gives people on a tight budget some ideas for eating well without a lot of money.
I love your creativity with a handful of ingredients. Since I live alone, it was great to see how to make so many dishes out of virtually the same ingredients. Good job!!
Excellent! You are a good sport to take on this challenge. Even us old folks love peanut butter--it's great on celery for an evening TV snack. (Celery may cost another $1). You have inspired me to try to eat more economically. I love that you got BBQ sauce and Taco Seasoning--yum! I know that you made your Mama proud!
I know it's been 4 months since this video but my 1st time watching and I just want to say that when cooking chicken fill the pot up to the fill line with water. This way you will have alot of broth that you can freeze or make a gravy with for another meal. Blessings!
Absolutely fascinating! For almost 60 years, dinner has been the bane of my existence, now there's lunch & sometimes breakfast. I was delighted by your video and very impressed with your organizational skills, flexibility & creativity.
Wow, It is unbelievable all the great dishes you made for $30. You are an amazing creative cook. Good for you and great for us. Thank you from Debbie and Dexter-Dog in Southern California.🙋🐾🙏💓🌷💐🌺😁🎃🎃
Michele Sheriff I think you are absolutely right! When you are on a Budget you have to use each item as many ways as possible! That’s why making a plan and sticking to it can save so much money 😊
This just proves how much I overthink food. You did so good! I’m always wasting food especially fruits and veggies because some weeks my kids finish everything in 2 days and other weeks they go on fruit and veggie strikes lol
My teenagers are the same. I just end up cutting and freezing the fruits and veggies that I know we will not eat. This alone has stopped most of our food waste. We also do a leftover dinner night to clean out the fridge. Composting also helps.
Wow this was your first video? I would never have known. Camera angles are really good, especially for your first time, and you’ll have better audio once you get better equipment (I read your comment responses). That will come with time. Loved this video! I really appreciate how creative you are. Thank you!
Is it just me or does anyone else lose the sound at about 11 minutes into this video and it never comes back? Really frustrating because it has some good suggestions but without the volume it loses a lot in translation.
Good job, I really enjoyed this, I usually spend around 60$/week and I live alone, you've inspired me to try and cut that in half, I'm going grocery shopping today, I'll definitely be checking out your other videos . :)
Thank you for sharing your meals& meal plan's. Finally a good meal made easy. I've been buying at both stores family& $ General stores & save a lot too.
I love budgeting food like this. For fun, I make a list of what I'd buy for $10 or so. Truthfully, I buy whatever I want and it's pretty cheap anyway. That way, I don't feel deprived. I make alot of salads and grow beans, tomatoes and zucchini!
I’m so glad to hear that you got some ideas!! I volunteer at a food pantry and so I know a lot of people that are on a serious food budget and that’s why I make these videos so I’m so glad it helped you 😊😊😊
I agree with you that the bag of beans that was available would have been better than that one can of black beans. Now you know for next time :) I don't know how much bread you had left but maybe homemade garlic bread to go with the pasta? I loved the little taquito roll ups at the end. Great soup dippers. You had such good variety with just chicken. Good job. Keep up the good work. I love your videos, you have great ideas.
I'm pretty sure your husband had to add some foods to some of those meals, however, no one would starve on this meal plan. Great job of variety. I noticed though with the covid ground meat and chicken were the hardest things to find. Now's the Time to stock up on canned chicken.
Great videos, love the variety. You may as also want to check out the Dollar Tree. It would help with some additional items, for weeks where there is an additional couple dollars in the budget. They have a yellow rice that comes with all the spices already in it, great as a side for tacos or quesadillas or mix in meat for a meal.
I freeze the bones too. Also can save corn cobs for broth and add cleaned egg shells for additional calcium. I freeze a separate container for veggie scraps including skins and add any extra veggies I did not end up using that look a little wilted.
Your supposed to drain the water out of the corn before you add it to anything and the black beans are suppose to be drained and rinsed before adding them too
I think I would have marinated raw chicken in the sauces rather then cook them first, then add the sauce. I thought you did well. Family Dollar was a great idea. God bless 🙏🏼❤️
Before there was a pizza place near us (when I was little), we would take a piece of loaf bread, top with ketchup, red pepper flakes, and American cheese and stick in the oven. The creativity of youth...
Great video! We do a $30-60 grocery budget each week; though, we include home goods, toiletries, etc etc. in that budget. I'm usually able to stick pretty close to 30!
Moreno Moms wow! I can do it if I meal plan (but if I dont make a plan I go way high super quick 😬) and it’s a lot easier when you can use stuff from your pantry too, and a lot more variety 😊
Excellent. I am a vegetarian and can adapt your ideas. If you can do vegetarian plan that would be great. Also would prefer other music. Maybe classical.
Loved the unexpected Neo Soul and music groove. Really apropos because you were jammin' in that kitchen!!! So tired of the canned Muzak in soooo many videos.
For your sandwiches use a ice cream scoop it's a lot easier and I use it for muffins too and cookies. I have regular & mini scoops. $.25-$.50. At a rummage sale.
Good video idea, but you definitely need a microphone of some kind. Please do more of these videos - it's great to see people doing this challenge with so many different meal ideas!
You are absolutely fabulous. Do you ever stock up on anything like soda or water? You should definitely do more in store grocery shopping videos and maybe even some bigger hauls
Thanks!! We don't really drink too much soda, and we do buy bottled water but I am trying to get out of the habit since we have gotten a water purifier on our faucet. But I love to stock up on meat and pantry items. My dad tells me I'm a food hoarder. lol
Great vid with superb ideas! The soup looks delicious! A cheap great healthy addition to soup is Pearl Barley. I think you missed some amazing stock by not boiling the leftover chicken bits. Grab some reusable spice bags and fill them full of your choice of spices and the chicken bits. The one bit I struggle with is how do you measure the safe to eat time, I am a bit nervous about that kind of stuff?
Your nachos inspired me to make my favorite nachos dish. Nachos with kale, beans, corn, and cheese. Amazing (I know its tortilla chips, I call it nachos)
Really nice meals for 2 people on $30. For some reason the sound went out about a third of the way through. I’ve rewound a couple of times and the sound is on until after you put the chicken in the instapot. I had to use the captioning after that.
You should do more of this style of video! It's amazing how these have blown up for you! You're ideas with such a small budget and amount of food are brilliant! I do have to say I hate the music though, it's sooooooo annoying but it was worth it for how great the video was!!!
@@GreenSavesYouGreen HAHA, no I know I totally get it!!!! It was just a lot of the way thought the video so I thought I'd mention it! I hope that didn't make you feel bad!
You can probably get everything cheaper at WalMart! Lol but for this challenge I shopped at the nearest store to me which happens to be Family Dollar or Dollar General. I also did a challenge at Aldi and it was WAY better prices 😊😊😊
You have been the most creative $30 weekly challenge I've seen in a long time!
I'm super impressed with how many different meals you were able to make with what you got! And you did very well with not adding in pantry items you already may have had....
Definitely- A lot of the videos add in a lot of pantry items but I try to stick as close to the budget as possible because some people don’t have a stocked pantry!
Boy, I think you did awesome making so much for so little $, if you had another 5-10 bucks more you could’ve got a little more veg and maybe bananas and some other fruit, another pack of penna or Mac to make the soup more hearty. I am amazed at your adaptability girl, good job!
Really impressed at the variety you go out of what you bought I thought you were gonna have the same meal for 7 days at the beginning of the video you proved me well wrong glad I stuck around!
I really liked this video, you bought some basic items and made different things with them, so there was some sort of variety. Yes you should do more. Gives people on a tight budget some ideas for eating well without a lot of money.
I always keep a few cans of evaporated milk on hand for cooking. It's inexpensive and and shelf stable.
It's actually very expensive for amount of milk that you're getting.
Well done!!!!! You came up with all those creative meals for $30.50 like a boss!!!!!
I love your creativity with a handful of ingredients. Since I live alone, it was great to see how to make so many dishes out of virtually the same ingredients. Good job!!
Excellent! You are a good sport to take on this challenge. Even us old folks love peanut butter--it's great on celery for an evening TV snack. (Celery may cost another $1). You have inspired me to try to eat more economically. I love that you got BBQ sauce and Taco Seasoning--yum! I know that you made your Mama proud!
@Usa mabaho You can go to The Dollar General if you want fresh, and they have a $5 off of $25 as well.
I know it's been 4 months since this video but my 1st time watching and I just want to say that when cooking chicken fill the pot up to the fill line with water. This way you will have alot of broth that you can freeze or make a gravy with for another meal. Blessings!
Great idea to freeze the broth!!
Absolutely fascinating! For almost 60 years, dinner has been the bane of my existence, now there's lunch & sometimes breakfast. I was delighted by your video and very impressed with your organizational skills, flexibility & creativity.
Wow, It is unbelievable all the great dishes you made for $30. You are an amazing creative cook. Good for you and great for us. Thank you from Debbie and Dexter-Dog in Southern California.🙋🐾🙏💓🌷💐🌺😁🎃🎃
YES-- PLEASE do more videos like this! Truly appreciate that you are sharing!
Thank you for sharing more than rice and beans! I think the key is to do as much with one item as you can.
Michele Sheriff I think you are absolutely right! When you are on a Budget you have to use each item as many ways as possible! That’s why making a plan and sticking to it can save so much money 😊
The homemade nachos were such a great idea!!
I was very impressed with your creativity. You really made that food stretch and the meals looked delicious. Great job
This just proves how much I overthink food. You did so good! I’m always wasting food especially fruits and veggies because some weeks my kids finish everything in 2 days and other weeks they go on fruit and veggie strikes lol
My teenagers are the same. I just end up cutting and freezing the fruits and veggies that I know we will not eat. This alone has stopped most of our food waste. We also do a leftover dinner night to clean out the fridge.
Composting also helps.
Wow this was your first video? I would never have known. Camera angles are really good, especially for your first time, and you’ll have better audio once you get better equipment (I read your comment responses). That will come with time. Loved this video! I really appreciate how creative you are. Thank you!
Thank you so much!!
Holy--!!! Seriously, this was your first video? 🖤🖤🖤
You go, friend! Nicely done!
Is it just me or does anyone else lose the sound at about 11 minutes into this video and it never comes back? Really frustrating because it has some good suggestions but without the volume it loses a lot in translation.
Yes I lose sound too!! I’m so sad!
One of the best low budget meal plans I've seen. Creative and looks yummy!
Good job, I really enjoyed this, I usually spend around 60$/week and I live alone, you've inspired me to try and cut that in half, I'm going grocery shopping today, I'll definitely be checking out your other videos . :)
the noodle dish looked super yummy! good use on those bread ends.
Well done 👍🏻 good creativity on a budget with NO WASTE. It’s my first view and Subscribed! (Retired Chef)
Okay, now I'm hungry! You did a great job. I didn't know about using PB and cream cheese topping for french toast.
Wow creativity, frugality and yummy food. You really gave me some good ideas. Now these are some ideas I can really use! Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your meals& meal plan's. Finally a good meal made easy. I've been buying at both stores family& $ General stores & save a lot too.
These recipes all look so yummy! Thank you for sharing!
I love budgeting food like this. For fun, I make a list of what I'd buy for $10 or so. Truthfully, I buy whatever I want and it's pretty cheap anyway. That way, I don't feel deprived. I make alot of salads and grow beans, tomatoes and zucchini!
You did a great job making all those meals and so much variety. :)
We do eggless french toast that is milk cornstarch cinnomon and vanilla taste like regular french toast , got the recipe from momables
We do eggless French toast with a mashed banana, milk or water, and cinnamon
Well done. I hate waste and you managed your available ingredients so well. Cheers!
You are the only one so far with great ideas for meals. I go to the local food pantry. I needed ideas for recipes to use. Thank you.
I’m so glad to hear that you got some ideas!! I volunteer at a food pantry and so I know a lot of people that are on a serious food budget and that’s why I make these videos so I’m so glad it helped you 😊😊😊
Heck yeah do other videos like this especially when so many out of work. Great one!
Burghers tuna & celery
Thumbs up for your creativity. And you didn't waste anything. Can you do some meatless meals?
Juggling Finance agreed! I'd love to see meatless meals also 🌽🥕🥔
Yay to meatless meals!
I make her soup pretty much but meatless. I use pinto, black beans, hominy, and corn. Yum!
I was very impressed with all of your different meals for family dollar 😍
I agree with you that the bag of beans that was available would have been better than that one can of black beans. Now you know for next time :) I don't know how much bread you had left but maybe homemade garlic bread to go with the pasta? I loved the little taquito roll ups at the end. Great soup dippers. You had such good variety with just chicken. Good job. Keep up the good work. I love your videos, you have great ideas.
I'm pretty sure your husband had to add some foods to some of those meals, however, no one would starve on this meal plan. Great job of variety. I noticed though with the covid ground meat and chicken were the hardest things to find. Now's the Time to stock up on canned chicken.
Her husband didnt add anything to the meals
I always run the bones back though a few more times, then strain. When u don’t have milk, add a spoon of dry plain dairy creamer. Yours looked yummy.
You did a great job of stretching your food and not wasting anything!
I really like all the ways you used the hamburger buns. I usually always have some on hand and sometimes I'm stumped with what to do with them.
Your video came up in my recommends. Excited to see your future content. This was a great video.
Thank you 🙏🏼 you did a great variety of meals 💕
You can put some jam/ jelly in a small pan with a bit of water and melt it into a syrup for your eggy bread. Good vid thanks.
Even brown sugar can be made into a syrup. If you get apples...the cores and peels can be cooked in some water also.
Yes!! That would have been a great use of the jelly
Thanks for this tip as I really wouldn't want to put peanut butter on my pancakes I save it for sandwiches or peanut butter toast.
@@sharonhall2277 oh man, peanut butter and maple syrup is sooo good on pancakes!
Brilliant!
Great videos, love the variety.
You may as also want to check out the Dollar Tree. It would help with some additional items, for weeks where there is an additional couple dollars in the budget. They have a yellow rice that comes with all the spices already in it, great as a side for tacos or quesadillas or mix in meat for a meal.
Try adding all of the bones back into the broth and cooking them again. You can have some really good bone broth in no time.
Yes! I’m definitely going to do that next time. Thanks for the tip!!
So smart!
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I freeze my bones and then can make bone broth later
I freeze the bones too. Also can save corn cobs for broth and add cleaned egg shells for additional calcium. I freeze a separate container for veggie scraps including skins and add any extra veggies I did not end up using that look a little wilted.
Yes please more videos like this would be great. Thanks for this one some good meal ideas
I actually watched the whole thing even with no audio since it was so good! lol you are very creative! I subscribed! :)
I love how creative you are.
Your supposed to drain the water out of the corn before you add it to anything and the black beans are suppose to be drained and rinsed before adding them too
You certainly are created with your menu and thinking ahead.
Girl I am digging this video!
Great job. I’m working on my new budget for my family of 4 as well. Trying to reduce my grocery budget to $350/month.
Sure I love it and so many people on such a tight budget right now great job.
You did a great job! Great variety.
This is fantastic! Great job!!!
I think I would have marinated raw chicken in the sauces rather then cook them first, then add the sauce. I thought you did well. Family Dollar was a great idea. God bless 🙏🏼❤️
You did great. Thank you for sharing. I needed this for inspiration. Right now my budget is crazy small.
You did a really great job on your meals!
Before there was a pizza place near us (when I was little), we would take a piece of loaf bread, top with ketchup, red pepper flakes, and American cheese and stick in the oven. The creativity of youth...
Great video! We do a $30-60 grocery budget each week; though, we include home goods, toiletries, etc etc. in that budget. I'm usually able to stick pretty close to 30!
Moreno Moms wow! I can do it if I meal plan (but if I dont make a plan I go way high super quick 😬) and it’s a lot easier when you can use stuff from your pantry too, and a lot more variety 😊
Green Saves You Green Oh yes. In our case, I’m vegetarian and do almost all of the cooking. Not buying meat really cuts down on the bill.
Loved your video. Great ideas.
Thank you for this video!!! Awesome ideas!
I take and make pancakes, and grilled cheese then freeze .so i put in microwave for about 30sc done go by your microwave.
Wow, good job!!
Excellent.
I am a vegetarian and can adapt your ideas.
If you can do vegetarian plan that would be great.
Also would prefer other music. Maybe classical.
YES PLEASE OTHER MUSIC!
Loved the unexpected Neo Soul and music groove. Really apropos because you were jammin' in that kitchen!!! So tired of the canned Muzak in soooo many videos.
where have you been? I miss your videos!!
This video is genius! Please do more!
For your sandwiches use a ice cream scoop it's a lot easier and I use it for muffins too and cookies. I have regular & mini scoops. $.25-$.50. At a rummage sale.
$30 a week is a decent budget for 2 adults.
Good video idea, but you definitely need a microphone of some kind. Please do more of these videos - it's great to see people doing this challenge with so many different meal ideas!
I plan to get some better equipment one day but this was my 1st video, besides my test video of making rice 🤪
@@GreenSavesYouGreen Oh, right, makes sense!
Or just turn the music down. I am watching on 1.5 speed and your music is just too much. I am a new subscriber though. Hi there.
Great ideas and thank you so much. God bless you and keep your family forever and ever Amen❤
You are absolutely fabulous. Do you ever stock up on anything like soda or water? You should definitely do more in store grocery shopping videos and maybe even some bigger hauls
Thanks!! We don't really drink too much soda, and we do buy bottled water but I am trying to get out of the habit since we have gotten a water purifier on our faucet. But I love to stock up on meat and pantry items. My dad tells me I'm a food hoarder. lol
Preppers are people who prepare and plan. Hoarders don't have an idea of what they will do with what they obtain
Well, when Dad calls you to say the store is out of something...... :)
Please keep doing more videos like this. The only thing I would change is to have more veggies and fruit.
Nice video, great menu plan! Very creative!
My only suggestion is to use a spoon- not your hand to get corn out of can, and stiring the egg bake, etc.
You are so right 😂😂 guess I just really hate creating more dishes. Haha
That was pretty frickin awesome.
My Family Dollar doesn't have frozen yet I wish they did though. Great Haul!!!
Be careful putting your hand and tin cans and take your stuff out I cut my finger once. Some reason small cuts hurt worse than the deep ones
You are so right! Seeing it on video made me cringe a little but in the moment I really wasn’t thinking about it!
I almost cried watching that. Those can cuts are the WORST!
Good job!
Good work! You managed to vary the meals well. Impressive. More videos like this.
Those nachos look delicious!!
Also y'all need to try egg sandwiches with a little jelly spread on the bread first! Its amazing!
uh oh... I might have to try it. I love jelly toast with cheese... and people think I'm crazy LOL
New subscriber from North Georgia! You're one resourceful lady! It must've have something to do with the last name! LOL! Thank you for sharing!
The name def helps 😎
Great vid with superb ideas! The soup looks delicious! A cheap great healthy addition to soup is Pearl Barley. I think you missed some amazing stock by not boiling the leftover chicken bits. Grab some reusable spice bags and fill them full of your choice of spices and the chicken bits. The one bit I struggle with is how do you measure the safe to eat time, I am a bit nervous about that kind of stuff?
Your nachos inspired me to make my favorite nachos dish. Nachos with kale, beans, corn, and cheese. Amazing (I know its tortilla chips, I call it nachos)
Yummy! I love every kind of nachos 😋
Great variety for the $'s... What are the bags you were using with the yellow top.
They are reusable silicon freezer bags. I got them as a gift but I have seen similar on Amazon.
You made a lot of meals. I like the buffalo chicken pasta...
Good job on this challenge
Really nice meals for 2 people on $30. For some reason the sound went out about a third of the way through. I’ve rewound a couple of times and the sound is on until after you put the chicken in the instapot. I had to use the captioning after that.
Great job!
Great shopping for one week, for 2 people, at Family Dollar. Not choice my choice for a food store but you do what you have to.
For sure not my first choice either. Part of the challenge 🤪 but I did another one at Aldi and I definitely prefer that!!
Great variety! Loved your video
Great ideas!
Great creativity! Congratulations. In most videos the people eat the same over and over again.
You should do more of this style of video! It's amazing how these have blown up for you! You're ideas with such a small budget and amount of food are brilliant! I do have to say I hate the music though, it's sooooooo annoying but it was worth it for how great the video was!!!
Sorry about the music! Very hard to please everyone and only so many songs that aren’t copyright material 😭😭
@@GreenSavesYouGreen HAHA, no I know I totally get it!!!! It was just a lot of the way thought the video so I thought I'd mention it! I hope that didn't make you feel bad!
Haha no! Can’t sweat the small stuff if your gonna open up to the world of TH-cam. Lol
Nicely done!
Love the video! Just a suggestion though. The frozen veggies I feel you can get cheaper at Walmart?
You can probably get everything cheaper at WalMart! Lol but for this challenge I shopped at the nearest store to me which happens to be Family Dollar or Dollar General. I also did a challenge at Aldi and it was WAY better prices 😊😊😊
Green Saves You Green ah ok! I was just curious. Great job. I’m using this for inspiration for my next grocery list :).
If you buy a package or box of non-fat dry milk, you can make a cup of milk as needed.
You did a great job!
what kind of storage bags are you using?
They are reusable silicon freezer bags. I got them as a gift but I have seen similar on Amazon.
A tip I have is to microwave the BBQ sauce, ketchup, syrup, etc for 20 seconds on hal
Why is no one talking how well stocked that family dollar is. The ones near me doesn't have a lot of food items.
I guess it just depends on location. I live in a pretty small town and that’s what we have.
@@GreenSavesYouGreen ah I guess that makes sense. I have like every major supermarket in my city.
Where did you get the baggies from? What kind are they??
I actually got the reusable freezer bags as a gift but there are a lot of options on Amazon.
@@GreenSavesYouGreen thanks