when i lived alone in Germany i used to make as a struggle meal this: - if i had leftovers of rice , i would add tomato sauce ( that is always present in my house) and some random stuff from my fridge that could be random meat or like already opened canned food like peas or corn - if i wanted something sweet , bread , a bit of oil ( like extra virgin olive oil or sunflower oil ) , and sugar ( sometime i would toast the bread ) - sometimes if i had nothing of those things i would always have somewhere in the house a bag of istant mashed potatoes and i would just add a cheese slice in it - for the last if i didn't want to dirt the dishes i would just pour myself a cup of hot milk and i would add toasted bread in it ( it's a neapolitan classic " a zupp e latt" )
Italian struggle meal: -pasta aglio, olio e peperoncino (pasta with garlic, extra virgin oil and chili peppers) -pasta at tonno (pasta and canned tuna) -bread, extra virgin oil, salt and pepper
I learned aglio olio e peperoncino a couple years back from an Italian guy who came to work for me here in the U.K. he was from Rome and I was saying how when I’d gone to Rome back in 2014 I loved the food but wished I’d known better. About a week later he came into work with HAND WRITTEN recipes! Aglio olio e peperoncino was the first one I tried and fell in love with it! He instantly became my favourite worker for giving me like 5 or 6 recipes off the bat like that
well pasta al burro is also the OG struggle meal which is why I always found funny how every non-Italian loves Alfredo, when the original recipe was just a bougiefied version of pasta al burro made as a tourist trap by a Roman restauranteur
yep, first world struggles are quite different huh. third world struggle meal: manioc flour with a bit of water, heating is optional since you may not have gas or an oven at all. mix until you feel the need to eat.
My two "favourite" struggle meals were pasta with pesto and salad-style cheese (knock-off feta), and tuna with pasta-rice (when neither the bag of pasta nor the bag of rice had a full helping left).
A traditional British, I've got nothing in meal, the crisp sandwich. Just a bag of crisps (chips if you're American) between two pieces of buttered bread.
Pasta with just lemon sauce, no salt. Absolutely horrendous encouragement to stop having struggle meal. Or just a can of kidney beans, but price wise bag of oatmeal is better.
@@nukewasteisnt that like just sprinkles??? nah you dont put so much sugar that it crunches, very different experience (also, gotta buy sprinkles, which is an extra cost over sugar which is used for so many things, not quite as much of a struggle-meal, which is almost the only reason someone makes cinnamon toast, unless its nostalgia for a broke youth)
A struggle meal I remember vividly is “bologna soup” it involves 3 slices of fried bologna, a cup of instant mashed potatoes, a can of peas and carrots, 4 cups water and hot sauce for flavour. Mix it all in a pot, that’s dinner for a week.
You should do a video on people comfort food and rate it. I make loaded potatoes gems (thats what they are called here but they are tato tots) they have bacon, mozzarella and Coby cheese. Very yummy.
My go-to struggle meal is roast mushrooms with bread. Basically make it like the French make their snails, but mushrooms instead of snails. Delicious and affordable.
I have a "struggle" meal that comes right out of the mountains of Appalachia. Try to find a product called scrapple. For those that don't know it's made from pig "scraps", flower, various spices (depends who makes it) and corn meal mixed together and gelled. It's often sold in a shape of a brick and can easily be cut into slices. Bread it and then fried in a pan till crisp on both sides. Then let it cool and just eat as is or put it in a sandwich. You need to at least pour some cornola oil in the pan. It's better to use Olive oil. The best is to reuse bacon grease for it. Seeing I cam from a poor family, I got to use the bacon grease a lot.
I love lentils, cheap and healthy. You can use them to replace half the minced meat in a dish. They just absorb the meat flavor, I do it to reduce my meat intake but I guess you could do it for financial reasons as well.
Wtf lentils are a bomb dish. We used to buy straight up bags of lentils because they were so cheap and we were not even stuggling. If you put half kilo of lentils in a pot of beef broth, add half a chopped onion, a chopped carrot, salt and laurel you're in for a treat
my student struggle meal was boiling rice or pasta (whichever i had at the time) and cracking an egg in the same pot and then adding mystery sprinkles which were either cheapest soy dreg granules or porridge flakes (whichever i had) and stirring until it turned into a ominous colored sludge. I called it university hot pot.
1:29 Giri's brain is cooked of course, but my brain is also cooked because I heard her Spy x Family correction and somehow my brain interpreted that as Spy Kids. So I was really confused why she was suddenly talking about the guy working out and getting buff 😅 (I blame the Off Menu podcast for putting Spy Kids into my brain recently after so many years.)
Humble Rice and Beans is one of the most cost effective meals I can think of, and healthy for the pricepoint. -Brown Rice -Beans of choice (canned if you want this done quick, dry if you want max maximum bang for buck) -seasoning of your choice (If you want it really cheap, get the little seasoning bottles at dollar tree, I’m a fan of the chili-lime ones) -one onion -some oil -(Optional) a bell pepper or some jalapenos -(Optional) red onion and/or cilantro or parsley for topping Sautee onions (and pepper if added). Add canned beans with liquid from can, and water as needed. Add seasoning. Bring to a boil and simmer for about 20 minutes. Top over cooked brown rice, top with red onion and herbs if added. You can also add a cheap can of tomato sauce to the stew while cooking if you want it hardier. Nice side of greens will completely fulfill your nutritional requirements, and you can make a LOT of batches with these fairly cheap ingredients. For 5-10 dollars I can probably make 3-8 meals. And due to the high fiber content, you will also feel fuller for longer. Watch the gas tho lol. If not in the mood for cooking, I would say just get like a pack of pita (whole grain if possible), some shredded cheese, and microwave that ish lol.
I guess this could technocally be counted as a Swedish struggle meal- but my family just eats it because we like it: -Stewed macaroni. As the name suggests, you boil the macaroni in milk, add a bit of salt and pepper, and let it become pretty thick. If you have the money for it you can serve it with some Falukorv (a thick sausage with a high meat percentage) or some thick pork bacon. If that's not an option that's okay, cause you'll still have a lot of macaroni that is way more filling that it would've been if you boiled it in water + reheats in the microwave very well if you wanna save any leftovers for later. You can top it off with either some more pepper or ketchup.
My go-to struggle meal: - Cooked, HOT white rice - Butter (Lightly Salted if possible) - Soy sauce - Optional: Garlic Powder and chili flakes if available It is sad, but quick and semi-satisfactory whenever I have no time or money! Gives me a bit of energy to go about half the day when my budget is low haha
My struggle meal/poverty meal was buttered noodles mixed with scrambled eggs. I think it was just a way for my mom to get some cheap protein in the meal too. Sometimes I miss it and will still make it (but I admit I add garlic and some other stuff too now)
Not even joking, I'd just make a big pot of tomato sauce with ground meat during college times and eat away at that for days at a time. A lb of ground meat (beef or pork mix) is cheap, fry off in with a big onion and a few cloves of garlic (or add powder later, not judging) in a tablespoon or two of olive oil, douse with a big glug of red wine (also the cheap stuff and a bottle will last for 3-4 weeks in the fridge unless you drink the rest for fun), add a tbl spoon of chicken or beef bouillon powder and about twice that in dried oregano (just get a big 500g/1000g bag for a tenth of the price of the little shakers and have stuff for years), let it cook down a bit, add 2 cans of crushed or peeled tomatoes (whichever was cheaper that week) on top, let it mingle and reduce down a bit. If cream is cheap feel free to add it and reduce down a bit again. Serve with cheap pasta (usually spaghetti was the cheapest) and some cheese if you're feeling rich. Whatever was left after 2-3 days would then get turned into a kinda lasagna casserole and baked with melty cheese (whatever's cheap, just don't use american cheese) on top and feed me for another 2-3 days. Obviously store the sauce in the fridge between days. Or with a similar start, use korean chili flakes (kinda smokey flavor, not too hot and you get big bags quite cheaply) instead of oregano, vegetable oil instead of olive oil, then add sweet corn and kidney beans with the tomatoes for some kinda sorta chili thing. Serve with rice. Doesn't go as far as the pasta sauce though, but it freezes well if you have the option.
I remember when my step father passed away and me and my mom were struggling to make ends meet, and all we had to cook was some string beans, Knorr sauce, and rice. Okay now, and I still eat that today. It's a pretty nice combo.
My struggle meal was Peanut Butter and Syrup. You make a simple syrup out of white and brown sugar in a pot, then just pour a little bit of that over a glob of peanut butter that you put in a bowl, stir it up then scoop it up with either toast or if ur privileged some biscuits.
My favorite college struggle meal had to be bread, tuna spread and a few slices of cheese, not much of a struggle meal with the current price climate, but back then those were so cheap compared to like buying butter.
Ghetto spaghetti. 1 pack of top ramen (preferably beef) 1 can condensed tomato soup Boil the ramen noodles and drain the water. (Keep some of the water to adjust sauce to desired consistency) Add condensed soup and some of the seasoning packet and mix together. Use left over water and seasoning to adjust consistency and flavor. Enjoy. 😂
My fav struggle meal that I eat even when I'm not struggling: Peanut Butter & Yellow Mustard sammiches. PB and mustard mix together and create a unique and absurdly good flavor!
How I saved money on an under 100 dollar food budget; buy a Costco 50lbs bag of flour for 15 dollars, tomato sauce, and eggs. Can make a pound of pasta for about 20 cents by the end of it, assuming you have water. Onion powder, Garlic powder, salt, pepper, and Italian seasoning can be added to the tomato sauce, as well as a third to half a can of water to make the sauce, and find most or all those for about a dollar at Walmart. Using a cup of flour, egg, pinch of salt, and small bit of water is all that's needed for the noodles... only difficulty is rolling them out and cutting them. Honestly probably better off making that haphazardly cut noodle (forget the name, but is made with a pizza cutter cutting up the initial dough sheet at random). Gets old rather quick (eating the same thing I mean, not food spoiling), but for a single person, the flour lasts an awful long time, and about half a pound of pasta should be enough for a daily meal, while a can of sauce can last about 2 pounds of pasta, unless you just lightly use it, then probably get about 3-4 pounds out of it... can also skip the egg and adjust the recipe to make flour noodles. Time range that it lasts is about 3 days max per egg noodles in the fridge, and nearly 7 days max for flour noodles in the fridge. Assuming you budget right, you can start taking advantage of the amazing deals at Costco, and its even better for when your on such a restricted budget, such as for a college student. Sadly, it also requires a time investment, but it is food... worst case, you can make gruel from the flour, and I did have to do that a few times... with a few extra ingredients, it is porridge, but gruel usually has about 1 cup flour per cup of water, but way back when their were thousands of orphans and a city (I think it was NYC) had to feed them, they used 2 teaspoons of flour per cup of water... never even tried that, but cannot imagine it would taste good. With a half cup of flour, 1 cup water, pinch of salt, and bit of pepper, it was actually alright.
I remember a point in high school where I was so broke and hungry that I went to my friend who sells brownies and begged for some, so him being a really good friend of mine, he gave me 6 i ate em inside the library then I felt really weird like my pores are opening and shid, turns out my friend gave me brownies with marijuan in them.Frend generous enough to give me product he sells for a high price just to feed me, thank you frend.
Pumpkin soup with chilli 70 cents per bowl Pumpkin, onion, carrot, leek, potatoes, coconut milk chilli powder, salt and pepper. Garnish with Tost bread cut into small squares, mix (oil, French/Italian spice mix and garlic powder) in the oven for 10 minutes, sprinkle on top of the soup
2:46 girl cheese is too expensive but BUTTER isn’t? 😭 why pay $6 for a stick of butter when you could pay $5 for a block of cheese and $1 for table spread?
A good meal would be crushed ramen pack mixed with the sauce packet in the plastic bag and sucking on tamarind. Would grind up the tamarind shells and boil the left over seed for some flavor when making cheap sinigang with whatever veggies and meat scraps were around XD
I have the same one as Anny, but I like to put some ketchup and salt on it. Another good one is canned beans in tomato sauce with curry spice and a fried egg. Or canned vegetables, any kind of wok sauce package, and noodles with a bit of oil for microwaving the vegetables in. Just like a dollar per meal.
Minute rice with hamburger and brown gravy. The dry gravy packets. That's what we were eating when we almost lost our house. Or the "hamish chipish." A ham sandwich with plain salted potato chips on it. Fried egg sandwich was good. Then we got money and I got to eat canned hash with eggs. That's the life.
haha you can even buy buttered noodles at quite a few restaurants here in the states (im sure elsewhere as well) my spouse is so picky its all they'll order from some places 😂 but its also usually like a flatter noodle than spaghetti, like a bowtie
My struggle meal isn’t rlly struggle… tho if it’s more of a time struggle. It’s leftover pasta or rice, frozen mixed beans, wtv meat I have leftover or in the freezer diced or cut into strips (seasoned w garlic powder, a bit of soy sauce, a hint of sugar & a bunch of cornstarch, seasoned w a bit of soy sauce. I will cook a huge portion of this tho and microwave it as meals for the next couple of meals
My late grandmother liked to do rice with a bit of butter, sugar, and cinnamon. It wasn't rice pudding, no, she would cook rice _properly,_ and add the other stuff once she had it in a bowl. NGL, it was alright, but I do like my rice with soy sauce a bit better.
My struggle meal growing up was a big ole sleep sandwich, either that or anything potato based like a plain baked potato I know that doesn't sound like it would be struggle food, but I live in a place where they grow everywhere and are dirt cheap as a result, especially the misshapen and not grocery shelf appealing ones, could get a whole 10lbs sack of those for $3 back in the day. The other struggle meal when we could afford it was canned baked beans and cheese we shredded ourselves from a brick, the pre shredded was far to expensive, not gonna lie I do not miss those days and ma much happier I can afford things like meat now, even tho that is bloody expensive these days.
My struggle meal used to be a pack of Ramen noodles ($0.29 at the time) with cut up hotdogs ($0.99 for 12 regular or $0.79 for 12 chicken) in it..................Haven't checked to see what it would cost these days.
Watching this, I may have realised I was struggling... Anyway, one fave struggle meal was just broken-up Maggi instant noodles eaten straight. sometimes with the flavour pack, it depends how I felt.
Rice and beans, if you can afford it, with onions. After about a week it gets pretty bland so I'd kick it up a notch with whatever random sauce I had leftover in the pantry or fridge.
I still remember pairing 5 pesos ($0.087) soy sauce or just salt to rice or bread when I was younger. We were a bit on the poorer side of the spectrum. For us cereals was a delicacy, we could buy just 1 in packet/sachet in maybe a month if lucky.
I always make sure I have condiments cause anything goes. Discounted vegetables about to be thrown? Hmm. Roam around Chinatown to buy some noodles or pasta for a cheaper price.
My "struggle meal" would simply be bread with spices. Due to lack of appetite I have the nasty habit of "saving on food" so outside of bread I have nothing to eat. Besides, rainbow salt is all one needs.
I genuinely really like plain buttered pasta. If it wasn't so unhealthy I would actually eat it somewhat regularly (despite not struggling). Nowadays I only eat it when I'm sick and don't have the energy to cook proper food. Definitely add salt to the water but be careful not to add too much since there won't be much else to reduce the salt concentration. Be extra careful if you're using salted butter. Also, margarine is not the same as butter, margarine tastes like shit.
I'm not sure if it counts as a struggle food, but for me it's more of a lazy MF food: Put a bit of chili oil on a piece of bread, then toast it. Goes great as a side for cup noodles.
broooo i make ketchup butter pasta all the time, but if i have it i add bacon. also i love eggs so those are my mine source of protein, so i have an agg with everything i eat. sunny side up all the way!!!
I think these "meals" should have been recategorized as shit I ate before I knew how to cook, I mean christ half of them have dry noodles in them, you're not even trying at that point.
I can't believe Giri is a grandma at 21.
several dishes of my childhood were called garbage for survival, wonderful😂
when i lived alone in Germany i used to make as a struggle meal this:
- if i had leftovers of rice , i would add tomato sauce ( that is always present in my house) and some random stuff from my fridge that could be random meat or like already opened canned food like peas or corn
- if i wanted something sweet , bread , a bit of oil ( like extra virgin olive oil or sunflower oil ) , and sugar ( sometime i would toast the bread )
- sometimes if i had nothing of those things i would always have somewhere in the house a bag of istant mashed potatoes and i would just add a cheese slice in it
- for the last if i didn't want to dirt the dishes i would just pour myself a cup of hot milk and i would add toasted bread in it ( it's a neapolitan classic " a zupp e latt" )
Italian struggle meal:
-pasta aglio, olio e peperoncino (pasta with garlic, extra virgin oil and chili peppers)
-pasta at tonno (pasta and canned tuna)
-bread, extra virgin oil, salt and pepper
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I learned aglio olio e peperoncino a couple years back from an Italian guy who came to work for me here in the U.K. he was from Rome and I was saying how when I’d gone to Rome back in 2014 I loved the food but wished I’d known better. About a week later he came into work with HAND WRITTEN recipes! Aglio olio e peperoncino was the first one I tried and fell in love with it!
He instantly became my favourite worker for giving me like 5 or 6 recipes off the bat like that
well pasta al burro is also the OG struggle meal
which is why I always found funny how every non-Italian loves Alfredo, when the original recipe was just a bougiefied version of pasta al burro made as a tourist trap by a Roman restauranteur
yep, first world struggles are quite different huh.
third world struggle meal:
manioc flour with a bit of water, heating is optional since you may not have gas or an oven at all. mix until you feel the need to eat.
Pasta aglio e olio is super tasty and easy to make.....and now I kinda want some
My two "favourite" struggle meals were pasta with pesto and salad-style cheese (knock-off feta), and tuna with pasta-rice (when neither the bag of pasta nor the bag of rice had a full helping left).
A traditional British, I've got nothing in meal, the crisp sandwich. Just a bag of crisps (chips if you're American) between two pieces of buttered bread.
Pasta with just lemon sauce, no salt. Absolutely horrendous encouragement to stop having struggle meal. Or just a can of kidney beans, but price wise bag of oatmeal is better.
The GOAT:
●Toast
●Butter
●Sugar
●Cinnamon
That's damn near one of the national foods of New Zealand, fairy bread
@@nukewasteisnt that like just sprinkles??? nah you dont put so much sugar that it crunches, very different experience (also, gotta buy sprinkles, which is an extra cost over sugar which is used for so many things, not quite as much of a struggle-meal, which is almost the only reason someone makes cinnamon toast, unless its nostalgia for a broke youth)
The OG
Omg yes
if you recipe has read more on the youtube comments it isnt struggle. when i was broke i just ate bread by itself.
A struggle meal I remember vividly is “bologna soup” it involves 3 slices of fried bologna, a cup of instant mashed potatoes, a can of peas and carrots, 4 cups water and hot sauce for flavour. Mix it all in a pot, that’s dinner for a week.
I didn't expect the Raora meme. It would be funny to see her and Girl stream and Giri tries to make pizza.
Yes, RaoGiri collab when?
i mean, Giri has already collabed with two Holo members before (Nerissa and Zeta), so I feel like there is definitely a good chance that it can happen
@@theshyguy9855 It probably depends on if they even want to more than company rules.
You should do a video on people comfort food and rate it. I make loaded potatoes gems (thats what they are called here but they are tato tots) they have bacon, mozzarella and Coby cheese. Very yummy.
My version of butter pasta:
-pasta
-butter
-lemon/lime juice
-salt/pepper
-chopped rosemary if you have a plant out back
Adding minced garlic is a huge improvement too!
@@eepykiraz Definitely.
Kraft parmesan cheese mixed in butter noodles.
Pasta, butter, garlic, parsley, and some coarse sea salt is my preferred version.
My go-to struggle meal is roast mushrooms with bread. Basically make it like the French make their snails, but mushrooms instead of snails. Delicious and affordable.
Sounds tasty, but mushrooms have almost no nutritional value though.
I have a "struggle" meal that comes right out of the mountains of Appalachia. Try to find a product called scrapple. For those that don't know it's made from pig "scraps", flower, various spices (depends who makes it) and corn meal mixed together and gelled. It's often sold in a shape of a brick and can easily be cut into slices. Bread it and then fried in a pan till crisp on both sides. Then let it cool and just eat as is or put it in a sandwich. You need to at least pour some cornola oil in the pan. It's better to use Olive oil. The best is to reuse bacon grease for it. Seeing I cam from a poor family, I got to use the bacon grease a lot.
MD resident. We dont even bother breading it. Just pan fry to crispiness. Slept on breakfast sandwich.
@@pdjr1991 I can see that, but I find the breading helps keep the slice together better while frying it.
No lentils or oatmeal. These people are filthy rich.
I love lentils, cheap and healthy. You can use them to replace half the minced meat in a dish. They just absorb the meat flavor, I do it to reduce my meat intake but I guess you could do it for financial reasons as well.
I didn't know this was a thing
At least there was rice and maybe cheap pasta.
Wtf lentils are a bomb dish. We used to buy straight up bags of lentils because they were so cheap and we were not even stuggling. If you put half kilo of lentils in a pot of beef broth, add half a chopped onion, a chopped carrot, salt and laurel you're in for a treat
Giri: "Smash me."
Chat: "Would."
Heinz and rice? I'd be so pissed
Struggle meal beans mixed with white rice (cooked ofc)
my student struggle meal was boiling rice or pasta (whichever i had at the time) and cracking an egg in the same pot and then adding mystery sprinkles which were either cheapest soy dreg granules or porridge flakes (whichever i had) and stirring until it turned into a ominous colored sludge. I called it university hot pot.
I was not expecting Matt Mercer to be edited into a Giri video, but I'm not upset about it!
1:29 Giri's brain is cooked of course, but my brain is also cooked because I heard her Spy x Family correction and somehow my brain interpreted that as Spy Kids. So I was really confused why she was suddenly talking about the guy working out and getting buff 😅
(I blame the Off Menu podcast for putting Spy Kids into my brain recently after so many years.)
Humble Rice and Beans is one of the most cost effective meals I can think of, and healthy for the pricepoint.
-Brown Rice
-Beans of choice (canned if you want this done quick, dry if you want max maximum bang for buck)
-seasoning of your choice (If you want it really cheap, get the little seasoning bottles at dollar tree, I’m a fan of the chili-lime ones)
-one onion
-some oil
-(Optional) a bell pepper or some jalapenos
-(Optional) red onion and/or cilantro or parsley for topping
Sautee onions (and pepper if added). Add canned beans with liquid from can, and water as needed. Add seasoning. Bring to a boil and simmer for about 20 minutes. Top over cooked brown rice, top with red onion and herbs if added. You can also add a cheap can of tomato sauce to the stew while cooking if you want it hardier. Nice side of greens will completely fulfill your nutritional requirements, and you can make a LOT of batches with these fairly cheap ingredients. For 5-10 dollars I can probably make 3-8 meals.
And due to the high fiber content, you will also feel fuller for longer. Watch the gas tho lol.
If not in the mood for cooking, I would say just get like a pack of pita (whole grain if possible), some shredded cheese, and microwave that ish lol.
I guess this could technocally be counted as a Swedish struggle meal- but my family just eats it because we like it:
-Stewed macaroni.
As the name suggests, you boil the macaroni in milk, add a bit of salt and pepper, and let it become pretty thick. If you have the money for it you can serve it with some Falukorv (a thick sausage with a high meat percentage) or some thick pork bacon. If that's not an option that's okay, cause you'll still have a lot of macaroni that is way more filling that it would've been if you boiled it in water + reheats in the microwave very well if you wanna save any leftovers for later. You can top it off with either some more pepper or ketchup.
My go-to struggle meal:
- Cooked, HOT white rice
- Butter (Lightly Salted if possible)
- Soy sauce
- Optional: Garlic Powder and chili flakes if available
It is sad, but quick and semi-satisfactory whenever I have no time or money! Gives me a bit of energy to go about half the day when my budget is low haha
I'm older than Giri?? That feels wrong.
My struggle meal/poverty meal was buttered noodles mixed with scrambled eggs. I think it was just a way for my mom to get some cheap protein in the meal too. Sometimes I miss it and will still make it (but I admit I add garlic and some other stuff too now)
Not even joking, I'd just make a big pot of tomato sauce with ground meat during college times and eat away at that for days at a time.
A lb of ground meat (beef or pork mix) is cheap, fry off in with a big onion and a few cloves of garlic (or add powder later, not judging) in a tablespoon or two of olive oil, douse with a big glug of red wine (also the cheap stuff and a bottle will last for 3-4 weeks in the fridge unless you drink the rest for fun), add a tbl spoon of chicken or beef bouillon powder and about twice that in dried oregano (just get a big 500g/1000g bag for a tenth of the price of the little shakers and have stuff for years), let it cook down a bit, add 2 cans of crushed or peeled tomatoes (whichever was cheaper that week) on top, let it mingle and reduce down a bit. If cream is cheap feel free to add it and reduce down a bit again. Serve with cheap pasta (usually spaghetti was the cheapest) and some cheese if you're feeling rich. Whatever was left after 2-3 days would then get turned into a kinda lasagna casserole and baked with melty cheese (whatever's cheap, just don't use american cheese) on top and feed me for another 2-3 days. Obviously store the sauce in the fridge between days.
Or with a similar start, use korean chili flakes (kinda smokey flavor, not too hot and you get big bags quite cheaply) instead of oregano, vegetable oil instead of olive oil, then add sweet corn and kidney beans with the tomatoes for some kinda sorta chili thing. Serve with rice. Doesn't go as far as the pasta sauce though, but it freezes well if you have the option.
This video is a great way to find out your family was struggling when you were little.
Giri kills me. Margerine is not butter. It tastes entirely different. Using margerine in lieu of butter is like using olive oil instead of lard.
The bread, butter and sugar needs to be toasted with a clothes iron, Giri!
Tuna melts for me. Canned tuna, some mayo, Kraft slices on bread in the oven. If we got fancy, we used English muffins.
I remember when my step father passed away and me and my mom were struggling to make ends meet, and all we had to cook was some string beans, Knorr sauce, and rice.
Okay now, and I still eat that today. It's a pretty nice combo.
I like how Giri has settled into her niche as the grandma vtuber.
3:03 including the Italian, nice
Twinnie exposing Giri, love to see it.
My struggle meal was Peanut Butter and Syrup. You make a simple syrup out of white and brown sugar in a pot, then just pour a little bit of that over a glob of peanut butter that you put in a bowl, stir it up then scoop it up with either toast or if ur privileged some biscuits.
My favorite college struggle meal had to be bread, tuna spread and a few slices of cheese, not much of a struggle meal with the current price climate, but back then those were so cheap compared to like buying butter.
Ghetto spaghetti.
1 pack of top ramen (preferably beef)
1 can condensed tomato soup
Boil the ramen noodles and drain the water. (Keep some of the water to adjust sauce to desired consistency)
Add condensed soup and some of the seasoning packet and mix together. Use left over water and seasoning to adjust consistency and flavor. Enjoy. 😂
you know what's crazy, that the second struggle meal is just alfedo without pecorino romano cheese
I guess this can be an honorable mention... I couldn't afford milk so I added water to a cup of plain Cheerios for breakfast today. Lol
My fav struggle meal that I eat even when I'm not struggling: Peanut Butter & Yellow Mustard sammiches. PB and mustard mix together and create a unique and absurdly good flavor!
Ham egg and chips is a classic english struggle dinner.
How I saved money on an under 100 dollar food budget; buy a Costco 50lbs bag of flour for 15 dollars, tomato sauce, and eggs. Can make a pound of pasta for about 20 cents by the end of it, assuming you have water.
Onion powder, Garlic powder, salt, pepper, and Italian seasoning can be added to the tomato sauce, as well as a third to half a can of water to make the sauce, and find most or all those for about a dollar at Walmart.
Using a cup of flour, egg, pinch of salt, and small bit of water is all that's needed for the noodles... only difficulty is rolling them out and cutting them. Honestly probably better off making that haphazardly cut noodle (forget the name, but is made with a pizza cutter cutting up the initial dough sheet at random).
Gets old rather quick (eating the same thing I mean, not food spoiling), but for a single person, the flour lasts an awful long time, and about half a pound of pasta should be enough for a daily meal, while a can of sauce can last about 2 pounds of pasta, unless you just lightly use it, then probably get about 3-4 pounds out of it... can also skip the egg and adjust the recipe to make flour noodles.
Time range that it lasts is about 3 days max per egg noodles in the fridge, and nearly 7 days max for flour noodles in the fridge. Assuming you budget right, you can start taking advantage of the amazing deals at Costco, and its even better for when your on such a restricted budget, such as for a college student. Sadly, it also requires a time investment, but it is food... worst case, you can make gruel from the flour, and I did have to do that a few times... with a few extra ingredients, it is porridge, but gruel usually has about 1 cup flour per cup of water, but way back when their were thousands of orphans and a city (I think it was NYC) had to feed them, they used 2 teaspoons of flour per cup of water... never even tried that, but cannot imagine it would taste good. With a half cup of flour, 1 cup water, pinch of salt, and bit of pepper, it was actually alright.
Our struggle meal would be a small boiled egg and rice cook in the rice cooker at the same time
Sausage in bread is the food us Aussie’s get from outside of Bunnings(hardware store)
I remember a point in high school where I was so broke and hungry that I went to my friend who sells brownies and begged for some, so him being a really good friend of mine, he gave me 6 i ate em inside the library then I felt really weird like my pores are opening and shid, turns out my friend gave me brownies with marijuan in them.Frend generous enough to give me product he sells for a high price just to feed me, thank you frend.
Pumpkin soup with chilli 70 cents per bowl
Pumpkin, onion, carrot, leek, potatoes, coconut milk
chilli powder, salt and pepper.
Garnish with Tost bread cut into small squares, mix (oil, French/Italian spice mix and garlic powder) in the oven for 10 minutes, sprinkle on top of the soup
My struggle meal was a bagel sandwich with ham, cheese, & mustard. Maybe 'cause it was my only food for the whole day, but it was so good
Pasta and then you mix a little bit of Pesto Rosso with Ketchup and some canned Tuna. If you really got it that month you can also add chilli oil.
2:46 girl cheese is too expensive but BUTTER isn’t? 😭 why pay $6 for a stick of butter when you could pay $5 for a block of cheese and $1 for table spread?
Depends where they live 😭
My struggle meal was a piece of toast or a tortilla before bed so you could fall asleep before the hunger pains set in
A good meal would be crushed ramen pack mixed with the sauce packet in the plastic bag and sucking on tamarind.
Would grind up the tamarind shells and boil the left over seed for some flavor when making cheap sinigang with whatever veggies and meat scraps were around XD
"If I had the choice I won't eat it again" ma'am struggle is in the name.....
I have the same one as Anny, but I like to put some ketchup and salt on it. Another good one is canned beans in tomato sauce with curry spice and a fried egg. Or canned vegetables, any kind of wok sauce package, and noodles with a bit of oil for microwaving the vegetables in. Just like a dollar per meal.
Minute rice with hamburger and brown gravy. The dry gravy packets. That's what we were eating when we almost lost our house.
Or the "hamish chipish." A ham sandwich with plain salted potato chips on it.
Fried egg sandwich was good.
Then we got money and I got to eat canned hash with eggs. That's the life.
haha you can even buy buttered noodles at quite a few restaurants here in the states (im sure elsewhere as well)
my spouse is so picky its all they'll order from some places 😂
but its also usually like a flatter noodle than spaghetti, like a bowtie
My struggle meal isn’t rlly struggle… tho if it’s more of a time struggle. It’s leftover pasta or rice, frozen mixed beans, wtv meat I have leftover or in the freezer diced or cut into strips (seasoned w garlic powder, a bit of soy sauce, a hint of sugar & a bunch of cornstarch, seasoned w a bit of soy sauce. I will cook a huge portion of this tho and microwave it as meals for the next couple of meals
My late grandmother liked to do rice with a bit of butter, sugar, and cinnamon. It wasn't rice pudding, no, she would cook rice _properly,_ and add the other stuff once she had it in a bowl. NGL, it was alright, but I do like my rice with soy sauce a bit better.
Giri really has an obsession with raw dogging.
Truly a Raora mama moment of all time
Spending time with you is really fun onigiri😁 😂 😀 💕 ☺️ 💓
My struggle meal growing up was a big ole sleep sandwich, either that or anything potato based like a plain baked potato I know that doesn't sound like it would be struggle food, but I live in a place where they grow everywhere and are dirt cheap as a result, especially the misshapen and not grocery shelf appealing ones, could get a whole 10lbs sack of those for $3 back in the day. The other struggle meal when we could afford it was canned baked beans and cheese we shredded ourselves from a brick, the pre shredded was far to expensive, not gonna lie I do not miss those days and ma much happier I can afford things like meat now, even tho that is bloody expensive these days.
My struggle meal used to be a pack of Ramen noodles ($0.29 at the time) with cut up hotdogs ($0.99 for 12 regular or $0.79 for 12 chicken) in it..................Haven't checked to see what it would cost these days.
Watching this, I may have realised I was struggling... Anyway, one fave struggle meal was just broken-up Maggi instant noodles eaten straight. sometimes with the flavour pack, it depends how I felt.
I never thought I'd had struggle meal, but then I remembered most of my young life were plain salted pasta or rice with some kind of cheap meat 😂
Rice and beans, if you can afford it, with onions. After about a week it gets pretty bland so I'd kick it up a notch with whatever random sauce I had leftover in the pantry or fridge.
I still remember pairing 5 pesos ($0.087) soy sauce or just salt to rice or bread when I was younger. We were a bit on the poorer side of the spectrum. For us cereals was a delicacy, we could buy just 1 in packet/sachet in maybe a month if lucky.
I always make sure I have condiments cause anything goes. Discounted vegetables about to be thrown? Hmm. Roam around Chinatown to buy some noodles or pasta for a cheaper price.
James May Cheese Meme.
Cultured.
Some of these struggle meals made sense, but others were just basic foods that kids wanted to eat
And smash Giri
The avocado cracker thing was wild. I don't think that person understood the assignment. lol
Brown the butter for the butter noddles
just found out my family was struggling from this video....
The real struggle meal is starving.
"even when we immigrated to canada we still couldn't afford cheese"
and those are FAX, fucking shit here is expensive
I can't believe giri is younger than me its so joever......
Ketchup fried rice is basically Thailand’s American fried rice.
I know the video is already done, but my struggle meal currently is rice, peanuts, and Yum Yum sauce
Also, how could Giri live in Canada and not eat Kraft Dinner? It's a staple in our diet!
One of my favorite struggles is cans of veana sausage and green beans
Box of kraft mac n cheese + some pan fried spam
Soy sauce, rice, and a little butter. It makes the difference. Om nomnom
3:45 Did she seriously rinse the spaghetti?
its pretty clear that giri doesnt know why kids love cinnamon toast crunch
My struggle meal is no meal, because I find eating itself a struggle
Meals are a struggle, meals are a waste of time
Rice and a sprinkle of salt was my lowest. Nowadays though boiled eggs, instant noodles and cabbage is relatively complete meal ata budget.
can anyone tell me the version of FFXIV footfalls playing in the background?
LOL. "This taste like your momma didn't like you very much".....based. 😆.....also my my mom 😔
ramen noodles with butter and American cheese is poor mans kraft dinner
My "struggle meal" would simply be bread with spices. Due to lack of appetite I have the nasty habit of "saving on food" so outside of bread I have nothing to eat. Besides, rainbow salt is all one needs.
I genuinely really like plain buttered pasta. If it wasn't so unhealthy I would actually eat it somewhat regularly (despite not struggling).
Nowadays I only eat it when I'm sick and don't have the energy to cook proper food.
Definitely add salt to the water but be careful not to add too much since there won't be much else to reduce the salt concentration. Be extra careful if you're using salted butter.
Also, margarine is not the same as butter, margarine tastes like shit.
I'm not sure if it counts as a struggle food, but for me it's more of a lazy MF food: Put a bit of chili oil on a piece of bread, then toast it. Goes great as a side for cup noodles.
GIRI YOU'RE CANADIAN AND YOU'VE NEVER HAD KRAFT DINNER!?!?!
WHAT?!?!
Shit she just dissed the immortal kings most loved food!
its good to pay extra for cinnamon. low priced cinnamon was found to have lead in it.
broooo i make ketchup butter pasta all the time, but if i have it i add bacon. also i love eggs so those are my mine source of protein, so i have an agg with everything i eat. sunny side up all the way!!!
I think these "meals" should have been recategorized as shit I ate before I knew how to cook, I mean christ half of them have dry noodles in them, you're not even trying at that point.
Sausage sandwich is goated!
Oh this is old old that model is oooooold
my struggle meals where no food. now i don't struggle and got fat.
they may be strugglin... but atleast they dont burn food