One Week $30 grocery Budget Challenge | Extreme Grocery Budget Challenge | over 40 Meals for $30
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- čas přidán 11. 07. 2020
- Many people have requested more videos like this so I tried it again!! I spent $30 to make all my food for the week (for me and my husband) and only added oil, butter and a few seasonings that weren’t included in the $30 budget.
See my corresponding blog post here for a list of grocery items and the meals we ate day by day!
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This was one of the best $30 meal plans I’ve seen! So much variety!
Yay! Thank you!
Agree!!!!
It’s all meat and no vegetables, except potatoes.
This is exactly why Jews don’t eat bagels regularly anymore. H5N1 virus and disrespected root vegetables all over the place
I'm impressed. I know you're young, but you taught a seasoned cook lots of options for this challenge. Thanks for sharing!
Also, it would be awesome to see your regular meals with using things from your pantry to keep costs down too!
I think you killed it. I’ve watched many challenges and I’ve never seen one this intricate. Although your portions on your plate seemed a tad small you gave me a lot of ideas! Thanks!
Sometimes learning what real portions look like is a hard to swallow pill lol I’m with ya! But yes I loved all of the ideas! Especially the hash browns
I think you do well with your challenges. You have also taken criticism and suggestions and improved your menus. I know you prepare the food with only ingredients purchased with your $30.00 for that week. Suggestion- I will use your banana filled tortillas as the example. 'preparing banana filled tortillas' explained your preparation exactly as you did. Then mention 'if you have peanut butter in your pantry from a previous purchase, you can add that to bump up the flavor and protein'. This way you are staying true to the challenge and offering suggestions if the viewers has a few things left that can be used without going over their budget. Keep it up your doing great. I have recommended you to my son and his girlfriend as they are struggling.
Yes that’s a great suggestion to offer other options if they are in the budget 😊 I will try to do some next time!
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Shopping List:
Dairy:
1 package cheese
2 cartons yogurt
1 carton eggs
Meat:
1 package chicken thighs
1 package Turkey Jalapeño Sausage
Bread/Pasta/Rice:
1 10 count tortillas
1 package white rice
1 package rotini
1 package bagels
Frozen:
1 package stir-fry veggies
Produce:
1 package green onions
1 head iceberg lettuce
1 bag potatoes
1 head Bananas
Cans/Jars:
1 jar pasta sauce
1 can pinto beans
1 can cream of chicken soup
Condiments:
1 bottle BBQ sauce
1 bottle ranch dressing
1 bottle hot sauce
Breakfast:
1 package Instant Oatmeal
Home Pantry & Fridge
Butter
Oil
Spices
You can see all this and the meals for each day listed in my blog post with link in description box! Thanks for watching. 😊
It’s amazing to me that this is less than $30. With the extra food it could be 2 adults & 1 child or easily 1 adult and 2 kids. The proportions were good. A few could have used a veggie. A little more fruit. I say that because I don’t consider most yogurt to have real, or enough real fruit to count as a fruit. Maybe get dry beans vs canned and add some apples. I feel like I’m picking. The variety of meals would make most families think they have a big budget instead of just $30.
Wow, it’s impressive the variety of meals that you can come up with!
Cut only the green part of the scallions up. Leave the white part and roots. Plant those in a pot at a kitchen window and they will continue to grow and give free food. Thus making your $30 easier to accomplish next time and give you more variation!
These are great! Everything looked delicious! One thing I would suggest is after you removed the chicken from the bones is to make chicken broth in the instant pot. You could then use it to cook the rice or make soup. Adds a lot of flavor. Thank you for sharing your ideas 😊
Yes! I need to do that more often. Homemade chicken broth is so much better than what you buy at the store.
How do u make homemade chicken broth
@@quetta561 I usually just use my scraps of veggies (not the leafy green stuff ~ you don’t want it coming out bitter) & keep in a freezer bag in the freezer, once I have meat bones (chicken, turkey, beef, etc) I use both the odds & ends of veggies & some of the meat bones & put it in my crockpot for about 12-20 hours. I rarely season it as I want to be able to season whatever I’m making not the broth I’m putting in. Helps me to control my sodium intake. You can also put apple cider vinegar (maybe a 1/4 cup?) to help get all the nutrients out of the bones you are using. But just fill the crockpot with bones, veggies, & fill water to the top. I usually start a batch at night that way a big chunk of it happens while I’m sleeping.
@@quetta561 adding to lifebeyondthesalary's excellent instructions. After making your bone broth, if you find it's rather weak, you can always add some soup base / boullion to it.
It still gives you a better flavor than boullion alone.
Really impressed by the variety of meals you've created, I think a lot of people could benefit from watching these! An idea for a future video could be a budget challenge - you vs your husband, would be interesting to see what you both would choose and make haha
Haha that would be interesting but I don’t think my husband would go for that! 🤣
When you are using potatoes, you can just wash them really well and leave the skins on rather than peeling them or removing the skin after it is cooked. There is quite a bit of nutrition in and directly under the skins, and there is a bit more fiber there as well which helps you stay full longer.
I’m blown away with your meals in this. You just gained me as a new subscriber. Thank you for sharing your budget friendly meals
Love the variety on this challenge. You can use the slicer on your flat grater to thinly cut that potato for chips. Keep up the challenges. Great job!
I see a kitty made a cameo 😻. I love Aldi. My wife and i shop there exclusively. Great recipe ideas!
I've watched a lot of these challenges and wow you did great!! So many different creative meal options!
Everything looks yummy! The buffalo chicken stuffed potatoes were brilliant
You did amazing! I would eat all the meals. These are truly helpful videos even to folks that just need meal ideas
I think the chicken and rice dish would have been great with some of the veggies mixed into it too.
My favorite of the meals that you put together was probably the rice and veggies at the end.
You did a good job of providing a bit of variety.
I loved your banana oat pancakes! I had never seen that recipe and I'm going to be trying that.🙌 This was a great video, new ideas and ways to stretch the food budget. we all could use that. I subbed immediately and I look forward to more videos from you. Thanks so much and happy New year! 🥰🥳
This was one of the best food challenges I have ever seen! Great job🙂
Very nicely done! Suggestion: on your smaller meal nights, use a salad plate instead of your 10". The food will fill the plate (we eat with our eyes) and give a sense of abundance. 👍
I appreciate how much variety you made!
Wow sooooo many different ideas!! Great job!! Your husband is very lucky lol
Great video ! Lots of variety and I love how you were able to stretch the 30 bucks :)
This is a great video. I’ve been trying to eat from my pantry but had no idea of what to make and you had Salome great ideas thank you 😊
These meals were great. You made a variety of meals and all things that I think most people would like to eat.
I love how you plate your meals! Looks wonderful
$1 for a spatula at the Dollar Tree. I used to buy all my cooking utensils and baking tins at chef stores and/or Walmart. However, the last few items I have bought...I got at the Dollar Tree. They have been just as good as the ones I have purchased on Amazon, Target, Walmart and/or chef stores! Thank you for posting this. I really like your videos.
Yes! I love the Dollar Tree 😎
Quick someone send her a new spatula 😂 Great video
Lol!!! I got one 😅
Fantastic! Great variety...you are very intelligent!!!! Thank you for the great ideas and inspirations!!!
These are great ideas for sure. If you want to cut out some of the oil for your potatoes you can try using your silicon baking mat on a cookie sheet with the seasoned potato slices or wedges at 425 until they are the crispy you like them to be.
Hashbrown tip... cook your potatoes in the instant pot and cool. Shred the cooled, cooked potatoes. They are the best hashbrowns ever! You can cube or slice them as well. This is a favorite of ours with leftover baked potatoes.
I did not know this! I will try next time!! Thanks for the tip 😎
The best $30 meal I’ve seen 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 YOU DID A GREAT JOB 👍🏾👏🏾👏🏾
How wonderful!! Love how make it work for people who don't have much money for food
You did a great job! All your meals look delicious!
Great job! Such variety!
I just found your videos and love them you really do come up with great things to make.
Appreciate videos like this cause even on a budget it still is quality food
You did a splendid job, sis! I would make just about everything you have here. The variety is awesome. If you forfeit the green onions for a head of cabbage, you can prepare a pot of colcannon with just cabbage, a couple of potatoes, and a little sausage. So filling and flavorful, and hits the table in about 25 minutes.
Awesome idea!!
Wow, I just found your channel today, and boy am I impressed! You were very creative in your menus. I subscribed and now can’t wait to see more!
Awesome! Thank you!
Very creative idea. It has been mentioned in an earlier comment, but using the chicken bones to make a broth can add so much flavor. Use it when cooking rice or pasta, add some to mashed potatoes, or pretty much anything savory that you add liquid to.
You made some good looking meals. And pocketbook friendley. Good going..
hope to see more videos from you soon!
I hope you kept all the trimmings from the chicken for making broth at a future date. Also put a Mandoline slicer on your wish list as that would be much better to slice the potatoes and safer.
The bagel idea 😍
Those BBQ cheese chicken sandwiches looked great!
One thing I remember when I make chicken thighs is to keep the bones and boil them with whatever vegetable scraps I have (even the root end of the green onions would work) and you get a lovely broth from that you can use for even more dishes!
Yes I didn’t do that this time but I SHOULD HAVE!! Awesome tip I need to remember 😎
As you are chopping veggies put all scraps, peelings and ends into a ziplock freezer bag to accumulate as you go. Same with a separate bag for bones and skin (raw or cooked). Then when you want to make stock you will have most or all of what you need in the couple of bags. They can go straight from the freezer into your Instant Pot and you will have a nutritious stock. You can also save your corn cobs to make stock.
Great job with the food challenge, I appreciate the variety of meals as I get in a slump trying to come up with ideas.
Amazing...great job!
Loved the 🎥! You really stretched the food well to last all week.
Those pancakes look excellent!! I love tips to add nutrition to pancakes!
This is amazing! Thank you for sharing this!
i enjoy these kind of videos. please have more of them.
This is so creative & impressive.
I'm cooking potatoes in my instant pot from now on! Blew my mind! Looked so easy that way!
It really is!! I love my instant pot. My mom thinks I’m crazy because I boil my eggs in there but they come out perfect every time 🤩
You are so creative!
You are really smart and so creative with your grocery challenges - Im so impressed with you, especially since youre so young. You really got a lot out of the food you bought and made great choices with what to buy and how to use it. Next time you do your chicken, go ahead and poach it and save the broth and refrigerate it overnight and then skim the fat off. That chicken fat is fantastic. Your thin potato slices would have been heavenly cooked in the chicken fat and it also makes great cornbread, biscuits and even makes a great addition to homemade tortillas. Keep up the great work!!!
Oh wow!! Yes that sounds amazing. Great idea!
Best Nachos ever! Good copy!
You came up as a suggestion after I was watching another channel, and I, so glad you did. I think you did an AMAZING job! Very creative and such variety! I subscribed halfway though the video! By the way, do you have a PO Box?
Great ideas!!
I got some great ideas!! Thanks!!!
You can use a potato peeler to cut thing pieces for making potato chips.
That’s a great idea!! Never thought of that 🙃
The $30 budget more attainable. Yes home cook save a lot. Fried egg on rice with soy sauce & hit sauce is already a meal to me. Also Made Hainan chicken rice & egg fried witg frozen mix vege rice for dinner. For lunch just Bolognese & carbona pasta just with burger meat stirfry in canned bolognese sauce & chicken loaf stirfry in canned carbonara sauce . Also having breakfast with toasted bread with canned mushroom soup plus canned mushroom & using half of the bread as pizza base using leftover bolognese sauce & frozen corn, sausages with cheese on top.
Great job! 😊👍
Great job!!
In Washington State we have ZERO Aldi grocery store’s‼️ I wish we did. I am a brand new subscriber. I accidentally pushed a button and this popped up. So here we are ☺️. Thanks for a awesome vlog 😉
I think grocery outlet is close to an Aldi. I'm also in wa st and I love grocery outlet
I'd take Winco and Grocery Outlet over a thousand Aldis!
I learned a lot from this. Thank you!
Everything looks good :)
This is truly a 30 dollar challenge because she doesnt use things she already had.. I might try this. For the challenge 😋
Interesting meals and snacks! I think when you are on a tight budget you just have to think outside the box and get creative! It doesn't mean you just have to eat a lot of garbage too!
YAY! So excited about this video! You're content like this is amazing!
I’ve just found you and I’m subscribing!
Nice way to stretch 30 dollars :D The meals looked delicious except the hot sauce :D Very nice to see simple easy meals even I can make
I definitely remember those individual nachos from Chili's! They were my favorite!
Yesss!! Me too 😎😎😎
Got some good ideas. Thanks
You can take bones from the chicken and make a both or stock and make soup or save it for some other time in the freezer
Your groceries are so inexpensive it makes me cry! Boston is SUPER EXPENSIVE.
I have watch all your videos over the weekend delighted you posted again, I subscribed. By the way you look beautiful in this video.
I'm going to try the Buffalo chicken baked potato and the BBQ chicken nachos! Thx
Some yummy food can be made on a budget!
Thanks for the ideas keep it up being a stay at home mom I try to save money and not over spend on food . Guuna try these ideas 🥰🥰🥰🥰
I would use a mandolin to thinly slice the potato great ideas to do with different things with potatoes and I love your hash brown idea with the eggs. New subscriber to your channel just found you the other day. Lots of love from fellow CZcamsr Jenn in Kanata from Kanata Ontario Canada
You did AMAZING!! the previous video(from someone else) left me hungry!!!!lol
Wow! I live in Maine and those prices are half of what I would pay even in Walmart! I had no idea that Maine had such inflated food prices compared to other states. Unbelievable! Food is our largest budget item.
Central Florida is higher too! Don't feel so bad....i'm in that predicament with you.
When I lived in NH I found Market Basket to be the best prices
Eggs 86 Cents a year ago. Do this entire grocery hall this year. LOL
Much better options at Aldi! I see more fruit and veg. Is there a reason why you bought the instant oatmeal? I would think a container of plain quick oats would be cheaper?
The instant was cheaper. There was way less oats in the packets so the container is definitely a better deal per oz but I just didn’t have the extra in my budget to get the container.
@@GreenSavesYouGreen oh that makes sense;)
It’s looking like I need to invest in an instapot. That chicken and rice looks so good!
Yessss totally worth the investment!!
I live in NYS and it’s soo expensive here, cant wait to move away when it’s safe again.
After I put it all in my cart it’s about $35 but when I remove what I already have in my pantry this is about $20 for me and my partner thanks!
I was genuinely impressed with all the different things you came up with. Thanks for the inspiration. Although I think the quantity of the meals were a little lacking, maybe we just have bigger appetites and metabolisms.
People can definitely have different serving sizes but with this plan we did not go hungry! 🙃
Yeah, I was thinking her husband doesn't eat very much. At her age I ate twice that much
Very nice!!!!
The best video on these videos that was a lot of food for a week
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You can still order the nachos if you ask! I too love those!
What??!?!?! That’s amazing! I didn’t know. I’m gonna try next time 😍😍😍
Green Saves You Green at least last time I was there I could and it’s been a few months. Good luck!
I have noticed that on a lot of these budget challenges that the appliances used are likely out of reach in a budget that cannot afford basic groceries. For example an insta-pot isn't a cheap kitchen item. It might be nice to offer alternative cooking methods for folks that are working with the bare minimum tools
I have a one pot meals video! But you are so right. I just use the instant pot for ease but you can easily just bake the items as well, I should mention that in my videos 😊
I wish you would have showed all the food you had left over from your haul after you ate all week. I know you had rice for sure but I bet you had more
Yes! I should have done that. You’re right. I definitely had a lot of rice, bbq sauce, ranch, hot sauce, a little bit of pasta, the green onions, and a couple eggs.
I just found your channel a few days ago. I love it! You do such a good job making creative things that look good, and using the ingredients in multiple meals. I would love a video on how you meal plan. I also only got Aldi about 3 years ago. I haven't checked it out much since they open later than other stores, but I will definitely have to. I'm in New England and groceries here can be very expensive. I'm definitely going to try the banana / tortilla wrap.
Oh! If you like peanut butter add that on the banana wrap! I usually do but couldn’t quite get the PB in my $30 budget. But I make them all the time with peanut butter. I even freeze them and they are an awesome quick breakfast or snack 😊
Ooh, those are good tips! I’ll try that. Thanks!
Are used to shop at save a lot but now I shop at Aldi They have better product I believe then save a lot does so I quit shopping there once they built an Aldi here in Tulsa
Yummy
We had the first Aldi open up near us a few months ago...I wasn’t that impressed 🤷🏼♀️ Maybe some are better than others?
Aldi requires a few visits before you like it....I had the same underwhelming response the first 2-3 times but after you figure out your faves - you'll be hooked!
Everyone says aldi is cheaper but idk HOW.... every time i shop aldi I always end up like 200 over budget at the end of the month. But i dont really eat processed food so maybe thats why
I live in Ashburn GA where there's only 1 grocery store
Can you say what general area you live in? I need to move somewhere with a lower cost of living.
Molly DuPont she lives in South Carolina.
Thank you!