Whole Foods vs. 99 Cents Store Cooking Challenge
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- čas přidán 29. 03. 2023
- Today, we're cooking spaghetti and meatballs made from Whole Foods ingredients and one from 99 Cents Store ingredients!
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I'd like to see the same thing done with Walmart brand ingredients since that's a standardized thing across the country that people could easily go replicate
agree
Same. My groceries are 80% great value brand lol
$54 is not much of a bargin for a pasta dish, I could do the same for $12 at Walmart. But then I am buying ready made.
You won't do it for 12 total if you include wine. Also their totals included buying entire containers of some things like the spices and oil that you would get additional uses from.
same, i would love to see a great value version!
Trevor running in with his “cute” apron is exactly the type of energy I need in my life all the time
It is indeed cute
9:05 He's precious. 🥺
🤮🤮🤮🤮
@@QuangPham-ge6xn what a sad life you must lead.
The squeal at the raw meat fight got me 😂
Good to see the blind taste test and the discussion over the result was interesting, hope this gets picked up as a regular series.
If they are making it a series, they should invite NateFromTheInternet - @NFTI
YES more cheap food I honestly dont really care for 1826838 dollar burgers in this recession
Me too. I clicked on this immediately.
I know they got enough groceries to make spaghetti multiple times, but like... $54 at a dollar store to get enough ingredients to make spaghetti is insane
I can make a decent spaghetti from $1.25 store for $15 if I’m buying all the base ingredients.
While there is a few ingredients that are able to reuse the main components need to be rebought.
Right? Like, I'm sure the math checks out (the wine, the olive oil, the herbs and spices) but that really does punctuate how much costs have inflated, when graduating from Hamburger helper to homemade spaghetti is hitting middle class.
Cost per serving is what really matters here. As long as that number stays about $4 it's worth the upfront cost. That said, it wasn't too long ago that number would be halved. There's a lot of really great (and depressing) research out there showing the cost per serving for the average household through the years
tbf they did use ingredients that you could do without, like the red wine
Josh is a very brave man to wear white shoes in the kitchen. Good on ya man.
Can't worry too much about getting food on them when you pour orange juice into them yourself, I guess.
I don’t even know why White shoes exist 😅
Did he stop wearing flip flops?
No socks though
I have been hoping someone could do a “budget bites” series where people living in a food desert can cook healthy items from dollar stores. Would love a frozen fish that taste good episode. I think mythical kitchen is the perfect group and would do amazing with this concept!
Sorted and MythicalKitchen should swap formats for a month :P
YEAH, an episode on how to make a fishy tasting frozen fish taste good. Like take that common flavor found in a cheap food and find or teach us something that goes good with it.
Budget bites/Struggle meal series please
Frozen fish/seafood makes amazing gumbo or bouillabasse. Don't thaw it before cooking also helps.
Honestly, frozen fish/seafood is almost always better unless you are less than an hour or two from the place where it's caught. I'm not saying that's the quality you'd find in a food desert, but that's usually what you'll find, as long as it's frozen and thawed properly.
It's honestly so impressive watching Josh cook two meals and host a cooking show at the same time
I like how the total is with all the items purchased and not per meal cost. Because lets say you don’t have any of those ingredients you get to see the actual price difference.
Per meal always feels so deceptive to me, especially as I struggle with conceptualizing numbers. Price for all of the ingredients is just way more accurate to how it will affect your bank account
On a real note. I've always been told to check for lumps but never knew exactly what those lumps are like in comparison to the ball itself. Thanks Josh, now I know to look for a sack of marbles.
Same conundrum with the breasts fr
@@CocoumKelsPerson In general, know what your breasts feel like normally, and document any changes. Specifically, hard lumps are something to look out for.
And make sure to check all the way to under your armpits!
😂😂😂 good luck
If you check regularly and suddenly feel something new that's an indication. Not a doctor or anything but that's how I do.
@@IAMDARTHVADERBITCHI'm glad to hear you didn't lose your family jewels in that lava accident on Mustafar! 🤘
_[points to anyone who gets that severely nerdy joke! ❤]_
I'd like to see some baking done. Maybe have Trevor make a cake from Whole Foods and 99 Cent Stores.
I'd also like to see Aldi's thrown in the mix.
Also Trader Joe's. I feel like it has a whole foods quality with a cheaper price
Aldi's is great, it seems so underrated most people I know don't like to shop there.
I don’t know if the Americans have Aldis? Isn’t it a European thing?
@@siobhan-rae we have plenty of Aldi's here in the Midwest.
@@icecreamman2687 part of it is that it's kind of cheap, but the baking section is surprisingly robust. My mom used to buy all her baking supplies from Aldi's.
Josh is one of the few people who could probably handle having 7 kids.
As someone who tries to make awkward jokes about these tough times during lab sessions filled with Gen Z's, I feel Josh a whole lot here.
I’m sure sharing a name has nothing to do with your bias 😂
You merely adopted the tough times. Gen Z were born in them, molded by them.
@@Drmobius It's a fact that anyone named Josh is doomed to awkward comedy.
@@CedricBassman I feel that statement in my soul.
@@joshwilliams8863 I can confirm as I'm also named Josh even our name is used as just "Joshing". I was born in 81 and don't know what gen I am. Literally I'm in that gen that grew up playing outside pre social media but also grew up with the internet. Not really a gen x and not really a millennial
Whole Foods exists to sell an image, period.
Unless you're talking about literally the highest quality most expensive ingredients you can find, the skill of the person preparing the food is always going to be the most important thing to its flavor.
The best part of Whole Foods is their hot food bar and their deli counter/pre prepared food counter! Everything else is just show to make rich people feel better than everybody else 🤪
also for yano healthier fooc
I actually remember Whole Foods before it was Amazon...in the 80s it was a more of a health food store/whole grain store. Now its just trendy, high price.
What about their sources though? I'm not American, so idk. about Whole Foods, but I usually pay more for ingredients, because for example I don't want to contribute to the mistreatment of chickens. So often it's not about the taste, it's about responsible sourcing.
@@dragonfly9821 usually at least from my experience that would mater more on the brand of the ingredient you chose over the brand of store, but there are also on average more choices for brands here per ingredient.
I pick the meal with the Hello Kitty wine. I haven't even watched the whole video yet, but just because Hello Kitty is on one side, it's automatically the winner.
I supplement things I can’t buy at Walmart or Aldi with food from Whole Foods, and I can’t believe people are doing entire grocery runs there. The amount of money to spend is astounding!
I've found they're close/same on some items, especially sales, for things like meat and produce, but are much higher on some packaged items.
It really depends though! Sporked is right, it doesn't have to be expensive these days. For basics especially, esp the 365 line, it's exactly the same as the cheaper grocery stores, and often with more ethical and environmentally friendly sourcing.
Trevor's fearful little squeak in the first second of this video was so funny to me that I just replayed that part for a full minute instead of actually watching the video while I'm here early 😭
josh healing his inner child through these shows is really beautiful. i love the gmm universe
Congratulations, Josh, the “one for the homies” joke landed perfectly!
Burritos would be a great match up between whole foods and 99 cent!
I love Trevor's singing and his cute apron! Also, I think two potentially enlightening meals to make this way would be a salad and something with steak. The salad doesn't get cooked so the difference in the ingredients might stand out more, and steak is just something that people are really picky about and usually spend more.
This needs to be a GMM episode where Josh cooks the same meal using the same ingredients from different stores at different price points - INCLUDING Erewhon. (Tbh I just want to see Link stress about how much the episode would cost)
Yess
We occasionally get heirloom tomatoes at The 99, along with a large variety of fresh produce. I've sold cherimoya, pomelos, Meyer lemons, jackfruit, brussels sprouts on the stem. We've been getting a ton of dragonfruit this last few weeks. If you live near a 99, it's really worth checking out what's available, our produce will surprise you.
Does Anything in the store cost 99 cent? Dont get the name.
Agree! I have tried so many fun and new produce items from my local 99 that I could never afford at regular grocery store
also to note each 99 cents only gets slightly different items including produce. I get great mushrooms etc at the 99. I've also noticed at mine it's normally mostly grown in my state
@@TzOn79 Came to say the same. Don't know how you spend $54 on 10-15 items at a "99 cent" store
@@TzOn79the 2lb pasta was a dollar as were two cans of tomato paste. The eggs, wine, and oil were most costly. Should have got 2 buck chuck at Trader Joes or gone for grocery outlet wine
Josh sees us struggling and gives us what we need. I love you our king.
The way Trevor yelled No at the beginning was just too adorable
In Australia, retailers have to put both the price and value by volume to make it easier to compare prices eg. $0.63 per 100g or $1.23 per 1000ml.
Here too in the U.S. Not sure if it’s a law but see it regularly in grocery stores.
That sounds really useful!
@@mikecole1664 The problem is that there's no standard, so different brands of the same product will have different per unit prices. Makes price comparisons a pain...
I find it’s a combination of quality and budget items 🧡
Completely agree! Pick one, MAYBE two, quality items that are main components and the rest go budget on.
I find I tend to get better quality meat and cheese. The flavor is there, so you can use less.
My ex objected to this when we first met. Then he tasted my pasta sauce, chili, stew and realized if the meat is flavorful it can be used more like a condiment than the main component. Some guests we had reacted the same way and he would just say "Taste it. If you don't like it I'll go get you anything else you want." I don't recall anyone ever asking for something else.
Spend the money for your cheese and meat and budget everything else.
I've found that it actually doesn't matter. I used to live a regularly boogie lifestyle of buying stuff that was expensive just because I thought that meant it was better. In all reality it comes down to the taste of the individual. If you really think something tastes better, then do it because you should eat what you enjoy.
@andasmile for me it's the pasta. Good quality pasta is night and day
Y’all need calculate and show the “price per serving” for these to really get the point across on how much people can save along with the “total cost”
Exactly, even at the 99c store one, I was like that better be for 2 - 4 servings at least 😅
On a budget I find buying quality matters most in protein and ingredients like olives where the flavor pops in the dish. Also buy quality on items you know you'll use not an ingredient for that one recipe you wanna try.😊
If quality matters don't go to whole foods.....
The real disappointment (besides Tervor's parents' regret) in this episode is that Spaghetti costs $54 dollars now.
ya...
They listed the price for an entire bottle of milk, bottle of oil, whole containers of cheese and seasonings...the spaghetti cost doesn't account for the fact that they have a lot of pantry ingredients left.
If you buy just the sauce and some pasta it’s less than $5 🤷🏼♀️
Its $54 for the entire shopping list, if you're buying everything from scratch, and look at the amount of food it made. Ya'll are acting like you're paying $54 for a two person meal. There are only a few ingredients you're entirely using up: ground beef, tomatoes and spaghetti.
Let’s just say you have a pantry full of regular ingredients. For an average (not gourmet) spaghetti, you would most likely only need to buy noodles, ground beef, and spaghetti sauce. Give or take a few ingredients. That’s only about $15 - $20
As someone who craves Spaghetti almost every day, I want to say thanks for instantly making me hungry.
It is just ALWAYS good!!
15:34 The look of absolute desire for chaos in Josh's eyes. I can only imagine that his slowly restraining himself to tongs was because of someone yelling in his ear "No! Josh don't! Don't you dare!"
Josh: prices are soaring, let's see if you can save.
Also Josh: Throws the chopped onion at the side.
I want to see a 99c store vs whole foods episode with either shepherds pie, or a roast of some kind.
I love this style of content. I deeply appreciate the team’s continued effort to break down cooking and make it accessible to all people. It’s relevant to our needs and it’s self aware while also being light hearted as always. ❤
i love these types of videos. i grew up on dollar store meals, my mom always seemed to make 5 star meals out of their ingredients. i still eat these meals as an adult on my own !
Do you guys remember how many views the “cook food good” series got? So awesome you brought back that concept
I miss that series and wish they would continue, as a very, very amateur home cook who started cooking at age 17.
@@psilocylence I feel ya. I didn't learn to cook until very late myself! And I loved that series.
I'm so glad I was eating my lunch while watching this, because otherwise I'd be feeling so hungry right now.
I actually found this such an interesting episode, it's funny and daft because it's Mythical Kitchen, but also topical and useful. I'd love to see a full series of it (particularly using everyday recipes that people might be trying to make economically!)
I love how Josh's joke gets him off track that the intro doesn't say the second store. 🤣
Would LOVE more of this as a dedicated series- maybe one with Trevor trying baked goodies?
Agree! Minus the baked goods bc I've been eating better lately and don't need the temptation 😅
I love this! Please make it a recurring segment
Never underestimate the power of added sodium
I still make the top ramen french onion soup you made a few years ago during the pandemic. 3 things I'll always have, onions, ramen, and brandy 😋
Garlic doesn’t split unless the clove gets below 5 degrees Celsius either before planting or during first weeks of growth. Granny puts hers in the fridge before planting every year now :)
a trick to mixing meatball meatloaf etc is to put the ingredients into a mixer and use the dough hook attachments... it mixes it quite well without getting your hands dirty
Wouldn't that overmix it like a mf though?
this deserves more views , I want this as a regular series!
I would like you to see you make meatloaf from both stores. Also some vegetarian/vegan meals from both places would be good too.
To Josh's point, I'd love to see a longer form collab with Myth Munchers/Sporked to make this a series where they see where your money should really be spent ingredient by ingredient.
I would suggest another competition between Nicole and Josh tournament style, 3 points if they win with the budget ingredients and 1 point for the expensive. Coin flip winner chooses which they want to cook with. Both have to cook the same meal.
Yes! Love this idea.
Trevor's cute apron is everything! also, a musical genius!
Amazing! I love to cook. I shop at Walmart a lot, buy generic or cheap brands. People always say it tastes so good. But when they ask what brands or ingredients I buy, they are disappointed. Like that can't be it. Just learn to season your food and you can make cheap stuff taste great! 😊
Need more of these, maybe try with hispanic or asian cuisine in the next episodes !! Some 99cent store pozole vs Whole Foods pozole 😂
Soaked dent corn is soaked dent corn 😂
One of the best episodes! Love this concept, and love the discussion at the end!
I found this fascinating. Please do these more! Great job, y'all
I should be preparing to go to work, but here I am… 😂❤❤
A stir fry comparison would be another good video
What I usually do for pasta is Prego meat sauce with angel hair. Added to the sauce is a bit of brown sugar. If I have extra time, will make the pasta fresh.
I noticed y’all are using the ninja foodi pans and I know they are supposed to be compatible with metal utensils. I can’t help but feel like that’s because of Josh’s chaos and willingness to use metal in regular nonstick pans.
I love the mixture of chaos wholesomeness that comes with every video
Now I want to know the difference if you added more salt to the whole foods.
Exactly!! Nothing is a fair playing field if the salt levels differ, let's be real.
Smelling the fresh ingredients helps with building/refining palette! Always good!
I love this concept... all jokes aside this is what makes this channel informing enjoyably useful. Thank you
SortedFoods has shown that knowledge is better than cost. You just have to know what select few items elevate your food. Spend on those (cheeses, some meats, etc) and go cheap for the rest (like canned/frozen veg)
I hate canned vegetables with a passion.
I would take frozen over canned any day.
@@Michael-ex8lk oh 100%
It’s interesting though, and she totally mentioned this, that the cheaper is likely higher in salt, msg & other flavor enhancers. So it really depends how “clean” you want to eat
Love this series!!!! More please 😊
Josh: "Raw meat fight!"
Trevor: •LOUD SCREECH•
😂😂😂
Josh: teach people to save veggie scraps in ziplock bags and freeze them, and to also freeze bones, for stock making! Zero waste plus great video💪
That was a fantastic show idea. More, please!! Next time do chili, or tacos, or something else you can easily use cheaper ingredients to achieve greatness in.
Love this series so much
Would love if this became a series! Also loving the Sims music.
I'd love to see this done with burger and fries. I've known some friends to make some pretty pricy burgers from Whole Foods.
idk what josh did today but hes on one this episode and i love it
Love this series! Hope to see more!
Josh saying to Trevor "raw meat food fight" was hilarious!! Trevor
ducking and squeaking was even funnier. LOL.
I LOVE watching how to make cheap or lack luster ingredients work! Bring it on with more! Appetizers, Desserts and so on!
Idk I love a Stelvin closure on a wine bottle, it’s easier to open, and there’s no chance of the cork rotting and the wine turning or going rancid. More fancier wines are using it nowadays IMO it’s not gauche anymore
Totally agree!
Lovvvvve this concept! Great episode... Also got a dash of Trevor, brilliant!
I have watched so many cooking shows here on CZcams, and this is by far made me subscribed without hesitation. I gotta tell you Josh... you are going to make Ramsey so jealous...LOL.
The bartender in me started screaming with that wine pour 😂
it wasent wine, it was hello kitty.
Over $50 to make the "cheap" version of spaghetti and meatballs is a fail all on it's own.
Agreed!
The problem is most people have the shelf stable stuff already in their kitchens IE oils, salts, dried herbs, etc. which is where the bulk of the costs come from.
Generally you'd pick up the meat, cheeses, wine, pasta, and toms/sauce.
You're literally over thinking this.
@@mikellanas1207prices also vary wildly depending on where you live
@@jacksmith-vs4ct that is true. But the point of the segment is "from zero" cooking to see what tastes better.
are you trying to make problems?
JOSH IS WAY TOO FUNNY, those Rocky jokes man.
I sat here for awhile thinking.... I don't think I've seen a 99cents only store before. Upon research, they are located in "California, Arizona, Nevada, and Texas" only.... That would be why I haven't heard of it.
It doesn't matter if the expensive did taste better because if you only eat the cheap stuff, and you like it, then you never know what you're missing and you're perfectly happy about it while saving money.
As a German, these groceries prices are really shocking to me. Normal grocery stores cost way less even than the 99ct store here and even adjusted for currencies. We also had a lot of inflation in grocery prices lately, but we are generally way cheaper with our groceries than all our neighbouring countries.
Same in Scotland, no wonder Americans eat out or get takeaway all the time must be way cheaper that way
@SteakBaked99 it's not WAY cheaper but it is closer than it should be.
Welcome to the market that's free in the sense that if you're rich you get to do whatever you want, including price gouging.
@@castorfields9584 cool but I'm sure it's much less than $54 to get spaghetti and meatballs delivered to your house 🙃
@@SteakBaked99 The plate of spaghetti didn't cost $54, the shopping list was $54. Other than meat and noodles they have ingredients left to make many, many more plates.
the sims freeplay music at 18:04 gave me a blast from the past
Love the premise of this series
I'll watch this later.... Not even 40 seconds and I'm here
It really depends on the dish, yeah? If you’re making a soup, the only ingredient you need to worry about being good is the stock. But if you’re cookin a steak, obviously better is better.
definitely a great theme for a series.
A cheap lasagna would be interesting but a good spring dish would be interesting or possibly the side dishes for a cook out like mac and cheese baked beans and potato salad (not a fan of potato salad myself)
The sporked crew feel so unintentionally mythical that it's crazy to think they are a fairly new addition.
One big difference that is behind the scenes.... The chickens that produced that Whole Foods egg with the darker yolk was more than likely treated A LOT better than the $0.99 store chicken. This is something I choose to consider when shopping.
Yes, excellent point!
This should be an ongoing series
Josh slandering Whole Foods while Whole Foods has been a consistent sponsor of the Hot Dog is a Sandwich is honestly puzzling.
Yeah, not sure if there’s malicious compliance going on here with contractual obligations gone awry, but it’s confusing 😂
Nate from the internet has a great bunch of episodes doing just this. Check out his stuff!
They should Collab if they haven't already lol
This is my very first episode of mythical kitchen and I love that man. 😂😂
Welcome! Josh is pure chaos and always entertaining, lol. Just wait until you see more of the crew!! Check out their Myth Munchers series, it's awesome!!
"How long has Hello Kitty been making wine?" got me.
Gwynedd needs to be a permanent member of every mythical show.
I think this segment could use an interesting name maybe something that rhymes something totally random that just comes to mind maybe something along the lines of Cheep VS Steep? Although you know what would really make it pop is if you said it in a British accent.
Josh is still the OG, the Platonic ideal, of weird asides and I'm here for it.
Taco challenge! (Because I love ‘em) I would be curious about the quality of a different cut of meat (could even be chicken) and other fresh produce.
Wait?! Those groceries looked like just enough for 'maybe' 2 plates of food which means $27 meal vs. $50 meal! Food costs are the REAL challenge here. That's insane.
But so much of what they bought they only used a fraction of but listed the full price of purchasing it. Like 1 egg from the $5 dozen. The wine, spices, breadcrumbs, olive oil, etc., all had most of the full package left over. It would have been good if they ultimately fractioned out the price for each full recipe at the end.
If you're using all of that oil etc for one meal you have a problem.